Dipl-Phys (Univ München), PhD (Aust Nat Univ)

Head, Discipline of Software Engineering

Director, National Centre for Biometric Studies

Office: 11C35

Phone: (02) 6201 5477

Fax: (02) 6201 5231

Email: Michael.Wagner@canberra.edu.au

Mail: Building 11, Room C35
Faculty of Information Sciences & Engineering
University of Canberra, Bruce ACT 2601

Research Area

Biometric person authentication (voice, face, finger), forensic speaker recognition, audiovisual authentication and liveness assurance, speaker characterisation (gender, age, health), language/dialect/accent recognition, emotion detection, narrow-band speech coding.

Recent Publications

B - Book Chapter

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2007). Audio Visual Speaker Verification Based on Hybrid Fusion of Cross Modal Features, in A. Ghosh, R.K. De, and S.K. Pal (Eds.), PReMI 2007, LNCS 4815, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 469-478

Chetty, G. & Wagner M. (2006). Face-voice authentication based on 3D face models, in P.J. Narayanan, S.K. Nayar and H.-Y. Shum (Eds), ACCV 2006, LNCS 3851, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 559-568

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2006). Audio-visual multimodal fusion for biometric person authentication and liveness verification, in F. Chen & J. Epps (eds), Multimodal User Interaction, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 57, Australian Computer Society, 17-24

Lau, Y.W., Tran, D. & Wagner, M. (2005) Testing voice mimicry with the YOHO speaker verification corpus, in R. Khosla et al. (Eds.), KES 2005, LNAI 3684, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 15-21

D - Major Works

Wagner, M. (2009). Liveness Assurance in Voice Authentication, in S.Z. Li and A. Jain [eds], Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer Verlag, 2009.

Wagner, M. & Chetty, G. (2009). Liveness Assurance in Face Authentication, in S.Z. Li and A. Jain [eds], Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer Verlag, 2009.

C1 - Article in a scholarly refereed journal

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2009). Robust Face-Voice Based Speaker Identity Verification Using Multilevel Fusion, Image and Vision Computing, vol 26, 2009, 1249-1260

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2009). Biometric person authentication with liveness detection based on audio-visual fusion, Int. J. Biometrics, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2009, 463-478

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2008). Robust face-voice based speaker identity verification using multilevel fusion, Image and Vision Computing, 26, 2008, 1249-1260

E1 - Full written paper refereed

Chetty, G., Goecke, R. & Wagner, M. (2009). Audio-Visual Mutual Dependency Models for Biometric Liveness Checks. Proc. Int. Conf. on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing AVSP-2009.                 

Asthana, A., Saragih, J.M., Wagner, M. & Goecke, R. (2009). Evaluating AAM Fitting Methods for Facial Expression Recognition, Proc. 2009 Int. Conf. on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction ACII-2009.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2009). Multimodal Speaker Verification Using Ancillary Known Speaker Characteristics Such as Gender or Age, Proc. 10th Annual Conference of the Int. Speech Communication Assoc. Interspeech-2009.

Polzehl, T., Sundaram, S., Ketabdar, H., Wagner, M. & Metze, F. (2009). Emotion Classification in Children’s Speech Using Fusion of Acoustic and Linguistic Features, Proc. 10th Annual Conference of the Int. Speech Communication Assoc. Interspeech-2009.

Metze, F., Polzehl, T. & Wagner, M. (2009). Fusion of Acoustic and Linguistic Speech Features for Emotion Detection, Proc. 3rd IEEE Int. Conf. on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA, 14-16 September 2009.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2008). A Multilevel Fusion Approach for Audiovisual Emotion Recognition, Proc. Audiovisual Speech Processing 2008, 26-29 September, Moreton Island, Australia.

Farrus, M., Wagner, M., Anguita J. & Hernando, J. (2008). Robustness of prosodic features to voice imitation, Proc. Interspeech-2008, 22-26 September, Brisbane, Australia, 613-616

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2008). Audio-Visual Multilevel Fusion for Speech and Speaker Recognition, Proc. Interspeech-2008, 22-26 September, Brisbane, Australia, 379-382

Farrus, M., Wagner, M., Anguita J. & Hernando, J. (2008). How vulnerable are prosodic features to professional imitators, Proc. IEEE Workshop on Speaker and language Recognition, Odyssey 2008, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2008). A Robust Spatio-temporal Face Modelling Approach Using 3D Mulitimodal Fusion for Biometric Security Applications, Proceedings of the SPIE 0277-786X, v.6944 Biometric Technology for Human Identification V, Orlando, Florida, 18-19 March 2008, 1-5

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2008). Reliability score based multimodal fusion for biometric person authentication, Proceedings of the American Conference on Applied Mathematics (MATH 08), Harvard University, USA, 24-26 March 2008, 313-324

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2007). Audio Visual Speaker Identity Verification based on Lip Motion Features, Proc. Interspeech 2007, Aug. 27-31, Antwerp, Belgium.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2007). Audio Visual Speaker Identity Verification based on Cross Modal Fusion, Proc. AVSP 2007, Sept. 1 -3, Tilburg, Netherlands.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2007). Spatiotemporal modelling of faces based on multilevel fusion, Proc. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, 5th -7th Dec. 2007, Waikato, New Zealand.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2007). A Robust Speaking Face Modelling Approach Based On  Multilevel Fusion, Proc. IEEE conference on Digital Image Computing and Applications, 3-5 Dec. 2007, Adelaide, Australia.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2007). Spatiotemporal person authentication based on multilevel fusion, Proc. Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, 5-7 Dec. 2007, Waikato, New Zealand.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2006). Speaking faces for face-voice speaker identity verification, Proc. Interspeech 2006 – Int Conf on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, September 2006.

Wagner, M., Summerfield, C., Dunstone, T., Summerfield, R. & Moss, J. (2006). An evaluation of ‘commercial off-the-shelf’ speaker verification systems, Proc IEEE Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop Odyssey 2006, June 2006.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2006). Multilevel liveness verification for face-voice biometric authentication, Proc. IEEE Biometrics Symposium, Special Session on research, Biometric Consortium Conference, Baltimore, September 2006.

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2006). Audio-Visual Multimodal Fusion for Biometric Person Authentication and Liveness Verification, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, Volume 57, Multimodal User Interaction, India 13-16 January, 2006, 17-24

Wagner, M. (2006). Speaker Verification Using the Shape of the Glottal Excitation Function for Vowels, Proc 11th Australasian Int Conf on Speech Science & Technology, 2006, 233-238

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2006). UCBN:  A New Audio-Visual Broadcast News Corpus for Multimodal Speaker Verification Studies, Proc 11th Australasian Int Conf on Speech Science & Technology, 2006, 281-286

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2005). Audio-Video Biometric System with Liveness Checks, Proceedings of the Conference on Image and Vision Computing - New Zealand, Dunedin, New Zealand. 28-29 November 2005, 132-137

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2005). Audio-Video Person Authenticate Based on 3D Facial Feature Warping, Proceedings of the Digital Imaging Computing: Techniques and Applications, Cairns 8-11 December 2005, 1-8

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2005). Investigating Feature Level Fusion for Checking Liveness in Face-Voice Authentication, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications, Sydney 28-31 August 2005, 66-69

Chetty, G. & Wagner, M. (2005). Liveness Detection Using Cross-Modal Correlations in Face-Voice Person Authentication, Proceedings of the InterSpeech 2005 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. 4-7 October 2005, 2181-2184

Tran, D.T. & Wagner, M. (2005). Testing Voice Mimicry with the YOHO Seaker Verification Corpus, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Melbourne. 14-16 September 2005, 15-21

Zhang, F. & Wagner, M. (2005). Effects of F0 Feedback on the Learning of Chinese Tones by Native Speakers of English, Conference Proceedings for Interspeech 2005: Eurospeech-9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Portugal, 4-8 September 2005, 181-184