Hatch, A. O., Kajarekar, S. S., & Stolcke, A. (2006, September). Within-class covariance normalization for SVM-based speaker recognition. In Interspeech (pp. 1471-1474).
Abstract
This paper extends the within-class covariance normalization (WCCN) technique described in [ref] for training generalized linear kernels. We describe a practical procedure for applying WCCN to an SVM-based speaker recognition system where the input feature vectors reside in a high-dimensional space. Our approach involves using principal component analysis (PCA) to split the original feature space into two subspaces: a low-dimensional “PCA space” and a high-dimensional “PCA-complement space.” After performing WCCN in the PCA space, we concatenate the resulting feature vectors with a weighted version of their PCA-complements. When applied to a state-of-the-art MLLR-SVM speaker recognition system, this approach achieves improvements of up to 22pct. in EER and 28pct. in minimum decision cost function (DCF) over our previous baseline. […]
