François Grondin
Assistant professor, Eng., PhD
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Université de Sherbrooke
2500 boul. Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1K 2R1

2024

Coupled Electro-Thermal-Aging Battery Pack Modeling - Part 1: Cell Level

Hadi Pasdarshahri, Émile Veilleux, William Mooney, Luc G. Fréchette, François Grondin, David Rancourt

MDPI Batteries, 2024

Hardware design and software implementation of a portable GPU-based 3D acoustic camera for industrial noise management

Loïc Boileau, Joël Lemay, Kevin Rouard, Julien St-Jacques, Olivier Doutres, Thomas Padois, Franck Sgard, Hugues Nélisse, François Grondin, Alain Berry, Nicolas Quaegebeur

Proceedings of the Berlin Beamforming Conference, 2024

Unsupervised improved MVDR beamforming for sound enhancement

Jacob Kealey, John Hershey, François Grondin

Proceedings of Interspeech, 2024

Resource-Efficient Separation Transformer

Luca Della Libera, Cem Subakan, Mirco Ravanelli, Samuele Cornell, Frédéric Lepoutre, François Grondin

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2024

2023

Ego-noise reduction of a mobile robot using noise spatial covariance matrix learning and minimum variance distortionless response

Philippe-Olivier Lagacé, François Ferland, François Grondin

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2023

Aeroacoustics of drones

Jean-Samuel Lauzon, Jonathan Vincent, Yann Pasco, François Grondin, Stéphane Moreau

Proceedings of AIAA Aviation Forum, 2023

SmartBelt: A wearable microphone array for sound source localization with haptic feedback

Simon Michaud, Benjamin Moffett, Ana Tapia Rousiouk, Victoria Duda, François Grondin

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023

Exploring self-attention mechanisms for speech separation

Cem Subakan, Mirco Ravanelli, Samuele Cornell, François Grondin, Mirko Bronzi

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2023

Acoustic imaging with spherical microphone array and kriging

Thomas Padois, Julien St-Jacques, Kévin Rouard, Nicolas Quaegebeur, François Grondin, Alain Berry, Hugues Nélisse, Franck Sgard, Olivier Doutres

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023

Fast cross-correlation for TDoA estimation on small aperture microphone arrays

François Grondin, Marc-Antoine Maheux, Jean-Samuel Lauzon, Jonathan Vincent, François Michaud

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2023

2022

Evaluation of various state of the art head pose estimation algorithms for clinical scenarios

Yassine Hamadi, François Grondin, François Ferland, Karina Lebel

MDPI Sensors, 2022

Numerical comparison of acoustic imaging algorithms for a spherical microphone array

Kevin Rouard, Julien St-Jacques, Franck Sgard, Hugues Nélisse, Alain Berry, Nicolas Quaegebeur, François Grondin, Olivier Doutres, Thomas Padois

Proceedings of the Berlin Beamforming Conference, 2022

ODAS: Open embedded audition system

François Grondin, Dominic Létourneau, Cédric Godin, Jean-Samuel Lauzon, Jonathan Vincent, Simon Michaud, Samuel Faucher, François Michaud

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022

Machine learning for touch localization on ultrasonic wave touchscreen

Sahar Bahrami, Jérémy Moriot, Patrice Masson, François Grondin

MDPI Sensors, 2022

Learning filterbanks for end-to-end acoustic beamforming

Samuele Cornell, Manuel Pariente, François Grondin, Stefano Squartini

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2022

REAL-M: Towards speech separation on real mixtures

Cem Subakan, Mirco Ravanelli, Samuele Cornell, François Grondin

Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2022

Audio scene monitoring using redundant un-localized microphone arrays

Peter Gerstoft, Yihan Hu, Chaitanya Patil, Ardel Alegre, Michael J. Bianco, Yoav Freund, François Grondin

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022

OpenTera: A microservice architecture solution for rapid prototyping of robotic solutions to COVID-19 challenges in care facilities

Adina M. Panchea, Dominic Létourneau, Simon Brière, Mathieu Hamel, Marc-Antoine Maheux, Cédric Godin, Michel Tousignant, Mathieu Labbé, François Ferland, François Grondin, François Michaud

Health and Technology, 2022

2021

Neural network based lidar gesture recognition for realtime robot teleoperation

Simon Chamorro, Jack Collier, François Grondin

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2021

ECAPA-TDNN embeddings for speaker diarization

Nauman Dawalatabad, Mirco Ravanelli, François Grondin, Jenthe Thienpondt, Brecht Desplanques, Hwidong Na

Proceedings of Interspeech, 2021

Toward enhancing the autonomy of a telepresence mobile robot for remote home care assistance

Sébastien Laniel, Dominic Létourneau, François Grondin, Mathieu Labbé, François Ferland, François Michaud

Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 2021

2020

GEV beamforming supported by DOA-based masks generated on pairs of microphones

François Grondin, Jean-Samuel Lauzon, Jonathan Vincent, François Michaud

Proceedings of Interspeech, 2020

Dynamic object tracking and masking for visual SLAM

Jonathan Vincent, Mathieu Labbé, Jean-Samuel Lauzon, François Grondin, Pier-Marc Comtois-Rivet, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

3D localization of a sound source using mobile microphone arrays referenced by SLAM

Simon Michaud, Samuel Faucher, François Grondin, Jean-Samuel Lauzon, Mathieu Labbé, Dominic Létourneau, François Ferland, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

Audio-visual calibration with polynomial regression for 2-D Projection using SVD-PHAT

François Grondin, Hao Tang, James Glass

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2020

2019

Fast and robust 3-D sound source localization with DSVD-PHAT

François Grondin, James Glass

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

Sound event localization and detection using CRNN on pairs of microphones

François Grondin, James Glass, Iwona Sobieraj, Mark D. Plumbley

Workshop of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, 2019

A deep residual network for large-scale acoustic scene analysis

Logan Ford, Hao Tang, François Grondin, James Glass

Proceedings of Interspeech, 2019

State-of-the-art speaker recognition for telephone and video speech: the JHU-MIT submission for NIST SRE18

Jesús Villalba, Nanxin Chen, David Snyder, David Garcia-Romero, Alan McCree, Gregory Sell, Jonas Borgstrom, Fred Richardson, Suwon Shon, François Grondin, Réda Dehak, Leibny Paola García-Perera, Daniel Povey, Pedro A. Torres-Carrasquillo, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Najeem Dehak

Proceedings of Interspeech, 2019

Multiple sound source localization with SVD-PHAT

François Grondin, James Glass

Proceedings of Interspeech, 2019

SVD-PHAT: A fast sound source localization method

François Grondin, James Glass

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2019

Attempting to have mobile robots move to real homes through the development of open source libraries

François Michaud, Mathieu Labbé, Dominic Létourneau, François Grondin, François Ferland, Sébastien Laniel

Workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

2018

A study of enhancement, augmentation, and autoencoder methods for domain adaptation in distant speech recognition

Hao Tang, Wei-Ning Hsu, François Grondin, James Glass

Proceedings of Interspeech, 2018

2017

Localization of RW-UAVs using particle filtering over distributed microphone arrays

Jean-Samuel Lauzon, François Grondin, Dominic Létourneau, Alexis Lussier-Desbiens, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017

Adding navigation, artificial audition and vital sign monitoring capabilities to a telepresence mobile robot for remote home care applications

Sébastien Laniel, Dominic Létourneau, Mathieu Labbé, François Grondin, Janice Polgar, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2017

Enhancing a beam+ telepresence robot for remote home care applications

Sébastien Laniel, Dominic Létourneau, Mathieu Labbé, François Grondin, François Michaud

Proceedings of the International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation, 2017

A quadtree replication method to optimize web and mobile applications dealing with large sets of objects on a map

Patrick Munroe, Jonathan Milot, Éric Beaudry, Naouel Moha, François Grondin

Symposium on Applied Computing, 2017

2016

Integration framework for speech processing with live visualization interfaces

David Brodeur, François Grondin, Yazid Attabi, Pierre Dumouchel, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2016

Robust speech/non-speech discrimination based on pitch estimation for mobile robots

François Grondin, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016

Noise mask for TDOA sound source localization of speech on mobile robots in noisy environments

François Grondin, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016

Lookupia: An intelligent real estate search engine for finding houses optimally geolocated to reach points of interest

Jonathan Milot, Patrick Munroe, éric Beaudry, François Grondin, Guillaume Bourdeau

Proceedings of the International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, 2016

2015

Time difference of arrival estimation based on binary frequency mask for sound source localization on mobile robots

François Grondin, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2015

2014

Robots that talk and listen: Technology and social impact

Sean Andrist, Guido Bugmann, Jonathan Connell, David Dufty, François Grondin, François Michaud, Nicole Mirnig, Roger Moore, Steve Mushkin, Bilge Mutlu, Fumiko Nazikian, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Sandra Okita, Allison Sauppé, Manfred Tscheligi, Alan Wagner, Jörg Wolf

Walter de Gruyter, 2014

Contact-free respiration rate monitoring using a pan-tilt thermal camera for stationary bike telerehabilitation sessions

Ronan Chauvin, Mathieu Hamel, Simon Brière, François Ferland, François Grondin, Dominic Létourneau, Michel Tousignant, François Michaud

IEEE Systems Journal, 2014

Multimodal biometric identification system for mobile robots combining human metrology to face recognition and speaker identification

Simon Ouellet, François Grondin, Francis Leconte, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014

2013

The ManyEars open framework

François Grondin, Dominic Létourneau, François Ferland, Vincent Rousseau, François Michaud

Autonomous Robot, 2013

2012

WISS, a speaker identification system for mobile robots

François Grondin, François Michaud

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012