Audio-based Kinship Verification Using Age Domain Conversion

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Main Authors: Sun, Qiyang, Akman, Alican, Jing, Xin, Milling, Manuel, Schuller, Björn W.
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author Sun, Qiyang
Akman, Alican
Jing, Xin
Milling, Manuel
Schuller, Björn W.
author_facet Sun, Qiyang
Akman, Alican
Jing, Xin
Milling, Manuel
Schuller, Björn W.
contents Audio-based kinship verification (AKV) is important in many domains, such as home security monitoring, forensic identification, and social network analysis. A key challenge in the task arises from differences in age across samples from different individuals, which can be interpreted as a domain bias in a cross-domain verification task. To address this issue, we design the notion of an "age-standardised domain" wherein we utilise the optimised CycleGAN-VC3 network to perform age-audio conversion to generate the in-domain audio. The generated audio dataset is employed to extract a range of features, which are then fed into a metric learning architecture to verify kinship. Experiments are conducted on the KAN_AV audio dataset, which contains age and kinship labels. The results demonstrate that the method markedly enhances the accuracy of kinship verification, while also offering novel insights for future kinship verification research.
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spellingShingle Audio-based Kinship Verification Using Age Domain Conversion
Sun, Qiyang
Akman, Alican
Jing, Xin
Milling, Manuel
Schuller, Björn W.
Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
68T10
I.5.4; I.2.6
Audio-based kinship verification (AKV) is important in many domains, such as home security monitoring, forensic identification, and social network analysis. A key challenge in the task arises from differences in age across samples from different individuals, which can be interpreted as a domain bias in a cross-domain verification task. To address this issue, we design the notion of an "age-standardised domain" wherein we utilise the optimised CycleGAN-VC3 network to perform age-audio conversion to generate the in-domain audio. The generated audio dataset is employed to extract a range of features, which are then fed into a metric learning architecture to verify kinship. Experiments are conducted on the KAN_AV audio dataset, which contains age and kinship labels. The results demonstrate that the method markedly enhances the accuracy of kinship verification, while also offering novel insights for future kinship verification research.
title Audio-based Kinship Verification Using Age Domain Conversion
topic Sound
Artificial Intelligence
Audio and Speech Processing
68T10
I.5.4; I.2.6
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11120