Worshop: Speech Forensic in Indonesia - Past, Present, and Future

On 10 December 2015, a workshop on Speech Forensic in Indonesia - Past, Present, and Future, has been held. There were 3 main speakers on this workshop. The first speaker is from Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), a corruption eradication commission in Indonesia. The first speaker shared some practical cases in which speaker recognition used in the investigation of corruption cases in Indonesia. The second speaker is affiliated with digital forensic laboratory from POLRI, the Indonesian Police Institution. The last speaker is myself, where I shared the current advancement in speaker recognition for forensics. 

EAB BIOMETRICS RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY AWARDS 2015

Thank you for European Association of Biometrics (EAB), for giving me the honor of receiving an award. I have successfully presented my work at the Award, and being awarded as winning the third place (finalist) in the award, event though I did the presentation remotely through tele-conference. 

Interspeech 2015

Capture from one of the posters presented at Interspeech 2015.

At the Interspeech Conference 2015 in Dresden, Germany, our paper entitled "Quality Measure Functions for Calibration of Speaker Recognition Systems in Various Duration Conditions" that is published in the IEEE-TASLP in 2013, has been cited by several papers. Some of them are:

1. "Modified-prior PLDA and Score Calibration for Duration Mismatch Compensation in Speaker Recognition System", by Q. Hong et.al., and
2. "Denoising Autoencoder-based Speaker Feature Restoration for Utterances of Short Duration", by H. Yamamoto & T. Koshinaka.

Asahi Research Grant Ceremony

The Asahi Grant Ceremony 2015.

Today is the grant ceremony for the Asahi Reseach Grant 2015 funded by the Asahi Glass Foundation. One of the agenda in this grant ceremony is the seminar on "Research Findings Assisted by the Asahi Glass Foundation 2015".

EAB Award 2015: Shortlist

Based on my Doctoral dissertation entitled: "Modern Speaker Recognition System for Forensics: Evaluation and Likelihood Ratio Calibration", I've been nominated as one of the nominees for European Biometrics Reseach and Industry Awards 2015 by the EAB (European Association for Biometrics). The final presentation will be hold on Wednesday, 9 September 2015.

Our SPECOM Paper has been Indexed

Screenshot from Speech Communication Journal website, Vol. 72, 2015.

Paper entitled "Quality measures based calibration with duration and noise dependency for speaker recognition" has been indexed and published online in Journal of Speech Communication, vol. 72, page 126-137, 2015. Please follow this link to have access to the paper.

Workshop on Forensic Speaker Recognition

The topic of today's workshop is "forensic speaker recognition". In this workshop, I presented about the basic knowledge in forensic speaker recognition and the recognition in practice, esp. based on my experience in Indonesia. The participants are the member of Indonesian National Institution for Cryptography, or known as LSN (Lembaga Sandi Negara) in Bahasa.

Asahi Research Grant 2015

I am gladly announced that our research proposal entitled "Bahasa Speech Database for Automatic Speaker Recognition System Development in Indonesia" has been accepted. The research will be funded by Asahi Glass Foundation (website), and start in year 2015. More information about the research framework can be found here. 

Published Article at Speech Communication Journal

Acceptance letter from the manuscript committee.

A new article has just been accepted to be published at Speech Communication Journal. The title is "Quality Measures based Calibration with Duration and Noise Dependency for Speaker Recognition" [pdf]. Volume and page numbers are followed.

New Job in 2015

 

[Video about Engineering Physics Department, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, 

Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Bahasa Indonesia.]

Result from the national civil servant exam in October 2014 has finally been announced. I pass the test. This means that I am now "almost" officially a lecturer and researcher at the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Indonesia. I will be working under the Department of  Engineering Physics and Instrumentation & Control Research group in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, from now on until my retirement at the age of 65...