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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

OBJECTIVE: We aim to extract and denoise the attended speaker in a noisy, two-speaker acoustic scenario, relying on microphone array recordings from a binaural hearing aid, which are complemented with electroencephalography (EEG) recordings…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Simon Van Eyndhoven , Tom Francart , Alexander Bertrand

Many people with hearing loss struggle to comprehend speech in crowded auditory scenes, even when they are using hearing aids. It has recently been demonstrated that the focus of a listener's selective attention to speech can be decoded…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Mike Thornton , Danilo Mandic , Tobias Reichenbach

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

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

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 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

Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to identify the direction of the attended speaker in multi-speaker environments from brain signals, such as Electroencephalography (EEG) signals. However, existing EEG-based AAD methods overlook the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Cunhang Fan , Xiaoke Yang , Hongyu Zhang , Ying Chen , Lu Li , Jian Zhou , Zhao Lv

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 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

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

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) is used to determine the direction of a listener's attention to a speaker by analyzing her/his electroencephalographic (EEG) signals. This study aimed to further improve the performance of ASAD…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Yuting Ding , Fei Chen

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

In this paper, we present our approach for the Track 1 of the Chinese Auditory Attention Decoding (Chinese AAD) Challenge at ISCSLP 2024. Most existing spatial auditory attention decoding (Sp-AAD) methods employ an isolated window…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Zelin Qiu , Dingding Yao , Junfeng Li

Detecting auditory attention based on brain signals enables many everyday applications, and serves as part of the solution to the cocktail party effect in speech processing. Several studies leverage the correlation between brain signals and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Siqi Cai , Pengcheng Sun , Tanja Schultz , Haizhou Li

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

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

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

Attention is not monolithic; rather, it operates in multiple forms to facilitate efficient cognitive processing. In the auditory domain, attention enables the prioritization of relevant sounds in an auditory scene and can be either…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-05 Stephanie Graceffo , David F Little , Emine Merve Kaya , Mounya Elhilali