60 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/csl/projects/current-projects/exzellenz-chair-li exzellenz chair li en University of Bremen Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:08:02 +0200 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:08:02 +0200 University of Bremen content-636604 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:47:26 +0100 https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/csl/projects/current-projects/exzellenz-chair-li#c636604 <p>The Machine Listening Lab (MLL) represents one of the U Bremen Excellence Chairs projects and aims to integrate the human ability of Selective Listening into machines. <br /> This ability allows humans to focus on a specific sound source while fading out all remaining sound sources. Typically, this is also referred to as "The Cocktail Party Problem". Hearing-impaired individuals often lose this ability or can only perform it to a limited extend, making hearing aids necessary. Even though the technology in hearing aids is quite advanced, it reaches its limits in real Cocktail Party scenes. At MLL, AI-based algorithms are developed which will be integrated into Smart Hearing Aids in the long term in order to allow hearing-impaired individuals to regain the ability of Selective Listening. Methods from the research fields of "Speech Separation" and  "Brain Signal Processing" are used to develop neuro-steered algorithms. Besides this long term goal, the MLL investigates corresponding methods and algorithms in  different scenarios, such as: <br /> - Speech Separation in multilingual Cocktail Party scenarios <br /> - The impact of speech mode adaptation (for instance whispered speech) on Speech Separation algorithms <br /> - The classification and tracking of selective auditory attention in complex auditory environments using electroencephalography (EEG) <br /> - Speech Separation algorithms steered by EEG signals </p> <p><br /> <strong>Employees at MLL/CSL: </strong><br /> Director: Prof. Dr. Haizhou Li </p> <p>Host: <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/csl/institute/director" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tanja Schultz  </a></p> <p>Contact person: <a class="externalLink" href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/csl/institute/team/staff/marvin-borsdorf-m-sc" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Marvin Borsdorf, M.Sc. </a></p> <p><a class="externalLink" href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/csl/institut/team/mitarbeitende" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Saurav Pahuja, M.Sc.  </a></p> <p><a class="externalLink" href="https://www.uni-bremen.de/csl/institut/team/mitarbeitende" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">Dashanka De Silva, M.Sc.</a></p> Content