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Auditory Attention Decoding (AAD) can help to determine the identity of the attended speaker during an auditory selective attention task, by analyzing and processing measurements of electroencephalography (EEG) data. Most studies on AAD are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Haolin Zhu , Yujie Yan , Xiran Xu , Zhongshu Ge , Pei Tian , Xihong Wu , Jing Chen

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) identifies the attended speech stream in multi-speaker environments by decoding brain signals such as electroencephalography (EEG). This technology is essential for realizing smart hearing aids that address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Masahiro Yoshino , Haruki Yokota , Junya Hara , Yuichi Tanaka , Hiroshi Higashi

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) is a technique used to identify and amplify the talker that a listener is focused on in a noisy environment. This is done by comparing the listener's brainwaves to a representation of all the sound sources…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Cong Han , Vishal Choudhari , Yinghao Aaron Li , Nima Mesgarani

Correlation-based auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms exploit neural tracking mechanisms to determine listener attention among competing speech sources via, e.g., electroencephalography signals. The correlation coefficients between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Simon Geirnaert , Jonas Vanthornhout , Tom Francart , Alexander Bertrand

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) is the process of identifying the attended speech in a multi-talker environment using brain signals, typically recorded through electroencephalography (EEG). Over the past decade, AAD has undergone…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nhan Duc Thanh Nguyen , Huy Phan , Simon Geirnaert , Kaare Mikkelsen , Preben Kidmose

Identifying auditory attention by comparing auditory stimuli and corresponding brain responses, is known as auditory attention decoding (AAD). The majority of AAD algorithms utilize the so-called envelope entrainment mechanism, whereby…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Nhan Duc Thanh Nguyen , Huy Phan , Kaare Mikkelsen , Preben Kidmose

The performance of speech enhancement algorithms in a multi-speaker scenario depends on correctly identifying the target speaker to be enhanced. Auditory attention decoding (AAD) methods allow to identify the target speaker which the…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ali Aroudi , Marc Delcroix , Tomohiro Nakatani , Keisuke Kinoshita , Shoko Araki , Simon Doclo

Decoding the attended speaker in a multi-speaker environment from electroencephalography (EEG) has attracted growing interest in recent years, with neuro-steered hearing devices as a driver application. Current approaches typically rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Yuanyuan Yao , Simon Geirnaert , Tinne Tuytelaars , Alexander Bertrand

People suffering from hearing impairment often have difficulties participating in conversations in so-called `cocktail party' scenarios with multiple people talking simultaneously. Although advanced algorithms exist to suppress background…

Recent advances in reconstructing speech envelopes from Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals have enabled continuous auditory attention decoding (AAD) in multi-speaker environments. Most Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based envelope reconstruction…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yayun Liang , Yuanming Zhang , Fei Chen , Jing Lu , Zhibin Lin

The auditory attention decoding (AAD) approach was proposed to determine the identity of the attended talker in a multi-talker scenario by analyzing electroencephalography (EEG) data. Although the linear model-based method has been widely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Zhen Fu , Bo Wang , Xihong Wu , Jing Chen

A promising approach for steering auditory attention in complex listening environments relies on Auditory Attention Decoding (AAD), which aim to identify the attended speech stream in a multiple speaker scenario from neural recordings.…

Auditory Attention Decoding (AAD) algorithms play a crucial role in isolating desired sound sources within challenging acoustic environments directly from brain activity. Although recent research has shown promise in AAD using shallow…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Karan Thakkar , Jiarui Hai , Mounya Elhilali

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) aims to extract from brain activity the attended speaker amidst candidate speakers, offering promising applications for neuro-steered hearing devices and brain-computer interfacing. This pilot study makes a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-15 H. A. Scheppink , S. Ahmadi , P. Desain , M. Tangermann , J. Thielen

Current assistive hearing devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, lack the ability to adapt to the listener's focus of auditory attention, limiting their effectiveness in complex acoustic environments like cocktail party…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Simon Geirnaert , Simon L. Kappel , Preben Kidmose

\textit{Objective:} Conventional EEG-based auditory attention detection (AAD) is achieved by comparing the time-varying speech stimuli and the elicited EEG signals. However, in order to obtain reliable correlation values, these methods…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Hongxu Zhu , Siqi Cai , Yidi Jiang , Qiquan Zhang , Haizhou Li

Many people with hearing loss struggle to comprehend speech in crowded auditory scenes, even when they are using hearing aids. It has recently been demonstrated that the focus of a listener's selective attention to speech can be decoded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Mike Thornton , Danilo Mandic , Tobias Reichenbach

Auditory spatial attention detection (ASAD) aims to decode the attended spatial location with EEG in a multiple-speaker setting. ASAD methods are inspired by the brain lateralization of cortical neural responses during the processing of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Xiran Xu , Bo Wang , Yujie Yan , Xihong Wu , Jing Chen

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms decode the auditory attention from electroencephalography (EEG) signals that capture the listener's neural activity. Such AAD methods are believed to be an important ingredient towards so-called…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Simon Geirnaert , Tom Francart , Alexander Bertrand

In a recent paper, we presented the KU Leuven audiovisual, gaze-controlled auditory attention decoding (AV-GC-AAD) dataset, in which we recorded electroencephalography (EEG) signals of participants attending to one out of two competing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Simon Geirnaert , Iustina Rotaru , Tom Francart , Alexander Bertrand
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