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Measurement Uncertainties of Three Score Distributions and Two Thresholds with Data Dependency

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Author(s)

Jin Chu Wu, Alvin F. Martin, Craig S. Greenberg, Raghu N. Kacker

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducts an ongoing series of Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SRE). Recently a new paradigm was adopted to evaluate the performance of speaker recognition systems, in which three distributions of scores, i.e., target, known non-target, and unknown non-target scores, as well as two thresholds, were employed. The new detection cost function was defined to be an average of the two weighted sums of the probabilities of type I and type II errors corresponding to the two thresholds. In addition, data dependency due to multiple use of the same subjects is also involved. The data were reorganized into a two-layer structure in view of the probability theory, and then the uncertainties of the detection cost functions were computed using the nonparametric three-sample two-layer bootstrap method. Comparing these results with those calculated by using all the raw data and the nonparametric three-sample bootstrap method with the i.i.d. assumption, the measurement accuracies, i.e., the detection cost functions, have changed little; but the measurement uncertainties, i.e., the standard errors of the detection cost function, have improved as a result of taking account of the data dependency. Forty speaker recognition systems were taken as examples.
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 8025
Report Number
8025

Keywords

metrology, measure, accuracy, uncertainty, bootstrap, data dependency, speaker recognition

Citation

, J. , Martin, A. , Greenberg, C. and Kacker, R. (2014), Measurement Uncertainties of Three Score Distributions and Two Thresholds with Data Dependency, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8025 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created September 18, 2014, Updated November 10, 2018