ASEAN IVO – NECTEC : National Electronics and Computer Technology Center https://www.nectec.or.th/en ศูนย์เทคโนโลยีอิเล็กทรอนิกส์และคอมพิวเตอร์แห่งชาติ Fri, 02 Jun 2023 10:48:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.nectec.or.th/en/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/favicon.ico ASEAN IVO – NECTEC : National Electronics and Computer Technology Center https://www.nectec.or.th/en 32 32 NECTEC makes it possible to know which sound is real speech or fake speech https://www.nectec.or.th/en/about/news/biometric-spoof.html Fri, 02 Jun 2023 10:47:59 +0000 https://www.nectec.or.th/en/?p=21985

Spoof Detection for Automatic Speaker Verification Project under ASEAN IVO was launched during May 30-31, 2023.

Researchers from Artificial Intelligence Research Group (AINRG), NECTEC organized Kick off Meeting of the project “Spoof Detection for Automatic Speaker Verification” at De Prime Rangnam Hotel, Bangkok. This is a starting point to implement joint research activities for the Spoof Detection for Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV). This joint research was successfully funded ASEAN IVO in amount of 80,000 USD to study a spoof detection system for automatic speaker verification.

The human voice is one of the biometric indicators representing a person’s identity. The objective of this project focuses on automatic speaker spoofing detection, including examining the use of AI to fake speech (Audio Deepfake) to reduce errors, to improve an accuracy of Automatic Speaker Verification (ASV) detection and to study multi-lingual spoofing detection. 

The Kick-off Meeting provides participants the essential information about spoof detection technique and related work, brainstorm and discuss the work breakdown and project plan.

This project is a joint research project between:

  1. NECTEC
  2. Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University
  3. Chulalongkorn University 
  4. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan
  5.  National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan  
  6. University of Computer Studies, Yangon (UCSY), Myanmar   
  7. Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), Brunei 
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Bangkok, Thailand – On 29-30 November 2022, NECTEC co-hosted by Chulalongkorn University and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan organized hybrid ASEAN IVO Forum 2022. The event aimed to seek and identify strategic ICT research areas in the ASEAN region and to promote collaborative projects.

Three main sessions in this forum consisted of (1) Steering Committee meeting, (2) oral presentation session and (3) project review.  The forum was attended by over one hundred delegates from ASEAN Member States (AMS) and Japan.

“NICT and ASEAN countries, we are strongly committed to assist its developing member countries in the use of ICT for development.”

Two invited speakers have been in the spotlight by two presentations regarding Thailand ICT policy.

  • Presentation entitled “ICT R&D Policy” was presented by Ms. Kasama Kongsmak, Executive Vice President of Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA), Thailand

  • Presentation entitled “ICT R&D Program” was presented by Dr. Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn, Acting Executive Vice President of National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand

In the oral presentation session, there were 20 presenters sharing their ideas to use ICT for resolving current global issues for example food sustainable, environment protection, disaster prevention, smart community, global health problems.

In this connection, 3 NECTEC researchers shared their concept ideas as follow:

1. Emotional Utility of Climate Change Awareness : Understanding People’s Mood and Tone
by Dr. Pawarat Nontasil, Strategic Analytics Networks with Machine Learning and AI Research Team

2. Spoofing Detection in Automatic Speaker Verification
by Dr. Kasorn Galajit, Digital Agriculture Technology Research Team

3. Automatic Service Recording System Using Network-Based Monitoring Approach
by Dr. Boonchai Ngamwongwattana, Technology Support Services Division

Furthermore, NECTEC as a project leader in ASEAN IVO projects also reported the progress.  Three projects are as follows.

  1. Visual IoT Network for Environment Protection and Disaster Prevention
  2. Relay Station Network Based on Low-power Wide-area Network (LPWAN) Technologies for Disaster Management
  3. A mesh-topological, low-power wireless network platform for a smart watering system
Dr. Jessada Karnjana was a representative to progress of three projects.

The forum was adjourned by steering committees reviewed ongoing projects and set direction ASEAN IVO policy and administrative matters. 
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