Project Description

As a collaboration between Linköping University and Oticon AB, a company developing hearing aid technology, this project has been an ongoing development process for the recent years. By further development of existing features, the final goal is to have a hearing aid product better suited for noisy environments. New for this year is access to new hardware (G3) with improved capabilities.

Goals

The aim of this project is to improve and further develop the already existing features as well as implement them on the new hardware. There is also a wide extension of new features to be developed and implemented on the hardware. The system will be able to orient the user, detect and track potential speakers relative to the user as well as determine the activity of speaking. The system will be able to detect and analyse eye movements. Improvements of the simulation environment will be conducted to be able to provide realistic data and to integrate the new hardware.

Accomplishments:

• • The possibility to set the noise distribution in the Simulation Environment



• • A new GUI was successfully developed



• • A new module for eye movement classification was developed



• • A new algorithm for listening detection by analyzing eye behaviour was developed