Voice spoofing detection using a neural networks assembly considering spectrograms and mel frequency cepstral coefficients.

Nowadays, biometric authentication has gained relevance due to the technological advances that have allowed its inclusion in many daily-use devices. However, this same advantage has also brought dangers, as spoofing attacks are now more common. This work addresses the vulnerabilities of automatic speaker verification authentication systems, which are prone to attacks arising from new techniques for the generation of spoofed audio. In this article, we present a countermeasure for these attacks using an approach that includes easy to implement feature extractors such as spectrograms and mel frequency cepstral coefficients, as well as a modular architecture based on deep neural networks. Finally, we evaluate our proposal using the well-know ASVspoof 2017 V2 database, the experiments show that using the final architecture the best performance is obtained, achieving an equal error rate of 6.66% on the evaluation set.

Identification of COVID-19 Spreaders Using Multiplex Networks Approach.

In this work, we present a methodology to identify COVID-19 spreaders using the analysis of the relationship between socio-cultural and economic characteristics with the number of infections and deaths caused by the COVID-19 virus in different countries. For this, we analyze the information of each country using the complex networks approach, specifically by analyzing the spreaders countries based on the separator set in 5-layer multiplex networks. The results show that, we obtain a classification of the countries based on their numerical values in socioeconomics, population, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), health and air connections; where, in the spreader set there are those countries that have high, medium or low values in the different characteristics; however, the aspect that all the countries belonging to the separator set share is a high value in air connections.