Combination of Amplitude and Frequency Modulation Features for Presentation Attack Detection

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the combination of Amplitude Modulation and Frequency Modulation (AM-FM) features for replay Spoof Speech Detection (SSD) task. The AM components are known to be affected by noise (in this case, due to replay mechanism). In particular, we exploit this damage in AM component to corresponding Instantaneous Frequency (IF) for SSD task. Thus, the novelty of proposed Amplitude Weighted Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (AWFCC) feature set lies in using frequency components along with squared weighted amplitude components that are degraded due to replay noise. The AWFCC feature set contains the information of both AM and FM components together and hence, gave discriminatory information in the spectral characteristics. The experiments were performed on publicly available ASVspoof 2017 challenge version 1.0 and 2.0 databases using AWFCC feature set. We have compared results of proposed feature set with the other state-of-the-art feature set, such as Constant Q Cepstral Coefficients (CQCC), Linear Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (LFCC), Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and using a simple Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) classifier. The individual performance of AWFCC feature set obtained lower % EER than the other feature sets on both version 1.0 and 2.0 databases. Furthermore, we used score-level fusion in order to obtain the possible complementary information of two feature sets to reduce the % EER further. To that effect, the score-level fusion of CQCC and AWFCC feature sets gave 5.75 % and 10.42 % EER on development and evaluation sets, respectively, of ASVspoof 2017 version 2.0 database. Moreover, for evaluation dataset, we have also studied the performance of proposed feature set on different Replay Configurations (RC), namely, acoustic environments, playback, and recording devices. For all the levels of threat conditions (i.e., low, medium, and high) to the ASV system, the proposed feature set performed better compared to the existing state-of-the-art feature sets.