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Auditory Attention Detection with EEG Channel Attention

  • Enze Su*
  • , Siqi Cai*
  • , Peiwen Li*
  • , Longhan Xie*
  • , Haizhou Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • South China University of Technology
  • National University of Singapore
  • University of Bremen

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Abstract

Auditory attention detection (AAD) seeks to detect the attended speech from EEG signals in a multi-talker scenario, i.e. cocktail party. As the EEG channels reflect the activities of different brain areas, a task-oriented channel selection technique improves the performance of brain-computer interface applications. In this study, we propose a soft channel attention mechanism, instead of hard channel selection, that derives an EEG channel mask by optimizing the auditory attention detection task. The neural AAD system consists of a neural channel attention mechanism and a convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier. We evaluate the proposed framework on a publicly available database. We achieve 88.3% and 77.2% for 2-second and 0.1-second decision windows with 64-channel EEG; and 86.1% and 83.9% for 2-second decision windows with 32-channel and 16-channel EEG, respectively. The proposed framework outperforms other competitive models by a large margin across all test cases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages5804-5807
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781728111797
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2021 - Virtual, Online, Mexico
Duration: 1 Nov 20215 Nov 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
Volume2021-January
ISSN (Print)1557-170X

Conference

Conference43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2021
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityVirtual, Online
Period1/11/215/11/21

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