Multi-Dataset Co-Training with Sharpness-Aware Optimization for Audio Anti-spoofing

Audio anti-spoofing for automatic speaker verification aims to safeguard users' identities from spoofing attacks. Although state-of-the-art spoofing countermeasure(CM) models perform well on specific datasets, they lack generalization when evaluated with different datasets. To address this limitation, previous studies have explored large pre-trained models, which require significant resources and time. We aim to develop a compact but well-generalizing CM model that can compete with large pre-trained models. Our approach involves multi-dataset co-training and sharpness-aware minimization, which has not been investigated in this domain. Extensive experiments reveal that proposed method yield competitive results across various datasets while utilizing 4,000 times less parameters than the large pre-trained models.Comment: Interspeech 202

Successful Use of Newspapers in Curriculum Development for First-year College Students

The course, Fashion and Society, is designed to provide first-year Clothing and Textiles major students with an integrated view of fashion as social phenomenon. From the survey on the first-year students’ perceptions about fashion, we have found that many students considered fashion tend to be irrelevant, something fancy and distant to their daily life, and difficult to understand. Based on the comments, we need teaching materials that can be perceived to be “not difficult” (and fun) and relevant. We also needed to design the course to provide students opportunities to apply their knowledge to real life. Thus, we developed the course using several newspapers to help students experience various fashion expressions and reflections a society carries in

Capturing scattered discriminative information using a deep architecture in acoustic scene classification

Frequently misclassified pairs of classes that share many common acoustic properties exist in acoustic scene classification (ASC). To distinguish such pairs of classes, trivial details scattered throughout the data could be vital clues. However, these details are less noticeable and are easily removed using conventional non-linear activations (e.g. ReLU). Furthermore, making design choices to emphasize trivial details can easily lead to overfitting if the system is not sufficiently generalized. In this study, based on the analysis of the ASC task's characteristics, we investigate various methods to capture discriminative information and simultaneously mitigate the overfitting problem. We adopt a max feature map method to replace conventional non-linear activations in a deep neural network, and therefore, we apply an element-wise comparison between different filters of a convolution layer's output. Two data augment methods and two deep architecture modules are further explored to reduce overfitting and sustain the system's discriminative power. Various experiments are conducted using the detection and classification of acoustic scenes and events 2020 task1-a dataset to validate the proposed methods. Our results show that the proposed system consistently outperforms the baseline, where the single best performing system has an accuracy of 70.4% compared to 65.1% of the baseline.Comment: Submitted to DCASE2020 worksho