K.U. Leuven
The K.U.Leuven is one of the oldest universities in the world with about 30,000 students. The division ExpORL of the KULeuven is part of the department of Neurosciences. Its research bridges the technological and clinical aspects of auditory prostheses, and focuses on fundamental, applied and clinical auditory research. It involves the study, design, development, implementation and evaluation of speech processing algorithms and noise reduction strategies for cochlear implants (CI) and hearing aids (HA). This is based on fundamental psychophysical and electrophysiological auditory research. We have five specialized rooms for auditory research (anechoic or with variable and controllable acoustics, double-walled and acoustically isolated, fully equipped for speech processing research with auditory prostheses). The current research lines in the laboratory are:
1. the study of signal processing for cochlear implants aiming at improvement of speech understanding and music perception,
2. the development and evaluation of signal processing algorithms for multi-microphone noise reduction in hearing aids and cochlear implants,
3. the development of new measurement methods to quantify the human auditory abilities (including steady state evoked potentials, speech reception tests),
4. fundamental research on perception of electrical auditory stimulation in cochlear implants, which is a basis for future developments in processors,
5. the study of neural temporal signal processing in the human auditory pathway,
6. auditory modelling,
7. psychophysics and signal processing for improving binaural hearing with bilateral devices CI+CI, HA+HA, CI+HA.
| Meet K.U.Leuven researcher Prof. Jan Wouters. |
