Equal error rate eer

2.4.3.1 Equal error rate and detection error tradeoff

The SV performance is generally shown by a detection error tradeoff (DET) curve and measured in terms of EER, where the false rejection rate (FRR) and false acceptance rate (FAR) are equal [49]. In false rejection, a genuine is classified as an impostor while in false acceptance, an impostor is accepted as a genuine speaker. Under a replay spoofing scenario, the replay attackers usually aim at specified (target) speakers and thereby increase the FAR of the system. Thus, under replay attacks, the FAR is a more relevant measuring parameter for evaluating the system performance. Accordingly, we have used two metrics to evaluate the system performance under both the baseline and spoofing test conditions: zero-effort false acceptance rate (ZFAR) and replay attack false acceptance rate (RFAR). ZFAR and RFAR are related to zero-effort impostor trials and replay trials, respectively.

9.9.2.1 Segmentation and recognition performance

The training sounds data were corrupted by an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) with a SNR equal to 50 dB. However, the testing data were corrupted by an AWGN with a SNR that varies from − 10 to 30 dB in 5-dB steps, in order to simulate the real-world complex noisy environments. From Fig. 9.18, we can see that the proposed GTECC front-end is almost in all cases (whether in clean or noisy conditions) the most efficient in terms of EER, with or without application of a method of normalization. Moreover, GTECC postprocessed by Quantile-based cepstral dynamics normalization (GTECC-QCN) gives an average EER equal to 10.18%, which is the lowest EER compared to the other studied methods, followed by MWSCC-QCN with an average EER of 11.61% and PNCC-QCN with an average EER equal to 12.87%, then MFCC-QCN with an average EER equal to 13.78%, then PMCC-QCN with an average EER equal to 14.11%, and finally PMVDR-QCN with an average EER equal to 14.91%.

Let us consider now the performance of normalization methods used in our study for the reduction of noise in the detected segments as tonal regions in the sound of a bird. From Fig. 9.18, we can observe that spectral subtraction (SS) is less effective for reducing white Gaussian noise, especially with a SNR < 0 dB. Normalizations CMVN and CGN have relatively similar results on the Gaussian white noise with a significantly superior performance of the normalization CGN, when applied to PMVDR, in the presence of AWGN with a SNR between 0 and − 10 dB. Finally, QCN has the best performance when applied to the six methods of characterization studied namely GTECC, MFCC, PMVDR, PMCC, PNCC, and MWSCC.

16.4.4 Performance of DSTN

We evaluate the proposed DSTN regarding accuracy and time complexity aspects. The ROC curve is used to illustrate the performance of anomaly detection at the frame level and the pixel level and analyze the experimental results with other state-of-the-art works. Additionally, the AUC and the EER are evaluated as the criteria for determining the results.

The performance of DSTN is first evaluated on the UCSD dataset, consisting of 10 and 12 videos for the UCSD Ped1 and the UCSD Ped2 with the pixel-level ground truth, by using both frame-level and pixel-level protocols. In the first stage of DSTN, patch extraction is implemented to provide the appearance features of the foreground object and its motion regarding the vector changes in each patch. The patches are extracted independently from each original image with a size of 238 × 158 pixels (UCSD Ped1) and 360 × 240 pixels (UCSD Ped2) to apply it with (w/4) × h × c_p. As a result, we obtain 22 k patches from the UCSD Ped1 and 13.6 k patches from the UCSD Ped2. Then, to feed into the spatiotemporal translation model, we resize all patches to the 256 × 256 default size in both training and testing time.

During training, the input of G (the concatenation of f and f_BR patches) and target data (the generated dense optical flow OF_gen) are set to the same size as the default resolution of 256 × 256 pixels. The encoding and decoding modules in G are implemented differently. As in the encoder network, the image resolution is encoded from 256 → 128 → 64 → 32 → 16 → 8 → 4 → 2 → 1 to obtain the latent space representing the spatial image in one-dimensional data space. CNN effectively employs this downscale with kernels of 3 × 3 and stride s = 2. Additionally, the number of neurons corresponding to the image resolution in En is introduced in each layer from 6 → 64 → 128 → 256 → 512 → 512 → 512 → 512 → 512. In contrast, De decodes the latent space to reach the target data (the temporal representation of OF_gen) with a size of 256 × 256 pixels using the same structure as En. The dropout is employed in De as noise z to remove the neuron connections using probability p = 0.5, resulting in the prevention of overfitting on the training samples. Since D needs to fluctuate G to correct the classification between real and fake images at training time, PatchGAN is then applied by inputting a patch size of 64 × 64 pixels to output the probability of class label for the object. The PatchGAN architecture is constructed from 64 → 32 → 16 → 8 → 4 → 2 → 1, which is then flattened to 512 neurons and plugged in with Fully Connection (FC) and Softmax layers. The use of PatchGAN benefits the model in terms of time complexity. This is probably because there are fewer parameters to learn on the partial image, making the model less complex and can achieve good running time for the training process. In the aspect of testing, G is specifically employed to reconstruct OF_gen in order to analyze the real motion information OF_fus. The image resolution for testing and training are set to the same resolution for all datasets.

Considering Figs. 16.25 and 16.26, our proposed method achieves the best results regarding the AUC and running time aspects. In this way, we can conclude that our DSTN surpasses other state-of-the-art approaches since we reach the highest AUC values at the frame level anomaly detection and the pixel level localization and given the good computational time for real-world applications.

20.4.2 Human Language and Machine Translation

Computer processing of human language includes both real-time speech recognition and high-performance text processing as well as machine translation. During the evolution period of Table 20.1, CRs may perceive spoken and written human language (HL) with sufficient reliability to detect, characterize, and respond appropriately to stereotypical situations, unburdening the user from the counterproductive tedium of identifying the situation for the radio. Machine translation in the cell phone may assist global travelers with greetings, hailing a taxi, understanding directions to the restaurant, and the like. Such information prosthetics may augment today’s native language facilities. With ubiquity of coverage behind it, CRA evolves toward more accurately characterizing the user’s information needs, such as via speech recognition and synthesis to interact with wearable wireless medical instruments, opening new dimensions of QoI.

9.1.5.3 General Observations

We begin by pointing out that one main drawback to perform a fair comparison between results obtained with different methods is the lack of a common database. Results obtained with one database could be biased by data collected and, maybe, the specific characteristics of driver environment. Performance of the algorithms depends also on data collected, CAN bus data are widely recorded, but other acquired signals could lead to achieving the best results, independently of the selected method.

A second observation is that most research papers only show the correct recognition rates to measure the goodness of the algorithm. Correct recognition performance is a vague indicator of algorithm actuation. For example, if our test set is formed by 95% samples which are labeled “normal driving” behavior and 5% samples with “aggressive driving,” a system with a constant output of “normal driving” will achieve 95% correct recognition. Even when this system is impossible to use, performance is in the state-of-the-art rates. More useful indicators to measure the performance of the algorithms are precision and recall. Precision is the fraction of retrieved instances that are relevant, let’s say “how useful the search results are,” while recall is the fraction of relevant instances that are retrieved, in other words, is “how complete the results are.” A single measure that combines both quantities is the traditional F-measure. The use of both indicators, together with F factor is highly recommended and encouraged. Other similar rates that better describe recognition performance are the false acceptance rate and false rejection rates, that can be combined to define Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) or detection error tradeoff (DET) curves. To represent recognition rate with a single quantity obtained from ROC curves, Equal Error Rate (EER) is widely used.

A third observation is that some systems increase the number of parameters when the input vector increases (e.g., adding more signals). In this case, the system may produce undesirable results. Trying to adjust one parameter may lead to an unpredictable result for other input data. Also, having more parameters to adjust requires more data in the training set, just to guarantee that enough samples are provided to the algorithm (and usually, input data are not so easy to obtain). If the training database is small, the algorithm could try to be overfitted to this training set with reduced generalization power.

A fourth observation is that the training set should be rich enough to cover a high spectrum of situations. Training with data obtained in very similar environments and testing with data obtained in other situations may lead to tricky results. Factors that have to be considered in experiment definition should include the number of drivers and experience of these drivers, drivers familiar or not with the scenario or the simulator; drivers with experience in the specific vehicle may obtain better results than novice ones.

A fifth observation is related to information extraction and feature definition. During the experimental phase a usual tradeoff should be achieved between the number of possible input signals and the cost of these signals. Since experimental data recording is expensive (drivers’ recruitment, simulator hours, vehicle consumption), a common criteria is to record “everything.” Once recorded, an initial information extraction procedure is suggested since maybe some variables could be correlated or could be combined without losing generality (but reducing processing time). In this initial procedure it is also advisable to estimate noisy signals that can be filtered or noise reduction procedure for signals that may require it.

A sixth observation is that the precise definition of classes is a complex task. Even simple classes like aggressive, calm, and normal driving have different definitions in research. Calm driving could mean optimal driving (in the sense of fuel consumption for example) or the driving condition that is more repeated or achieved in the training set. As a reference signal or indicator of driving behavior, fuel or energy consumption has been widely adopted. When this is not possible, experts in the field have been considered (e.g., in traffic safety) or the researcher directly evaluates the performance. Experts or external evaluation are preferred to avoid bias based on a priori knowledge of experiments.

A seventh observation notes that the acquisition of labeled data for a supervised driving learning process can be a costly and time-consuming task that requires the training of external evaluators. For naturalistic driving, where the driver voluntarily decides which tasks to perform at all times, the labeling process can become infeasible. However, data without known distraction states (unlabeled data) can be collected in an inexpensive way (e.g., from driver’s naturalistic driving records). In order to make use of these low cost data, semisupervised learning is proposed for model construction, due to its capability of extracting useful information from both labeled and unlabeled training data. Liu et al. (2016) investigate the benefit of semisupervised machine learning where unlabeled training data can be utilized in addition to labeled training data.

The last observation is related to implementation issues. Using onboard embedded hardware in the vehicle or smartphones as a recording and processing platform is now the state-of-the-art technology. They have enough recording space, processing power, and enough sensor devices at a very reasonable cost. They can be placed in any car to obtain naturalistic driving data using huge numbers of drivers and vehicle types. In the next years, new emergent techniques related to big data, deep learning, and data analytics will take advantage of these systems to improve intelligent vehicles’ capabilities.

9.3 Methods Based on Fixation and Scanpath Analysis

The analysis of fixations and scanpaths for biometric purposes dates back to at least ten years ago, with a work in which Silver and Biggs [36] compared keystroke to eye-tracking biometrics. Although they found that models based on keystroke biometric data performed much better than those involving gaze, this work was one of the first to open the door to the use of eye tracking as an alternative identification and verification technique.

Rigas et al. [34] employed the graph matching technique for identification purposes. Ten photos of faces were used as stimuli, with a 50 Hz eye tracker. A graph was constructed by clustering fixation points with the 2-round MST (Minimum Spanning Tree) technique for each subject. For the analysis, a joint MST was created. Ideally, if two MSTs come from the same subject, then the degree of overlapping is higher than those that come from two different persons. Fifteen participants were involved in eight sessions, and classification accuracy between 67.5% and 70.2% was obtained using the KNN and Support Vector Machine classifiers.

Biedert et al. [2] considered the use of task learning effects for the detection of illicit access to computers. Their basic hypothesis was that a legit user would operate a system normally, rapidly passing the “key points” of an interface without effort. On the contrary, an attacker would need to understand the interface before using it. The typical (student’s) task of checking for emails in a web based interface and receiving messages from a hypothetical supervisor was simulated. The authors assumed that a casual user would scan the interface for relevant information while the actual user would find the appropriate information more straightforwardly. To quantitatively assess this, the Relative Conditional Gaze Entropy (RCGE) approach was proposed, which analyzes the distribution of gaze coordinates.

Galdi et al. [15] and Cantoni et al. [4] carried out some studies on identification using 16 still grayscale face images as stimuli. The first study [15] involved 88 participants and data were acquired in three sessions. For the analysis, the face images were subdivided into 17 Areas of Interest (AOIs) including different parts of the face (e.g., right and left eye, mouth, nose, etc.). Feature vectors containing 17 values (one for each AOI) were then built for each tester. These values were obtained by calculating the average total fixation duration in each AOI from all 16 images. The first session was used to construct the user model, while the second and third sessions were exploited for testing purposes. Comparisons were performed by calculating the Euclidean and Cosine distances between pairs of vectors. Both single features and combined features were tried in the data analysis, and the best result was achieved with combined features with an EER of 0.361.

Weights were also calculated for arcs connecting cells, using an algorithm that merged together the different observations of the 16 different subjects’ faces. In the end, for each tester a model was created represented by two 7×6 matrices (one for the number of fixations and one for the total fixation duration) and a 42×42 adjacency matrix for the weighted paths. The similarity between the model and the test matrices was measured by building a difference matrix and then calculating the Frobenius norm of it. The developed approach was called GANT: Gaze ANalysis Technique for human identification. In the experiments, the model was constructed from 111 testers of the first study and 24 from the second study. The remaining data were divided into two groups to form the test dataset. Trials using single and combined features were conducted, and the combination of all features (density, total fixation duration, and weighted path) yielded the best ERR of 28%.

Holland and Komogortsev [20] used datasets built from both a high frequency eye tracker (1000 Hz) and a low-cost device (75 Hz). Thirty two participants provided eye data for the first eye tracker, and 173 for the second. Four features were calculated from fixations, namely: start time, duration, horizontal centroid, and vertical centroid. Seven features were derived from saccadic movements, namely: start time, duration, horizontal amplitude, horizontal mean velocity, vertical mean velocity, horizontal peak velocity, and vertical peak velocity. Five statistic methods were applied to assess the distribution between recordings, namely the Ansari–Bradley test, the Mann–Whitney U-test, the two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, the two-sample t-test, and the two-sample Cramér–von Mises test. The Weighted Mean, Support Vector Machines, Random Forest and Likelihood-Ratio classifiers were also used. An ERR of 16.5% and a rank-1 identification rate of 82.6% were obtained using the two-sample Cramér–von Mises test and the Random Forest classifier.

The data gathered from the two already quoted studies by Galdi et al. [15] and Cantoni et al. [4] were also exploited by Cantoni et al. [5] and by Galdi et al. [16] for the identification of gender and age – useful in many situations, even if not strictly biometric tasks. Two learning methods were employed, namely Adaboost and Support Vector Machines, using the feature vectors already built for testing the GANT technique. Regarding gender identification, with Adaboost the best results were obtained with the arcs feature vector, with a 53% correct classification when the observed faces were of female subjects and a 56.5% correct classification when the observed faces were of males. With SVM, still with the arcs feature vector, scores reached about 60% of correct classification for both male and female observed faces. As for age classification, with Adaboost an improvement could be noticed compared to gender (with an overall correct classification of around 55% – distinction between over and under 30). However, the performance of SVM on age categorization was not as good as gender classification, with the best result of 54.86% of correct classifications using the arcs feature vectors.

George and Routray [17] explored various eye features derived from eye fixations and saccade states in the context of the BioEye 2015 competition (of which they were the winners). The competition dataset consisted of three session recordings from 153 participants. Sessions 1 and 2 were separated by a 30 min interval, while session 3 was recorded one year later. Data were acquired with a high-frequency eye tracker (1000 Hz) and down-sampled to 250 Hz. The stimuli were a jumping point and text. Firstly, eye data were grouped into fixations and saccades. For fixations, the following features were calculated: fixation duration, standard deviation for the X coordinate, standard deviation for the Y coordinate, scanpath length, angle with the previous fixation, skewness X, skewness Y, kurtosis X, kurtosis Y, dispersion, and average velocity. For saccades, many features were used, among which saccadic duration, dispersion, mean, median, skewness. After a backward feature selection step, the chosen features became the input to a Radial Basis Function Network (RBFN). In the experiments, Session 1 data became the training dataset, and Session 2 and Session 3 data served as a testing dataset. The study yielded a 98% success rate with both stimuli with the 30 minute interval, and 94% as the best accuracy for data acquired in one year.

3.3.4 Speaker Verification Market

The creation of computer-based systems that analyse a person’s speech patterns to provide positive authentication has been under serious development for more than a decade. So it is surprising that until recently only a handful of reference implementations have been in evidence to prove the validity of such technology in the commercial world.

Fundamentally speaker verification and identification technologies have it all to play for. After all, the systems provide one of the simplest and most natural modes of authentication and they can operate without the need for specialised equipment – a microphone is a standard accessory of any multimedia computer and verification can also be performed over standard phone lines.

The problem has historically been one of robustness and reliability limitations. This situation is gradually getting better, however. Microphone technology is constantly improving, while the cost of the sensors is comparatively inexpensive. Meanwhile, the processing power needed to analyse the voice can be packed into increasingly small, low power devices, and as signal processing technology evolves, new and efficient algorithms for extracting and compressing the key features of a speech signal are emerging.

A person’s voice is a natural indicator of identity and the principle of a speaker-based biometric system is to analyse the characteristics of that voice in order to determine whether they are sufficiently similar to characteristics stored on file as a biometric template. This process can be either in a one-to-one verification scenario, or in a one-to-many identification configuration.

No single supplier dominates the voice biometric landscape. Some suppliers use other companies’ engines in their solution offerings, while some provide the entire solution using their own verification engines. Others focus on providing the verification engines alone. Broadly speaking the landscape could be separated into solution providers and technology suppliers.

3.5.3 Equal error rate (EER)

2.3 Investigation on the performance achieved

4.2 Evaluation metrics

Several metrics are provided to evaluate a video surveillance system. The two commonly used criteria are the Equal Error Rate (EER) and the Area Under Roc curve (AUC). Those two criteria are derived from the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve which is highly used for performance comparison. EER is the point on the ROC curve where the false positive rate (normal behavior is considered as abnormal) is equal to the false negative rate (abnormal behavior is identified as normal). For a good recognition algorithm, the EER should be as small as possible. Conversely, a system is considered having good performances if the value of the AUC is high. An other used recognition measure is the accuracy (A) which corresponds to the fraction of the correctly classified behaviors. In Table 7, we summarize the performance evaluation of previous interesting papers whose results are available.