i-manager's Journal on Digital Signal Processing (JDP)


Volume 7 Issue 4 October - December 2019

Research Paper

Text Dependent Speaker Verification with Neural Network

N. K. Kaphungkui* , Aditya Bihar Kandali **
* Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dibrugarh University, Assam.
** Department of Electrical Engineering, Jorhat Engineering College, Assam.
Kaphungkui, N. K., and Kandali, A. B. (2019). Text Dependent Speaker Verification with Neural Network. i-manager's Journal on Digital Signal Processing, 7(4), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.7.4.17615

Abstract

Speaker recognition system automatically recognizes who the speaker is by using the speaker's speech features included in speech signal. After verifying the speaker claimed to be, it allows and enable access control of various voice services. The main applications of speaker recognition are in the field of forensic and providing additional security layer where security is the primary concern. The aim of this work is to verify a speaker with the approach of MFCC and Back Propagation Neural Network. Training function Lavenberg-Marquardt is used to train the network. Voice samples from a group of ten people uttering the same sentence five times repeatedly are collected to train the neural network. The testing of the network for verifying the speaker is done with new data set with the same utterance spoken once. A specific target or speaker ID is assigned to each speakers and verification is based on how close the network output is to the assigned code for each speaker. Verification method depends on the minimum positive error generated between the code and the actual network output. If the error is below the threshold value, the speaker claimed to be is accepted otherwise rejected. The tool for simulation is MATLAB.

Research Paper

Enhancement of Ultrasound Images Using Denoising Filters and Genetic Algorithm

Y. Mahesh* , N. Kiran Kumar**
*-** Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, VEMU Institute of Technology, Chittoor, India.
Mahesh, Y., and Kumar, N. K. (2019). Enhancement of Ultrasound Images using Denoising Filters and Genetic Algorithm. i-manager's Journal on Digital Signal Processing, 7(4), 9-14. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.7.4.15351

Abstract

Ultrasound images used for medical applications are generally found in low contrast and high noise, generally caused by the environment while capturing the image. Compared to other medical images, denoising an ultrasound image is challenging. The Bayesian shrinkage method has been selected for thresholding based on its sub-band dependency property. The spatial domain based de-noising filtering techniques, using soft thresholding method are compared with the proposed method using Genetic Algorithm (GA). A proposed technique includes GA and results are compared with existing spatial domain based denoising filtering techniques. The proposed algorithm provides enhanced visual clarity for diagnosing the medical images. The proposed method based on GA assesses the better performance on the basis of the quantitative metric like Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Fitness value. The overall simulated result shows that proposed technique outperforms the prevailing denoising filtering methods in terms of preservation of the edges and visual quality of the image.

Research Paper

QR Watermarking Technique for Protecting Digital Images

Alisha* , J. Nirmal Jothi**
*-** Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SCAD College of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India.
Alisha, and Jothi, J. N. (2019). QR Watermarking Technique for Protecting Digital Images. i-manager's Journal on Digital Signal Processing, 7(4), 15-21. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.7.4.16282

Abstract

The rapid spread of the internet, along with the comprehensive development of digital technologies and easily reproduced digital media, has increased the popularity of media. Nowadays, exchange and transmission of digital images through internet is increasing and thus the protection of image is critical. This has initiated more researchers to develop efficient methods in digital image content protection. Digital watermarking is one of the ways to achieve protection in images. Digital watermarking is a process by which secret data is encrypted into the image without affecting the visual quality of the copyrighted image. This paper presents a block-based image watermarking technology using Discrete Wavelet Transformation (DWT) that does not affect the human visual system. The host images with digital watermark are exposed to cyber attacks when accessible through the open domain in the internet. The experimental results of this study shows that the proposed image watermarking method protects the invisibility of the watermark.

Research Paper

Enhancing the Quality of Speech using RNN and CNN

P. Vamsikrishna Mangaraya Chowdary * , G. Appala Naidu **
* Department of Systems and Signal Processing, JNTU-K University College of Engineering, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India.
** Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JNTUK-University College of Engineering, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Chowdary, P. V. M., and Naidu, G. A. (2019). Enhancing the Quality of Speech using RNN and CNN. i-manager's Journal on Digital Signal Processing, 7(4), 22-29. https://doi.org/10.26634/jdp.7.4.17682

Abstract

Most of the present literature on speech enhancement focus totally on existence of noise in corrupted speech which is way from real-world environments. In this project we choose to enhancing the speech signal from the noise and reverberant using RNN and CNN. We trained separate networks for both RNN and CNN with noise, reverberation and both combination of reverberant and noise data. A simple way to enhance the quality of speech is raise the quality of the previous recordings by using speech training with speech enhancement methods like noise suppression and dereverberation using Neural Networks. The quality of voices trained with lower quality data that are enhanced using these networks was significantly higher. The comparison of RNN and CNN is shown and the experimental results are performed using MATLAB tool.

Article

RADAR: The All-Seeing Eye

Reproduced from OYLA DIGITAL Magazine*
OYLA DIGITAL Magazine. (2019). RADAR: The All-Seeing Eye. i-manager's Journal on Digital Signal Processing, 7(4), 30-37.

Abstract

All around us, every day, hundreds of radars are at work in planes, ships, airports and even in cars. Invisible radio waves complement our vision efficiently. The history of radar began relatively recently, but it is difficult to imagine life without this technology. This article reviews the science behind the technology and how this technology evolved as what is available in the present.