This paper deals with the problem of updating reference models and decision thresholds in speaker verification. In the real
application of a speaker verification system, reference models of speakers and their decision thresholds should be already
determined. Reference model and decision threshold updating can render a speaker verification system more robust against inter-session
variability, due to changes in speaker’s voice and the diversity in transmission line characteristics. In this paper, different
methods for the calculation of decision threshold, the updating of decision threshold and reference model, and BMDR decision
criterion are compared and evaluated. In our experiments, Sphericity Measure (a Second Order Statistical Measure) was implemented
and used for speaker modeling.