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	Tomi Kinnunen, PhD Researcher in speech technology, specialized in voice biometrics
	Speech and Image Processing Unit (SIPU), School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland
	Location: Joensuu Science Park, 3rd floor, Office T/B 358
	E-mail: tkinnu@cs.joensuu.fi

PROGRAM CODE:

Multiple window (multitaper) spectrum estimators (Matlab). See also the related publications in IEEE SPL, Interspeech 2010 and ASRU 2011 (to appear).

PUBLICATIONS:

Refereed journal papers:

C. Hanilci, T. Kinnunen, F. Ertas, R. Saeidi, J. Pohjalainen, P. Alku, “Regularized All-Pole Models for Speaker Verification Under Noisy Environments”, to appear in IEEE Signal Processing Letters [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, I. Sidoroff, M. Tuononen, P. Fränti, “Comparison of Clustering Methods: a Case Study of Text-Independent Speaker Modeling”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 32(13): 1604--1617, October 2011 [PDF]
K.A. Lee, C.H. You, H. Li, T. Kinnunen, K.C. Sim, “Using Discrete Probabilities with Bhattacharyya Measure for SVM-based Speaker Verification”, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 19(4): 861--870, May 2011 [PDF].
R. Saeidi, J. Pohjalainen, T. Kinnunen, P. Alku, “Temporally Weighted Linear Prediction Features for Tackling Additive Noise in Speaker Verification”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 17(6), pp. 599--602, June 2010 [PDF].
J. Sandberg, M. Hansson-Sandsten, T. Kinnunen, R. Saeidi, P. Flandrin, P. Borgnat, “Multitaper Estimation of Frequency-Warped Cepstra with Application to Speaker Verification”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 17(4): 343--346, April 2010. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen and H. Li, “An Overview of Text-Independent Speaker Recognition: from Features to Supervectors”, Speech Communication 52(1): 12--40, January 2010 [PDF].
T. Kinnunen, J. Saastamoinen, V. Hautamäki, M. Vinni, P. Fränti, “Comparative Evaluation of Maximum a Posteriori Vector Quantization and Gaussian Mixture Models in Speaker Verification”, Pattern Recognition Letters 30(4): 341--347, March 2009. [PDF]
V. Hautamäki, T. Kinnunen and P. Fränti, “Text-Independent Speaker Recognition Using Graph Matching”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 29(9): 1427--1432, 2008. [PDF]
V. Hautamäki, T. Kinnunen, I. Kärkkäinen, M. Tuononen, J. Saastamoinen, P. Fränti, “Maximum a Posteriori Estimation of the Centroid Model for Speaker Verification“, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 15: 162--165, 2008. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, E. Karpov, P. Fränti, “Real-Time Speaker Identification and Verification”, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 14(1): 277--288, Jan 2006. [PDF]

Refereed conference papers:

T. Kinnunen, Z.-Z. Wu, K. A. Lee, F. Sedlak, E. S. Chng, H. Li, “Vulnerability of Speaker Verification Systems Against Voice Conversion Spoofing Attacks: the Case of Telephone Speech”, to appear in ICASSP 2012 [PDF].
S. Siddiq, T. Kinnunen, M. Vainio, S. Werner, “Intonational Speaker Verification: a Study on Parameters and Performance Under Noisy Conditions”, to appear in ICASSP 2012 [PDF]
C. Hanilci, T. Kinnunen, R. Saeidi, J. Pohjalainen, P. Alku, F. Ertas, J. Sandberg, M. Hansson-Sandsten, “Comparing Spectrum Estimators in Speaker Verification Under Additive Noise”, to appear in ICASSP 2012 [PDF]
J. Alam, T. Kinnunen, P. Kenny, P. Ouellet, D. O'Shaughnessy, “Multitaper MFCC Features for Speaker Verification Using i-Vectors”, Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2011), pp. 547--552, Hawaii, December 2011. [PDF] [Multitaper Matlab code]
J. Rodriguez-Fuentes, M. Penagarikano, A. Varona, M. Diez, G. Bordel, D. Martinez, J. Villalba, A. Miguel, A. Ortega, E. Lleida, A. Abad, O. Koller, I. Trancoso, P. Lopez-Otero, L. Docio-Fernandez, C. Garcia-Mateo, R. Saeidi, M. Soufifar, T. Kinnunen, T. Svendsen, P. Fränti, “Multi-Site Heterogenous System Fusions for the Albayzin 2010 Language Recognition Evaluation”, Proc. IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2011), pp. 377--382, Hawaii, December 2011. [PDF]
Evgeny Karpov, Zaur Nasibov, Tomi Kinnunen, Pasi Fränti, "Combining voice activity detectors using decision fusion", Proc. Speech and Computer (SPECOM 2011), Kazan, Russia, September 2011, pp. 278--283.
V. Hautamäki, K.A. Lee, T. Kinnunen, B. Ma, H. Li, “Regularized Logistic Regression Fusion for Speaker Verification”, Proc. Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy, pp. 2745-2748, August 2011 [PDF]
P. Mowlaee, R. Saeidi, Z.-H. Tan, M.G. Christensen, T. Kinnunen, P. Fränti, S.H. Jensen, “Sinusoidal Approach for the Single-Channel Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge”, Proc. Interspeech 2011, Florence, Italy, August 2011, pp. 677-680. [PDF]
F. Sedlak, T. Kinnunen, V. Hautamäki, K.A. Lee, H. Li, “Classifier Subset Selection and Fusion for Speaker Verification”, Proc. ICASSP 2011, pp. 4544--4547, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011. [PDF] [video and slides]
J. Pohjalainen, P. Alku, T. Kinnunen, “Shout Detection in Noise”, Proc. ICASSP 2011, pp. 4968--4971, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, R. Saeidi, J. Sandberg, M. Hansson-Sandsten, “What Else is New Than the Hamming Window? Robust MFCCs for Speaker Recognition via Multitapering”, Proc. Interspeech 2010, pp. 2734--2737, Makuhari, Japan, Sept. 2010. [PDF] [Multitaper Matlab code]
J. Pohjalainen, R. Saeidi, T. Kinnunen, P. Alku, “Extended Weighted Linear Prediction (XLP) Analysis of Speech and its Application to Speaker Verification in Adverse Conditions”, Proc. Interspeech 2010, pp. 1477--1480, Makuhari, Japan, Sept. 2010. [PDF]
Z.-Z. Wu, T. Kinnunen, E.S. Chng, H. Li, “Text-Independent F0 Transformation with Non-Parallel Data for Voice Conversion”, Proc. Interspeech 2010, pp. 1732--1735, Makuhari, Japan, Sept. 2010. [PDF]
V. Hautamäki, T. Kinnunen, M. Nosratighods, K.A. Lee, B. Ma, H. Li, “Approaching Human Listener Accuracy with Modern Speaker Verification”, Proc Interspeech 2010, pp. 1473--1476, Makuhari, Japan, Sept. 2010. [PDF]
R. Saeidi, P. Mowlaee, T. Kinnunen, Z.-H. Tan, M.G. Christensen, S.H. Jensen, P. Fränti, “Improving Monaural Speaker Identification by Double-Talk Detection”, Proc Interspeech 2010, pp. 1069--1072, Makuhari, Japan, Sept. 2010. [PDF]
R. Saeidi, J. Pohjalainen, T. Kinnunen, P. Alku, “Temporally Weighted Linear Prediction Features for Speaker Verification in Additive Noise”, Odyssey 2010: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 40-46, June 2010. [PDF]
R. Saeidi, P. Mowlaee, T. Kinnunen, Z. H Tan, M. G. Christensen, S. H. Jensen and P. Fränti, “Signal-to-signal ratio independent speaker identification for co-channel speech signals”, Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), pp. 4545--456, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010. [PDF]
K. A. Lee, H. Li, C. H. You, T. Kinnunen, K. C. Sim, “Discrete Expected Likelihood Kernel for SVM-Based Speaker Verification”, Proc. 18th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2010), pp. 591--595, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2010 [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, F. Sedlak, R. Bednarik, “Towards Task-Independent Person Authentication Using Eye Movement Signals”, Proc. of the 2010 Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA 2010), pp. 187--190, Austin, Texas, March 2010. [PDF]
R. Saeidi, T. Kinnunen, H.R.S. Mohammadi, R. Rodman, P. Fränti, “Joint Frame and Gaussian Selection for Text-Independent Speaker Verification”, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), pp. 4530--4533, Dallas, Texas, USA, March 2010. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen and P. Alku, “On separating glottal source and vocal tract information in telephony speaker verification”, Proc. Int. conference on acoustics, speech, and signal processing (ICASSP 2009), pp. 4545--4548, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, J. Saastamoinen, V. Hautamäki, M. Vinni and P. Fränti, “Comparing maximum a posteriori vector quantization and Gaussian mixture models in speaker verification”, Proc. Int. conference on acoustics, speech, and signal processing (ICASSP 2009) , pp. 4229--4232, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009. [PDF]
P. Fränti, J. Saastamoinen, I. Kärkkäinen, T. Kinnunen, V. Hautamäki, I. Sidoroff, “Developing Speaker Recognition System: from Prototype to Practical Application”, Int. Conf. Forensic Applications and Techniques in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia (e-Forensics'09), Adelaide, Australia, LNICST vol. 8, 101-114, January 2009.
K.A. Lee, C. You, H. Li, T. Kinnunen and D. Zhu, “Characterizing Speech Utterances for Speaker Verification with Sequence Kernel SVM”, Proc. Interspeech 2008 , pp. 1397-1400, Brisbane, Australia, 2008. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, K.A. Lee and H. Li, “Dimension Reduction of the Modulation Spectrogram for Speaker Verification”, Proc. Odyssey: The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, Stellenbosch, South Africa, January 2008. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, E. Chernenko, M. Tuononen, P. Fränti, H. Li, “Voice Activity Detection Using MFCC Features and Support Vector Machine”, Proc. Speech and Computer 2007 (SPECOM), vol. 2, 556-561, Moscow, Russia, October 2007. [PDF]
K.A. Lee, C. You, H. Li, T. Kinnunen, ”A GMM-based Probabilistic Sequence Kernel for Speaker Verification”, Proc. Interspeech 2007, p. 294-297, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.[PDF]
T. Kinnunen, B. Zhang, J. Zhu, Y. Wang, ”Speaker Verification with Adaptive Spectral Subband Centroids”, Proc. Int. Conf. Biometrics, pp. 58-66, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4642, Seoul, Korea, August 2007. [PDF]
R. Saeidi, R.S. Mohammadi, R. Rodman, T. Kinnunen, "A New Segmentation Algorithm Combined with Transient Frames Power for Text-Independent Speaker Verification", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 4, pp. 305-308, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, C.W.E. Koh, L. Wang, H. Li, and E.S. Chng, "Temporal Discrete Cosine Transform: Towards Longer Term Temporal Features for Speaker Verification", Proc. 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'2006), LNAI 4274, pp. 547-558, Singapore, December 2006.[PDF]
T. Kinnunen, V. Hautamäki, P. Fränti, “On the Use of Long-Term Average Spectrum in Automatic Speaker Recognition” , Proc. 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'2006), pp. 559-567, Singapore, December 2006. [PDF]
K.A. Lee, H. Sun, R. Tong, B. Ma, M. Dong, C. You, D. Zhu, C.W.E. Koh, L. Wang, T.Kinnunen, E.S. Chng and H. Li, "The IIR Submission to CSLP 2006 Speaker Recognition Evaluation", Proc. 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'2006), LNAI 4274, pp. 494-505, Singapore, December 2006. [PDF]
R. Tong, B. Ma, K.A. Lee, C. You, D. Zhou, T. Kinnunen, H. Sun, M. Dong, E.S. Chng, H. Li, “The IIR NIST 2006 Speaker Recognition System: Fusion of Acoustic and Tokenization Features”, Proc. 5th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP'2006), pp. 566-577, Singapore, December 2006. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, "Joint Acoustic-Modulation Frequency for Speaker Recognition", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006), Vol. I, pp. 665-668, May 14-19, 2006, Toulouse, France. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, R. Gonzalez-Hautamäki, “Long-Term F0 Modeling for Text-Independent Speaker Recognition”, Proc. Int. Conf. on Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2005), pp. 567-570, Patras, Greece, October 2005. [PDF]
J. Saastamoinen, Z. Fiedler, T. Kinnunen and P. Fränti, "On factors affecting MFCC-based speaker recognition accuracy", Proc. Int. Conf. on Speech and Computer (SPECOM'05), pp. 503-506, Patras, Greece, October 2005 [PDF].
H. Gupta, V. Hautamäki, T. Kinnunen and P. Fränti, "Field evaluation of text-dependent speaker recognition in an access control application", Proc. Int. Conf. on Speech and Computer (SPECOM'05), pp. 551-554, Patras, Greece, October 2005. [PDF]
O. Grebenskaya, T. Kinnunen, P. Fränti, “Speaker Clustering in Speech Recognition”, Proc. 2005 Finnish Signal Processing Symposium (FINSIG’05), pp. 46-49, Kuopio, Finland, August 25, 2005. [PDF]
V. Hautamäki, S. Cherednichenko, I. Kärkkäinen, T. Kinnunen, P. Fränti, “Improving K-Means by Outlier Removal”, Proc. 14th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3540, pp. 978-987, Joensuu, Finland, June 19-22, 2005.
R. Bednarik, T. Kinnunen, A. Mihaila, P. Fränti, “Eye-Movements as a Biometric“, Proc. 14th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3540, pp. 780-789, Joensuu, Finland, June 19-22, 2005. [PDF]
T. Niemi-Laitinen, J. Saastamoinen, T. Kinnunen, P Fränti, ”Applying MFCC-Based Automatic Speaker Recognition to GSM and Forensic Data“, Proc. Human Language Technologies (HLT’2005), p. 317-322, Tallinn, Estonia, April 4-5, 2005 [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, E. Karpov, P. Fränti, “Efficient Online Cohort Selection Method for Speaker Verification”, Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2004), Vol. III, pp. 2401-2402, Jeju Island, Korea, Oct. 4-8, 2004 [PDF].
T. Kinnunen, E. Karpov, P. Fränti, “Real-Time Speaker Identification”, Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'2004), Vol. III, pp. 1805-1808, Jeju Island, Korea, Oct. 4-8, 2004. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, V. Hautamäki, P. Fränti, “Fusion of Spectral Feature Sets for Accurate Speaker Identification”, Proc. 9th International Conference Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2004), pp. 361-365, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 20-22, 2004. [PDF]
E. Karpov, T. Kinnunen, P. Fränti, "Symmetric Distortion Measure for Speaker Recognition", Proc. 9th International Conference Speech and Computer (SPECOM'2004), pp. 366-370, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 20-22, 2004. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, V. Hautamäki, P. Fränti, "On the Fusion of Dissimilarity-Based Classifiers for Speaker Identification", Proc. 8th European Conference on Speech Communiation and Technology (Eurospeech 2003), pp. 2641-2644, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, E. Karpov, P. Fränti: "A Speaker Pruning Algorithm for Real-Time Speaker Identification", Proc. 4th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2003), pp. 639-646, Guilford, UK, June 9-11, 2003. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen: "Designing a Speaker-Discriminative Adaptive Filter Bank for Speaker Recognition", Proc. 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2002), pp. 2325-2328, Denver, Colorado, USA, September 16-20, 2002. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, I. Kärkkäinen: "Class-Discriminative Weighted Distortion Measure for VQ-Based Speaker Identification", Proc. Joint IAPR International Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition (S+SPR 2002), pp. 681-688, Windsor, Canada, August 6-9, 2002. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, I. Kärkkäinen, P. Fränti: "Is Speech Data Clustered? - Statistical Analysis of Cepstral Features", Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001)), vol. 4, pp. 2627-2630, Aalborg, Denmark, September 3-7, 2001. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, P. Fränti: "Speaker Discriminative Weighting Method for VQ-Based Speaker Identification", Proc. 3rd International Conference on audio-and video-based biometric person authentication (AVBPA 2001), pp. 150-156, Halmstad, Sweden, June 6-8, 2001. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, T. Kilpeläinen, P. Fränti: "Comparison of Clustering Algorithms in Speaker Identification", Proc. IASTED Int. Conf. Signal Processing and Communications (SPC 2000), pp. 222-227, Marbella, Spain, September 19-22, 2000. [PDF]

Theses:

T. Kinnunen: Optimizing Spectral Feature Based Text-Independent Speaker Recognition, PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, 2005. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen: Spectral Features for Automatic Text-Independent Speaker Recognition, Ph.Lic. thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, 2003. [PDF]. [Summary of the results in PPT presentation]
T. Kinnunen: Automaattinen puhujan tunnistus, Pro gradu -tutkielma, Tietojenkäsittelytieteen laitos, Joensuun yliopisto, 1999. ("Automatic speaker recognition", M.Sc. thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Joensuu, 1999.) [PDF] (in Finnish).

Other publications

T. Kinnunen, V. Hautamäki, “Automaattinen puhujantunnistus”, in O. Aaltonen, R. Aulanko, A. Iivonen, A. Klippi, M. Vainio (Eds.), Puhuva Ihminen - puhetieteiden perusteet, Otava, 2009. (“Automatic speaker recognition”; a book chapter in Finnish about basics of speaker recognition for non-technical audience).
P. Fränti, J. Saastamoinen, I. Kärkkäinen, T. Kinnunen, V. Hautamäki, I. Sidoroff, ”Implementing Speaker Recognition System: from Matlab to Practice”, Report A-2007-4, University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science and Statistics (ISBN 978-952-219-061-1, ISSN 1796-7317), November 2007. [PDF]
T. Kinnunen, I. Kärkkäinen, P. Fränti, “The Mystery of Cohort Selection”, Report A-2005-1, Report series A, University of Joensuu, Department of Computer Science (ISBN 952-458-676-2, ISSN 0789-7316).

Tomi Kinnunen, PhD

Researcher in speech technology, specialized in voice biometrics

Speech and Image Processing Unit (SIPU), School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland