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Odyssey 2012 Program

Monday 25 June 2012
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 10:00 Opening
10:00 - 11:00 Plenary Session 1: Being Deep and Being Dynamic – New-Generation Models and Methodology for Advancing Speech Technology
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:10 Session 1: Speaker Recognition – Compact Representation
13:10 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:05 Session 2: Nueral Network for Speaker Recognition
16:05 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:45 Session 3: Forensic Speaker Recognition
17:45 - 22:00 Welcome Reception @ Tiger Brewery
Tuesday 26 June 2012
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session 2: The Role of Proper Scoring Rules in Training and Evaluating Probabilistic Speaker and Language Recognizers
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:35 Session 4: Speaker Recognition – Generative modeling
12:35 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:35 Session 5: Speaker Diarization
15:35 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:05 Session 6: Speaker Recognition – Channel Robustness
Wednesday 27 June 2012
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session 3: The NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluations
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:35 Session 7: Language Recognition Evaluation
12:35 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:35 Session 8: Features for Speaker Recognition
15:35 - 22:00 Social Event + Banquet @ Megu
Thursday 28 June 2012
9:15 - 10:00 "Dim Sum" morning
10:00 - 12:05 Session 9: Speaker Recognition Evaluation
12:05 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:05 Session 10: Speaker Recognition – Application
15:05 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:35 Session 11: Language Recognition – Feature, Classifier and Fusion

Session 1: Speaker Recognition – Compact Representation
Monday 25 June 2012

11:30 - 11:55 A Small Footprint i-Vector Extractor
Patrick Kenny
11:55 - 12:20 Memory and Computation Effective Approaches for i–Vector Extraction
Sandro Cumani, Pietro Laface and Vasileios Vasilakakis
12:20 - 12:45 A Hybrid Factor Analysis and Probabilistic PCA-based system for Dictionary Learning and Encoding for Robust Speaker Recognition
Srikanth Madikeri
12:45 - 13:10 On Exploring the Similarity and Fusion of i-Vector and Sparse Representation based Speaker Verification Systems
Haris B C and Rohit Sinha

Session 2: Nueral Network for Speaker Recognition
Monday 25 June 2012

14:00 - 14:25 Factor Analysis of Mixture of Auto-Associative Neural Networks for Speaker Verification
Sivaram Garimella and Hynek Hermansky
14:25 - 14:50 Adaptation Transforms of Auto-Associative Neural Networks as Features for Speaker Verification
Samuel Thomas, Sri Harish Mallidi, Sriram Ganapathy and Hynek Hermansky
14:50 - 15:15 Bottleneck Features for Speaker Recognition
Sibel Yaman, Jason Pelecanos and Ruhi Sarikaya
15:15 - 15:40 Preliminary Investigation of Boltzmann Machine Classifiers for Speaker Recognition
Themos Stafylakis, Patrick Kenny, Mohammed Senoussaoui and Pierre Dumouchel
15:40 - 16:05 First attempt of Boltzmann Machines for Speaker Verification
Mohammed Senoussaoui, Najim Dehak, Patrick Kenny, Réda Dehak and Pierre Dumouchel

Session 3: Forensic Speaker Recognition
Monday 25 June 2012

16:30 - 16:55 Database Selection for Forensic Voice Comparison
Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Felipe Ochoa, Tharmarajah Thiruvaran
16:55 - 17:20 Voice Source Features for Forensic Voice Comparison - an Evaluation of the GLOTTEX Software Package
Ewald Enzinger, Cuiling Zhang and Geoffrey Stewart Morrison
17:20 - 17:45 Analysis of Distinct Speaker Recognition Systems on a Real Forensic Benchmark
Yosef Solewicz, Timo Becker, Jardine Gaelle and Stefan Gfroerer

Session 4: Speaker Recognition – Generative modeling
Tuesday 26 June 2012

10:30 - 10:55 PLDA based Speaker Recognition on Short Utterances
Ahilan Kanagasundaram, Robbie Vogt, David Dean and Sridha Sridharan
10:55 - 11:20 PLDA based Speaker Verification with Weighted LDA Techniques
Ahilan Kanagasundaram, David Dean, Sridha Sridharan and Robbie Vogt
11:20 - 11:45 Dataset Shift in PLDA based Speaker Verification
Carlos Vaquero
11:45 - 12:10 Bayesian Adaptation of PLDA Based Speaker Recognition to Domains with Scarce Development Data
Jesus Villalba and Eduardo Lleida
12:10 - 12:35 Source Normalization for Language-Independent Speaker Recognition using i-Vectors
Mitchell McLaren, Miranti Indar Mandasari and David A. van Leeuwen

Session 5: Speaker Diarization
Tuesday 26 June 2012

13:30 - 13:55 Online Two Speaker Diarization
Hagai Aronowitz, Yosef Solewicz and Orith Toledo-Ronen
13:55 - 14:20 On the use of Agglomerative and Spectral Clustering in Speaker Diarization of Meetings
Jordi Luque and Javier Hernando
14:20 - 14:45 Generalized Viterbi-based Models for Time-Series Segmentation Applied to Speaker Diarization
Itshak Lapidot and Jean-Francois Bonastre
14:45 - 15:10 A Global Optimization Framework For Speaker Diarization
Mickael Rouvier and Sylvain Meignier
15:10 - 15:35 Cisco’s Speaker Segmentation and Recognition System
Sachin Kajarekar, Aparna Khare, Matthias Paulik, Neha Agrawal, Panchi Panchapagesan, Ananth Sankar and Satish Gannu

Session 6: Speaker Recognition – Channel Robustness
Tuesday 26 June 2012

16:00 - 16:25 Variance-Spectra based Normalization for I-vector Standard and Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis
Pierre-Michel Bousquet, Anthony Larcher, Driss Matrouf, Jean-Francois Bonastre and Oldrich Plchot
16:25 - 16:50 Utterance Partitioning with Acoustic Vector Resampling for I-Vector based Speaker Verification
Wei RAO and Man-Wai MAK
16:50 - 17:15 Study on the Effects of Intrinsic Variation using i-Vectors in Text-Independent Speaker Verification
Yosef Solewicz, Timo Becker, Jardine Gaelle and Stefan Gfroerer
17:15 - 17:40 Exploring the Impact of Advanced Front-End Processing on NIST Speaker Recognition Microphone Tasks
William Campbell, Doug Sturim, Jonas Borgstrom, Robert Dunn, Alan McCree, Tom Quatieri and Doug Reynolds
17:40 - 18:05 Linear Prediction Modulation Filtering for Speaker Recognition of Reverberant Speech
Bengt Borgstrom and Alan McCree

Session 7: Language Recognition Evaluation
Wednesday 27 June 2012

10:30 - 10:55 Evaluation of Spoken Language Recognition Technology Using Broadcast Speech: Performance and Challenges
Luis J. Rodriguez-Fuentes, Amparo Varona, Mireia Diez, Mikel Penagarikano and German Bordel
10:55 - 11:20 New Resources for Recognition of Confusable Linguistic Varieties: The LRE11 Corpus
Stephanie Strassel, Kevin Walker, Karen Jones, Dave Graff and Christopher Cieri
11:20 - 11:45 The MITLL NIST LRE 2011 Language Recognition System
Elliot Singer, Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo, Douglas Reynolds, Alan McCree, Fred Richardson, Najim Dehak and Doug Sturim
11:45 - 12:10 Description and analysis of the Brno276 system for LRE2011
Niko Brummer, Sandro Cumani, Ondrej Glembek, Martin Karafiat, Pavel Matejka, Jan Pesan, Oldrich Plchot, Mehdi Soufifar, Edward de Villiers and Jan Cernocky
12:10 - 12:35 A Linguistic Data Acquisition Front-End for Language Recognition Evaluation
Gang Liu, Chi Zhang and John Hansen

Session 8: Features for Speaker Recognition
Wednesday 27 June 2012

13:30 - 13:55 Feature Extraction Using 2-D Autoregressive Models For Speaker Recognition
Sriram Ganapathy, Samuel Thomas and Hynek Hermansky
13:55 - 14:20 Regularization of All-Pole Models for Speaker Verification Under Additive Noise
Cemal Hanilci, Tomi Kinnunen, Rahim Saeidi, Jouni Pohjalainen, Paavo Alku and Figen Ertas
14:20 - 14:45 Factor Analysis of Acoustic Features using a Mixture of Probabilistic Principal Component Analyzers for robust Speaker Verification
Taufiq Hasan and John Hansen
14:45 - 15:10 Exemplar-based Sparse Representation and Sparse Discrimination for Noise Robust Speaker Identification
Rahim Saeidi, Antti Hurmalainen, Tuomas Virtanen and David A. van Leeuwen
15:10 - 15:35 On the use of Asymmetric-shaped Tapers for Speaker Verification using I-vectors
Md Jahangir Alam, Patrick Kenny and Douglas O'Shaughnessy

Session 9: Speaker Recognition Evaluation
Thursday 28 June 2012

10:00 - 10:25 The Effect of Target/Non-Target Age Difference on Speaker Recognition Performance
George Doddington
10:25 - 10:50 Variational Bayes Logistic Regression as Regularized Fusion for NIST SRE 2010
Ville Hautamäki, Kong Aik Lee, Anthony Larcher, Tomi Kinnunen, Bin Ma and Haizhou Li
10:50 - 11:15 The 2011 BEST Speaker Recognition Interim Assessment
Craig Greenberg, Alvin Martin and Mark Przybocki
11:15 - 11:40 The REPERE Challenge: finding people in a multimodal context
Juliette Kahn, Olivier Galibert, Matthieu Carré, Aude Giraudel, Philippe Joly and Ludovic Quintard
11:40 - 12:05 The RATS Radio Traffic Collection System
Kevin Walker and Stephanie Strassel

Session 10: Speaker Recognition – Application
Thursday 28 June 2012

13:00 - 13:25 Effects of Audio and ASR Quality on Cepstral and High-level Speaker Verification Systems
Andreas Stolcke, Martin Graciarena and Luciana Ferrer
13:25 - 13:50 Audio Context Recognition in Variable Mobile Environments from Short Segments using Speaker and Language Recognizers
Tomi Kinnunen, Rahim Saeidi, Jussi Leppaanen and Jukka P. Saarinen
13:50 - 14:15 Text Dependent Speaker Verification Using a Small Development Set
Hagai Aronowitz
14:15 - 14:40

A Unified Approach for Audio Characterization and its Application to Speaker Recognition
Luciana Ferrer, Lukas Burget, Oldrich Plchot and Nicolas Scheffer

14:40 - 15:05 Mean Shift Algorithm for Exponential Families with Applications to Speaker Clustering
Themos Stafylakis, Vassilis Katsouros, Patrick Kenny and Pierre Dumouchel

Session 11: Language Recognition – Feature, Classifier and Fusion
Thursday 28 June 2012

15:30 - 15:55 Speaker Vectors from Subspace Gaussian Mixture Model as Complementary Features for Language Identification
Oldrich Plchot, Martin Karafiat, Niko Brummer, Ondrej Glembek, Pavel Matejka, Edward de Villiers and Jan Cernocky
15:55 - 16:20 Complementary Combination in i-Vector Level for Language Recognition
Zhi-Yi Li, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Liang He and Jia Liu
16:20 - 16:45 Bhattacharyya-based GMM-SVM System with Adaptive Relevance Factor for Pair Language Recognition
Changhuai You, Haizhou Li, Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Kong Aik Lee and Bin Ma
16:45 - 17:10 Fusing Language Information from Diverse Data Sources for Phonotactic Language Recognition
Mohamed Faouzi BenZeghiba, Jean-Luc Gauvain and Lori Lamel

 

 


 
 
 
 


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