SDLGMLMay 24, 2017

Anti-spoofing Methods for Automatic SpeakerVerification System

arXiv:1705.08865v1
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This work addresses security concerns in speaker verification systems, but it is incremental as it reviews and compares existing methods rather than introducing new ones.

The paper tackles the vulnerability of automatic speaker verification systems to spoofing attacks by comparing various acoustic features and classifiers, finding that combining magnitude and phase information or using wavelet-based features improves detection efficiency, with DNNs achieving low equal error rates.

Growing interest in automatic speaker verification (ASV)systems has lead to significant quality improvement of spoofing attackson them. Many research works confirm that despite the low equal er-ror rate (EER) ASV systems are still vulnerable to spoofing attacks. Inthis work we overview different acoustic feature spaces and classifiersto determine reliable and robust countermeasures against spoofing at-tacks. We compared several spoofing detection systems, presented so far,on the development and evaluation datasets of the Automatic SpeakerVerification Spoofing and Countermeasures (ASVspoof) Challenge 2015.Experimental results presented in this paper demonstrate that the useof magnitude and phase information combination provides a substantialinput into the efficiency of the spoofing detection systems. Also wavelet-based features show impressive results in terms of equal error rate. Inour overview we compare spoofing performance for systems based on dif-ferent classifiers. Comparison results demonstrate that the linear SVMclassifier outperforms the conventional GMM approach. However, manyresearchers inspired by the great success of deep neural networks (DNN)approaches in the automatic speech recognition, applied DNN in thespoofing detection task and obtained quite low EER for known and un-known type of spoofing attacks.

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