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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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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) 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Self-supervised representations excel at many vision and speech tasks, but their potential for audio-visual deepfake detection remains underexplored. Unlike prior work that uses these features in isolation or buried within complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Dragos-Alexandru Boldisor , Stefan Smeu , Dan Oneata , Elisabeta Oneata

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

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
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