| Presentation | 2022-01-27 Speech Watermarking Approach for Securing Speaker Anonymization using McAdams Coefficients Candy Olivia Mawalim, Masashi Unoki, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Speaker anonymization aims to suppress speaker individuality to protect privacy in speech while preserving the other aspects, such as speech content. One effective solution for anonymization is to modify the McAdams coefficient. In this work, we propose a method to improve the security for speaker anonymization based on the McAdams coefficient by using a speech watermarking approach. The proposed method consists of two main processes: one for embedding and one for detection. In embedding process, two different McAdams coefficients represent binary bits “0”and “1”. The watermarked speech is then obtained by frame-by-frame bit inverse switching. Subsequently, the detection process is carried out by a power spectrum comparison. We conducted objective evaluations with reference to the VoicePrivacy 2020 Challenge (VP2020) and of the speech watermarking with reference to the Information Hiding Challenge (IHC) and found that our method could satisfy the blind detection, inaudibility, and robustness requirements in watermarking. It also significantly improved the anonymization performance in comparison to the secondary baseline system in VP2020. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | speaker anonymizationMcAdams coefficientlinear predictionspeech watermarkingvoice privacy |
| Paper # | EMM2021-88 |
| Date of Issue | 2022-01-20 (EMM) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | EMM |
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| Conference Date | 2022/1/27(1days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Online |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Sense of Presence, Universal Media, Digital Entertainment, etc. |
| Chair | Ryoichi Nishimura(NICT) |
| Vice Chair | Masaaki Fujiyoshi(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Masatsugu Ichino(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) |
| Secretary | Masaaki Fujiyoshi(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Masatsugu Ichino(NICT) |
| Assistant | Shoko Imaizumi(Chiba Univ.) / Youichi Takashima(Kaishi Professional Univ.) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Enriched MultiMedia |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Speech Watermarking Approach for Securing Speaker Anonymization using McAdams Coefficients |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | speaker anonymizationMcAdams coefficientlinear predictionspeech watermarkingvoice privacy |
| 1st Author's Name | Candy Olivia Mawalim |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Masashi Unoki |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST) |
| Date | 2022-01-27 |
| Paper # | EMM2021-88 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.121 |
| Number (no) | EMM-362 |
| Page | pp.pp.25-30(EMM), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2022-01-20 (EMM) |