Improving speech intelligibility by hearing aid eye-gaze steering: Conditions with head fixated in a multitalker environment

A Favre-Felix, C Graversen, RK Hietkamp… - Trends in …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The behavior of a person during a conversation typically involves both auditory and visual
attention. Visual attention implies that the person directs his or her eye gaze toward the …

Speech, movement, and gaze behaviours during dyadic conversation in noise

LV Hadley, WO Brimijoin, WM Whitmer - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
How do people have conversations in noise and make themselves understood? While many
previous studies have investigated speaking and listening in isolation, this study focuses on …

EEGEyeNet: a simultaneous electroencephalography and eye-tracking dataset and benchmark for eye movement prediction

A Kastrati, MB Płomecka, D Pascual, L Wolf… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We present a new dataset and benchmark with the goal of advancing research in the
intersection of brain activities and eye movements. Our dataset, EEGEyeNet, consists of …

Towards realistic immersive audiovisual simulations for hearing research: Capture, virtual scenes and reproduction

G Llorach, G Grimm, MME Hendrikse… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Most current hearing research laboratories and hearing aid evaluation setups are not
sufficient to simulate real-life situations and to evaluate future generations of hearing aids …

EarSet: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Studying the Impact of Head and Facial Movements on In-Ear PPG Signals

A Montanari, A Ferlini, AN Balaji, C Mascolo, F Kawsar - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple, yet powerful technique to study blood volume
changes by measuring light intensity variations. However, PPG is severely affected by …

In-ear PPG for vital signs

A Ferlini, A Montanari, C Min, H Li… - IEEE Pervasive …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Earables are now pervasive, and their established purpose, ergonomy, and noninvasive
interaction uncover exciting opportunities for sensing and healthcare research. However, it …

[HTML][HTML] Potential of augmented reality platforms to improve individual hearing aids and to support more ecologically valid research

R Mehra, O Brimijoin, P Robinson, T Lunner - Ear and hearing, 2020 - journals.lww.com
An augmented reality (AR) platform combines several technologies in a system that can
render individual “digital objects” that can be manipulated for a given purpose. In the audio …

Comparing in-ear EOG for eye-movement estimation with eye-tracking: accuracy, calibration, and speech comprehension

MA Skoglund, M Andersen, MM Shiell… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This presentation details and evaluates a method for estimating the attended speaker during
a two-person conversation by means of in-ear electro-oculography (EOG). Twenty-five …

Exgsense: Toward facial gesture sensing with a sparse near-eye sensor array

C Chen, K Sun, X Zhang - … of the 20th International Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Immersive face-to-virtual-face telecommunication is one unique use case for virtual reality
(VR) technologies. Existing camera-based telephony systems cannot be used for such …

A gaze-based attention model for spatially-aware hearing aids

G Grimm, H Kayser, M Hendrikse… - … ; 13th ITG-Symposium, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spatial filtering and decomposition of sounds into acoustic source objects is increasingly
investigated for speech enhancement in hearing aids. However, with increasing …