Title
Assistive Hearing Technology: Innovations from Psychoacoustics to Brain-computer Interface
Abstract
There has been a significant increase in the number of people suffering from communication disorders that adversely affect an individual’s physical and psychological health. The rapid development of AI and brain-computer interface (BCl) technologies provides advanced and effective methods for the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of communication disorders, in this talk. I will introduce the BCl work towards improving speech communication for those with hearing impairments, including psychoacoustics for human speech perception (particularly Chinese speech understanding), cochlear implants for restoring partial hearing to profound deaf people, electroencephalography (EEG) based auditory attention decoding.
Biographies
Chen Fei is now a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. Dr Chen received his B Sc and M. Phil. degrees from Nanjing University and his Ph. D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He continued his research as a post-doctor and research assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and The University of Hong Kong, respectively. Dr. Chen is leading the speech and physiological signal processing group in SUSTech, focusing on speech communication and assistive hearing technologies, brain-computer interface, and biomedical signal processing. He published over 140 journal papers and over 130papers in lEEE journals/conferences, Interspeech, Journal of Acoustical Society of America, etc. He was tutorial speaker of ICASSP 2024, Interspeech 2023, Interspeech 2022, EUSIPCO 2022, APSIPA 2021.Interspeech 2020, and APSIPA 2019He received the best presentation award at the 9th Asia Pacific Conference of Speech Language, and Hearing. Dr Chen is an APSlPA Distinguished Lecturer (2022-2023) and is now an executive editor of <Biomedical Signal Processing and Control>
