Improved semi-supervised autoencoder for deception detection

PLoS One. 2019 Oct 8;14(10):e0223361. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223361. eCollection 2019.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Deception*
  • Humans
  • Lie Detection*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by: 1.National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61673108 and 61601170) 2.Henan Provincial Science and Technology Research Project (No.192102210101) 3.Natural Science Project of Henan Education Department (No.19A510009) 4.Start-up Fund for High-level Talents of Henan University of Technology (No.31401148). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.