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François Grondin

Professeur, Faculté de génie
FAC. GÉNIE Électrique et informatique

Présentation

Sujet de recherche

Acoustics, Recognition of Speech, Robotics and Automation

Disciplines de recherche

Electrical Engineering and Electronic Engineering

Mots-clés

Robot Audition, Microphone Array, Sound Source Localization, Signal processing, Deep Learning

Langues parlées et écrites

Anglais, Français

Diplômes

(2020). (Post-doctorate, Electrical Engineering). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

(2017). (Doctorate, Electrical Engineering). Université de Sherbrooke.

(2011). (Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering). Université de Sherbrooke.

(2009). (Bachelor's, Electrical Engineering). McGill University.

Expérience académique

Professeur agrégé / Associate professor. (2025-). Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.

Professeur adjoint / Assistant professor. (2020-2025). Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.

Prix et distinctions

  • (2020) Bénévole de l'année / Volunteer of the year. FIRST Robotics. (Prize / Award).
  • (2018) Bourse de recherche postdoctorale / Postdoctoral fellowship. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). (Prize / Award).
  • (2017) Prix de la meilleure affiche / Best poster award. Agewell - International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation. (Prize / Award).
  • (2014) Bourse B2 - Doctorat / B2 Scholarship - PhD. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). (Prize / Award).
  • (2011) Bourse B1 - Maîtrise / B1 Scholarship - Master. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). (Prize / Award).
  • (2010) Bourse d'études supérieures du Canada Alexander Graham Bell - Maîtrise / Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholarship - Master. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (Prize / Award).
  • Bourse Shell Canada / Shell Canada Scholarship. McGill University. (Prize / Award).
  • Bourse Shell Canada / Shell Canada Scholarship. McGill University. (Prize / Award).
  • Bourse d'excellence aux études supérieures / Excellence Scholarship for Graduate Studies. Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec. (Prize / Award).
  • Médaille de l'Association Britannique de McGill / McGill British Association Medal. McGill University. (Prize / Award).
  • Médaille du mérite Léonard de Vinci / Leonardo da Vinci Medal. Université de Sherbrooke. (Prize / Award).
  • Prix du mérite Jacques-Bazinet / Jacques-Bazinet Teaching Award. Université de Sherbrooke. (Prize / Award).
  • Prix du mérite Jacques-Bazinet / Jacques-Bazinet Teaching Award. Université de Sherbrooke. (Prize / Award).
  • Prix du mérite Jacques-Bazinet / Jacques-Bazinet Teaching Award. Université de Sherbrooke. (Prize / Award).

Financement

  • Grant. (Awarded). Co-investigator. SCoPe - IoT. Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. (BRP). Les Laboratoires IAIDO inc.. Alliance. 655 587 $. (2023-2027)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Infrastructure de recherche / Research Infrastructure. Canada Foundation for Innovation. John R. Evans Leaders Fund. 230 819 $. (2022-2027)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Rehaussement de la parole / Speech Enhancement. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate fellowship. 90 000 $. (2024-2027)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Co-investigator. SCoPe. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Simulations CM Labs inc.. Alliance. 1 461 390 $. (2022-2026)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Traitement audio pour génération de signaux haptiques / Audio processing to generate haptic signal. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate Fellowship. 106 667 $. (2024-2026)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Imagerie hyperspectrale / Hyperspectral imaging. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accélération. 114 000 $. (2024-2026)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. L'IA au service du montage vidéo / AI for video editing. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate. 180 000 $. (2024-2026)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Audition robotique / Robot audition. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery Grant. 152 500 $. (2021-2026)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Robot omnidirectionnel / Omnidirectional robot. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate Entrepreneur. 255 000 $. (2024-2026)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Signatures acoustiques des drones / Acoustics signatures for drones. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Relève professorale. 46 000 $. (2023-2025)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Co-investigator. Imagerie acoustique / Acoustic imaging. Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (L') (IRSST). Collaborative Research Grant. 651 771 $. (2021-2024)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Co-investigator. Système de gestion de batterie / Battery management system. Quebec (CRIAQ). 279 000 $. (2021-2024)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Robot de cueillette / Picking robot. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate. 30 000 $. (2024-2024)
  • Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Algorithme de suppression de la voix / Voice removal algorithm. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate. 15 000 $. (2023-2023)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Fonds de démarrage / Starting funds. University of Sherbrooke. 70 000 $. (2020-2023)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Robot de désherbage / Weeding robot. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Impulsion. 100 000 $. (2022-2023)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Reconnaissance de mots clefs / Keyword spotting. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate. 60 000 $. (2022-2022)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Système air-sol multimodal / Multimodal air and ground system. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate Entrepreneur. 180 000 $. (2021-2022)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Rehaussement de la parole / Speech enhancement. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate. 60 000 $. (2021-2022)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Perception multitouche avec ultrasons / Multitouch sensing using ultrasounds. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Elevation. 120 000 $. (2020-2022)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Ceinture intelligente / Smart Belt. Société Inclusive. 25 000 $. (2021-2021)
  • Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Technologie tactile avec ultrasons / Ultrasound tactile technology. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Idea to Innovation. 350 000 $. (2020-2021)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Module de batteries / Battery pack. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate. 70 000 $. (2020-2021)
  • Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Rehaussement de la parole / Speech enhancement. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Accelerate. 45 000 $. (2020-2021)

Publications

Articles de revue

  • Pasdarshahri, H; *Veilleux, É; *Mooney, W; Fréchette, L; Grondin, F; Rancourt, D. (2024). Couple Electro-Thermal-Aging Battery Pack Modeling - Part 1: Cell Level. MDPI Batteries 10 (11),
  • Padois, T; *St-Jacques, J; *Rouard, K; Quaegebeur, N; Grondin, F; Berry, A; Nélisse, H; Sgard, F; Doutres, O. (2023). Acoustic imaging with spherical microphone array and kriging. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Published).
  • Subakan, C; Ravanelli, M; *Cornell, S; Grondin, F; Bronzi, M. (2023). Exploring self-attention mechanisms for speech separation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (Published).
  • Gerstoft, P; *Hu, Y; *Patil, C; *Alegre, A; Bianco, MJ; Freund, Y; Grondin, F. (2022). Audio scene monitoring using redundant un-localized microphone arrays. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Published).
  • *Hamadi, Y; Grondin, F; Ferland, F; Lebel, K. (2022). Evaluation of various state of the art head pose estimation. MDPI Sensors (Published).
  • Bahrami, S; Moriot, J; Masson, P; Grondin, F. (2022). Machine learning for touch localization on ultrasonic wave touchscreen. MDPI Sensors (Published).
  • Grondin, F; Létourneau, D; Godin, C; *Lauzon, J-S; *Vincent, J; *Michaud, S; *Faucher, S; Michaud, F. (2022). ODAS: Open embedded audition system. Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Published).
  • Panchea, AM.; Létourneau, D; Brière, S; Hamel, M; *Maheux, M-A; Godin, C; Tousignant, M; Labbé, M; Ferland, F; Grondin, F; Michaud, F. (2022). OpenTera: A microservice architecture solution for rapid prototyping of robotic solutions to COVID-19 challenges in care facilities. Health and Technology (Published).
  • *Laniel, S; Létourneau, D; Grondin, F; Labbé, M; Ferland, F; Michaud, F. (2021). Toward enhancing the autonomy of a telepresence mobile robot for remote home care assistance. Journal of Behavioral Robotics (Published).
  • *Grondin F, Michaud F. (2019). Lightweight and Optimized Sound Source Localization and Tracking Methods for Open and Closed Microphone Array Configurations. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 113 63-80. (Published).
  • *Chauvin, R; Hamel, M; Brière, S; *Ferland, F; *Grondin, F; Létourneau, D; Tousignant, M; Michaud, F. (2014). Contact-free respiration rate monitoring using a pan-tilt thermal camera for stationary bike telerehabilitation sessions.
  • *Grondin, F; Létourneau, D; *Ferland, F; *Rousseau, V; Michaud, F. (2013). The ManyEars open framework: Microphone array open software and open hardware system for robotic applications. Autonomous Robots (Published).

Articles de conférence

  • Liu, V; Du, T; Sehn, J; Collier, J; Grondin, F. (2025). Sound Source Localization for Human-Robot Interaction in Outdoor Environments. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
  • *Boileau, L; *Lemay, J; *Rouard, K; *St-Jacques, J; Doutres, O; Padois, T; Sgard, F; Nélisse, H; Grondin, F; Berry, A; Quaegebeur, N;. (2024). Hardware design and software implementation of a portable GPU-based 3D acoustic camera for industrial noise management. Berlin Beamforming Conference. (Accepted).
  • *Della Libera, L; Subakan, C; Ravanelli, M; Cornell, S; Lepoutre, F; Grondin, F. (2024). Resource-Efficient Separation Transformer. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speecn and Signal Processing. (Published).
  • *Kealey, J; Hershey, J; Grondin, F. (2024). Unsupervised improved MVDR beamforming for sound enhancement. INTERSPEECH. (Accepted).
  • *Lauzon, JS; *Vincent, J; Pasco, Y; Grondin, F; Moreau, S. (2023). Aeroacoustics of drones. Proceedings of AIAA Aviation Forum. (Published).
  • *Lagacé, PO; Ferland, F; Grondin, F. (2023). Ego-noise reduction of a mobile robot using noise spatial covariance matrix learning and minimum variance distortionless response. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. (Published).
  • Grondin, F; *Maheux, M-A; *Lauzon, J-S; *Vincent, J; Michaud, F. (2023). Fast Cross-Correlation for TDoA Estimation on Small Aperture Microphone Arrays. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. (Published).
  • *Michaud, S; *Moffett, B; *Rousiouk, AT; Duda, V; Grondin, F. (2023). SmartBelt: A wearable microphone array for sound source localization with haptic feedback. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. (Published).
  • *Cornell, S; Pariente, M; Grondin, F, Squartini, S. (2022). Learning filterbanks for end-to-end acoustic beamforming. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. (Published).
  • Subakan, C; Ravanelli, M; *Cornell, S; Grondin, F. (2022). REAL-M: Towards speech separation on real mixtures. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. (Published).
  • *Dawalatabad, N; Ravanelli, M; Grondin, F; Thienpondt, J; Desplanques, B; Na, H. (2021). ECAPA-TDNN Embeddings for speaker diarization. INTERSPEECH. (Published).
  • *Chamorro, S; Collier, J; Grondin, F. (2021). Neural network based lidar gesture recognition for realtime robot teleoperation. IEEE International Conference on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robots. (Published).
  • *Michaud S, *Faucher S, Grondin F, *Lauzon J-S, Labbe M, Létourneau D, Ferland F, Michaud F. (2020). 3D Localization of a Sound Source Using Mobile Microphone Arrays Referenced by SLAM. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. (Published).
  • Grondin F, Tang H, Glass J. (2020). Audio-Visual Calibration with Polynomial Regression for 2-D Projection using SVD-PHAT. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. (Published).
  • *Vincent J, Labbé M, *Lauzon J-S, Grondin F, Comtois-Rivet P-M, Michaud F. (2020). Dynamic Object Tracking and Masking for Visual SLAM. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems. (Published).
  • Grondin F, *Lauzon J-S, *Vincent J, Michaud F. (2020). GEV Beamforming Supported by DOA-based Masks Generated on Pairs of Microphones. INTERSPEECH. (Published).
  • *Ford L, Tang H, Grondin F, Glass J. (2019). A deep residual network for large-scale acoustic scene analysis. INTERSPEECH. 2568-2572. (Published).
  • Michaud F, Labbé M, Létourneau D, Grondin F, Ferland F, *Laniel S. (2019). Attempting to Have Mobile Robots Move to Real Homes Through the Development of Open Source Libraries. IEEE ICRA Workshop on Mobile Robot Assistants for the Elderly. (Published).
  • Grondin F, Glass J. (2019). Fast and Robust 3-D Sound Source Localization with DSVD-PHAT. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. (Published).
  • Grondin F, Glass J. (2019). Multiple sound source localization with SVD-PHAT. INTERSPEECH. 2698-2702. (Published).
  • Grondin F, Glass J. (2019). SVD-PHAT: A Fast Sound Source Localization Method. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. 4140-4144. (Published).
  • Grondin F, Glass J, *Sobieraj I, Plumbley MD. (2019). Sound Event Localization and Detection Using CRNN on Pairs of Microphones. Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events. (Published).
  • Villalba J, Chen N, Snyder D, Garcia-Romero D, McCree A, Sell G, Borgstrom J, Richardson F, Shon S, Grondin F, Dehak R, Garcia-Perera LP, Povey D, Torres-Carrasquillo PA, Khudanpur S, Dehak N. (2019). State-of-the-art speaker recognition for telephone and video speech: the JHU-MIT Submission for NIST SRE18. INTERSPEECH. 1488-1492. (Published).
  • Grondin, F; Tang, H; Roy, S; Roy, N; Glass, J. (2019). Towards conversational human-robot interaction. Toyota Research Institute Workshop. (Published).
  • Tang H, *Hsu WN, Grondin F, Glass J. (2018). A Study of Enhancement, Augmentation, and Autoencoder Methods for Domain Adaptation in Distant Speech Recognition. INTERSPEECH. 2928-2932. (Published).
  • *Laniel S, Létourneau D, *Labbé M, *Grondin F, Polgar J, Michaud F. (2017). Adding navigation, artificial audition and vital sign monitoring capabilities to a telepresence mobile robot for remote home care applications. International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics. 809-811. (Published).
  • *Laniel, S; Létourneau, D; *Labbé, M; *Grondin, F; Michaud, F. (2017). Enhancing a beam+ telepresence robot for remote home care applications. International Conference on Visual Rehabilitation. (Published).
  • *Laniel S, Létourneau D, Labbé M, *Grondin F, Michaud F. (2017). Enhancing a beam+ telepresence robot for remote home care applications. International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation. (Published).
  • *Lauzon J-S, *Grondin F, Létourneau D, Lussier Desbiens A, Michaud F. (2017). Localization of RW-UAVs Using Particle Filtering Over Distributed Microphone Arrays. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2479-2484. (Published).
  • *Grondin, F; *Lauzon, J-S; *Bass, J; Létourneau, D; Lussier-Desbiens, A; Michaud, F. (2016). Drone detection and localization with sound using multiple microphone arrays. NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network. (Published).
  • *Brodeur D, *Grondin F, Attabi Y, Dumouchel P, Michaud F. (2016). Integration Framework for Speech Processing with Live Visualization Interfaces. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. 144-150. (Published).
  • *Grondin F, Michaud F. (2016). Noise mask for TDOA sound source localization of speech on mobile robots in noisy environments. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 4530-4535. (Published).
  • *Grondin F, Michaud F. (2016). Robust speech/non-speech discrimination based on pitch estimation for mobile robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 1650-1655. (Published).
  • *Grondin, F; Michaud, F. (2015). Time difference of arrival estimation based on binary frequency mask for sound source localization on mobile robots. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. (Published).
  • *Ouellet, S; *Grondin, F; *Leconte, F; Michaud, F. (2014). Multimodal biometric identification system for mobile robots combining human metrology to face recognition and speaker identification. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.
  • *Grondin, F; Michaud, F. (2012). WISS, a speaker identification system for mobile robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. (Published).

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés

  • Projet majeur de conception II. PMC760. (2025-01-06 à 2025-04-25).
  • Réseaux de neurones artificiels à apprentissage supervisé. GRO720. (2025-01-06 à 2025-04-25).(2CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GRO430. (2025-01-06 à 2025-04-25).
  • Réseaux de neurones artificiels à apprentissage supervisé. GRO720. (2024-08-27 à 2024-12-20).(2CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GIF570. (2024-08-26 à 2024-12-20).(3CR).
  • Projet majeur de conception II. PMC760. (2024-01-04 à 2024-04-26).(6CR).
  • Réseaux de neurones artificiels à apprentissage supervisé. GRO720. (2024-01-04 à 2024-04-26).(2CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. (2024-01-04 à 2024-04-26).(3CR).
  • Mathématiques de base pour l'ingénieur. GEN124. (2023-08-28 à 2023-12-22).(2CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GIF570. (2023-08-28 à 2023-12-22).(3CR).
  • Projet majeur de conception II. PMC760. (2023-01-05 à 2023-04-28).(6CR).
  • Réseaux de neurones artificiels à apprentissage supervisé. GRO720. (2023-01-05 à 2023-04-28).(2CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GEL412. (2023-01-05 à 2023-04-28).(3CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GIF570. (2022-08-29 à 2022-12-23).(3CR).
  • Mathématiques des circuits logiques. GEN420. (2022-05-02 à 2022-08-17).(2CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GEL412. (2022-05-02 à 2022-08-17).(3CR).
  • Projet majeur de conception II. PMC760. (2022-01-06 à 2022-04-29).(6CR).
  • Réseaux de neurones artificiels à apprentissage supervisé. GRO720. (2022-01-06 à 2022-04-23).(2CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GEL412. (2022-01-06 à 2022-04-23).(3CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GEL412. (2021-05-03 à 2021-08-17).(3CR).
  • Project majeur de conception II. PMC760. (2021-01-11 à 2021-04-30).(6CR).
  • Réseaux de neurones artificiels à apprentissage supervisé. GRO720. (2021-01-11 à 2021-04-30).(2CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GEL412. (2021-01-11 à 2021-04-30).(3CR).
  • Programmation temps réel pour systèmes embarqués. GRO420. (2020-01-06 à 2020-04-24).(2CR).
  • Traitement numérique des signaux. GEL412. (2020-01-06 à 2020-04-24).(3CR).

Présentations

  • (2018). Lightweight sound source localization, tracking and separation methods for microphone array with arbitrary geometry. CIRMMT Workshop on Machine Hearing and Learning. Canada
  • (2016). Robot Audition in Human Environments. IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment. Korea, South