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Significance Test with Data Dependency in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

Published

Author(s)

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

Abstract

To evaluate the performance of speaker recognition systems, a detection cost function defined as a weighted sum of the probabilities of type I and type II errors is employed. The speaker datasets may have data dependency due to multiple uses of the same subjects. Using the standard errors of the detection cost function computed by means of the two-layer nonparametric two-sample bootstrap method, a significance test is performed to determine whether the difference between the measured performance levels of two speaker recognition algorithms is statistically significant. While conducting the significance test, the correlation coefficient between two systems’ detection cost functions is taken into account. Examples are provided.
Proceedings Title
Proc. of SPIE Vol. 8734
Conference Dates
May 1-2, 2013
Conference Location
Baltimore, MD
Conference Title
SPIE Defense Security Sensing, 2013

Keywords

Significance test, Data dependency, Speaker recognition evaluation, Measurement uncertainty, Standard error, ROC analysis, Bootstrap, Biometrics.

Citation

, J. , Martin, A. , Greenberg, C. , Kacker, R. and Stanford, V. (2013), Significance Test with Data Dependency in Speaker Recognition Evaluation, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 8734, Baltimore, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=914184 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created July 25, 2013, Updated February 19, 2017