2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Paper IDMLSP-10.1
Paper Title HIGH-FREQUENCY ADVERSARIAL DEFENSE FOR SPEECH AND AUDIO
Authors Raphael Olivier, Bhiksha Raj, Muhammad Shah, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
SessionMLSP-10: Deep Learning for Speech and Audio
LocationGather.Town
Session Time:Tuesday, 08 June, 16:30 - 17:15
Presentation Time:Tuesday, 08 June, 16:30 - 17:15
Presentation Poster
Topic Machine Learning for Signal Processing: [MLR-DEEP] Deep learning techniques
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Abstract Recent work suggests that adversarial examples are enabled by high-frequency components in the dataset. In the speech domain where spectrograms are used extensively, masking those components seems like a sound direction for defenses against attacks. We explore a smoothing approach based on additive noise masking in priority high frequencies. We show that this approach is much more robust than the naive noise filtering approach, and a promising research direction. We successfully apply our defense on a Librispeech speaker identification task, and on the UrbanSound8K audio classification dataset.