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Conversational Biometrics Group Publications

Journal Publications


PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil ``Automatic Language Identification," chapter in "Multilingual Speech Processing," Eds. T. Schultz & K. Kirchhoff, Academic Press, April 2006, ISBN-13:978-0-12-088501-5, pp. 233-272.

PostScript Format PDF Format U.V. Chaudhari, J. Navratil, S.H. Maes ``Multi-Grained modeling with pattern specific maximum likelihood transformations for text-independent speaker recognition," IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 11, No. 1, January, 2003, pp.61-69.

PostScript Format PDF Format R.D. Zilca ``Text-Independent speaker verification using utterance level scoring and covariance modeling," IEEE Trans. Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 10, No. 6, September 2002, pp. 363-70.

PostScript Format PDF Format R.D. Zilca ``Text independent speaker verification using covariance modeling," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 8, No. 4, April 2001.

PostScript Format PDF Format S.H. Maes, J. Navratil, U.V. Chaudhari, ``Conversational Speech Biometrics," Chapter in "E-Commerce Agents. Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, ans Supply Demand," LNAI 2033, Springer Verlag, 2001. (via Springer here )

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil ``Spoken language recognition - A step towards multilinguality in speech processing," IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 9, No. 6, September, 2001, pp. 678-85 .



Conference Publications


PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, D. Klusacek, "On linear DETs," Internat. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-07), April, 2007, Honolulu, HI.

PostScript Format PDF Format B. Tydlitat, J. Navratil, J. Pelecanos, G.N. Ramaswamy, "Text-independent speaker verification in embedded environments," ICASSP-07, April, 2007, Honolulu, HI.

PostScript Format PDF Format W. Campbell, D. Sturim, W. Shen, D.A. Reynolds, J. Navratil, "The MIT/IBM 2006 speaker recognition system: high-performance reduced-complexity recognition," ICASSP-07, April, 2007, Honolulu, HI.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, "Recent advances in phonotactic language recognition using binary-decision trees," Internat. Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH-06), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2006.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Pelecanos, J. Navratil, and G. N. Ramaswamy "Addressing channel mismatch through speaker discriminative transforms," IEEE Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Puerto Rico, June 2006.

PostScript Format PDF Format W. Campbell, T. Gleason, J. Navratil, D. Reynolds, W. Shen, E. Singer, P. Torres-Carrasquillo, "Advanced language recognition using cepstra and phonotactics: MITLL system performance on the NIST 2005 Language Recognition Evaluation," IEEE Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Puerto Rico, June 2006.

PostScript Format PDF Format M. K. Omar, J. Navratil, and G. N. Ramaswamy ``Maximum Conditional Mutual Information for Speaker Verification," Proc. of Interspeech-05, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, G.N. Ramaswamy ``Improved speaker model migration via stochastic synthesis," Proc. of ICASSP-05, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2005.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. H. Nealand, J. W.Pelecanos, R. D. Zilca, and G. N. Ramaswamy ``A Study of the Relative Importance of Temporal Characteristics in Text-Dependent and Text-Constrained Speakr Verification," Proc. of ICASSP-05, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2005.

PostScript Format PDF Format M. K. Omar, U. Chaudhari, and G. N. Ramaswamy ``Blind Change Detection for Audio Segmentation," Proc. of ICASSP-05, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2005.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, G.N. Ramaswamy, R.D. Zilca ``Statistical model migration in speaker recognition," Proc. of ICSLP-04, Jeju, South Korea, October 2004.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, G.N. Ramaswamy, ``The awe and mystery of T-Norm," Proc. of EUROSPEECH-03, Geneve, Switzerland, September 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format G.N. Ramaswamy, R.D. Zilca, O. Alecksandrovich, ``A programmable policy manager for conversational biometrics," Proc. of EUROSPEECH-03, Geneve, Switzerland, September 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format R.D. Zilca, J. Navratil, G.N. Ramaswamy, ``Syncpitch: A pseudo pitch synchronous algorithm for speaker recognition," Proc. of EUROSPEECH-03, Geneve, Switzerland, September 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format R.D. Zilca, J. Navratil, G.N. Ramaswamy, ``Depitch and the role of fundamental frequency in speaker recognition," ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, April, 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format G.N. Ramaswamy, J. Navratil, U.V. Chaudhari, R.D. Zilca, ``The IBM system for the NIST 2002 cellular speaker verification evaluation," ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, April, 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, Q. Jin, W. Andrews, J.P. Campbell, ``Phonetic speaker recognition using maximum-likelihood binary-decision tree models," Invited paper, ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, April, 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format U.V. Chaudhari, G.N. Ramaswamy, G. Potamianos, C. Neti, ``Audio-visual speaker recognition using time-varying stream reliability prediction," ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, April, 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format B. Peskin, J. Navratil, J. Abramson, D. Jones, D. Klusacek, D. Reynolds, B. Xiang, ``Using prosodic and conversational features for high-performance speaker recognition: Report from JHU WS'02," Invited paper, ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, April, 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format Q.Jin, J. Navratil, D. Reynolds, J. Campbell, W. Andrews, J. Abramson, ``Combining cross-stream and time dimension in phonetic speaker recognition," Invited paper, ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, April, 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format D. Klusacek, J. Navratil, D. Reynolds, J. Campbell, ``Conditional pronunciation modeling in speaker detection," Invited paper, ICASSP-2003, Hong Kong, April, 2003.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, G.N. Ramaswamy, ``DETAC: A discriminative criterion for speaker verification," In Proc. of the ICSLP-2002, Denver, Colorado, September 2002,

PostScript Format PDF Format B. Xiang, U.V. Chaudhari, J. Navratil, G.N. Ramaswamy, R.A. Gopinath, ``Short-time Gaussianization for robust speaker verification," In Proc. of the ICASSP-2002, Orlando, Florida, May 2002.

PostScript Format PDF Format R.D. Zilca, U.V. Chaudhari, G.N. Ramaswamy, ``The sphericity measure for cellular speaker verification," Proc. of the ICASSP-2002, Orlando, Florida, May 2002,

PostScript Format PDF Format U.V. Chaudhari, J. Navratil, G.N. Ramaswamy, R.D. Zilca ``Future speaker recognition systems: Challenges and solutions," Proc. of AUTOID-2002, Tarrytown, NY, March 2002

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, U.V. Chaudhari, G.N. Ramaswamy, ``Speaker verification using target and background dependent linear transforms and multi-system fusion," Proc. of EUROSPEECH-01, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001 ,

PostScript Format PDF Format S. Fine, J. Navratil, R.A. Gopinath, ``Enhancing GMM scores using SVM 'hints'," Proc. of EUROSPEECH-01, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001,

PostScript Format PDF Format R. Zilca, ``Using second order statistics for text independent speaker verification," Proc. of the Speaker Odyssey 2001 conference, Crete, Greece, June 2001.

PostScript Format PDF Format U.V. Chaudhari, J. Navratil, G.N. Ramaswamy, S.H. Maes, ``A very large population text-independent speaker identification using transformation enhanced multi-grained models," ICASSP 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001

PostScript Format PDF Format S. Fine, J. Navratil, R.A. Gopinath, ``A hybrid GMM/SVM approach to speaker identification," ICASSP 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001

PostScript Format PDF Format U.V. Chaudhari, J. Navratil, S.H. Maes, ``Transformation enhanced multi-grained modeling for text-independent speaker recognition," ICSLP 2000, Beijing, October 2000.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, U.V. Chaudhari, S.H. Maes, ``A speech biometric system with multi-grained speaker modeling," KONVENS 2000, Ilmenau, Germany, October 2000.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, J. Kleindienst, S.H. Maes, ``An instantiable speech biometrics module with natural language interface: Implementation in the telephony environment," ICASSP 2000, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.

PostScript Format PDF Format J. Navratil, ``Spoken language identification - A step towards multilinguality in speech processing," WAC2000, Wailea, USA, June 11-16, 2000.

PostScript Format PDF Format M. Viswanathan, H.S.M. Beigi and F. Maali, ``Information Access Using Speech, Speaker and Face Recognition'' Submitted to ICME2000, New York City, New York, USA, July 2000.

PostScript Format PDF Format M. Viswanathan, H.S.M. Beigi, A. Tritschler and F. Maali, ``Multimedia Content Indexing and Retrieval Using Speech and Speaker Recognition,'' Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur, RIAO2000, Paris, France, April 12-14, 2000.

PostScript Format PDF Format M. Viswanathan, H.S.M. Beigi, S. Dharanipragada, A. Tritschler, ``Retrieval from Spoken Document using Content and Speaker Information,'' Internatoinal Conference on Document Analysis and Retrieval, ICDAR99, Bangalore, India, September 20-22, 1999, pp. 576-581.

PostScript Format PDF Format Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Stephane H. Maes, Upendra V. Chaudhari and Jeffrey S. Sorensen, ``A Hierarchical Approach to Large-Scale Speaker Recognition,'' EUROSPEECH'99, Budapest, Hungary, September 5-9, 1999, Vol. 5, pp. 2203-2206.

PostScript Format PDF Format Upendra V. Chaudhari, Homayoon S.M. Beigi, Stephane H. Maes, and Jeffrey S. Sorensen, ``Multi-Environment Speaker Verification,'' AUTOID'99, New Jersey, 1999.

PostScript Format PDF Format Homayoon S.M. Beigi and Stephane S. Maes, ``A Distance Measure Between Collections of Distributions and its Application to Speaker Recognition,'' ICASSP'98, Seattle, Washington, May. 23-27, 1998.

PostScript Format PDF Format Homayoon S.M. Beigi and Stephane S. Maes, ``Speaker, Channel and Environment Change Detection,'' Proceedings of the World Congress on Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May. 18-22, 1998.

PostScript Format PDF Format Homayoon S. M. Beigi, Stephane H. Maes, Upendra V. Chaudhari, and Jeffrey S. Sorensen, ``IBM Model-Based and Frame-By-Frame Speaker Recognition,'' Speaker Recognition and its Commercial and Forensic Appications, Avignon, France, Apr. 20-23, 1998.

PostScript Format PDF Format Stephane H. Maes and Homayoon S.M. Beigi, ``Open SESAME! Speech, Password or Key to Secure Your Door?'' , Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Hong Kong, Jan. 8-11, 1998.