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most citedEEG-informed attended speaker extraction from recorded speech mixtures with application in neuro-steered hearing prostheses

157 citations · 219 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

eess.SP2025

Post-processing of EEG-based Auditory Attention Decoding Decisions via Hidden Markov Models

Nicolas Heintz, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms exploit brain signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), to identify which speaker a listener is focusing on in a multi-speaker env…

eess.SP2025

Unsupervised EEG-based decoding of absolute auditory attention with canonical correlation analysis

Nicolas Heintz, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand

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 proble…

eess.SP2024

Linear stimulus reconstruction works on the KU Leuven audiovisual, gaze-controlled auditory attention decoding dataset

Simon Geirnaert, Iustina Rotaru, Tom Francart +1

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) signal…

eess.SP2024

Stimulus-Informed Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis for Group Analysis of Neural Responses to Natural Stimuli

Simon Geirnaert, Yuanyuan Yao, Tom Francart +1

Various new brain-computer interface technologies or neuroscience applications require decoding stimulus-following neural responses to natural stimuli such as speech and video from…

cs.LG2023

Minimally Informed Linear Discriminant Analysis: training an LDA model with unlabelled data

Nicolas Heintz, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is one of the oldest and most popular linear methods for supervised classification problems. In this paper, we demonstrate that it is possible to…

eess.AS2023★ 2 cited

The role of vowel and consonant onsets in neural tracking of natural speech

Mohammad Jalilpour Monesi, Jonas Vanthornhout, Hugo Van hamme +1

To investigate how the auditory system processes natural speech, models have been created to relate the electroencephalography (EEG) signal of a person listening to speech to vario…

eess.SP2023

Detecting post-stroke aphasia using EEG-based neural envelope tracking of natural speech

Pieter De Clercq, Jill Kries, Ramtin Mehraram +3

[Objective]. After a stroke, one-third of patients suffer from aphasia, a language disorder that impairs communication ability. The standard behavioral tests used to diagnose aphas…

q-bio.NC2023

CLASH: Contrastive learning through alignment shifting to extract stimulus information from EEG

Bernd Accou, Hugo Van hamme, Tom Francart

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-…

eess.AS2023★ 1 cited

Relating EEG to continuous speech using deep neural networks: a review

Corentin Puffay, Bernd Accou, Lies Bollens +4

Objective. When a person listens to continuous speech, a corresponding response is elicited in the brain and can be recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). Linear models are p…

eess.SP2022

Stimulus-Informed Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis of Stimulus-Following Brain Responses

Simon Geirnaert, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand

In brain-computer interface or neuroscience applications, generalized canonical correlation analysis (GCCA) is often used to extract correlated signal components in the neural acti…

eess.AS2022

Relating the fundamental frequency of speech with EEG using a dilated convolutional network

Corentin Puffay, Jana Van Canneyt, Jonas Vanthornhout +2

To investigate how speech is processed in the brain, we can model the relation between features of a natural speech signal and the corresponding recorded electroencephalogram (EEG)…

eess.AS2022★ 21 cited

Learning Subject-Invariant Representations from Speech-Evoked EEG Using Variational Autoencoders

Lies Bollens, Tom Francart, Hugo Van Hamme

The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a powerful method to understand how the brain processes speech. Linear models have recently been replaced for this purpose with deep neural networ…

eess.AS2021★ 1 cited

Extracting Different Levels of Speech Information from EEG Using an LSTM-Based Model

Mohammad Jalilpour Monesi, Bernd Accou, Tom Francart +1

Decoding the speech signal that a person is listening to from the human brain via electroencephalography (EEG) can help us understand how our auditory system works. Linear models h…

eess.AS2021★ 14 cited

Predicting speech intelligibility from EEG in a non-linear classification paradigm

Bernd Accou, Mohammad Jalilpour Monesi, Hugo Van hamme +1

Objective: Currently, only behavioral speech understanding tests are available, which require active participation of the person being tested. As this is infeasible for certain pop…

eess.SP2020

Riemannian geometry-based decoding of the directional focus of auditory attention using EEG

Simon Geirnaert, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms decode the auditory attention from electroencephalography (EEG) signals that capture the listener's neural activity. Such AAD methods a…

eess.SP2020★ 8 cited

EEG-based Auditory Attention Decoding: Towards Neuro-Steered Hearing Devices

Simon Geirnaert, Servaas Vandecappelle, Emina Alickovic +6

People suffering from hearing impairment often have difficulties participating in conversations in so-called `cocktail party' scenarios with multiple people talking simultaneously.…

eess.AS2020

An LSTM Based Architecture to Relate Speech Stimulus to EEG

Mohammad Jalilpour Monesi, Bernd Accou, Jair Montoya-Martinez +2

Modeling the relationship between natural speech and a recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) helps us understand how the brain processes speech and has various applications in neuros…

eess.AS2017★ 15 cited

Head shadow enhancement with low-frequency beamforming improves sound localization and speech perception for simulated bimodal listeners

Benjamin Dieudonné, Tom Francart

Many hearing-impaired listeners struggle to localize sounds due to poor availability of binaural cues. Listeners with a cochlear implant and a contralateral hearing aid -- so-calle…

cs.SD2016★ 157 cited

EEG-informed attended speaker extraction from recorded speech mixtures with application in neuro-steered hearing prostheses

Simon Van Eyndhoven, Tom Francart, Alexander Bertrand

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 a…