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dc.contributorDepartment of Electronic and Information Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.advisorMak, Man-wai (EIE)en_US
dc.creatorGao, Zhenke-
dc.identifier.urihttps://theses.lib.polyu.edu.hk/handle/200/12064-
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherHong Kong Polytechnic Universityen_US
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_US
dc.titleUnet-DenseNet for robust far-field speaker verificationen_US
dcterms.abstractFar-field speaker verification (SV) has always been critical but challenging. Data augmentation is commonly used to overcome the problems arising from far-field microphones, such as high background noise levels and reverberation effects. On top of data augmentation, this dissertation tackles these problems by introducing a Unet-based speech enhancement (SE) module as a front-end processor for the speaker embedding module.en_US
dcterms.abstractTo prevent the SE module from distorting speaker information, we propose two improvements to the speech enhancement–speaker embedding pipeline: (1) a Unet-DenseNet based SE-SV joint training pipeline is designed to remove the noise before the enhanced signal is fed to the speaker embedding network; and (2) a semi-joint training is proposed to prevent over-fitting of the Unet when training the Unet-DenseNet.en_US
dcterms.abstractTo evaluate the proposed model, we conducted extensive experiments on the noisy version of the Voxceleb1 dataset. To verify the generalization on unseen noise, we conducted experiments on the VOiCES Challenge 2019 evaluation set.en_US
dcterms.abstractThe results show that the joint training model can reduce the average equal error rate (EER) by 2.5% when the test utterances have SNR ranging from 5dB to 20dB. In particular, at the SNR of –5dB, the relative reduction in EER and minimum decision cost is 7.2% and 7.5%, respectively.en_US
dcterms.extentiv, 41 pages : color illustrationsen_US
dcterms.isPartOfPolyU Electronic Thesesen_US
dcterms.issued2022en_US
dcterms.educationalLevelM.Sc.en_US
dcterms.educationalLevelAll Masteren_US
dcterms.LCSHAutomatic speech recognitionen_US
dcterms.LCSHSpeech perceptionen_US
dcterms.LCSHHong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertationsen_US
dcterms.accessRightsrestricted accessen_US

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