Patrick Perrot has been awarded with the ENFSI Referenced Best Article Award.

Biography

Patrick Perrot is an Officer of the French Gendarmerie, an engineer specialised in telecommunications. He was employed by Philips and Lucent Technologies before joining the French Gendarmerie in 1996. He has been working in the Signal, Speech and Image Department of the Forensic Research Institutes of the French Gendarmerie since 2001.

Patrick obtained a professional thesis in signal processing and pattern recognition in 2004 and has been preparing a Phd degree in the Signal Processing Department of ENST (Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications) on the question of voice disguise, linked to his professional activities. The aim of this study is to increase the robustness of speaker recognition systems and to automatically detect some specific voice disguises used in criminal offences. 

His main research interests are:

• speaker and speech recognition
• voice disguise and forgery
• pattern recognition

Patrick is a member of BIOSECURE, a European network of excellence in biometric applications.

Publications

• "Voice Forgery using ALISP : Indexation in a Client Memory." in Proc. of ICASSP, Philadelphia, USA, 2005 (with G. Aversano, R. Blouet, M. Charbit and G. Chollet)
• "The Becars System" in Proc. of NIST, Montreal, Canada, June 2005 (with N. Dehak, E.S. Sanchez, G. Chollet)
• The ENST-IRCGN Sytem description – SRE 2006 in Proc. of NIST, Pittsburgh, USA, 2006 (with R. Dehak, G. Chollet)
• "Ink Jet Printing Discrimination Based on Invariant Moment" in Proc. of NIP 22, Denver, USA, 2006 (with V. Talbot and C. Murie)