I4U submission to NIST SRE 2012: A large-scale collaborative effort for noise-robust speaker verification

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1986-1990

  Saeidi, R ^a   Lee, K A ^b   Kinnunen, T ^c   Hasan, T ^d   Fauve, B ^e   Bousquet, P M ^f   Khoury, E ^g   Sordo Martinez, P L ^h   Kua, J M K ⁱ   You, C H ^b   Sun, H ^b   Larcher, A ^b   Rajan, P ^c   Hautamaki V ^c   Hanilci, C ^c   Braithwaite, B ^c   Gonzales Hautamaki R ^c   Sadjadi, S O ^d   Liu, G ^d   Boril, H ^d   Shokouhi, N ^d   Matrouf, D ^f   El Shafey, L ^g   Mowlaee, P ^a   Epps, J ⁱ   Thiruvaran, T ⁱ   Van Leeuwen, D A ^a   Ma, B ^b   Li, H ^b   Hansen, J H L ^d   Bonastre, J F ^f   Marcel, S ^g   Mason, J ^h   Ambikairajah, E ⁱ   more..

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^e VALIDSOFT LTD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^g IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^h SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

I4U; Ivector; NIST SRE 2012; Speaker verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

I VECTORS; I4U; NIST SRE 2012; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; RESEARCH INSTITUTES; SINGAPORE; SPEAKER VERIFICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84898068800     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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