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Bleeck - Designing better hearing aids using physiologically inspired speech enhancement

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Stefan Bleeck

Prof of Hearing Science and Technology
Research interests
  • The intersection of hearing science, audiology, and signal processing
  • Bio-inspired auditory modeling
  • Speech intelligibility in noise
Connect with Stefan

Email: S.Bleeck@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Thomas Blumensath

Professor
Research interests
  • I develop and study advanced algorithms that can solve challenging inverse problems by effici…
  • I work closely with state-of-the-art imaging facilities (µ-VIS, the National Research Facilit…
  • My research interests cover areas such as: Theoretical and computational methods for Signal a…
Connect with Thomas

Email: Thomas.Blumensath@soton.ac.uk

Dr Matthew Wright

Professor of Acoustical Education
Research interests
  • Musical instrument acoustics
  • Thermoviscous acoustics
  • Computer-enhanced learning
Connect with Matthew

Email: mcmw@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Improving speech intelligibility in perceptual wavelet packet-based speech coding for cochlear implants
Siriporn Dachasilaruk, Stefan Bleeck & Paul White, 2015
DOI: 10.1109/BMEI.2014.7002793
Type: conference
Sensitivity to envelope interaural time differences at high modulation rates
Jessica J. M. Monaghan, Stefan Bleeck & David McAlpine, 2015, Trends in Hearing, 19, 1-14
DOI: 10.1177/2331216515619331
Type: article
Response to best-frequency tone bursts in the ventral cochlear nucleus is governed by ordered inter-spike interval statistics
M.C.M. Wright, I.M. Winter, J.J. Forster & S. Bleeck, 2014, Hearing Research, 317, 23-32
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2014.09.006
Type: article
Evaluation of the sparse coding shrinkage noise reduction algorithm in normal hearing and hearing impaired listeners
Jinqiu Sang, Hongmei Hu, Chengshi Zheng, Guoping Li, Mark E. Lutman & S. Bleeck, 2014, Hearing Research, 310, 36-47
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2014.01.006
Type: article
Estimating spectral-temporal receptive fields in the cochlear nucleus
A Stasiak, T. Blumensath, J Monaghan, M.C.M. Wright, I.M. Winter & S. Bleeck, 2014
Type: conference
Evaluating noise reduction algorithms for hearing impaired listeners
J. Monaghan, A. Stasiak, I.M. Winter, T. Blumensath, M.C.M. Wright & S. Bleeck, 2014
Type: conference
Development of a real time sparse non-negative matrix factorization module for cochlear implants by using xPC target.
Hongmei Hu, A. Krasoulis, M.E. Lutman & S. Bleeck, 2013, Sensors, 13(10), 13861-13878
DOI: 10.3390/s131013861
Type: article