From esca@idiap.ch Wed Feb 9 14:33:18 EST 1994 Article: 5612 of news.announce.conferences Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5612 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick From: karit@idiap.ch (Kari Torkkola) Subject: Program: Workshop on Automatic Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification Message-ID: <1994Feb4.193819.10066@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Reply-To: esca@idiap.ch Organization: Institut Dalle Molle d`Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive (IDIAP) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 1994 19:38:19 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 361 X-Md4-Signature: ea2bee09e0629b3a92246bbee034f1fe Workshop on AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION, IDENTIFICATON AND VERIFICATION Martigny, Switzerland, APRIL 5-7, 1994 PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME ==================== Tuesday, April 5, 1994 Session 1 -------- 9:00 -- 9:20 Welcome 9:20 -- 10:05 FURUI Sadaoki: An overview of speaker recognition technology. (Tutorial) Session 2 Speaker verification. ------------------------------ 10:35 -- 10:55 De Veth, Johan and Bourlard, Herve (Lernout and Hauspie Speech Products Belgium) Comparison of hidden Markov model techniques for automatic speaker verification. 10:55 -- 11:15 Dubreucq, V. and Vloeberghs, Cl. (Royal Military Academy, Belgium) The use of pitch to improve an HMM based speaker recognition method. 11:15 -- 11:35 Forsyth, Mark. and Bagshaw, P.C. and Jack, M.A. (CSTR, UK) Incorporating discriminating observation probabilities (DOP) into semi-continous HMM for speaker verification. 11:35 -- 11:55 Gong, Yifan and Haton, Jean-Paul. (CRIN, France) Non-linear interpolation methods for speaker recognition and verification. 11:55 -- 12:15 Reynolds, Douglas (MIT, USA) Speaker identification and verification using Gaussian mixture speaker models. Session 3 Speaker recognition and data bases. -------------------------------------------- 14:00 -- 14:45 NAIK Jay: Speaker verification over the telephone network: databases, algorithms and assessment. (Tutorial) 14:45 -- 15:05 Godfrey*,John and Graff*,David and Martin** Alvin. (*LDC, USA; **NIST,USA) Public databases for speaker recognition and verification. 15:05 -- 15:25 Boves, Louis (Nijmegen University The Netherlands) Construction and recording of a large data base for the use in speaker identification over the telephone. 15:25 -- 15:45 Di Carlo, Andrea and Falcone, Mauro and Paoloni, Andrea (FUB, Italy) Corpus design for speaker recognition assessment. Session 4 Text independent speaker recognition. ----------------------------------------------- 16:00 -- 16:20 Bimbot, Frederic and Mathan, Luc (TELECOM-Paris, France) Text-independent speaker recognition using an arithmetic harmonic measure. 16:20 -- 16:40 Zhu, Xiaoyuan and Gao, Yuqing and Ran, Shuping and Chen, Fangxin and Macleod, Iain and Millar, Bruce and Wagner, Michael.(Autralian National University, Australia) Text-independent speaker recognition using VQ, mixture Gaussian VQ and Ergodic HMMs. 16:40 -- 17:00 Matsui, Tomoko and Furui, Sadaoki (NTT, Japan) Similarity normalization method for speaker verification based on a posteriori probality. 17:00 -- 17:20 Thevenaz, Philippe and Hugli, H. (Institut de Microtechnique, Switzerland) Conformity: a new method for text-independent speaker recognition. 17:20 -- 17:40 Farrell, K.R. and Mammone, R.J. (Rutgers University, USA) An evaluation of supervised and unsupervised classifiers for speaker recognition. 17:40 -- 18:00 Falavigna, Daniele and Brunelli Roberto. (IRST, Italy) Person recognition using acoustic and visual cues. RECEPTION City Hall Martigny Wednesday, April 6, 1994 Session 5 Evaluation. --------------------- 9:00 -- 9:30 BIMBOT Frederic,CHOLLET Gerard, PAOLONI Andrea: Methodology for the assessment of speaker verification system.(Tutorial) 9:30 -- 9:50 Wagner, M. and Chen, F. and Macleod, I. and Millar, B. and Ran, S. and Tridgell, A. and Zhu, X. (Australian National University, Australia) Analysis of type-II errors for VQ -distortion based speaker verification. 9:50 -- 10:10 Oglesby, John (BT Lab., UK) What's in a number?: moving beyond the equal error rate. 10:10 -- 10:30 Ong, Sherman and Moody, Miles and Sridharan, Sridha (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Confidence analysis for speaker identification: the effectiveness of various features. Session 6 Neural net approaches to speaker recognition. ------------------------------------------------------- 10:45 -- 11:20 BENNANI Younes, GALLINARI Patrick: Connectionist approaches for automatic speaker recognition.(Tutorial) 11:20 -- 11:40 Hattori, Hiroaki. (NEC, Japan) Text-independent speaker verification using neural networks. 11:40 -- 12:00 Fredrickson, Steven and Tarassenko, Lionel. (Oxford University, UK) Radial basis functions for speaker identification. 12:00 -- 12:20 Castellano, Pierre and Sridharan, S. (Queensland University, Australia) Text independent speaker recognition with functional-link neural networks. 12:20 -- 12:40 Hassanein, K. and Deng, L. and Elmasry, M. (University of Waterloo, Canada) A neural predictive hidden Markov model for speaker recognition. 12:40 -- 13:00 Schalkwyk*, Johan and Barnard*, Etienne and Cole, R. and Sachs**, Jeffrey (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA; **Wagner Associates, USA) Detecting an imposter in telephone speech. Session 7 Intra and inter speaker variability. --------------------------------------------- 14:30 -- 14:50 Giua*, Paolo E. and Pisani**, Raffaele (*CNR, Italy; **Pisani, Italy) Intra- and inter-speaker variability. 14:50 -- 15:10 Thompson, J. and Mason, J.S (University College of Swansea, UK) The pre-detection of error-prone class members at the enrollment stage of speaker recognition systems. 15:10 -- 15:30 Williams, S.M. and Dempster, G.I. and Whiteside, S.P. (University of Sheffield, UK) The punch and judy man: speaker or speakers. Session 8 Applications of speaker recognition. --------------------------------------------- 15:30 --16:00 KUNZEL Hermann: Current approaches to forensic speaker recognition.(Tutorial) 16:15 --18:00 Panel session BANQUET Thursday, April 7, 1994 Session 9 --------- 9:15 -- 10:00 TSOI Ah Chung, SHRIMPTON David, WATSON Brett, BACK Andrew: Application of artificial neural network techniques to speaker verification.(Tutorial) 10:00 -- 10:30 CHOLLET G.: Presentation of posters 11:00 -- 13:00 Poster Session ---------------------- #Anderson*, T.R. and Patterson**, R.D. (*Armstrong lab.,USA ;** Cambridge,UK) Speaker recognition with the auditory image model and self-organising feature maps: a comparison with traditional techniques. #Asghari, Habib and Aref, Mohammad Reza (University of Teheran, Iran) A neural network approach to speaker recognition. #Bonastre, Jean-Francois and Meloni, Henri (Universite Avignon, France) Inter and intra-speaker spectral variability of french phonemes influence of context, temporal and physiological variables. #Braun, Angelika (Landeskriminalant, Germany) The effect of cigarette smoking on vocal parameters. #Chan P.and Damper, R.I.(University of Southampton, UK) Voice conversion by whole-spectrum scaling. #Falcone, Mauro and De Sario, Nicolo (FUB, Italy) A PC speaker identification system for forensic use: IDEM. Falcone, Mauro and Paoloni, Andrea (FUB, Italy) Text-independent speaker verification based on multiple reconstruction of selected zones. #Greisbach, Reinhold and Esser, Otto and Weinstock,Constanze and Klinker, T. (University of Koeln, Germany) A comparison of the speaker identification power of continuant sounds. #Hannah*, M.I. and Sapeluk*, A.T. and Dampert**, R.I. (*Dundee Institute technolog, UK; **University of Southampton) The role of the reference template in speaker verification. #Homayounpour*, Medhi and Chollet** Gerard. (*ILPGA,France; **IDIAP, Switzerland) A comparison of some pertinent parametric representations for speaker verification. #Kim, Taesik and Kim, Hyekyeong and Park, Eonseouk and Jung, Sungyeup and Yim, Jinsik, (Keimyung University, Korea) Chaos and neural network based speaker recognition. #Lastrucci, L. and Gori, M. and Soda, G.(University of Firenze, Italy) Neural autoassociators for phoneme-based speaker verification. #Mella, Odile.(CRIN, France) Extraction of formants of oral vowels and critical analysis for speaker characterization. #Narendranath, M. and Murphy, H. and Rajendran, S. and Yegnanarayana, B. (Indian Institute of Technology, India) Voice conversion using artificial neural networks. #Perrin, E. and Borel, J. and Berger-Vachon, C. and Kauffmann, I. (CNRS, France) Phonatory signature of the deaf child. #Pezzoni, Luigi. (Deltatre Voice Connexion International, Italy) Voice security. #Rjaibi-Sabhi, Najet and Lhote, E. (Lab. Analyse de la Parole, France) Variability as a means of geographic origin discrimination of arabic speakers. #Schoentgen, Jean and Azami, Zoubir (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Closed-phase glottal inverse filtering by means of a compound auto-regressive model. Session 10 Robustness to noise and other factors. ------------------------------------------------ 14:30 -- 14:50 Cohen, Arnon and Vaich, T.(University of Negev, Israel) On the identification of twins by their voice. 14:50 -- 15:10 Ortega-Garcia, J. and Gonzalez-Rodriguez, J. (Universitad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Robust speech modeling for speaker identification in forensic acoustics. 15:10 -- 15:30 Trent, Larry and Rader, C.M. and Reynolds, D.A. 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