Improved semi-supervised autoencoder for deception detection.

Journal: PloS one
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Abstract

Existing algorithms of speech-based deception detection are severely restricted by the lack of sufficient number of labelled data. However, a large amount of easily available unlabelled data has not been utilized in reality. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a semi-supervised additive noise autoencoder model for deception detection. This model updates and optimizes the semi-supervised autoencoder and it consists of two layers of encoder and decoder, and a classifier. Firstly, it changes the activation function of the hidden layer in network according to the characteristics of the deception speech. Secondly, in order to prevent over-fitting during training, the specific ratio dropout is added at each layer cautiously. Finally, we directly connected the supervised classification task in the output of encoder to make the network more concise and efficient. Using the feature set specified by the INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge, the experimental results on Columbia-SRI-Colorado (CSC) corpus and our own deception corpus show that the proposed model can achieve more advanced performance than other alternative methods with only a small amount of labelled data.

Authors

  • Hongliang Fu
    School of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China.
  • Peizhi Lei
    School of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China.
  • Huawei Tao
    School of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China.
  • Li Zhao
    International Initiative on Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology (ISLE), the Netherlands; Department of Health Policy and Management, West China School of Public Health/West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China; Research Center for Healthy City Development, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China; Healthy Food Evaluation Research Center, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041, China.
  • Jing Yang
    Beijing Novartis Pharma Co. Ltd., Beijing, China.