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The spatial auditory attention decoding (Sp-AAD) technology aims to determine the direction of auditory attention in multi-talker scenarios via neural recordings. Despite the success of recent Sp-AAD algorithms, their performance is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Zelin Qiu , Jianjun Gu , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li

Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to identify the direction of the attended speaker in multi-speaker environments from brain signals, such as Electroencephalography (EEG) signals. However, existing EEG-based AAD methods overlook the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Cunhang Fan , Xiaoke Yang , Hongyu Zhang , Ying Chen , Lu Li , Jian Zhou , Zhao Lv

Electroencephalography (EEG)-based auditory attention detection (AAD) offers a non-invasive way to enhance hearing aids, but conventional methods rely on too many electrodes, limiting wearability and comfort. This paper presents SHAP-AAD, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Rayan Salmi , Guorui Lu , Qinyu Chen

Auditory attention decoding from electroencephalogram (EEG) could infer to which source the user is attending in noisy environments. Decoding algorithms and experimental paradigm designs are crucial for the development of technology in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Keren Shi , Xu Liu , Xue Yuan , Haijie Shang , Ruiting Dai , Hanbin Wang , Yunfa Fu , Ning Jiang , Jiayuan He

Humans exhibit a remarkable ability to focus auditory attention in complex acoustic environments, such as cocktail parties. Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to identify the attended speaker by analyzing brain signals, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Yuan Liao , Yuhong Zhang , Qiushi Han , Yuhang Yang , Weiwei Ding , Yuzhe Gu , Hengxin Yang , Liya Huang

The electroencephalography (EEG), which is one of the easiest modes of recording brain activations in a non-invasive manner, is often distorted due to recording artifacts which adversely impacts the stimulus-response analysis. The most…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Jaswanth Reddy Katthi , Sriram Ganapathy

The human brain can easily focus on one speaker and suppress others in scenarios such as a cocktail party. Recently, researchers found that auditory attention can be decoded from the electroencephalogram (EEG) data. However, most existing…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xiaoyu Chen , Changde Du , Qiongyi Zhou , Huiguang He

OBJECTIVE: We aim to extract and denoise the attended speaker in a noisy, two-speaker acoustic scenario, relying on microphone array recordings from a binaural hearing aid, which are complemented with electroencephalography (EEG) recordings…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Simon Van Eyndhoven , Tom Francart , Alexander Bertrand

Recent promising results in auditory attention decoding (AAD) using scalp electroencephalography (EEG) have motivated the exploration of cEEGrid, a flexible and portable ear-EEG system. While prior cEEGrid-based studies have confirmed the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-23 Yuanming Zhang , Zeyan Song , Jing Lu , Fei Chen , Zhibin Lin

Decoding the directional focus of an attended speaker from listeners' electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is essential for developing brain-computer interfaces to improve the quality of life for individuals with hearing impairment. Previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yuanming Zhang , Jing Lu , Fei Chen , Haoliang Du , Xia Gao , Zhibin Lin

Auditory spatial attention detection (ASAD) is used to determine the direction of a listener's attention to a speaker by analyzing her/his electroencephalographic (EEG) signals. This study aimed to further improve the performance of ASAD…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Yuting Ding , Fei Chen

In this paper, we present our approach for the Track 1 of the Chinese Auditory Attention Decoding (Chinese AAD) Challenge at ISCSLP 2024. Most existing spatial auditory attention decoding (Sp-AAD) methods employ an isolated window…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Zelin Qiu , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li

We propose a fully unsupervised algorithm that detects from encephalography (EEG) recordings when a subject actively listens to sound, versus when the sound is ignored. This problem is known as absolute auditory attention decoding (aAAD).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-25 Nicolas Heintz , Tom Francart , Alexander Bertrand

Attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) models have shown impressive performance in ASR. However, most existing AED methods neglect to simultaneously leverage both acoustic and semantic features in decoder, which is crucial for generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Tian-Hao Zhang , Hai-Bo Qin , Zhi-Hao Lai , Song-Lu Chen , Qi Liu , Feng Chen , Xinyuan Qian , Xu-Cheng Yin

This paper proposes a novel Attention-based Encoder-Decoder network for End-to-End Neural speaker Diarization (AED-EEND). In AED-EEND system, we incorporate the target speaker enrollment information used in target speaker voice activity…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

Deep neural network-based systems have significantly improved the performance of speaker diarization tasks. However, end-to-end neural diarization (EEND) systems often struggle to generalize to scenarios with an unseen number of speakers,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zhengyang Chen , Bing Han , Shuai Wang , Yanmin Qian

Audiovisual active speaker detection (ASD) addresses the task of determining the speech activity of a candidate speaker given acoustic and visual data. Typically, systems model the temporal correspondence of audiovisual cues, such as the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jason Clarke , Yoshihiko Gotoh , Stefan Goetze

At a cocktail party, humans exhibit an impressive ability to direct their attention. The auditory attention detection (AAD) approach seeks to identify the attended speaker by analyzing brain signals, such as EEG signals. However, current…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Sheng Yan , Cunhang fan , Hongyu Zhang , Xiaoke Yang , Jianhua Tao , Zhao Lv

We introduce and analyze a novel approach to the problem of speaker identification in multi-party recorded meetings. Given a speech segment and a set of available candidate profiles, we propose a novel data-driven way to model the distance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Nikolaos Flemotomos , Dimitrios Dimitriadis

The attention-based encoder-decoder (AED) speech recognition model has been widely successful in recent years. However, the joint optimization of acoustic model and language model in end-to-end manner has created challenges for text…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Shaoshi Ling , Guoli Ye , Rui Zhao , Yifan Gong