Jean Rouat

Financement

• Subvention. Speech and audio coding for immersive interactions. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 156 750 $. (2023-2024).
  Numéro de subvention : 586315-2023. Voir plus
• Subvention. Algorithms and Evaluation for Neuromorphic Multimodal Assistive Systems. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 41 000 $. (2023-2024).
  Numéro de subvention : RGPIN-2023-04847. Voir plus
• Subvention. Hardware implementation of spiking neural networks based on hybrid CMOS-memristors circuits for ultralow-power artificial intelligence at the edge. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 199 620 $. (2021-2024).
  Numéro de subvention : 2022-PR-300253.
• Subvention. Scene interpretation for sensory substitution and intelligent agents: a neurocomputational approach. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 24 000 $. (2020-2021).
  Numéro de subvention : RGPIN-2017-06218. Voir plus
• Subvention. Unsupervised spiking neural networks with analog memristive devices for edge computing. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 365 481 $. (2019-2022).
  Numéro de subvention : 287330.
• Subvention. Développement et renforcement de stimulations électriques pour implants auditifs. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Québec, Canada). 162 000 $. (2018-2021).
  Numéro de subvention : 253603.
• Subvention. Multichannel neural signal recording instrumentation for the central auditory system. Canada Foundation for Innovation (Ottawa, Canada). 70 639 $. (2016).
  Numéro de subvention : 35169. Voir plus
• Subvention. Interactive Grounded Language Understanding (IGLU). Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Montreal, Canada). 481 711 $. (2015-2018).
  Numéro de subvention : 198568. Voir plus
• Subvention. Perception polysensorielle des objets : applications pour les prothèses de substitution sensorielle. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Montreal, Canada). 151 156 $. (2013-2016).
  Numéro de subvention : 172272. Voir plus
• Subvention. Analyse et traitement objet des signaux pour des applications en interfaces homme/machine. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 105 000 $. (2012-2017).
  Numéro de subvention : 42386-2012. Voir plus
• Subvention. Modélisation et réalisation de systèmes de substitution sensorielle audition/vision et vision/audition. Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies (Montreal, Canada). 165 000 $. (2010-2013).
  Numéro de subvention : 137773. Voir plus
• Subvention. Robust signal analysis and recognition techiques for man-machine interaction. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 120 000 $. (2006-2011).
  Numéro de subvention : 42386-2006. Voir plus
• Subvention. Image processing with a neuro-computational dynamic link matcher. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 131 150 $. (2005-2007).
  Numéro de subvention : 334047-2005. Voir plus
• Subvention. Auditory signal & image processing, Control and Robotics, with a neuro- computational dynamic link matcher. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 124 345 $. (2004-2006).
  Numéro de subvention : 311500-2004. Voir plus
• Subvention. Robust speech analysis and recognition technics for man-machine interaction. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Ottawa, Canada). 142 500 $. (2001-2006).
  Numéro de subvention : 42386-2001. Voir plus
• Subvention. Développement de l'infrastructure de recherche dans le domaine du givrage atmosphérique à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Canada Foundation for Innovation (Ottawa, Canada). 875 000 $. (1998).
  Numéro de subvention : 481. Voir plus

Publications

Articles

• Soufiyan Bahadi, Eric Plourde, Jean Rouat. (2026). Adaptive locally competitive algorithm: sparse events within a neuromorphic energy-efficient front-end for speech classification. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. DOI
• Ismael Balafrej, Soufiyan Bahadi, Jean Rouat, Fabien Alibart. (2025). Enhancing temporal learning in recurrent spiking networks for neuromorphic applications. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. DOI
• Ferdaoussi, A.E., Plourde, E., Rouat, J. (2025). Maximizing information in neuron populations for neuromorphic spike encoding. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. DOI
• Lavoie, J., Besrour, M., Lemaire, W., Rouat, J., Fontaine, R., Plourde, E. (2024). Learning to see via epiretinal implant stimulation in silico with model-based deep reinforcement learning. Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express. DOI
• Calvet, E., Reulet, B., Rouat, J. (2024). The connectivity degree controls the difficulty in reservoir design of random boolean networks. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. DOI
• El Ferdaoussi, A., Rouat, J., Plourde, E. (2023). Efficiency metrics for auditory neuromorphic spike encoding techniques using information theory. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. DOI
• Commere, L., Rouat, J. (2023). Evaluation of Short-Range Depth Sonifications for Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution. IEEE Transactions on Human Machine Systems. DOI
• Calvet, E., Rouat, J., Reulet, B. (2023). Excitatory/inhibitory balance emerges as a key factor for RBN performance, overriding attractor dynamics. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. DOI
• Abdelnour, J., Rouat, J., Salvi, G. (2023). NAAQA: A Neural Architecture for Acoustic Question Answering. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. DOI
• Commere, L., Rouat, J. (2023). Sonified Distance in Sensory Substitution Does Not Always Improve Localization: Comparison With a 2-D and 3-D Handheld Device. IEEE Transactions on Human Machine Systems. DOI
• Janzakova, K., Balafrej, I., Kumar, A., Garg, N., Scholaert, C., Rouat, J., Drouin, D., Coffinier, Y., Pecqueur, S., Alibart, F. (2023). Structural plasticity for neuromorphic networks with electropolymerized dendritic PEDOT connections. Nature Communications. DOI
• Brousmiche, M., Rouat, J., Dupont, S. (2022). Multimodal Attentive Fusion Network for audio-visual event recognition. Information Fusion. DOI
• Balafrej, I., Alibart, F., Rouat, J. (2022). P-CRITICAL: a reservoir autoregulation plasticity rule for neuromorphic hardware. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. DOI
• Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Stewart, T.C., Portal, J.-M., Bocquet, M., Querlioz, D., Drouin, D., Rouat, J., Beilliard, Y., Alibart, F. (2022). Voltage-dependent synaptic plasticity: Unsupervised probabilistic Hebbian plasticity rule based on neurons membrane potential. Frontiers in Neuroscience. DOI
• Richan, E., Rouat, J. (2021). A proposal and evaluation of new timbre visualization methods for audio sample browsers. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. DOI
• Moinnereau, M.-A., Rouat, J., Whittingstall, K., Plourde, E. (2020). A frequency-band coupling model of EEG signals can capture features from an input audio stimulus. Hearing Research. DOI
• Chanauria, N., Bharmauria, V., Bachatene, L., Cattan, S., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2019). Sound Induces Change in Orientation Preference of V1 Neurons: Audio-Visual Cross-Influence. Neuroscience. DOI
• Wood, S.U.N., Rouat, J. (2019). Unsupervised Low Latency Speech Enhancement With RT-GCC-NMF. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing. DOI
• Erfani, Y., Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2017). Audio Watermarking Using Spikegram and a Two-Dictionary Approach. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. DOI
• Wood, S.U.N., Rouat, J., Dupont, S., Pironkov, G. (2017). Blind Speech Separation and Enhancement with GCC-NMF. IEEE ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing. DOI
• Adeli, M., Rouat, J., Wood, S., Molotchnikoff, S., Plourde, E. (2016). A flexible bio-inspired hierarchical model for analyzing musical timbre. IEEE ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing. DOI
• Chanauria, N., Bharmauria, V., Bachatene, L., Cattan, S., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2016). Comparative effects of adaptation on layers II–III and V–VI neurons in cat V1. European Journal of Neuroscience. DOI
• Bharmauria, V., Bachatene, L., Cattan, S., Chanauria, N., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2016). High noise correlation between the functionally connected neurons in emergent V1 microcircuits. Experimental Brain Research. DOI
• Bharmauria, V., Bachatene, L., Ouelhazi, A., Cattan, S., Chanauria, N., Etindele-Sosso, F.A., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2016). Interplay of orientation selectivity and the power of low- and high-gamma bands in the cat primary visual cortex. Neuroscience Letters. DOI
• Bharmauria, V., Bachatene, L., Cattan, S., Brodeur, S., Chanauria, N., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2016). Network-selectivity and stimulus-discrimination in the primary visual cortex: Cell-assembly dynamics. European Journal of Neuroscience. DOI
• Bachatene, L., Bharmauria, V., Cattan, S., Chanauria, N., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2015). Electrophysiological and firing properties of neurons: Categorizing soloists and choristers in primary visual cortex. Neuroscience Letters. DOI
• Bachatene, L., Bharmauria, V., Cattan, S., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2015). Modulation of functional connectivity following visual adaptation: Homeostasis in V1. Brain Research. DOI
• Bachatene, L., Bharmauria, V., Cattan, S., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2015). Reprogramming of orientation columns in visual cortex: A domino effect. Scientific Reports. DOI
• Bharmauria, V., Bachatene, L., Cattan, S., Chanauria, N., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2015). Stimulus-dependent augmented gamma oscillatory activity between the functionally connected cortical neurons in the primary visual cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. DOI
• Bachatene, L., Bharmauria, V., Cattan, S., Chanauria, N., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2015). Summation of connectivity strengths in the visual cortex reveals stability of neuronal microcircuits after plasticity. BMC Neuroscience. DOI
• Jean Rouat, Simon Brodeur, Éric Plourde. (2014). Auditory object feature maps with a hierarchical network of independent components?. BMC Neuroscience. DOI
• Adeli, M., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2014). Audiovisual correspondence between musical timbre and visual shapes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. DOI
• Bharmauria, V., Bachatene, L., Cattan, S., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2014). Synergistic activity between primary visual neurons. Neuroscience. DOI
• Brodeur, S., Rouat, J. (2013). Auditory objects: A bio-inspired, hierarchical, sparseness representation in high-dimensional spaces usable in recognition,Objets Sonores: Une représentation bio-inspirée, hiérarchique, parcimonieuse à très grandes dimensions utilisable en reconnaissance. Canadian Acoustics Acoustique Canadienne.
• Caron, L.-C., D'Haene, M., Mailhot, F., Schrauwen, B., Rouat, J. (2013). Event management for large scale event-driven digital hardware spiking neural networks. Neural Networks. DOI
• Bachatene, L., Bharmauria, V., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2012). Adaptation-induced plasticity and spike waveforms in cat visual cortex. Neuroreport. DOI
• Molotchnikoff, S., Rouat, J. (2012). Brain at work: Time, sparseness and superposition principles. Frontiers in Bioscience. DOI
• Roy, N., Simard, Y., Rouat, J. (2008). Performance of three acoustical methods for localizing whales in the Saguenay - St. Lawrence Marine Park. Canadian Acoustics Acoustique Canadienne.
• Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2007). Monophonic sound source separation with an unsupervised network of spiking neurones. Neurocomputing. DOI
• Valin, J.-M., Michaud, F., Rouat, J. (2007). Robust localization and tracking of simultaneous moving sound sources using beamforming and particle filtering. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. DOI
• Valin, J.-M., Yamamoto, S., Rouat, J., Michaud, F., Nakadai, K., Okuno, H.G. (2007). Robust recognition of simultaneous speech by a mobile robot. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. DOI
• Pichevar, R., Rouat, J., Tai, L.T.T. (2006). The oscillatory dynamic link matcher for spiking-neuron-based pattern recognition. Neurocomputing. DOI
• Bahoura, M., Rouat, J. (2006). Wavelet speech enhancement based on time-scale adaptation. Speech Communication. DOI
• Rouat, J., Pichevar, R. (2005). Source separation with one ear: Proposition for an anthropomorphic approach. Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing. DOI
• Bahoura, M., Rouat, J. (2001). Wavelet speech enhancement based on the Teager energy operator. IEEE Signal Processing Letters. DOI
• Ezzaidi, H., Rouat, J. (2000). Speaker identification by computer and human evaluated on the SPIDRE corpus. Canadian Acoustics Acoustique Canadienne.
• Bahoura, M., Rouat, J. (2000). Wavelet noise reduction: Application to speech enhancement. Canadian Acoustics Acoustique Canadienne.
• Rouat, J., Liu, Y.C., Morissette, D. (1997). A pitch determination and voiced/unvoiced decision algorithm for noisy speech. Speech Communication. DOI
• Cardin, R., De Mori, R., Rouat, J. (1989). Property extraction for automatic speech recognition. Pattern Recognition Letters. DOI
• De Mori, R., Cardin, R., Merlo, E., Palakal, M., Rouat, J. (1988). A network of actions for automatic speech recognition. Speech Communication. DOI

Chapitres de livre

• Vincent de, Jean Rouat, Jacques Vanden-Abeele. (2012). Models of Information Processing in the Visual Cortex. Visual Cortex - Current Status and Perspectives. DOI
• Jean Rouat. (1995). A Non-Linear Speech Analysis Based on Modulation Information. Speech Recognition and Coding. DOI

Articles de conférence

• Bahadi, S., Plourde, E., Rouat, J. (2025). Adaptive Central Frequencies Locally Competitive Algorithm for Speech. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings. DOI
• Ferdaoussi, A.E., Rouat, J., Plourde, E. (2023). Optimizing Neuromorphic Spike Encoding of Dynamic Stimulus Signals Using Information Theory. International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering Ner. DOI
• Yarga, S.Y.A., Rouat, J., Wood, S. (2022). Efficient Spike Encoding Algorithms for Neuromorphic Speech Recognition. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. DOI
• Bahadi, S., Rouat, J., Plourde, E. (2021). Adaptive Approach for Sparse Representations Using the Locally Competitive Algorithm for Audio. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing Mlsp. DOI
• Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Beilliard, Y., Drouin, D., Alibart, F., Rouat, J. (2021). Signals to Spikes for Neuromorphic Regulated Reservoir Computing and EMG Hand Gesture Recognition. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. DOI
• Brousmiche, M., Rouat, J., Dupont, S. (2020). SECL-UMons Database for Sound Event Classification and Localization. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings. DOI
• Richan, E., Rouat, J. (2019). A study comparing shape, colour and texture as visual labels in audio sample browsers. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. DOI
• Brousmiche, M., Rouat, J., Dupont, S. (2019). Audio-Visual Fusion and Conditioning with Neural Networks for Event Recognition. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing Mlsp. DOI
• Brodeur, S., Perez, E., Anand, A., Golemo, F., Celotti, L., Strub, F., Rouat, J., Larochelle, H., Courville, A. (2018). Home: A household multimodal environment. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations Iclr 2018 Workshop Track Proceedings.
• Sean U.N. Wood, Jean Rouat. (2017). Real-Time Speech Enhancement with GCC-NMF. Interspeech 2017. DOI
• Brodeur, S., Rouat, J. (2017). Optimality of inference in hierarchical coding for distributed object-based representations. 2017 15th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory Cwit 2017. DOI
• Sean, J., Rouat, J. (2017). Real-Time speech enhancement with GCC-NMF: Demonstration on the raspberry PI and NVIDIA. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech. DOI
• Wood, S.U.N., Rouat, J. (2016). Blind speech separation with GCC-NMF. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech. DOI
• Pichevar, R., Rouat, J., Feldbauer, C., Kubin, G. (2015). A bio-inspired sound source separation technique in combination with an enhanced FIR gammatone analysis/synthesis filterbank. European Signal Processing Conference.
• Seguin-Godin, G., Mailhot, F., Rouat, J. (2015). Efficient event-driven approach using synchrony processing for hardware spiking neural networks. Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. DOI
• Siahpoush, S., Erfani, Y., Rode, T., Lim, H.H., Rouat, J., Plourde, E. (2015). Improving neural decoding in the central auditory system using bio-inspired spectro-temporal representations and a generalized bilinear model. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMBS. DOI
• Seguin-Godin, G., Mailhot, F., Rouat, J. (2015). Live demonstration: Efficient event-driven approach using synchrony processing for hardware spiking neural networks. Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. DOI
• Lescal, D., Rouat, J., Voix, J. (2013). 1pNSa6. Sensorial substitution system from vision to audition using transparent digital earplugs. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. DOI
• Erfani, Y., Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2013). Audio tampering localization using modified iss watermarking in sparse-domain. 2013 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing Globalsip 2013 Proceedings. DOI
• Brodeur, S., Rouat, J. (2013). Robust hierarchical and sparse representation of natural sounds in high-dimensional space. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. DOI
• De Ladurantaye, V., Lavoie, J., Bergeron, J., Parenteau, M., Lu, H., Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2012). A parallel supercomputer implementation of a biological inspired neural network and its use for pattern recognition. Journal of Physics Conference Series. DOI
• Seyedin, S., Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2012). Discriminative sparse-based feature extraction and dictionary learning for sound classification applications. 2012 11th International Conference on Information Science Signal Processing and their Applications Isspa 2012. DOI
• Lescal, D., Caron, L.-C., Rouat, J. (2012). Neural visual objects enhancement for sensorial substitution from vision to audition. 2012 11th International Conference on Information Science Signal Processing and their Applications Isspa 2012. DOI
• Brodeur, S., Rouat, J. (2012). Regulation toward self-organized criticality in a recurrent spiking neural reservoir. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. DOI
• Jean Rouat, Stephane Loiselle, Stephane Molotchnikoff. (2011). Variable frame rate hierarchical analysis for robust speech recognition. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. DOI
• Caron, L.-C., Mailhot, F., Rouat, J. (2011). FPGA implementation of a spiking neural network for pattern matching. Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. DOI
• Lescal, D., Rouat, J., Molotchnikofť, S. (2011). Sensorial substitution system with encoding of visual objects into sounds. Canadian Acoustics Acoustique Canadienne.
• Rouat, J., Loiselle, S., Molotchnikoff, S. (2011). Variable frame rate hierarchical analysis for robust speech recognition. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. DOI
• Ezzaidi, H., Bahoura, M., Rouat, J. (2010). Singer and music discrimination based threshold in polyphonic music. 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology Isspit 2010. DOI
• Ezzaidi, H., Bahoura, M., Rouat, J. (2009). Taxonomy of musical genres. Proceedings 5th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet Based Systems Sitis 2009. DOI
• Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2008). Non-negative sparse image coder via simulated annealing and pseudo-inversion. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings. DOI
• Ezzaidi, H., Rouat, J. (2007). Comparison of the statistical and information theory measures: Application to automatic musical genre classification. Machine Learning for Signal Processing 17 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Signal Processing Society Workshop Mlsp. DOI
• Rouat, J., Loiselle, S., Pichevar, R. (2007). Towards neurocomputational speech and sound processing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. DOI
• Fillion-Deneault, J., Rouat, J. (2006). Cohesive particle filtering for sound source localization. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.
• Simard, Y., Bahoura, M., Park, C.W., Rouat, J., Sirois, M., Mouy, X., Seebaruth, D., Roy, N., Lepage, R. (2006). Development and experimentation of a satellite buoy network for real-time acoustic localization of whales in the St. Lawrence. Oceans 2006. DOI
• Valin, J.-M., Michaud, F., Rouat, J. (2006). Robust 3D localization and tracking of sound sources using beamforming and particle filtering. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.
• Park, C.W., Simard, Y., Bahoura, M., Rouat, J., Sirois, M. (2006). The remote monitoring system for the buoy to localize the whale by Labview. Oceans 2006. DOI
• Moussaoui, R., Rouat, J., Lefebvre, R. (2006). Wavelet based independent component analysis for multi-channel source separation. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.
• Hassan Ezzaidi, Jean Rouat. (2005). Automatic music genre classification using second-order statistical measures for the prescriptive approach. Interspeech 2005. DOI
• Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2005). A quantitative evaluation of a bio-inspired sound segregation technique for two- and three-source mixtures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. DOI
• Ezzaidi, H., Rouat, J. (2005). Automatic music genre classification using second-order statistical measures for the prescriptive approach. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.
• Yamamoto, S., Valin, J.-M., Nakadai, K., Rouat, J., Michaud, F., Ogata, T., Okuno, H.G. (2005). Enhanced robot speech recognition based on microphone array source separation and missing feature theory. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. DOI
• Yamamoto, S., Nakadai, K., Valin, J.-M., Rouat, J., Michaud, F., Komatani, K., Ogata, T., Okuno, H.G. (2005). Making a robot recognize three simultaneous sentences in real-time. 2005 IEEE Rsj International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Iros. DOI
• Rouat, J., Pichevar, R., Loiselle, S. (2005). Perceptive, non-linear speech processing and spiking neural networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. DOI
• Chibirova, O.K., Aksenova, T.I., Benabid, A.-L., Chabardes, S., Larouche, S., Rouat, J., Villa, A.E.P. (2005). Unsupervised Spike Sorting of extracellular electrophysiological recording in subthalamic nucleus of Parkinsonian patients. Biosystems. DOI
• Valin, J.-M., Rouat, J., Michaud, F. (2004). Enhanced robot audition based on microphone array source separation with post-filter. 2004 IEEE Rsj International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Iros.
• Valin, J.-M., Michaud, F., Hadjou, B., Rouat, J. (2004). Localization of simultaneous moving sound sources for mobile robot using a frequency-domain steered beamformer approach. Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. DOI
• Valin, J.-M., Rouat, J., Michaud, F. (2004). Microphone array post-filter for separation of simultaneous non-stationary sources. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.
• Ezzaidi, H., Rouat, J. (2004). Pitch and MFCC dependent GMM models for speaker identification systems. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2003). Binding of Audio Elements in the Sound Source Segregation Problem via a Two-layered Bio-inspired Neural Network. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2003). Cochleotopic/AMtopic (CAM) and Cochleotopic/Spectrotoplc (CSM) Map based sound source separation using relaxation oscillatory neurons. Neural Networks for Signal Processing Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop. DOI
• Pichevar, R., Rouat, J. (2003). Double-vowel Segregation Through Temporal Correlation: A Bio-inspired Neural Network Paradigm. Itrw on Nonlinear Speech Processing Nolisp 2003.
• Molina, C., Adali, T., Larsen, J., Van Hulle, M., Douglas, S., Rouat, J. (2003). Preface. Neural Networks for Signal Processing Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop. DOI
• Valin, J.-M., Michaud, F., Rouat, J., Létourneau, D. (2003). Robust Sound Source Localization Using a Microphone Array on a Mobile Robot. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
• Rouat, J., Pichevar, R. (2002). Nonlinear speech processing with oscillatory neural networks for speaker segregation. European Signal Processing Conference.
• Ezzaidi, H., Rouat, J. (2002). Speech, music and songs discrimination in the context of handsets variability. 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 2002.
• Bahoura, M., Rouat, J. (2001). A new approach for wavelet speech enhancement. Eurospeech 2001 Scandinavia 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.
• Ezzaidi, H., Rouat, J., O'Shaughnessy, D. (2001). Towards combining pitch and MFCC for speaker identification systems. Eurospeech 2001 Scandinavia 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology.
• Ezzaidi, H., Rouat, J. (2000). COMPARISON OF MFCC AND PITCH SYNCHRONOUS AM, FM PARAMETERS FOR SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 2000.
• Ho, Tuong Vinh, Rouat, Jean. (1998). Novelty detection based on relaxation time of a network of integrate-and-fire neurons. IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks Conference Proceedings.
• Ho, T.V., Rouat, J. (1997). A novelty detector using a network of integrate and fire neurons. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. DOI
• Ezzaidi, Hassan, Bourmeyster, Ivan, Rouat, Jean. (1997). New algorithm for double talk detection and separation in the context of digital mobile radio telephone. ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings.
• Rouat, J. (1997). Spatio-temporal pattern recognition with neural networks: Application to speech. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. DOI
• Tang, Ping, Rouat, Jean. (1996). Modeling neurons in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus for amplitude modulation (AM) processing: Application to speech sound. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP Proceedings.
• Rouat, J., Liu, Y.C., Morissette, D. (1995). A PITCH DETERMINATION AND VOICED/UNVOICED DECISION ALGORITHM FOR NOISY SPEECH. 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Eurospeech 1995.
• Rouat, J., Lemieux, S., Migneault, A. (1992). A SPECTRO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF SPEECH BASED ON NONLINEAR OPERATORS. 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 1992.
• Ennaji, A., Rouat, J. (1992). Conception of Speech Filters Based on a Neural Network. 2nd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 1992.
• Rouat, J., De Mori, R., Adoul, J.P. (1989). SPEAKER AND MOTHER TONGUE INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION OF SOME NASALS, LIQUIDS AND FRICATIVES FOR INTEGRATION IN AN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM. 1st European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Eurospeech 1989.
• Rouat, Jean, Adoul, Jean-Pierre. (1985). IMPACT OF VECTOR QUANTIZATION FOR CONNECTED SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS. undefined.
• J.M. Valin, J. Rouat, F. Michaud. Microphone array post-filter for separation of simultaneous non-stationary sources. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. DOI
• H. Ezzaidi, J. Rouat. Pitch and MFCC dependent GMM models for speaker identification systems. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2004 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37513). DOI

Rapports

• Alain Delisle, André Plamondon, Denis Gagnon, Christian Larivière, François Thénault, François Michaud, Jean Rouat. (2016). Estimation du chargement au dos : développement d’une méthode ambulatoire intégrant la cinématique du dos et de l’électromyographie. DOI

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés ou supervisés à l'UdeS

• GEI723 - Neurosciences computationnelles et applications en traitement de l'information. (2024). (3CR).

Activités professionnelles

• Poste d'invité. Graz University of Technology. Computer Science, Institute of Machine Learning & Neural Computation. Guest Prof. Graz, Styria, Autriche. (2018).
• Poste d'invité. McGill University. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media & Technology, Schulich School of Music. Visiting Prof. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (2013-2014).
• Poste d'invité. Université de Montréal. Sciences Biologiques. Adjunct Prof. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (2007-2017).
• Poste d'invité. McMaster University. Communications Research Laboratory - Electrical & Computer Engineering. Invited Prof. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. (2006-2007).
• Poste d'invité. Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. groupe de recherche ERMETIS, Sciences Appliquées. Adjunct Prof. Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. (2002-2006).
• Poste d'invité. INRS. Energie, Matériaux & Télécommunications. Adjunct Prof. Québec, Quebec, Canada. (1997-2005).

Divers

• Bahadi, S., Plourde, E., Rouat, J. (2025). Adaptive Central Frequencies Locally Competitive Algorithm for Speech. Arxiv.
• Bahadi, S., Plourde, E., Rouat, J. (2025). Efficient Sparse Coding with the Adaptive Locally Competitive Algorithm for Speech Classification. Arxiv.
• Ferdaoussi, A.E., Rouat, J., Plourde, E. (2024). Maximizing Information in Neuron Populations for Neuromorphic Spike Encoding. Arxiv.
• Commère, L., Rouat, J. (2023). Evaluation of short range depth sonifications for visual-to-auditory sensory substitution. Arxiv.
• Calvet, E., Rouat, J., Reulet, B. (2023). Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance Emerges as a Key Factor for RBN Performance, Overriding Attractor Dynamics. Arxiv.
• Balafrej, I., Alibart, F., Rouat, J. (2023). Expanding memory in recurrent spiking networks. Arxiv.
• Herranz-Celotti, L., Rouat, J. (2023). Stabilizing RNN Gradients through Pre-training. Arxiv.
• Calvet, E., Reulet, B., Rouat, J. (2023). The connectivity degree controls the difficulty of RBN reservoir design. Arxiv.
• Yarga, S.Y.A., Rouat, J., Wood, S.U.N. (2022). Efficient Spike Encoding Algorithms for Neuromorphic Speech Recognition. Arxiv.
• El Ferdaoussi, A., Plourde, É., Rouat, J. (2022). Evaluation of Neuromorphic Spike Encoding of Sound Using Information Theory. Arxiv.
• Rouat, J., Pichevar, R., Loiselle, S. (2022). Perceptive, non-linear Speech Processing and Spiking Neural Networks. Arxiv.
• Herranz-Celotti, L., Rouat, J. (2022). Stabilizing Spiking Neuron Training. Arxiv.
• Garg, N., Balafrej, I., Stewart, T.C., Portal, J.M., Bocquet, M., Querlioz, D., Drouin, D., Rouat, J., Beilliard, Y., Alibart, F. (2022). Voltage-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity (VDSP): Unsupervised probabilistic Hebbian plasticity rule based on neurons membrane potential. Arxiv.
• Bahadi, S., Rouat, J., Plourde, É. (2021). Adaptive approach for sparse representations using the Locally Competitive Algorithm for audio. Arxiv.
• Brousmiche, M., Rouat, J., Dupont, S. (2021). Multi-level attention fusion network for audio-visual event recognition. Arxiv.
• Abdelnour, J., Rouat, J., Salvi, G. (2021). NAAQA: A Neural Architecture for Acoustic Question Answering. Arxiv.
• Garg, N., Drouin, D., Balafrej, I., Alibart, F., Beilliard, Y., Rouat, J. (2021). Signals to spikes for neuromorphic regulated reservoir computing and EMG hand gesture recognition. Arxiv.
• Richan, E., Rouat, J. (2020). A proposal and evaluation of new timbre visualisation methods for audio sample browsers. Arxiv.
• Brousmiche, M., Dupont, S., Rouat, J. (2020). AVECL-UMONS database for audio-visual event classification and localization. Arxiv.
• Celotti, L., Brodeur, S., Rouat, J. (2020). AriEL: volume coding for sentence generation. Arxiv.
• Balafrej, I., Rouat, J. (2020). P-CRITICAL: A reservoir autoregulation plasticity rule for neuromorphic hardware. Arxiv.
• Abdelnour, J., Salvi, G., Rouat, J. (2019). From visual to acoustic question answering. Arxiv.
• Celotti, L., Brodeur, S., Rouat, J. (2019). Language coverage and generalization in rnn-based continuous sentence embeddings for interacting agents. Arxiv.
• Wood, S.U.N., Rouat, J. (2019). Unsupervised low latency speech enhancement with RT-GCC-NMF. Arxiv.
• Abdelnour, J., Salvi, G., Rouat, J. (2018). CLEAR: A Dataset for compositional language and elementary acoustic reasoning. Arxiv.
• Brodeur, S., Carrier, S., Rouat, J. (2018). CREATE: Multimodal dataset for unsupervised learning, generative modeling and prediction of sensory data from a mobile robot in indoor environments. Arxiv.
• Moinnereau, M.-A., Brienne, T., Brodeur, S., Rouat, J., Whittingstall, K., Plourde, E. (2018). Classification of auditory stimuli from eeg signals with a regulated recurrent neural network reservoir. Arxiv.
• Chanauria, N., Bharmauria, V., Bachatene, L., Cattan, S., Rouat, J., Molotchnikoff, S. (2018). Sound induces change in orientation preference of V1 neurons: Audio-visual cross-influence. Biorxiv.
• Brodeur, S., Perez, E., Anand, A., Golemo, F., Celotti, L., Strub, F., Rouat, J., Larochelle, H., Courville, A. (2017). Home: A household multimodal environment. Arxiv.