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most citedEEG-based Auditory Attention Decoding: Towards Neuro-Steered Hearing Devices

8 citations · 10 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

eess.SP2026

A hidden Markov model for unsupervised EEG-based tracking of auditory attention to a single voice

Tianyi Li, Simon Geirnaert, Davina Van den Broek +3

Objective: Absolute auditory attention decoding (aAAD) aims to track how strongly a listener attends to a single speech source using electroencephalography (EEG). Unlike selective…

eess.SP2026

Multiscale Gaussian-Mixture Modeling for HMM Post-Processing in Selective Auditory Attention Decoding

Tianyi Li, Simon Geirnaert, Bert De Smedt +1

Selective auditory attention decoding (sAAD) infers from electroencephalography (EEG) which speaker a listener attends to in multi-speaker scenarios. A widely used approach reconst…

eess.SP2026

Why Performance Metrics Overpromise in Auditory Attention Decoding: an Information-Theoretic Reappraisal

Nicolas Heintz, Simon Geirnaert, Tom Francart +1

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms are predominantly evaluated in a steady state where a listener continuously attends to the same speaker, using metrics such as accuracy…

q-bio.NC2026

Modeling and Interpreting Correlations, Null Distributions and Significance Levels in Neural Tracking of Natural Stimuli

Simon Geirnaert, Alexander Bertrand, Tom Francart +1

Neural tracking - the time-locking of neural responses to continuous stimuli such as speech, music, and video - is widely used to study how the brain processes natural input. Track…

eess.SP2026

Eccentricity Confound in EEG-based Visual Attention Decoding from Gaze-Fixated Neural Tracking of Motion in Natural Videos

Yuanyuan Yao, Celina Salamanca Gonzalez, Simon Geirnaert +3

Objective. Decoding visual attention from brain signals during naturalistic video viewing has emerged as a new direction in brain-computer interface research. Current methods assum…

eess.SP2026

Sample-level EEG-based Selective Auditory Attention Decoding with Markov Switching Models

Yuanyuan Yao, Simon Geirnaert, Tinne Tuytelaars +1

Selective auditory attention decoding aims to identify the speaker of interest from listeners' neural signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), in the presence of multiple con…

eess.SP2025

Efficient Solutions for Mitigating Initialization Bias in Unsupervised Self-Adaptive Auditory Attention Decoding

Yuanyuan Yao, Simon Geirnaert, Tinne Tuytelaars +1

Decoding the attended speaker in a multi-speaker environment from electroencephalography (EEG) has attracted growing interest in recent years, with neuro-steered hearing devices as…

eess.SP2025

A Direct Comparison of Simultaneously Recorded Scalp, Around-Ear, and In-Ear EEG for Neural Selective Auditory Attention Decoding to Speech

Simon Geirnaert, Simon L. Kappel, Preben Kidmose

Current assistive hearing devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, lack the ability to adapt to the listener's focus of auditory attention, limiting their effectiveness…

eess.SP2025

Performance Modeling for Correlation-based Neural Decoding of Auditory Attention to Speech

Simon Geirnaert, Jonas Vanthornhout, Tom Francart +1

Correlation-based auditory attention decoding (AAD) algorithms exploit neural tracking mechanisms to determine listener attention among competing speech sources via, e.g., electroe…

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…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

AADNet: An End-to-End Deep Learning Model for Auditory Attention Decoding

Nhan Duc Thanh Nguyen, Huy Phan, Simon Geirnaert +2

Auditory attention decoding (AAD) is the process of identifying the attended speech in a multi-talker environment using brain signals, typically recorded through electroencephalogr…

eess.SP2024★ 1 cited

EEG-based Decoding of Selective Visual Attention in Superimposed Videos

Yuanyuan Yao, Wout De Swaef, Simon Geirnaert +1

Selective attention enables humans to efficiently process visual stimuli by enhancing important elements and filtering out irrelevant information. Locating visual attention is fund…

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…

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.SP2021

Grouped Variable Selection for Generalized Eigenvalue Problems

Jonathan Dan, Simon Geirnaert, Alexander Bertrand

Many problems require the selection of a subset of variables from a full set of optimization variables. The computational complexity of an exhaustive search over all possible subse…

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.…