Abstract: A method and hearing device (100) for emulating cochlear processing of auditory stimuli are disclosed, in which a multilayer convolutional encoder-decoder neural network (10) sequentially compresses and then decompresses a time-domain input comprising a plurality of samples. At least one nonlinear unit for applying a nonlinear transformation is mimicking a level-dependent cochlear filter tuning associated with cochlear mechanics and outer hair cells. Other described modules cover inner-hair-cell and auditory-nerve fiber processing. A plurality of shortcut connections (15) is directly forwarding inputs between convolutional layers of the encoder (11) and the decoder (12). An output layer (14) is generating, for each input to the neural network, N output sequences of cochlear response parameters corresponding to N emulated cochlear filters associated with N different center frequencies to span a cochlear tonotopic place-frequency map.

Abstract: The present invention is in the field of auditory devices. In particular, the present invention provides a method for converting an auditory stimulus to a processed auditory output. The present invention also relates to uses of the method, auditory devices configured to perform the method, and computer programs configured to perform the method for converting an auditory stimulus to a processed auditory output.

Abstract: A method and hearing device (100) for emulating cochlear processing of auditory stimuli are disclosed, in which a multilayer convolutional encoder-decoder neural network (10) sequentially compresses and then decompresses a time-domain input comprising a plurality of samples. At least one nonlinear unit for applying a nonlinear transformation is mimicking a level-dependent cochlear filter tuning associated with cochlear mechanics and outer hair cells. Other described modules cover inner-hair-cell and auditory-nerve fiber processing. A plurality of shortcut connections (15) is directly forwarding inputs between convolutional layers of the encoder (11) and the decoder (12). An output layer (14) is generating, for each input to the neural network, N output sequences of cochlear response parameters corresponding to N emulated cochlear filters associated with N different center frequencies to span a cochlear tonotopic place-frequency map.