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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

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

Decoding speech from brain activity is a long-awaited goal in both healthcare and neuroscience. Invasive devices have recently led to major milestones in that regard: deep learning algorithms trained on intracranial recordings now start to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Alexandre Défossez , Charlotte Caucheteux , Jérémy Rapin , Ori Kabeli , Jean-Rémi King

Real-world sound scenes consist of time-varying collections of sound sources, each generating characteristic sound events that are mixed together in audio recordings. The association of these constituent sound events with their mixture and…

Stimulus-evoked EEG data has a notoriously low signal-to-noise ratio and high inter-subject variability. We propose a novel paradigm for the self-supervised extraction of stimulus-related brain response data: a model is trained to extract…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-15 Bernd Accou , Hugo Van hamme , Tom Francart

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

Human brain performs remarkably well in segregating a particular speaker from interfering ones in a multi-speaker scenario. It has been recently shown that we can quantitatively evaluate the segregation capability by modelling the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ivine Kuruvila , Jan Muncke , Eghart Fischer , Ulrich Hoppe

Machine hearing of the environmental sound is one of the important issues in the audio recognition domain. It gives the machine the ability to discriminate between the different input sounds that guides its decision making. In this work we…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Peter Ochieng , Dennis Kaburu

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

The challenges in applying contrastive learning to speaker verification (SV) are that the softmax-based contrastive loss lacks discriminative power and that the hard negative pairs can easily influence learning. To overcome the first…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Zhe Li , Man-Wai Mak , Helen Mei-Ling Meng

An ideal audio retrieval system efficiently and robustly recognizes a short query snippet from an extensive database. However, the performance of well-known audio fingerprinting systems falls short at high signal distortion levels. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Anup Singh , Kris Demuynck , Vipul Arora

Sound localization aims to find the source of the audio signal in the visual scene. However, it is labor-intensive to annotate the correlations between the signals sampled from the audio and visual modalities, thus making it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yan-Bo Lin , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

Electroencephalography (EEG) - based air-writing recognition offers a human-computer interaction paradigm by decoding neural activity associated with handwriting movements. Despite its potential, reliable EEG-based air-writing recognition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Anant Jain , Ayush Tripathi

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

We propose a brain-informed speech separation method for cochlear implants (CIs) that uses electroencephalography (EEG)-derived attention cues to guide enhancement toward the attended speaker. An attention-guided network fuses audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Tom Gajecki , Jonas Althoff , Waldo Nogueira

Labeling of multivariate biomedical time series data is a laborious and expensive process. Self-supervised contrastive learning alleviates the need for large, labeled datasets through pretraining on unlabeled data. However, for multivariate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-21 Thea Brüsch , Mikkel N. Schmidt , Tommy S. Alstrøm

Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is designed to remove echoes, reverberation, and unwanted added sounds from the microphone signal while maintaining the quality of the near-end speaker's speech. This paper proposes adaptive speech quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Bozhong Liu , Xiaoxi Yu , Hantao Huang

We present a self-supervised learning method to learn audio and video representations. Prior work uses the natural correspondence between audio and video to define a standard cross-modal instance discrimination task, where a model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Pedro Morgado , Ishan Misra , Nuno Vasconcelos

In this paper we introduce attention-regression model to demonstrate predicting acoustic features from electroencephalography (EEG) features recorded in parallel with spoken sentences. First we demonstrate predicting acoustic features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed Tewfik