ListenNet: A Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Enhancement Nested Network for Auditory Attention Detection

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Autori principali: Fan, Cunhang, Yang, Xiaoke, Zhang, Hongyu, Chen, Ying, Li, Lu, Zhou, Jian, Lv, Zhao
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author Fan, Cunhang
Yang, Xiaoke
Zhang, Hongyu
Chen, Ying
Li, Lu
Zhou, Jian
Lv, Zhao
author_facet Fan, Cunhang
Yang, Xiaoke
Zhang, Hongyu
Chen, Ying
Li, Lu
Zhou, Jian
Lv, Zhao
contents Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to identify the direction of the attended speaker in multi-speaker environments from brain signals, such as Electroencephalography (EEG) signals. However, existing EEG-based AAD methods overlook the spatio-temporal dependencies of EEG signals, limiting their decoding and generalization abilities. To address these issues, this paper proposes a Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Enhancement Nested Network (ListenNet) for AAD. The ListenNet has three key components: Spatio-temporal Dependency Encoder (STDE), Multi-scale Temporal Enhancement (MSTE), and Cross-Nested Attention (CNA). The STDE reconstructs dependencies between consecutive time windows across channels, improving the robustness of dynamic pattern extraction. The MSTE captures temporal features at multiple scales to represent both fine-grained and long-range temporal patterns. In addition, the CNA integrates hierarchical features more effectively through novel dynamic attention mechanisms to capture deep spatio-temporal correlations. Experimental results on three public datasets demonstrate the superiority of ListenNet over state-of-the-art methods in both subject-dependent and challenging subject-independent settings, while reducing the trainable parameter count by approximately 7 times. Code is available at:https://github.com/fchest/ListenNet.
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spellingShingle ListenNet: A Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Enhancement Nested Network for Auditory Attention Detection
Fan, Cunhang
Yang, Xiaoke
Zhang, Hongyu
Chen, Ying
Li, Lu
Zhou, Jian
Lv, Zhao
Human-Computer Interaction
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Auditory attention detection (AAD) aims to identify the direction of the attended speaker in multi-speaker environments from brain signals, such as Electroencephalography (EEG) signals. However, existing EEG-based AAD methods overlook the spatio-temporal dependencies of EEG signals, limiting their decoding and generalization abilities. To address these issues, this paper proposes a Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Enhancement Nested Network (ListenNet) for AAD. The ListenNet has three key components: Spatio-temporal Dependency Encoder (STDE), Multi-scale Temporal Enhancement (MSTE), and Cross-Nested Attention (CNA). The STDE reconstructs dependencies between consecutive time windows across channels, improving the robustness of dynamic pattern extraction. The MSTE captures temporal features at multiple scales to represent both fine-grained and long-range temporal patterns. In addition, the CNA integrates hierarchical features more effectively through novel dynamic attention mechanisms to capture deep spatio-temporal correlations. Experimental results on three public datasets demonstrate the superiority of ListenNet over state-of-the-art methods in both subject-dependent and challenging subject-independent settings, while reducing the trainable parameter count by approximately 7 times. Code is available at:https://github.com/fchest/ListenNet.
title ListenNet: A Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Enhancement Nested Network for Auditory Attention Detection
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10348