Sparse coding of i-vector/JFA latent vector over ensemble dictionaries for language identification systems

Computing sparse representation (SR) over an exemplar dictionary is time consuming and computationally expensive for large dictionary size. This also requires huge memory requirement for saving the dictionary. In order to reduce the latency and to achieve some diversity, ensemble of exemplar dictionary based language identification (LID) system is explored. The full diversity can be obtained if each of the exemplar dictionary contains only one feature vector from each of the language class. To achieve full diversity, a large number of multiple dictionaries are required; thus needs to compute SR for a particular test utterance as many times. The other solution to reduce the latency is to use a learned dictionary. The dictionary may contain unequal number of dictionary atoms and it is not guaranteed that each language class information is present. It totally depends upon the number of data and its variations. Motivated by this, language specific dictionary is learned, and then concatenated to form a single learned dictionary. Furthermore, to overcome the problem of ensemble exemplar dictionary based LID system, we investigated the ensemble of learned-exemplar dictionary based LID system. The proposed approach achieves the same diversity and latency as that of ensemble exemplar dictionary with reduced number of learned dictionaries. The proposed techniques are applied on two spoken utterance representations: the i-vector and the JFA latent vector. The experiments are performed on 2007 NIST LRE, 2009 NIST LRE and AP17-OLR datasets in closed set condition.