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RawBoost: A Raw Data Boosting and Augmentation Method applied to Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-Spoofing

Audio and Speech Processing 2022-02-23 v2 Cryptography and Security Sound Signal Processing

Abstract

This paper introduces RawBoost, a data boosting and augmentation method for the design of more reliable spoofing detection solutions which operate directly upon raw waveform inputs. While RawBoost requires no additional data sources, e.g. noise recordings or impulse responses and is data, application and model agnostic, it is designed for telephony scenarios. Based upon the combination of linear and non-linear convolutive noise, impulsive signal-dependent additive noise and stationary signal-independent additive noise, RawBoost models nuisance variability stemming from, e.g., encoding, transmission, microphones and amplifiers, and both linear and non-linear distortion. Experiments performed using the ASVspoof 2021 logical access database show that RawBoost improves the performance of a state-of-the-art raw end-to-end baseline system by 27% relative and is only outperformed by solutions that either depend on external data or that require additional intervention at the model level.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.04433,
  title  = {RawBoost: A Raw Data Boosting and Augmentation Method applied to Automatic Speaker Verification Anti-Spoofing},
  author = {Hemlata Tak and Madhu Kamble and Jose Patino and Massimiliano Todisco and Nicholas Evans},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04433},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted to IEEE ICASSP 2022

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