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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…

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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

Everyday communication is dynamic and multisensory, often involving shifting attention, overlapping speech and visual cues. Yet, most neural attention tracking studies are still limited to highly controlled lab settings, using clean, often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Johanna Wilroth , Oskar Keding , Martin A. Skoglund , Maria Sandsten , Martin Enqvist , Emina Alickovic

Attentive listening in a multispeaker environment such as a cocktail party requires suppression of the interfering speakers and the noise around. People with normal hearing perform remarkably well in such situations. Analysis of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Ivine Kuruvila , Kubilay Can Demir , Eghart Fischer , Ulrich Hoppe

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.…

Decoding the directional focus of an attended speaker from listeners' electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is essential for developing brain-computer interfaces to improve the quality of life for individuals with hearing impairment. Previous…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yuanming Zhang , Jing Lu , Fei Chen , Haoliang Du , Xia Gao , Zhibin Lin

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

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

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

The electroencephalogram (EEG) offers a non-invasive means by which a listener's auditory system may be monitored during continuous speech perception. Reliable auditory-EEG decoders could facilitate the objective diagnosis of hearing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Mike Thornton , Danilo Mandic , Tobias Reichenbach

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

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

Covert speech involves imagining speaking without audible sound or any movements. Decoding covert speech from electroencephalogram (EEG) is challenging due to a limited understanding of neural pronunciation mapping and the low…

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

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

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

Event-related potentials (ERP) have been used to address a wide range of research questions in neuroscience and cognitive psychology including selective auditory attention. The recent progress in auditory attention decoding (AAD) methods is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-07 Nhan D. T. Nguyen , Kaare Mikkelsen , Preben Kidmose

Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to detect the target speaker in a multi-talker environment from brain signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), which has made great progress. However, most AAD methods solely utilize attention…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Lu Li , Cunhang Fan , Hongyu Zhang , Jingjing Zhang , Xiaoke Yang , Jian Zhou , Zhao Lv

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

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