2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Extracting Knowledge from Information

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Paper Detail

Paper IDSPE-37.1
Paper Title AN EFFECTIVE DEEP EMBEDDING LEARNING METHOD BASED ON DENSE-RESIDUAL NETWORKS FOR SPEAKER VERIFICATION
Authors Ying Liu, Yan Song, National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing, University of Science and Technology of China, China; Ian McLoughlin, ICT Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, Sint Maarten; Lin Liu, iFLYTEK Research, iFLYTEK CO., LTD., China; Li-rong Dai, National Engineering Laboratory for Speech and Language Information Processing, University of Science and Technology of China, China
SessionSPE-37: Speaker Recognition 5: Neural Embedding
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Thursday, 10 June, 14:00 - 14:45
Presentation Time:Thursday, 10 June, 14:00 - 14:45
Presentation Poster
Topic Speech Processing: [SPE-SPKR] Speaker Recognition and Characterization
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Abstract In this paper, we present an effective end-to-end deep embedding learning method based on Dense-Residual networks, which combine the advantages of a densely connected convolutional network (DenseNet) and a residual network (ResNet), for speaker verification (SV). Unlike a model ensemble strategy which merges the results of multiple systems, the proposed Dense-Residual networks perform feature fusion on every basic DenseR building block. Specifically, two types of DenseR blocks are designed. A sequential-DenseR block is constructed by densely connecting stacked basic units in a residual block of ResNet. A parallel-DenseR comprises split and concatenation operations on residual and dense components via corresponding skip connections. These building blocks are stacked into deep networks to exploit the complementary information with different receptive field sizes and growth rates. Extensive experiments have been conducted on the VoxCeleb1 dataset to evaluate the proposed methods. The SV performance achieved by the proposed Dense-Residual networks is shown to outperform corresponding ResNet, DenseNet or fusions of them, with similar model complexity, by a significant margin.