One of the greatest challenges in Ambient Assisted Living is to design health smart homes
that anticipate the needs of its inhabitant while maintaining their safety and comfort. It is thus …

Abstract The work presented in this article studies how the context information can be used
in the automatic sound event detection process, and how the detection system can benefit …

Communication by sounds requires that the communication channels (ie speech/speakers
and other sound sources) had been established. This allows to separate concurrently active …

Monitoring daily activities is essential for home service robots to take care of the older adults
who live alone in their homes. In this article, we proposed a sound-based human activity …

Chapter 2 focuses on creating deeper understanding of the relationship between the sonic
or acoustic environment and soundscape. It attempts to relate the somewhat vague concept …

This chapter presents the AUDITHIS system which performs real-time sound analysis from
eight microphone channels in Health Smart Home associated to the autonomous speech …

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the speech-to-background ratios (SBRs) at which
normal-hearing (NH) and hearing-impaired (HI) listeners can recognize both speech and …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of different types of sounds on visual gaze
when a person is looking freely at videos, which would be helpful to predict eye position. In …

Two sound classifiers were proposed for a novel aquaculture application that involved
processing sound to estimate the feed consumption of prawns within the turbid waters of …

This paper introduces a model for simulating environmental acoustic scenes that abstracts
temporal structures from audio recordings. This model allows us to explicitly control key …