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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…

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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

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a widely used tool for diagnosing brain disorders due to its high temporal resolution, non-invasive nature, and affordability. Manual analysis of EEG is labor-intensive and requires expertise, making…

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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) 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…

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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 is a selective type of hearing in which people focus their attention intentionally on a specific source of a sound or spoken words whilst ignoring or inhibiting other auditory stimuli. In some sense, the auditory…

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Audio-visual recognition (AVR) has been considered as a solution for speech recognition tasks when the audio is corrupted, as well as a visual recognition method used for speaker verification in multi-speaker scenarios. The approach of AVR…

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A major advantage of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is that the focused receptive field size is increased by stacking multiple convolutional layers. Accordingly, the model can explore the long-range dependency of features from…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Xugang Lu , Peng Shen , Sheng Li , Yu Tsao , Hisashi Kawai

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

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…

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Current models on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) have shown an evident and quantified lack of reliability for measuring feature-relevance when statistically entangled features are proposed for training deep classifiers. There has…

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Environmental audio tagging is a newly proposed task to predict the presence or absence of a specific audio event in a chunk. Deep neural network (DNN) based methods have been successfully adopted for predicting the audio tags in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Qiang Huang , Wenwu Wang , Mark D. Plumbley

In recent years, neuroscientists have been interested to the development of brain-computer interface (BCI) devices. Patients with motor disorders may benefit from BCIs as a means of communication and for the restoration of motor functions.…

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Detailed statistical analysis of call center recordings is critical in the customer relationship management point of view. With the recent advances in artificial intelligence, many tasks regarding the calculation of call statistics are now…

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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

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

Recent studies have applied deep learning methods such as convolutional recurrent neural networks (CRNs) and Transformers to brain disease classification based on dynamic functional connectivity networks (dFCNs), such as Alzheimer's disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Zhixiang Zhang , Biao Jie , Zhengdong Wang , Jie Zhou , Yang Yang

Attending to the speech stream of interest in multi-talker environments can be a challenging task, particularly for listeners with hearing impairment. Research suggests that neural responses assessed with electroencephalography (EEG) are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Emina Alickovic , Tobias Dorszewski , Thomas U. Christiansen , Kasper Eskelund , Leonardo Gizzi , Martin A. Skoglund , Dorothea Wendt