PATRICK KENNY'S PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Dehak, N., Kenny, P., Dehak, R., Dumouchel, P and Ouellet, P. Front-End Factor Analysis for Speaker Verification IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 19(4), pp. 788-798, May 2011.

Kenny, P., Reynolds, D., and Castaldo, F. Diarization of Telephone Conversations using Factor Analysis IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, December 2010.

Kenny, P., Ouellet, P., Dehak, N., Gupta, V., and Dumouchel, P. A Study of Inter-Speaker Variability in Speaker Verification IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, July 2008.

Gupta V., Kenny, P., Ouellet, P., Boulianne, G., and Dumouchel, P. Combining Gaussianized/non-Gaussianized features to improve speaker diarization of telephone conversations IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 14 (12), pp. 1040-1043, Dec. 2007.

Dehak, N., Kenny, P. and P. Dumouchel.  Modeling prosodic features with joint factor analysis for speaker verification IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 15 (7), pp. 2095-2103, Sept. 2007.

Yin, S.-C., Rose, R., Kenny, P. and P. Dumouchel. A Joint factor analysis approach to progressive model adaptation in text independent speaker verification IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 15 (7), pp. 1999-2010, Sept. 2007.

Kenny, P., Boulianne, G., Ouellet, P. and P. Dumouchel. Joint factor analysis versus eigenchannels in speaker recognition IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 15 (4), pp. 1435-1447, May 2007.

Kenny, P., Boulianne, G., Ouellet, P. and P. Dumouchel. Speaker and session variability in GMM-based speaker verification IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 15 (4), pp. 1448-1460, May 2007.

Kenny, P., Boulianne, G. and P. Dumouchel. Eigenvoice Modeling with Sparse Training Data IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13 May (3) 2005 : 345-359.

Kenny, P., Boulianne, G., Ouellet, P. and P. Dumouchel. Speaker Adaptation using an Eigenphone Basis IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 12 November (6) 2004 : 579-589.

Technical Reports

Kenny, P. Bayesian Analysis of Speaker Diarization with Eigenvoice Priors Montreal, CRIM, May 2008

Kenny, P Joint factor analysis of speaker and session variability : Theory and algorithms - Technical report CRIM-06/08-13 Montreal, CRIM, 2005

Conference Papers

Alam, J., Kinnunen, T., Kenny, P., Ouellet, P., and O Shaughnessy, D., Multi-Taper MFCC Features for Speaker Verification Using I-Vectors Proc. ASRU 2011, Hawaii, December 2011

Alam, J., Ouellet, P., Kenny, P., O Shaughnessy, D., Comparative Evaluation of Feature Normalization Techniques for Speaker Verification Proc NOLISP 2011, LNAI 7015, pp. 246-253, Las Palmas, Spain, November 2011

Alam, J., Kenny, P., O Shaughnessy, D., A Study of Low-Variance Multi-Taper Features for Distributed Speech Recognition Proc NOLISP 2011, LNAI 7015, pp. 239-245, Las Palmas, Spain, November 2011

Sennoussaoui, M., Kenny, P., Brummer, N., de Villiers, E., and Dumouchel, P., Mixture of PLDA Models in I-Vector Space for Gender-Independent Speaker Recognition Proc. Interspeech 2011,  Florence, Italy, August 2011 slides

Senoussaoui, M., Kenny, P., Dumouchel, P., and Castaldo, F., Well Calibrated Heavy Tailed Bayesian Speaker Verification for Microphone Speech, Proc ICASSP, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011

Matejka, P., Glembek, O., Castaldo, F., Alam, J., Plchot, O., Kenny, P., Burget, L., and Cernocky, J., Full Covariance UBM and Heavy-Tailed PLDA in i-vector Speaker Verification, Proc ICASSP, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011

Glembek, O., Burget, L., Matejka, P., Karafiat, M., and Kenny, P., Simplification and Optimization of i-vector extraction, Proc ICASSP, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011

Kenny, P., Bayesian Speaker Verification with Heavy-Tailed Priors keynote presentation, Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop,  Brno, Czech Republic, June 2010 slides

Dehak, N., Dehak, R., Glass, J., Reynolds, D. and Kenny, P. "Cosine Similarity Scoring without Score Normalization Techniques", Proceedings of Odyssey 2010 - The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (Odyssey 2010), pp. 71-75. Brno, Czech Republic, June 28 - July 1, 2010.

Senoussaoui, M., Kenny, P., Dehak, N., and Dumouchel, P., An i-vector Extractor Suitable for Speaker Recognition with both Microphone and Telephone Speech in Proc Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop,  Brno, Czech Republic, June 2010

Dehak, N., Dehak, R., Kenny, P., Brummer, N., Ouellet, P and Dumouchel, P., Support Vector Machines versus Fast Scoring in the Low-Dimensional Total Variability Space for Speaker Verification In Proc  Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK, September 2009

Reynolds, D., Kenny, P., and Castaldo, F., A Study of New Approaches to Speaker Diarization In Proc  Interspeech 2009, Brighton, UK, September 2009

Glembek, O., Burget, L., Dehak, N., Brummer, N., and Kenny, P., Comparison of Scoring Methods used in Speaker Recognition with Joint Factor Analysis In Proc  ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009

Dehak,  N., Kenny, P., Dehak, R., Glembek O., Dumouchel. P., Burget, L., Hubeika, V. and Castaldo, F., Support Vector Machines and Joint Factor Analysis for Speaker Verification In Proc  ICASSP 2009, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009

Kenny, P, Dehak N, Ouellet, P, Gupta, V, and Dumouchel, P, Development of the Primary CRIM System for the NIST 2008 Speaker Recognition Evaluation In Proc  Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, Sept 2008

Yin S-C, Rose, R and Kenny, P Adaptive Score Normalization for Progressive Model Adaptation in Text Independent Speaker Verification In Proc  ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, Mar 2008

Gupta V, Boulianne, G, Kenny, P, Ouellet, P, and Dumouchel, P Speaker Diarization of French Broadcast News In Proc  ICASSP 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, Mar 2008

Kenny, P, Dehak N, Gupta, V, and Dumouchel, P A New Training Regimen for Factor Analysis of Speaker Variability Mar 2008

Dehak, N, Dehak, R, Kenny, P and P Dumouchel Comparison between factor analysis and GMM support vector machines for speaker verification In Proceedings of the IEEE Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop 2008 Stellenbosch, South Africa, Jan 2008

Dehak, R, Dehak, N, Kenny, P and P Dumouchel Kernel Combination for SVM Speaker Verification In Proceedings of the IEEE Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop 2008 Stellenbosch, South Africa, Jan 2008

Kenny, P, Dehak, N, Dehak, R, Gupta, V and P Dumouchel The Role of Speaker Factors in the NIST Extended Data Task In Proceedings of the IEEE Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop 2008 Stellenbosch, South Africa, Jan 2008

Gupta, V, Kenny, P, Ouellet, P, Dehak, R, Boulianne, G and P Dumouchel Multiple Feature Combination to Improve Speaker Diarization of Telephone Conversations In Proceedings of the IEEE ASRU Workshop 2007 Kyoto, Japan, Dec 2007

Dehak, N, Kenny, P and P Dumouchel Continuous prosodic features and formant modeling with joint factor analysis for speaker verification In Proceedings of the International Conference of Interspeech 2007 Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007

Dehak, R, Dehak, N, Kenny, P and P Dumouchel Linear and non linear kernel GMM support vector machines for speaker verification In Proceedings of the International Conference of Interspeech 2007 Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007

Kenny, P, Gupta, V, Boulianne, G, Ouellet, P and P Dumouchel Feature Normalization Using Smoothed Mixture Transformations In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006 - ICSLP) Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 17-21, 2006

Kenny, P, Boulianne, G, Ouellet, P and P Dumouchel  The Geometry of the Channel Space in GMM-Based Speaker Recognition In Proceedings of IEEE Odyssey 2006 - The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 28-30, 2006

Yin, S-C, Kenny, P and R Rose Experiments in Speaker Adaptation for Factor Analysis Based Speaker Verification In Proceedings of IEEE Odyssey 2006 - The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 28-30, 2006

Kenny, P, Mihoubi, M and P Dumouchel  Improvements in factor analysis based speaker verification In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006) Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006

Kenny, P, Boulianne, G, Ouellet, P and P Dumouchel Factor Analysis Simplified In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2005), vol 1, pp 637-640 Philadelphia, PA, USA March 18-23, 2005

Kenny, P, Dumouchel, P Experiments in Speaker Verification using Factor Analysis Likelihood Ratios In Proceedings of Odyssey04 - Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop Toledo, Spain, May 31 - June 3, 2004

Kenny, P, Dumouchel, P  Disentangling Speaker and Channel Effects in Speaker Verification In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), vol 1, pp I-37-40 Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 17-21, 2004

Kenny, P, Mihoubi, M., and Dumouchel, P. New MAP Estimators for Speaker Recognition Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003), pp 2691-2964 Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003

Presentations

Kenny, P., Bayesian Speaker Verification with Heavy-Tailed Priors Odyssey Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop,  Brno, Czech Republic, June 2010

Brummer, N., Glembek, O., Kenny, P, et al., The ABC and CRIM Systems for the NIST 2010 Speaker Recognition Evaluation June 2010