A DTW-based biometric user authentication system needs a DTW template to set up a warping function for a query biometric. In addition, a matching template is required to examine similarity. In this paper, we present a hardened template to protect the DTW template. For the matching template, it is protected by cryptographic framework. We compare our scheme with a transformation approach and an u...

There are two common methodologies to verify signatures: the functional approach and the parametric approach. In this paper, we propose a new warping technique for the functional approach in signature verification. The commonly used warping technique is dynamic time warping (DTW). It was originally used in speech recognition and has been applied in the field of signature verification with some ...

We propose to learn multiple local Mahalanobis distance metrics to perform knearest neighbor (kNN) classification of temporal sequences. Temporal sequences are first aligned by dynamic time warping (DTW); given the alignment path, similarity between two sequences is measured by the DTW distance, which is computed as the accumulated distance between matched temporal point pairs along the alignme...

The chapter commences with an overview of automatic speech recognition (ASR), which covers not only the de facto standard approach of hidden Markov models (HMMs), but also the tried-andproven techniques of dynamic time warping and artificial neural networks (ANNs). The coverage then switches to Gluck’s (2004) draw-talk-write (DTW) process, developed over the past two decades to assist non-text ...

In the study, the effectiveness of combinations of cepstral features, channel compensation techniques, and different local distances in the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm is experimentally evaluated in the text-dependent speaker identification task. The training and the testing has been done with noisy telephone speech (short phrases in Bulgarian with length of about 2 seconds) selected f...

Currently, the majority of the text-to-speech synthesis systems that provide the most natural output are based on the selection and concatenation of variable size speech units chosen from an inventory of recordings. There are many different approaches to perform automatic speech segmentation. The most used are based on (Hidden Markov Models) HMM [1,2,3] or Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) [4], ...

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is well known as an effective method for model-based symbol recognition. Unfortunately, its complexity is quadratic in the number of points present in the symbols to be matched. In this paper, we propose a greedy approximate solution to Tappert’s dynamic program formulation of DTW, and show empirically that it performs as well as the exact solution while requiring onl...