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Research Interest

Signal processing and machine learning for acoustic pattern analysis.

Education

• Ph.D. in Speech Processing from Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2015)

  • Thesis title: Enhancement of Speaker Recognition Performance Using Block Level, Relative and Temporal Information of Subband Energies

• M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology (2006)

• B.E.(Hons.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Vidyasagar University (2004)

Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

1. V. Vestman, T. Kinnunen, R.G. Hautamäki, M. Sahidullah; "Voice Mimicry Attacks Assisted by Automatic Speaker Verification"; Computer Speech & Language, Vol 59, January 2019, Page 36-54.

2. A. Poddar, M. Sahidullah, and G. Saha; "Quality Measures for Speaker Verification with Short Utterances"; Digital Signal Processing. (Link to the accepted version)

3. V Vestman, D Gowda, M Sahidullah, P Alku, T Kinnunen; "Speaker recognition from whispered speech: A tutorial survey and an application of time-varying linear prediction"; Speech Communication, Vol 99, May 2018, Page 62-79.

4. R.G. Hautamäki, M. Sahidullah, V. Hautamäki, and T. Kinnunen; "Acoustical and Perceptual Study of Voice Disguise by Age Modification in Speaker Verification"; Speech Communication, Vol 95, December 2017, Page 1-15.

5. M. Sahidullah, D. Thomsen, R.G. Hautamäki, T. Kinnunen, Z.-H. Tan, R. Parts, and Martti Pitkänen; "Robust Voice Liveness Detection and Speaker Verification Using Throat Microphones"; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol 26, No 1, Page 44-56, 2018. (PDF)

6. A. Poddar, M. Sahidullah, and G. Saha; "Improved i-vector extraction technique for speaker verification with short utterances"; International Journal of Speech Technology. (Link to the accepted version)

7. A. Poddar, M. Sahidullah, and G. Saha; "Speaker Verification with Short Utterances: A Review of Challenges, Trends and Opportunities"; IET Biometrics. (Link to the accepted version)

8. A. Sholokhov, M. Sahidullah, T. Kinnunen; "Semi-Supervised Speech Activity Detection with an Application to Automatic Speaker Verification"; Computer Speech and Language, Vol 47, January 2018, Page 131-156. (PDF)

9. Z. Wu, J. Yamagishi, T. Kinnunen, C. Hanilci, M. Sahidullah, A. Sizov, N. Evans, M. Todisco, H. Delgado; "ASVspoof: the Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge"; IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol 11, No 4, Page 588-604, 2017. (PDF)

10. C. Hanilci, T. Kinnunen, M. Sahidullah, and A. Sizov; "Spoofing Detection Goes Noisy: An Analysis of Synthetic Speech Detection in the Presence of Additive Noise"; Speech Communication, Vol 85, December 2016, Page 83-97. (PDF)

11. N. Sengupta, M. Sahidullah and G. Saha; "Lung sound classification using cepstral-based statistical features"; Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol 75, No 1, Page 118-129, 2016. (PDF)

12. M. Sahidullah and T. Kinnunen; "Local Spectral Variability Features for Speaker Verification"; Digital Signal Processing, Vol 50, Page 1-11, March 2016. (MATLAB Codes) (PDF)

13. M. Sahidullah and G. Saha; "A Novel Windowing Technique for Efficient Computation of MFCC for Speaker Recognition"; IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol 20, No 2, Page 149-152, 2013. (PDF)

14. M. Sahidullah and G. Saha; "Design, Analysis and Experimental Evaluation of Block Based Transformation in MFCC Computation for Speaker Recognition"; Speech Communication, Vol 54, No 4, Page 543-565, 2012. (PDF)

15. M. Sahidullah, S. Chakroborty and G. Saha; "On the Use of Perceptual Line Spectral Pairs Frequencies and Higher-Order Residual Moments for Speaker Identification"; International Journal of Biometrics, Vol 2, No 4, Page 358-378, 2010. (PDF)

Refereed Conference Papers

1. T. Kinnunen, R.G. Hautamäki, V. Vestman, M Sahidullah, “Can we use speaker recognition technology to attack itself? enhancing mimicry attacks using automatic target speaker selection”, Proc. ICASSP 2018, Brighton, United Kingdom, May 2018.

2. F. Fang, J. Yamagishi, I. Echizen, M. Sahidullah, T. Kinnunen, “Transforming Acoustic Characteristics to Deceive Playback Spoofing Countermeasures of Speaker Verification Systems”, Proc. IEEE WIFS 2018, Hong Kong, China, 2018.

3. M. Todisco, H. Delgado, K.A. Lee, M. Sahidullah, N. Evans, T. Kinnunen, J. Yamagishi, “Integrated Presentation Attack Detection and Automatic Speaker Verification: Common Features and Gaussian Back-end Fusion”, Proc. Interspeech 2018, pp. 77--81, Hyderabad, India, September 2018.

4. S. Sieranoja, M. Sahidullah, T. Kinnunen, J. Komulainen, A. Hadid, “Audiovisual Synchrony Detection with Optimized Audio Features”, Proc. ICSIP 2018, Shenzhen, China, July 2018.

5. T. Kinnunen, K.A. Lee, H. Delgado, N. Evans, M. Todisco, M. Sahidullah, J. Yamagishi, D.A. Reynolds, “t-DCF: a Detection Cost Function for the Tandem Assessment of Spoofing Countermeasures and Automatic Speaker Verification”, Proc. Odyssey 2018, pp. 312--319, Les Sables d'Olonne, France, June 2018.

6. H. Delgado, M. Todisco, M. Sahidullah, N. Evans, T. Kinnunen, K.A. Lee, J. Yamagishi, “ASVspoof 2017 Version 2.0: meta-data analysis and baseline enhancements”, Proc. Odyssey 2018, pp. 296--303, Les Sables d'Olonne, France, June 2018

7. A. Poddar, M. Sahidullah, and G. Saha; "Novel Quality Metric for Duration Variability Compensation in Speaker Verification using i-Vectors ," Proc. International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR) , 2017, Bangalore, India.

8. J. Liu, F. Alegre, B. Fauve, A. Kanervisto, M. Sahidullah, T. Kinnunen, H. Delgado, M. Todisco, N. Evans, and M. Falcone; "From media fears to research reality: How ready are countermeasures against speaker verification spoofing?" UK Speech Conference 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 2017.

9. A. Poddar, M. Sahidullah, and G. Saha; "An Adaptive i-vector Extraction for Speaker Verification with Short Utterance" Proc. International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI), 2017, Springer.

10. H. Delgado, M. Todisco, N. Evans, M. Sahidullah, W. M. Liu, F. Alegre, T. Kinnunen, B. Fauve; "Impact of Bandwidth and Channel Variation on Presentation Attack Detection for Speaker Verification"; Proc. Int. Conf. of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2017). (PDF)

11. T. Kinnunen, M. Sahidullah, H. Delgado, M. Todisco, N. Evans, J. Yamagishi, K.A. Lee, ”The ASVspoof 2017 Challenge: Assessing the Limits of Replay Spoofing Attack Detection”, Proc. Interspeech 2017, pp. 2--6, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017. (PDF)

12. V. Vestman, D. Gowda, M. Sahidullah, P. Alku, T. Kinnunen, ”Time-Varying Autoregressions for Speaker Verification in Reverberant Conditions”, Proc. Interspeech 2017, pp. 1512--1516, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017. (PDF)

13. K. A. Lee, V. Hautamäki, T. Kinnunen, A. Larcher, C. Zhang, A. Nautsch, T. Stafylakis, G. Liu, M. Rouvier, W. Rao, F. Alegre, J. Ma, M. W. Mak, A. K. Sarkar, H. Delgado, R. Saeidi, H. Aronowitz, A. Sizov, H. Sun, T. H. Nguyen, G. Wang, B. Ma, V. Vestman, M. Sahidullah, M. Halonen, A. Kanervisto, G. Le Lan, F. Bahmaninezhad, S. Isadskiy, C. Rathgeb, C. Busch, G. Tzimiropoulos, Q. Qian, Z. Wang, Q. Zhao, T. Wang, H. Li, J. Xue, S. Zhu, R. Jin, T. Zhao, P.-M. Bousquet, M. Ajili, W. B. Kheder, D. Matrouf, Z. H. Lim, C. Xu, H. Xu, X. Xiao, E. S. Chng, B. Fauve, K. Sriskandaraja, V. Sethu, W. W. Lin, D. A. L. Thomsen, Z.-H. Tan, M. Todisco, N. Evans, H. Li, J. H. L. Hansen, J.-F. Bonastre, E. Ambikairajah, ”The I4U Mega Fusion and Collaboration for NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation 2016”, Proc. Interspeech 2017, pp. 1328--1332, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017. (PDF)

14. A.K. Sarkar, M. Sahidullah, Z.-H. Tan, T. Kinnunen, ”Improving Speaker Verification Performance in Presence of Spoofing Attacks Using Out-of-Domain Spoofed Data”, Proc. Interspeech 2017, pp. 2611--2615, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017. (PDF)

15. D. Paul, M. Sahidullah, G. Saha; "Generalization of Spoofing Countermeasures: A Case Study with ASVspoof 2015 and BTAS 2016 Corpora"; Proc. IEEE ICASSP 2017, pp. 2047-2051, New Orleans, USA, March 2017. (PDF)

16. T. Kinnunen, M. Sahidullah, M. Falcone, L. Costantini, R.G. Hautamäki, D. Thomsen, A. Sarkar, Z.-H. Tan, H. Delgado, M. Todisco, N. Evans, V. Hautamäki and K.A. Lee; "RedDots Replayed: A New Replay Spoofing Attack Corpus for Text-dependent Speaker Verification Research"; Proc. IEEE ICASSP 2017, pp. 5395-5399, New Orleans, USA, March 2017. (PDF)

17. A. Kanervisto, V. Vestman, M. Sahidullah, V. Hautamäkii, T. Kinnunen; "Effects of Gender Information in Text-independent and Text-dependent Speaker Verification"; Proc. IEEE ICASSP 2017, pp. 5360-5364, New Orleans, USA, March 2017. (PDF)

18. H. Delgado, M. Todisco, M. Sahidullah, A. Sarkar, N. Evans, T. Kinnunen, and Z.-H. Tan; "Further optimisations of constant Q cepstral processing for integrated utterance verification and text-dependent speaker verification"; Proc. IEEE workshop on Spoken Language Technology 2016 (SLT2016) pp. 179-185, San Diego, USA, December 2016. (PDF)

19. M. Sahidullah, H. Delgado, M. Todisco, H. Yu, T. Kinnunen, N. Evans and Z.-H. Tan; "Integrated Spoofing Countermeasures and Automatic Speaker Verification: an Evaluation on ASVspoof 2015"; Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, USA. (PDF)

20. M. Sahidullah, R.G. Hautamäki, D.A.L. Thomsen, T. Kinnunen, Z.-H. Tan, V. Hautamäki, R. Parts and M. Pitkanen; "Robust Speaker Recognition with Combined Use of Acoustic and Throat Microphone Speech"; Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, USA. (PDF)

21. T. Kinnunen, M. Sahidullah, I. Kukanov, H. Delgado, M. Todisco, A. Sarkar, N. Thomsen, V. Hautamaki, N. Evans and Z.-H. Tan; "Utterance Verification for Text-Dependent Speaker Recognition: a Comparative Assessment Using the RedDots Corpus"; Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, USA. (File Lists) (PDF)

22. T. Kinnunen, A. Sholokhov, E. Khoury, D.A.L. Thomsen, M. Sahidullah and Z.-H. Tan; "HAPPY Team Entry to NIST OpenSAD Challenge: A Fusion of Short-Term Unsupervised and Segment i-Vector Based Speech Activity Detectors"; Interspeech 2016, San Francisco, USA. (PDF).

23. P. Korshunov, S. Marcel, H. Muckenhirnand, A.R. Gonçalves, A.G. Souza Mello, R.P. Velloso Violato, F.O. Simões, M.U. Neto, M. de Assis Angeloni, J.A. Stuchi, H. Dinkel, N. Chen, Y. Qian, D. Paul, G. Saha and M. Sahidullah; "Overview of BTAS 2016 Speaker Anti-spoofing Competition"; 2016 IEEE 8th International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), Niagara Falls, Buffalo, New York (USA). (PDF)

24. R.G. Hautamäki, M. Sahidullah, T. Kinnunen and V. Hautamäki; "Age-Related Voice Disguise and its Impact on Speaker Verification Accuracy"; Speaker Odyssey, Bilbao, Spain, 2016. (PDF).

25. A. Poddar, M. Sahidullah and G. Saha; "Performance Comparison of Speaker Recognition Systems in Presence of Duration Variability"; Proc. 2015 Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), New Delhi, India, December 2015. (PDF)

26. N. Sengupta, M. Sahidullah and G. Saha; "Optimization of Cepstral Features for Robust Lung Sound Classification"; Proc. 2015 Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), New Delhi, India, December 2015.

27. M. Sahidullah, T. Kinnunen and C. Hanilci; "A comparison of features for synthetic speech detection"; Proc. Interspeech 2015, pp. 2087-2091, Dresden, Germany, September 2015. (MATLAB Codes) (PDF)

28. C. Hanilci, T. Kinnunen, M. Sahidullah, and A. Sizov; "Classifiers for synthetic speech detection: a comparison"; Proc. Interspeech 2015, pp. 2057-2061, Dresden, Germany, September 2015. (PDF)

29. Z. Wu, T. Kinnunen, N. Evans, J. Yamagishi, C. Hanilci, M. Sahidullah, A. Sizov; "ASVspoof 2015: the first automatic speaker verification spoofing and countermeasures challenge"; Proc. Interspeech 2015, pp. 2037-2041, Dresden, Germany, September 2015. (PDF)

30. M. Sahidullah, G. Saha; "On the use of perceptual Line Spectral Pairs Frequencies for speaker identification"; Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC2010) 2010, Chennai, India, January 2010. (PDF)

31. M. Sahidullah, G. Saha; "In Search of Auto Correlation Based Vocal Cord Cues for Speaker Identification"; Proc. International Conference on RF and Signal Processing Systems (RSPS2010), Vijayawada, India, January 2010.

32. M. Sahidullah, S. Chakroborty, G. Saha; "Improving Performance of Speaker Identification System Using Complementary Information Fusion"; Proc. 17th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM 2009), Bangalore, India, December 2009. (PDF)

33. M. Sahidullah, G. Saha; "On the Use of Distributed DCT in Speaker Identification"; Proc. 2009 Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), Ahmedabad, India, December 2009. (PDF)

34. J. Basu, M. Sahidullah, A. Sinha; "A New Generalized Reconfigurable Architecture for Digital Signal Processor"; Proc. 15th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications (ADCOM 2007), Guwahati, India, December 2007. (PDF)

35. J. Basu, M. Sahidullah; "A New Generalized Architecture for Digital Signal Processor"; Proc. Second International Conference on Embedded Systems, Mobile Communication and Computing (ICEMC2 2007), Bangalore, India, August 2007.

Book Chapter

1. M. Sahidullah, H. Delgado, M. Todisco, T. Kinnunen, N. Evans, J. Yamagishi, K.A. Lee, “Introduction to voice presentation attack detection and recent advances”, Accepted to Springer Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing (Second Edition), Springer.

Patents

1. G. Saha, A.K., Kumar, M. Sahidullah, “A low-cost biometric authentication system for online certification course”, Patent applied (Ref : 0013/KOL/2013) [Current status: ready for commercialization].

2. G. Saha, M. Sahidullah, “A caller authentication system for computer based VoIP calls”, Patent applied (Ref :0021/KOL/2013) [Current status: ready for commercialization].

Others (Working paper/Unsubmitted draft/Technical report)

1. N. Sengupta, M. Sahidullah, and G. Saha; "Lung sound classification using local binary pattern" arXiv:1710.01703.

2. T. Kinnunen, N. Evans, J. Yamagishi, K.A. Lee, M. Sahidullah, M. Todisco, and H. Delgado; "ASVspoof 2017: Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge Evaluation Plan" (PDF)

3. M. Pal, D. Paul, M. Sahidullah, and G. Saha; "Robustness of Voice Conversion Techniques Under Mismatched Conditions" arXiv:1612.07523.

4. M. Sahidullah, and G. Saha; "Comparison of Speech Activity Detection Techniques for Speaker Recognition"; arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0297. (MATLAB Codes for Bi-Gaussian VAD) (PDF)

Professional Activities

Reviewer (Selected Journals)

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

• IEEE Signal Processing Letters

• ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

• Computer Speech & Language (Elsevier)

• Speech Communication (Elsevier)

• Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier)

• Digital Signal Processing (Elsevier)

Society Membership

• IEEE (Student Member: 2009-2014, Member: 2015-)

• IEEE Signal Processing Society (2013-)

• International Speech Communication Association (2011-)

• American Mathematical Society (2014-)

Hobbies and Interests

Favorites

• The Writing Center at UNC-Chapel Hill Link

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Link

• ISCA Web Link

• American Mathematical Society Link

Good Reads

• You and Your Research by Richard Hamming Link

• What's new by Terence Tao Link

• Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Link

List of Books I Read (Since July 2017)

• Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball Link

• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe Link

• Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter Link

• When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Hold Link

• Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander Link

• Why I Write by George Orwell Link

• The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed by Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoit Nadeau Link

• Once Upon an Algorithm How Stories Explain Computing by By Martin Erwig Link

• Down and Out in Paris and London By George Orwell Link

• The Scientific Attitude Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience By Lee McIntyre Link

• Foucault's Pendulum By Umberto Eco Link

• Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics By Norbert Wiener (Author), Ronald R Kline (Foreword) Link

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