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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…

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\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

Neuro-steered speaker extraction aims to extract the listener's brain-attended speech signal from a multi-talker speech signal, in which the attention is derived from the cortical activity. This activity is usually recorded using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Zexu Pan , Gordon Wichern , Francois G. Germain , Sameer Khurana , Jonathan Le Roux

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

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

Identifying the target speaker in hearing aid applications is crucial to improve speech understanding. Recent advances in electroencephalography (EEG) have shown that it is possible to identify the target speaker from single-trial EEG…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-03 Ali Aroudi , Tobias de Taillez , Simon Doclo

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

Humans possess the remarkable ability to selectively attend to a single speaker amidst competing voices and background noise, known as selective auditory attention. Recent studies in auditory neuroscience indicate a strong correlation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-27 Zexu Pan , Marvin Borsdorf , Siqi Cai , Tanja Schultz , Haizhou Li

Noninvasive EEG (electroencephalography) based auditory attention detection could be useful for improved hearing aids in the future. This work is a novel attempt to investigate the feasibility of online modulation of sound sources by…

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