DETERMINING THE BEST ACOUSTIC FEATURES FOR SMOKER IDENTIFICATION

Zhizhong Ma, Yuanhang Qiu, Feng Hou, Ruili Wang, Joanna Ting Wai Chu, Christopher Bullen

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6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Speech-based automatic smoker identification (also known as smoker/non-smoker classification) aims to identify speakers' smoking status from their speech. In the COVID-19 pandemic, speech-based automatic smoker identification approaches have received more attention in smoking cessation research due to low cost and contactless sample collection. This study focuses on determining the best acoustic features for smoker identification. In this paper, we investigate the performance of four acoustic feature sets/representations extracted using three feature extraction/learning approaches: (i) hand-crafted feature sets including the extended Geneva Minimalistic Acoustic Parameter Set and the Computational Paralinguistics Challenge Set, (ii) the Bag-of-Audio-Words representations, (iii) the neural representations extracted from raw waveform signals by SincNet. Experimental results show that: (i) SincNet feature representations are the most effective for smoker identification and outperform the MFCC baseline features by 16% in absolute accuracy; (ii) the performance of hand-crafted feature sets and the Bag-of-Audio-Words representations rely on the scale of the dimensions of feature vectors.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages8177-8181
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665405409
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022 - Virtual, Online, Singapore
Duration: 23 May 202227 May 2022

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2022-May
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2022
Country/TerritorySingapore
CityVirtual, Online
Period23/05/2227/05/22

Keywords

  • acoustic features
  • BoAW
  • ComParE
  • SincNet
  • Smoker identification

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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