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Replay attack detection based on distortion by loudspeaker for voice authentication

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Identity authentication based on Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) has attracted extensive attention. Voice can be used as a substitute of password in many applications. However, the security of current ASV systems has been seriously challenged by many malicious spoofing attacks. Among all those attacks, replay attack is one of the biggest threats to the ASV System, where an adversary can use a pre-recorded speech sample of the legal user to access the ASV system. In this paper, we present a replay attack detection (RAD) scheme to distinguish normal speech and replayed speech. We focus on the distortion caused by loudspeaker: low-frequency attenuation and high-frequency harmonics, and present a suite of RAD features DL-RAD, including Harmonic Energy Ratio (HER), Low Spectral Ratio (LSR), Low Spectral Variance (LSV), and Low Spectral Difference Variance (LSDV), to describe the different characteristics between the normal speech signal and replay speech signal. SVM is adopted as a classifier to evaluate the performance of these features. Experiment results show that the True Positive Rate (TPR), True Negative Rate (TNR) of the proposed method are about 98.15% and 98.75% respectively, which are significantly better than the existing scheme. The proposed scheme can be applied to both text-dependent and text-independent ASV systems.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing, Ministry of Education, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Yanzhen Ren & Dengkai Liu

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Computing Technology, Beijing, China

    Zhong Fang

  3. University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA

    Changwen Chen

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This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the grant NO. U1536114, NO. 61872275, NO.U1536204, and China Scholarship Council.

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Ren, Y., Fang, Z., Liu, D. et al. Replay attack detection based on distortion by loudspeaker for voice authentication. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 8383–8396 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6834-3

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