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Verifying the identity of a speaker is crucial in modern human-machine interfaces, e.g., to ensure privacy protection or to enable biometric authentication. Classical speaker verification (SV) approaches estimate a fixed-dimensional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Ahmad Aloradi , Wolfgang Mack , Mohamed Elminshawi , Emanuël A. P. Habets

Fake audio detection is an emerging active topic. A growing number of literatures have aimed to detect fake utterance, which are mostly generated by Text-to-speech (TTS) or voice conversion (VC). However, countermeasures against…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Hao Gu , JiangYan Yi , Chenglong Wang , Yong Ren , Jianhua Tao , Xinrui Yan , Yujie Chen , Xiaohui Zhang

Language has always been one of humanity's defining characteristics. Visual Language Identification (VLI) is a relatively new field of research that is complex and largely understudied. In this paper, we present a preliminary study in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Lucia Cascone , Michele Nappi , Fabio Narducci

As a type of biometric identification, a speaker identification (SID) system is confronted with various kinds of attacks. The spoofing attacks typically imitate the timbre of the target speakers, while the adversarial attacks confuse the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Qing Wang , Jixun Yao , Li Zhang , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Using printed photograph and replaying videos of biometric modalities, such as iris, fingerprint and face, are common attacks to fool the recognition systems for granting access as the genuine user. With the growing online person-to-person…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Joel Stehouwer , Amin Jourabloo , Yaojie Liu , Xiaoming Liu

We assess the security of machine learning based biometric authentication systems against an attacker who submits uniform random inputs, either as feature vectors or raw inputs, in order to find an accepting sample of a target user. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Generative AI (Gen-AI) deepfakes pose a rapidly evolving threat to biometric authentication, yet a significant gap exists between expert understanding of these risks and public perception. This disconnection creates critical vulnerabilities…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shijing He , Yaxiong Lei , Zihan Zhang , Yuzhou Sun , Shujun Li , Chi Zhang , Juan Ye

Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) systems are increasingly used in voice bio-metrics for user authentication but are susceptible to logical and physical spoofing attacks, posing security risks. Existing research mainly tackles logical or…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Awais Khan , Khalid Mahmood Malik

Speaker anonymization systems continue to improve their ability to obfuscate the original speaker characteristics in a speech signal, but often create processing artifacts and unnatural sounding voices as a tradeoff. Many of those systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Nils Peters

This paper describes our proposed integration system for the spoofing-aware speaker verification challenge. It consists of a robust spoofing-aware verification system that use the speaker verification and antispoofing embeddings extracted…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Juan M. Martín-Doñas , Iván G. Torre , Aitor Álvarez , Joaquin Arellano

Face morphing represents nowadays a big security threat in the context of electronic identity documents as well as an interesting challenge for researchers in the field of face recognition. Despite of the good performance obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Matteo Ferrara , Annalisa Franco , Davide Maltoni

Current mobile user authentication systems based on PIN codes, fingerprint, and face recognition have several shortcomings. Such limitations have been addressed in the literature by exploring the feasibility of passive authentication on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Giuseppe Stragapede , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana , Aythami Morales , Alejandro Acien , Gael Le Lan

Morphing Attack Detection (MAD) is a relevant topic that aims to detect attempts by unauthorised individuals to access a "valid" identity. One of the main scenarios is printing morphed images and submitting the respective print in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Juan E. Tapia , Maximilian Russo , Christoph Busch

Speaker anonymization systems hide the identity of speakers while preserving other information such as linguistic content and emotions. To evaluate their privacy benefits, attacks in the form of automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Ünal Ege Gaznepoglu , Anna Leschanowsky , Ahmad Aloradi , Prachi Singh , Daniel Tenbrinck , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Nils Peters

Biometrics based personal identification is regarded as an effective method for automatically recognizing, with a high confidence a person's identity. A multimodal biometric systems consolidate the evidence presented by multiple biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-09-15 M. Nageshkumar , P. K. Mahesh , M. N. S. Swamy

Biometric data, such as face images, are often associated with sensitive information (e.g medical, financial, personal government records). Hence, a data breach in a system storing such information can have devastating consequences. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Reena Zelenkova , Jack Swallow , M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Mohan Baruwal Chhetri , Seyit Camtepe , Marthie Grobler , Mahathir Almashor

Face Recognition Systems (FRS) are increasingly vulnerable to face-morphing attacks, prompting the development of Morphing Attack Detection (MAD) algorithms. However, a key challenge in MAD lies in its limited generalizability to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Haoyu Zhang , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Kiran Raja , Christoph Busch

Recent advances have demonstrated compelling capabilities in synthesizing real individuals into generated videos, reflecting the growing demand for identity-aware content creation. Nevertheless, an openly accessible framework enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yingjie Chen , Shilun Lin , Cai Xing , Binxin Yang , Long Zhou , Qixin Yan , Wenjing Wang , Dingming Liu , Hao Liu , Chen Li , Jing Lyu

Morphing attacks have posed a severe threat to Face Recognition System (FRS). Despite the number of advancements reported in recent works, we note serious open issues such as independent benchmarking, generalizability challenges and…

With the advancements in AI speech synthesis, it is easier than ever before to generate realistic audio in a target voice. One only needs a few seconds of reference audio from the target, quite literally putting words in the target person's…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Candice R. Gerstner