Open-set speaker identification with classifier systems

Signal processing problems including the speaker identification problem require processing of real-valued feature vectors. Traditional cepstral encoding combined with clustering algorithms handle the closed-set speaker identification problem quite well but when it comes to the open-set problem, clustering methods show lack of performance. Furthermore, many clustering algorithms lack adaptability and the ability to learn on-the-fly. Genetic classifier systems are adaptive and they have the ability for open-ended learning. We introduce a genetic classifier system approach to the speaker identification problem and several classifier knowledge representation methods for open-set speaker identification. Experimental results show that the new system works quite well for the open-set speaker identification problem.