EchoVest: Real-Time Sound Classification and Depth Perception Expressed through Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04604v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:43:32 GMT
• Title: EchoVest: Real-Time Sound Classification and Depth Perception Expressed through Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
• Authors: Jesse Choe, Siddhant Sood, Ryan Park
• Abstract summary: We have developed a new assistive device, EchoVest, for blind/deaf people to intuitively become more aware of their environment. EchoVest transmits vibrations to the user's body by utilizing transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) based on the source of the sounds. We aimed to outperform CNN-based machine-learning models, the most commonly used machine learning model for classification tasks, in accuracy and computational costs.
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• Abstract: Over 1.5 billion people worldwide live with hearing impairment. Despite various technologies that have been created for individuals with such disabilities, most of these technologies are either extremely expensive or inaccessible for everyday use in low-medium income countries. In order to combat this issue, we have developed a new assistive device, EchoVest, for blind/deaf people to intuitively become more aware of their environment. EchoVest transmits vibrations to the user's body by utilizing transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) based on the source of the sounds. EchoVest also provides various features, including sound localization, sound classification, noise reduction, and depth perception. We aimed to outperform CNN-based machine-learning models, the most commonly used machine learning model for classification tasks, in accuracy and computational costs. To do so, we developed and employed a novel audio pipeline that adapts the Audio Spectrogram Transformer (AST) model, an attention-based model, for our sound classification purposes, and Fast Fourier Transforms for noise reduction. The application of Otsu's Method helped us find the optimal thresholds for background noise sound filtering and gave us much greater accuracy. In order to calculate direction and depth accurately, we applied Complex Time Difference of Arrival algorithms and SOTA localization. Our last improvement was to use blind source separation to make our algorithms applicable to multiple microphone inputs. The final algorithm achieved state-of-the-art results on numerous checkpoints, including a 95.7\% accuracy on the ESC-50 dataset for environmental sound classification.

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