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Fair Voice Biometrics: Impact of Demographic Imbalance on Group Fairness in Speaker Recognition

Fenu, Gianni
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Marras, Mirko  
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Medda, Giacomo
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January 1, 2021
Interspeech 2021
Interspeech Conference

Speaker recognition systems are playing a key role in modern online applications. Though the susceptibility of these systems to discrimination according to group fairness metrics has been recently studied, their assessment has been mainly focused on the difference in equal error rate across groups, not accounting for other fairness criteria important in anti-discrimination policies, defined for demographic groups characterized by sensitive attributes. In this paper, we therefore study how existing group fairness metrics relate with the balancing settings of the training data set in speaker recognition. We conduct this analysis by operationalizing several definitions of fairness and monitoring them under varied data balancing settings. Experiments performed on three deep neural architectures, evaluated on a data set including gender/age-based groups, show that balancing group representation positively impacts on fairness and that the friction across security, usability, and fairness depends on the fairness metric and the recognition threshold.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1857
Web of Science ID

WOS:000841879501202

Author(s)
Fenu, Gianni
Marras, Mirko  
Medda, Giacomo
Meloni, Giacomo
Date Issued

2021-01-01

Publisher

ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC

Publisher place

Baixas

Published in
Interspeech 2021
Series title/Series vol.

Interspeech

Start page

1892

End page

1896

Subjects

speaker recognition

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speaker verification

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discrimination

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fairness

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biometrics

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bias

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data imbalance

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
ML4ED  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
Interspeech Conference

Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC

Aug 30-Sep 03, 2021

Available on Infoscience
September 26, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/190970
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