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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…

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

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

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

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

At present, people usually use some methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for Electroencephalograph (EEG) decoding. However, CNNs have limitations in perceiving global dependencies, which is not adequate for common EEG…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Yonghao Song , Xueyu Jia , Lie Yang , Longhan Xie

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

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

A promising approach for steering auditory attention in complex listening environments relies on Auditory Attention Decoding (AAD), which aim to identify the attended speech stream in a multiple speaker scenario from neural recordings.…

Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to decode listeners' focus in complex auditory environments from electroencephalography (EEG) recordings, which is crucial for developing neuro-steered hearing devices. Despite recent advancements,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jiaqi Wang , Zhengyu Ma , Xiongri Shen , Chenlin Zhou , Leilei Zhao , Han Zhang , Yi Zhong , Siqi Cai , Zhenxi Song , Zhiguo Zhang

Deep learning based neural decoding from stereotactic electroencephalography (sEEG) would likely benefit from scaling up both dataset and model size. To achieve this, combining data across multiple subjects is crucial. However, in sEEG…

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

In a multi-speaker "cocktail party" scenario, a listener can selectively attend to a speaker of interest. Studies into the human auditory attention network demonstrate cortical entrainment to speech envelopes resulting in highly correlated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Richard Gall , Deniz Kocanaogullari , Murat Akcakaya , Deniz Erdogmus , Rajkumar Kubendran

Carrying conversations in multi-sound environments is one of the more challenging tasks, since the sounds overlap across time and frequency making it difficult to understand a single sound source. One proposed approach to help isolate an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Seyed Ali Alavi Bajestan , Mark Pitt , Donald S. Williamson

Recent behavioral and electroencephalograph (EEG) studies have defined ways that auditory spatial attention can be allocated over large regions of space. As with most experimental studies, behavior EEG was averaged over 10s of minutes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-07 Zhentao Liu , Jeffrey Mock , Yufei Huang , Edward Golob

For many years now, understanding the brain mechanism has been a great research subject in many different fields. Brain signal processing and especially electroencephalogram (EEG) has recently known a growing interest both in academia and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-18 Victor Delvigne , Hazem Wannous , Jean-Philippe Vandeborre , Laurence Ris , Thierry Dutoit

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 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

We propose SG-XDEAT (Sparsity-Guided Cross Dimensional and Cross-Encoding Attention with Target Aware Conditioning), a novel framework designed for supervised learning on tabular data. At its core, SG-XDEAT employs a dual-stream encoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Chih-Chuan Cheng , Yi-Ju Tseng

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

Speculative decoding (SD) is a widely adopted approach for accelerating inference in large language models (LLMs), particularly when the draft and target models are well aligned. However, state-of-the-art SD methods typically rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Wei Zhong , Manasa Bharadwaj , Yixiao Wang , Yipeng Ji , Chul Lee