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Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) can take audio and text as the inputs and answer questions about the audio. While prior LALMs have shown strong performance on standard benchmarks, there has been alarming evidence that LALMs can…

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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

\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

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

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

Predicting brain activity in response to naturalistic, multimodal stimuli is a key challenge in computational neuroscience. While encoding models are becoming more powerful, their ability to generalize to truly novel contexts remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Hamid Abdollahi , Amir Hossein Mansouri Majoumerd , Amir Hossein Bagheri Baboukani , Amir Abolfazl Suratgar , Mohammad Bagher Menhaj

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…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-29 Marzieh Haghighi , Mohammad Moghadamfalahi , Murat Akcakaya , Deniz Erdogmus

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

Audio-visual active speaker detection (AV-ASD) aims to identify which visible face is speaking in a scene with one or more persons. Most existing AV-ASD methods prioritize capturing speech-lip correspondence. However, there is a noticeable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Ruijie Tao , Xinyuan Qian , Rohan Kumar Das , Xiaoxue Gao , Jiadong Wang , Haizhou Li

Audio denoising is critical in signal processing, enhancing intelligibility and fidelity for applications like restoring musical recordings. This paper presents a proof-of-concept for adapting a state-of-the-art neural audio codec, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Daniel Jimon , Mircea Vaida , Adriana Stan

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

Automated audio captioning (AAC) has developed rapidly in recent years, involving acoustic signal processing and natural language processing to generate human-readable sentences for audio clips. The current models are generally based on the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhongjie Ye , Helin Wang , Dongchao Yang , Yuexian Zou

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

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

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

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 detect target speaker from brain signals in a multi-speaker environment. Although EEG-based AAD methods have shown promising results in recent years, current approaches primarily rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Cunhang Fan , Hongyu Zhang , Wei Huang , Jun Xue , Jianhua Tao , Jiangyan Yi , Zhao Lv , Xiaopei Wu

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

Auditory front-end is an integral part of a spiking neural network (SNN) when performing auditory cognitive tasks. It encodes the temporal dynamic stimulus, such as speech and audio, into an efficient, effective and reconstructable spike…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Zihan Pan , Yansong Chua , Jibin Wu , Malu Zhang , Haizhou Li , Eliathamby Ambikairajah