For many years, clinicians have understood the advantages of listening with two ears
compared with one. In addition to improved speech intelligibility in quiet, noisy, and …

Binaural sound source localization is an important technique for speech enhancement,
video conferencing, and human-robot interaction, etc. However, in realistic scenarios, the …

The binaural auditory system performs a number of astonishing functions, such as precise
localization of sound sources, analysis of auditory scenes, segregation of auditory streams …

Most previously proposed dual-channel coherent-to-diffuse-ratio (CDR) estimators are
based on a free-field model. When used for binaural signals, eg, for dereverberation in …

The problem of distance estimation by computational methods utilizing binaural information
is discussed. Initially, a brief overview is given concerning findings related to the auditory …

Automatic speech recognition systems often achieve remarkable performance when trained
on thousands of hours of manually annotated and time-aligned speech. However, when …

It is widely appreciated that the acoustic enhancement function of hearing aids, which is
here represented by ambient noise reduction, needs to be designed such that the spatial …

The basic concepts for models of binaural hearing originate from the forties of last century or
even earlier [9], but it took the development of microelectronics and digital signal processing …

Hearing instruments (HIs) aim at helping people with hearing impairment who often have
difficulties to understand speech in noisy environments. This chapter provides an overview …

The goal of this work is to compare the quality of replicas of ears (pinnae) for acoustic
purposes. We present a method that creates replicas of ears used in acoustic …