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Auteurs principaux: Ni, Aoxin, Lobarinas, Edward, Kehtarnavaz, Nasser
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Publié: 2024
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09634
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author Ni, Aoxin
Lobarinas, Edward
Kehtarnavaz, Nasser
author_facet Ni, Aoxin
Lobarinas, Edward
Kehtarnavaz, Nasser
contents Personalization of the amplification function of hearing aids has been shown to be of benefit to hearing aid users in previous studies. Several machine learning-based personalization approaches have been introduced in the literature. This paper presents a machine learning personalization approach with the advantage of being efficient in its training based on paired comparisons which makes it practical and field deployable. The training efficiency of this approach is the result of treating frequency bands independent of one another and by simultaneously carrying out Bayesian machine learning in each band across all of the frequency bands. Simulation results indicate that this approach leads to an estimated hearing preference function close to the true hearing preference function in fewer number of paired comparisons relative to the previous machine learning approaches. In addition, a clinical experiment conducted on eight subjects with hearing impairment indicate that this training efficient personalization approach provides personalized gain settings which are on average six times more preferred over the standard prescriptive gain settings.
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spellingShingle Efficient Personalization of Amplification in Hearing Aids via Multi-band Bayesian Machine Learning
Ni, Aoxin
Lobarinas, Edward
Kehtarnavaz, Nasser
Audio and Speech Processing
Signal Processing
Personalization of the amplification function of hearing aids has been shown to be of benefit to hearing aid users in previous studies. Several machine learning-based personalization approaches have been introduced in the literature. This paper presents a machine learning personalization approach with the advantage of being efficient in its training based on paired comparisons which makes it practical and field deployable. The training efficiency of this approach is the result of treating frequency bands independent of one another and by simultaneously carrying out Bayesian machine learning in each band across all of the frequency bands. Simulation results indicate that this approach leads to an estimated hearing preference function close to the true hearing preference function in fewer number of paired comparisons relative to the previous machine learning approaches. In addition, a clinical experiment conducted on eight subjects with hearing impairment indicate that this training efficient personalization approach provides personalized gain settings which are on average six times more preferred over the standard prescriptive gain settings.
title Efficient Personalization of Amplification in Hearing Aids via Multi-band Bayesian Machine Learning
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09634