• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.88-98
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• 2002

The multilayer perceptron (MLP) has several advantages against other pattern recognition methods, and is expected to be used as the learning and recognizing speakers of speaker verification system. But because of the low learning speed of the error backpropagation (EBP) algorithm that is used for the MLP learning, the MLP learning requires considerable time. Because the speaker verification system must provide verification services just after a speaker's enrollment, it is required to solve the problem. So, this paper tries to make short of time required to enroll speakers with the MLP based speaker verification system, using the method of improving the EBP learning speed and the method of reducing background speakers which adopts the cohort speakers method from the existing speaker verification.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.360-366
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• 2003

Although multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) present several advantages against other pattern recognition methods, MLP-based speaker verification systems suffer from slow enrollment speed caused by many background speakers to achieve a low verification error. To solve this problem, the quantitative discriminative cohort speakers (QnDCS) method, by introducing the cohort speakers method into the systems, reduced the number of background speakers required to enroll speakers. Although the QnDCS achieved the goal to some extent, the improvement rate for the enrolling speed was still unsatisfactory. To improve the enrolling speed, this paper proposes the qualitative DCS (QlDCS) by introducing a qualitative criterion to select less background speakers. An experiment for both methods is conducted to use the speaker verification system based on MLPs and continuants, and speech database. The results of the experiment show that the proposed QlDCS method enrolls speakers in two times shorter time than the QnDCS does over the online error backpropagation(EBP) method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.1021-1026
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• 2003

While multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have great possibility on the application to speaker verification, they suffer from inferior learning speed. To appeal to users, the speaker verification systems based on MLPs must achieve a reasonable enrolling speed and it is thoroughly dependent on the fast teaming of MLPs. To attain real-time enrollment on the systems, the previous two studies have been devoted to the problem and each satisfied the objective. In this paper, the two studies are combined and applied to the systems, on the assumption that each method operates on different optimization principle. By conducting experiments using an MLP-based speaker verification system to which the combination is applied on real speech database, the feasibility of the combination is verified from the results of the experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.1015-1020
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• 2003

Among the techniques to protect private information by adopting biometrics, speaker verification is expected to be widely used due to advantages in convenient usage and implementation cost. Speaker verification should achieve a high degree of the reliability in the verification score, the flexibility in speech text usage, and the efficiency in verification system complexity. Continuants have excellent speaker-discriminant power and the modest number of phonemes in the category, and multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have superior recognition ability and fast operation speed. In consequence, the two provide viable ways for speaker verification system to obtain the above properties. This paper implements a system to which continuants and MLPs are applied, and evaluates the system using a Korean speech database. The results of the experiment prove that continuants and MLPs enable the system to acquire the three properties.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.585-591
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• 2002

While the multilayer perceptron(MLP) provides several advantages against the existing pattern recognition methods, it requires relatively long time in learning. This results in prolonging speaker enrollment time with a speaker verification system that uses the MLP as a classifier. This paper proposes a method that shortens the enrollment time through adopting the cohort speakers method used in the existing parametric systems and reducing the number of background speakers required to learn the MLP, and confirms the effect of the method by showing the result of an experiment that applies the method to a continuant and MLP-based speaker verification system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.457-459
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• 2001

지속음(continuants) 단위로 화자간 차이를 식별하는 어구독립 화자증명(text-independent speaker verification) 방식에서 입력음성의 성량을 제한하여 보다 높은 인식률을 달성할 수 있는 화자인식 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.619-621
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• 2002

MLP(multilayer perceptron)는 기존의 패턴인식 방법에 비해 몇 가지 이점을 제공하지만 학습에 비교적 많은 시간을 요구한다. 이 점은 화자증명 시스템의 인식방법으로서 MLP를 사용할 경우 등록시간이 길어지는 문제를 발생시킨다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 시스템에서 채택한 화자군집 방법을 응용하여 MLP 학습에 필요만 배경화자 수를 줄임으로써 화자등록 시간을 단축하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.434-436
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 기존의 확률적 화자군집 모델을 MLP(multi-layer perceptron)로 구현하는 방법과 원형 화자군집 모델이 갖는 문제를 해결할 수정 모델을 제시한다. 화자군집 모델은 화자등록 시간에 민감한 실용 환경에서 중요한 의미를 지닌다. 본 연구에서 사용한 인식단위는 여러 음소계열에서 지속적인 부분을 추출한 지속음이므로 화자등록과 증명 단계에서 특정한 어구에 한정되지 않는 어구독립 방식을 채택한다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2001

Speech has a good characteristics of which car drivers busy to concern with miscellaneous operation can make use in convenient handling and manipulating of devices. By utilizing this, this works proposes a speaker verification method for protecting cars from being stolen and identifying a person trying to access critical on-line services. In this, continuant phonemes recognition which uses language information of speech and MLP(mult-layer perceptron) which has some advantages against previous stochastic methods are adopted. The recognition method, though, involves huge computation amount for learning, so it is somewhat difficult to adopt this in speaker verification application in which speakers should enroll themselves at real time. To relieve this problem, this works presents a solution that introduces speaker cohort models from speaker verification score normalization technique established before, dividing background speakers into small cohorts in advance. As a result, this enables computation burden to be reduced through classifying the enrolling speaker into one of those cohorts and going through enrollment for only that cohort.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10c
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• pp.157-159
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 화상 통화를 위한 비디오 인코딩에서 화자의 얼굴 화질을 강화하여 인코딩 할 수 있는 동영상 인코딩 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 인코딩 방법에서는 이미지의 Cr 데이터 및 움직임벡터 정보를 이용하여 빠르게 화자 얼굴 영역을 검출하고, 이 영역에 대하여 선택적인 양자화를 통하여 상대적으로 많은 비트량을 할당하여 화자의 얼굴 화질을 상대적으로 강화한다. 이 방법을 H.263 인코더에 적용하는 경우 전체적으로 이런 방법을 적용하지 않았을 때와 비교하여 18% 정도의 추가적인 CPU 오버헤드가 필요하였지만, 얼굴 영역에 대하여서는 PSNR 3dB 정도의 화질이 개선될 수 있음을 실험을 통하여 증명하였다.