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      <title>Augmenting the Hearing of Safety-Critical Sounds for Highway Workers using Artificial Intelligence</title>
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Highway construction workers are regularly exposed to loud and complex noise environments from equipment, tools, and nearby traffic. While hearing protection equipment (HPE) is essential for preventing hearing loss, it often blocks important warning sounds—such as backup alarms or vehicle intrusion alerts—that are vital for worker safety. This tradeoff leads many workers to avoid using HPE, putting them at greater risk of both hearing damage and serious accidents.

The objective of this project was to investigate a new sound filtering system for hearing protection equipment using artifical intelligence (AI) that can distinguish and attenuate undesired signals while enhancing safety-critical ones.

The outcome of this research is a novel AI-Augmented Hearing Protection (AI-AHP) device, designed to address the persistent safety challenge of protecting highway construction workers exposed to loud, complex, and unpredictable noise environments. Unlike conventional hearing protection equipment that indiscriminately attenuates all sounds, the AI-AHP device introduces a transformative capability: selective noise filtering that suppresses unwanted noise while preserving or amplifying safety-critical signals, such as backup alarms and intrusion warnings.



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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:30:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Project 38 - Whole House Noise Reduction Modeling
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:17:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Project 02 - Sound/Emission Propagation 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:57:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Project 02 - Sound/Emission Propagation 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:46:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Noise-FICAN
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:08:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Noise-Certification Advancement
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:27:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Noise Certification
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      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1368851</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:12:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NOI # 4 - Understanding and Estimating Aircraft Noise Transmission Indoors
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:53:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Project 38 - Whole House Noise Reduction Modeling</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Project 38's goal is to provide insight into how typical dwelling envelopes affect indoor sound levels due to non-sonic boom aircraft noise. Many existing aircraft noise guidelines are based primarily on outdoor sound levels. However, human perception is largely based on indoor response. This study will leverage existing technologies in sound transmission to model the combined sound isolation of dwelling envelopes. The model will be whole-housed focused; that is, the research will focus on composite dwelling envelopes (walls + windows + roof, etc). Initial focus will be on continuous noise signatures using the 50 Hz to 10,000 Hz range. Model results will be verified against outdoor/indoor recordings taken as part of the previous PARTNER Low-Frequency Noise study. Additionally, typical construction types around major U.S. airports will be identified and used to develop model predictions of indoor noise levels. Finally, a pilot effort will explore the application of the finite element method for continuous noise signatures including spectral content below 50 Hz, thus potentially extending the whole house model into the low frequency region. The models and techniques developed through this project will result in an improved tool for assessing aircraft noise propagation through structures that may be used in future work to model additional source signatures and construction types.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2015 01:00:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Noise-Certification Advancement</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1364499</link>
      <description><![CDATA[No summary provided.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:02:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Noise-Metrics</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1364498</link>
      <description><![CDATA[No summary provided.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:02:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Noise-Beyond 65 Studies</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:02:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Project 26 - Sound Structural Transmission</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many airport authorities have implemented a sound insulation program for residences located within the Community Noise Equivalent Level contour of 65 dBA. The effectiveness of this approach is ensured by sealing building envelopes. Increased sound insulation generally improves thermal insulation and lowers energy demand. However, this traditional method of noise mitigation has a side effect: it degrades indoor air quality (IAQ), because most of these buildings obtain their fresh air through infiltration. With reduced infiltration, contaminant concentration and humidity increases. High humidity leads to a higher risk of condensation that, in turn, can lead to other IAQ problems such mold and bacteria growth. Although IAQ problems may be mitigated by using a mechanical ventilation system, such an action increases construction costs and subsequent energy use. The purpose of Project 26 was to investigate windows' environmental performance because the windows in a residential building are often considered the weakest link in the sound insulation program. Our current efforts represent a step to achieve an optimal solution for providing sound insulation while the improving the IAQ and energy efficiency for residential buildings near airports.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:01:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Noise-FICAN</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:01:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[As part of the PARTNER noise research program, the Source Emission and Propagation project has the goals to provide a better understanding of aviation noise problems and to contribute to the development of improved noise impact prediction tools that lead to developing solutions. Project 2 is primarily concerned with the radiation (emission) of sound from aviation noise sources and how that sound is transmitted (propagated) from noise source to receiver.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2015 01:01:11 GMT</pubDate>
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