First Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification (SASV) 2022 Challenge

[Md Sahidullah]

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Dear all,

We are thrilled to announce the Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification Challenge. While spoofing countermeasures, promoted within the sphere of the ASVspoof challenge series, can help to protect reliability in the face of spoofing, they have been developed as independent subsystems for a fixed  ASV subsystem. Better performance can be expected when countermeasures and ASV subsystems are both optimised to operate in tandem.

The first Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification (SASV) 2022 challenge aims to encourage the development of original solutions involving, but not limited to:

- back-end fusion of pre-trained automatic speaker verification and pre-trained audio spoofing countermeasure subsystems;

- integrated spoofing-aware automatic speaker verification systems that have the capacity to reject both non-target and spoofed trials.

We warmly invite the submission of general contributions in this direction. The Interspeech 2022 Spoofing-Aware Automatic Speaker Verification special session also incorporates a challenge – SASV 2022. Participants are encouraged to evaluate their solutions using the SASV benchmarking framework which comprises a common database, protocol, and evaluation metric. Further details and resources can be found on the SASV challenge website.

URL: https://sasv-challenge.github.io

Schedule:

 -January 19, 2022: Release of the evaluation plan

- March 10, 2022: Results submission
- March 14, 2022: Release of participant ranks
- March 21, 2022: INTERSPEECH Paper submission deadline
- March 28, 2022: INTERSPEECH Paper update deadline
- June 13, 2022: INTERSPEECH Author notification

- September 18-22, 2022: SASV challenge special session at INTERSPEECH

To participate, please register your interest at https://forms.gle/htoVnog34kvs3as56

For further information, please contact us at sasv.ch...@gmail.com.

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

The SASV Challenge 2022 Organisers

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Organisers:

Jee-weon Jung, Naver Corporation, South Korea

Hemlata Tak, EURECOM, France

Hye-jin Shim, University of Seoul, South Korea

Hee-Soo Heo, Naver Corporation, South Korea

Bong-Jin Lee, Naver Corporation, South Korea

Soo-Whan Chung, Naver Corporation, South Korea

Hong-Goo Kang, Yonsei University, South Korea

Ha-Jin Yu, University of Seoul, South Korea

Nicholas Evans, EURECOM, France

Tomi H. Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

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Md Sahidullah

website: https://sites.google.com/site/iitkgpsahi/