Autonomous learning of speaker identity and WiFi geofence from noisy sensor data

A fundamental building block towards intelligent environments is the ability to understand who is present in a certain area. A ubiquitous way of detecting this is to exploit unique vocal characteristics as people interact with one another in common spaces. However, manually enrolling users into a bi...

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Main Authors: Lu, C, Xiangli, Y, Zhao, P, Chen, C, Trigoni, N, Markham, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2019
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author Lu, C
Xiangli, Y
Zhao, P
Chen, C
Trigoni, N
Markham, A
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Zhao, P
Chen, C
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Markham, A
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description A fundamental building block towards intelligent environments is the ability to understand who is present in a certain area. A ubiquitous way of detecting this is to exploit unique vocal characteristics as people interact with one another in common spaces. However, manually enrolling users into a biometric database is time-consuming and not robust to vocal deviations over time. Instead, consider audio features sampled during a meeting, yielding a noisy set of possible voiceprints. With a number of meetings and knowledge of participation, e.g., sniffed wireless Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, can we learn to associate a specific identity with a particular voiceprint? To address this problem, this paper advocates an Internet of Things (IoT) solution and proposes to use co-located WiFi as supervisory weak labels to automatically bootstrap the labelling process. In particular, a novel cross-modality labelling algorithm is proposed that jointly optimises the clustering and association process, which solves the inherent mismatching issues arising from heterogeneous sensor data. At the same time, we further propose to reuse the labelled data to iteratively update wireless geofence models and curate device specific thresholds. Extensive experimental results from two different scenarios demonstrate that our proposed method is able to achieve 2-fold improvement in labelling compared with conventional methods and can achieve reliable speaker recognition in the wild.
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spelling oxford-uuid:2ee9c18a-3fb8-4d92-bbfe-e2a7efe91b9c2022-03-26T12:51:50ZAutonomous learning of speaker identity and WiFi geofence from noisy sensor dataJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:2ee9c18a-3fb8-4d92-bbfe-e2a7efe91b9cEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019Lu, CXiangli, YZhao, PChen, CTrigoni, NMarkham, AA fundamental building block towards intelligent environments is the ability to understand who is present in a certain area. A ubiquitous way of detecting this is to exploit unique vocal characteristics as people interact with one another in common spaces. However, manually enrolling users into a biometric database is time-consuming and not robust to vocal deviations over time. Instead, consider audio features sampled during a meeting, yielding a noisy set of possible voiceprints. With a number of meetings and knowledge of participation, e.g., sniffed wireless Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, can we learn to associate a specific identity with a particular voiceprint? To address this problem, this paper advocates an Internet of Things (IoT) solution and proposes to use co-located WiFi as supervisory weak labels to automatically bootstrap the labelling process. In particular, a novel cross-modality labelling algorithm is proposed that jointly optimises the clustering and association process, which solves the inherent mismatching issues arising from heterogeneous sensor data. At the same time, we further propose to reuse the labelled data to iteratively update wireless geofence models and curate device specific thresholds. Extensive experimental results from two different scenarios demonstrate that our proposed method is able to achieve 2-fold improvement in labelling compared with conventional methods and can achieve reliable speaker recognition in the wild.
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Autonomous learning of speaker identity and WiFi geofence from noisy sensor data
title Autonomous learning of speaker identity and WiFi geofence from noisy sensor data
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title_full_unstemmed Autonomous learning of speaker identity and WiFi geofence from noisy sensor data
title_short Autonomous learning of speaker identity and WiFi geofence from noisy sensor data
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