FreqSense: Universal and Low-Latency Adversarial Example Detection for Speaker Recognition with Interpretability in Frequency Domain

Speaker recognition (SR) systems are particularly vulnerable to adversarial example (AE) attacks. To mitigate these attacks, AE detection systems are typically integrated into SR systems. To overcome the limitations of low detection accuracy, poor generalization, and high latency in existing schemes, this paper proposes FreqSense, an AE detection scheme based on frequency distribution features. FreqSense detects a variety of unknown AE attacks with low latency, and provides interpretability in its detection process. The basic idea of FreqSense is that AE typically introduce carefully designed noise in specific frequency bands that are associated with highly distinctive speaker identities. Therefore, leveraging the distributional variations in these frequency bands can effectively distinguish between AE and benign audio. FreqSense models frequency distribution features by integrating time-frequency transformation technology with a self-attention mechanism and employs a neural network-based classifier to distinguish between AE and benign audio. Experimental results show that FreqSense achieves an overall detection accuracy of 99.2%, surpassing state-of-the-art (SOTA) schemes by 27.2%. When confronting unknown AE attacks, FreqSense achieves a detection accuracy of 98.3% with a latency of just 0.0014 seconds.