A tutorial on auditory attention identification methods

E Alickovic, T Lunner, F Gustafsson… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Auditory attention identification methods attempt to identify the sound source of a listener's
interest by analyzing measurements of electrophysiological data. We present a tutorial on …

EEG-based detection of the locus of auditory attention with convolutional neural networks

S Vandecappelle, L Deckers, N Das, AH Ansari… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
In a multi-speaker scenario, the human auditory system is able to attend to one particular
speaker of interest and ignore the others. It has been demonstrated that it is possible to use …

EEG-based auditory attention detection: boundary conditions for background noise and speaker positions

N Das, A Bertrand, T Francart - Journal of neural engineering, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. A listener's neural responses can be decoded to identify the speaker the person is
attending to in a cocktail party environment. Such auditory attention detection methods have …

Analysis of miniaturization effects and channel selection strategies for EEG sensor networks with application to auditory attention detection

AM Narayanan, A Bertrand - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Concealable, miniaturized electroencephalography (mini-EEG) recording devices
are crucial enablers toward long-term ambulatory EEG monitoring. However, the resulting …

An interpretable performance metric for auditory attention decoding algorithms in a context of neuro-steered gain control

S Geirnaert, T Francart… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a multi-speaker scenario, a hearing aid lacks information on which speaker the user
intends to attend, and therefore it often mistakenly treats the latter as noise while enhancing …

Cognitive-driven binaural beamforming using EEG-based auditory attention decoding

A Aroudi, S Doclo - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identifying the target speaker in hearing aid applications is an essential ingredient to
improve speech intelligibility. Recently, a least-squares-based auditory attention decoding …

End-to-end brain-driven speech enhancement in multi-talker conditions

M Hosseini, L Celotti, E Plourde - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-channel speech enhancement algorithms have seen great improvements over the
past few years. Despite these improvements, they still lack the efficiency of the auditory …

Linear versus deep learning methods for noisy speech separation for EEG-informed attention decoding

N Das, J Zegers, T Francart… - Journal of Neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. A hearing aid's noise reduction algorithm cannot infer to which speaker the user
intends to listen to. Auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms allow to infer this …

Cognitive-driven binaural LCMV beamformer using EEG-based auditory attention decoding

A Aroudi, S Doclo - ICASSP 2019-2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Identifying the target speaker in hearing aid applications is an essential ingredient to
improve speech intelligibility. To identify the target speaker from single-trial EEG recordings …

EEG decoding of the target speaker in a cocktail party scenario: considerations regarding dynamic switching of talker location

ES Teoh, EC Lalor - Journal of neural engineering, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. It has been shown that attentional selection in a simple dichotic listening
paradigm can be decoded offline by reconstructing the stimulus envelope from single-trial …