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Jean Rouat

Professeur associé, Faculté de génie
FAC. GÉNIE Électrique et informatique

Présentation

Sujet de recherche

Modélisation neuronale, Système auditif, Systèmes neuronaux, Système visuel

Disciplines de recherche

Génie informatique et génie logiciel, Neurosciences

Mots-clés

Intelligence Artificielle, Neuromorphic Eng., apprentissage machine, réseaux et apprentissage profond, substitution sensorielle entre vision et audition, génie neuronal, neuroscience computationnelle, Traitement intelligent des signaux, Interaction homme-machine

Intérêts de recherche

Recherche multi-disciplinaire en systèmes neuromorphiques, réseaux de neurones, intelligence artificielle, apprentissage machine et traitement intelligent des signaux.

Langues parlées et écrites

Anglais, Français

Diplômes

(1996). Étude de la physiologie du système auditif (Postdoctorat, Post-doc). Université de Lausanne.

(1995). Modélisation du système auditif (Postdoctorat, Post-doc). Cambridge Life Sciences.

(1988). Analyse et reconnaissance de consonnes nasales, fricatives et liquides à l'aide de modèles statistiques et de réseaux procéduraux (Doctorat, Ph.D. en génie électrique).

(1984). Utilisation de la quantification vectorielle sur un système de reconnaissance de parole continue à approche globale (Maîtrise avec mémoire, maitrise en génie électrique). Université de Sherbrooke.

(1981). Modélisation de la propagation de la marée dans un estuaire. (Équivalent du baccalauréat, Maitrise es sciences physiques). Université de Bretagne Occidentale.

Titres de compétence

(2004) Board of the technical IEEE committee on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.

Elected Senior Member.

Ing.

Expérience académique

Adjunct Professor / Professeur associé. (2022-). Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.

Appartenance Complémentaire. (2019-). Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.

Professeur titulaire. (2002-2022). Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.

Prix et distinctions

  • (2100) Elected Senior Member IEEE. IEEE- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers. (Distinction).
  • (2018) Adjunct researcher INO. Institut National d'Optique. (Distinction).

Financement

  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Candidat principal. Algorithms and Evaluation for Neuromorphic Multimodal Assistive Systems. Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et Génie du Canada (CRSNG). Discovery. 205 000 $. (2023-2028)
  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Cocandidat. PROMPT IA - Volet Propulsion des Universités. PROMPT-Québec. IA-Propulsion des universités. 500 000 $. (2022-2024)
  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Cocandidat. 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 (FRQNT). FRQNT-Équipe. 199 620 $. (2021-2024)
  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Cocandidat. Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’intelligence artificielle et du numérique. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC). Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’IA et du numérique. 7 500 000 $. (2018-2023)
  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Candidat principal. Scene interpretation for sensory substitution and intelligent agents: a neurocomputational approach. Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et Génie du Canada (CRSNG). Discovery. 144 000 $. (2017-2023)
  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Cocandidat. Unsupervised spiking neural networks with analog memristive devices for edge computing. European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information & Comm Sciences & Technologies. CHIST-ERA. 1 355 350 $. (2020-2023)
  • Subvention. (Terminé). Cocandidat. Développement et renforcement de stimulations électriques pour implants auditifs. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Équipe. 162 000 $. (2018-2022)
  • Subvention. (Terminé). Cocandidat. Centre Interdisciplinaire de recherche en musique, médias et technologie, CIRMMT. Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT). Regroupements Stratégiques. 3 000 $. (2021-2022)
  • Subvention. (Terminé). Cocandidat. Neuromorphic Circuits for Large-Scale Quantum Systems. Canada First Research Excellence Fund. 237 000 $. (2019-2021)
  • Subvention. (Terminé). Candidat principal. Fonds d'innovation pédagogique de l'université de Sherbrooke: Médiatisation et formation à distance en apprentissage machine et génie neuronal. Université de Sherbrooke. FIP. 20 000 $. (2018-2020)
  • Subvention. (Terminé). Candidat principal. INTEL Neuromorphic Research Community: Unsupervised regulation for the self-organized CRITICAL recurrent neural network project on LOIHI & Audio-Visual Scene Analysis with spike-based representations for SNN. Intel (USA). travel and INRC for Loihi implementations.. 3 800 $. (2019-2019)
  • Subvention. (Terminé). Cocandidat. Équipement pour le projet développement et renforcement de stimulations électriques pour implants auditifs. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Recherche en équipe. 49 620 $. (2018-2019)
  • Subvention. (Terminé). Candidat principal. GPU for spiking neural networks and deep learning. Nvidia. Donation for research. 5 000 $. (2018)
  • Subvention. (Terminé). Cochercheur. Multichannel neural signal recording instrumentation for the central auditory system. Fondation Canadienne pour l'Innovation (FCI). John R. Evans Leaders Funds. 179 038 $. (2016-2017)

Publications

Articles de revue

  • El Ferdaoussi*, Ahmad; Rouat, Jean; Plourde, Eric. (2023). Efficiency metrics for auditory neuromorphic spike encoding techniques using information theory. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering 3 (2), DOI. (Article publié).
  • Commère*, Louis; Rouat, Jean. (2023). Evaluation of Short Range Depth Sonifications for Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 53 (3), 479-489. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Abdelnour*, J.; Rouat, J.; Salvi, G. (2023). NAAQA: A Neural Architecture for Acoustic Question Answering. IEEE Tr. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 45 (4), 4997-5009. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Rouat, Jean; Dupont, Stéphane. (2022). Multimodal Attentive Fusion Network for Audio-visual Event Recognition. Information Fusion 85 52-59. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Balafrej*, Ismaël; Alibart, Fabien; Rouat, Jean. (2022). P-CRITICAL: A Reservoir Autoregulation Plasticity Rule for Neuromorphic Hardware. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering 2 (2), DOI. (Article publié).
  • Commère*, Louis; Rouat, Jean. (2022). Sonified distance in sensory substitution does not always improve localization: comparison with a 2D and 3D handheld device. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 53 (1), 154-163. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Garg, Nikhil; Balafrej*, Ismael; Stewart, Terrence C; Portal, Jean-Michel; Bocquet, Marc; Querlioz, Damien; Drouin, Dominique; Rouat, Jean; Beilliard, Yann; Alibart, Fabien. (2022). Voltage-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity (VDSP): Unsupervised probabilistic Hebbian plasticity rule based on neurons membrane potential. Frontiers in Neuroscience 16 DOI. (Article publié).
  • Celotti* L, Brodeur* S, Rouat J. (2021). AriEL: volume coding for sentence generation. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021 arXiv:2003.13600 (Article soumis).
  • Brousmiche* M., Dupont S., Rouat J. (2020). AVECL-UMONS database for audio-visual event classification and localization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01018 (Article publié).
  • 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 107994. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Richan* E, Rouat J. (2020). A proposal and evaluation of new timbre visualization methods for audio sample browsers. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing DOI. (Article publié).
  • Commère* L., Rouat J. (2020). Evaluation of a Vision-to-Audition Substitution System that Provides 2D WHERE Information and Fast User Learning. arXiv Preprint, arXiv:2010.09041 (Article publié).
  • Brousmiche*, M.; Rouat, J.; Dupont, S. (2020). Multi-level Attention Fusion Network for Audio-visual Event Recognition. arXiv:2106.06736 DOI. (Article publié).
  • Jérôme Abdelnour* and Giampiero Salvi and Jean Rouat. (2019). CLEAR: A Dataset for Compositional Language and Elementary Acoustic Reasoning. IEEE DataPort, http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/7x26-a025 [Online] DOI. (Article publié).
  • Abdelnour* J., Salvi G., Rouat J. (2019). From Visual to Acoustic Question Answering. arXiv:1902.11280v1 (Article publié).
  • Chanauria* N, Bharmauria V, Bachatène L, Cattan S, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2019). Sound induces change in orientation preference of V1 neurons: Audio-visual cross-influence. Neuroscience 404 (15 April), 48 - 61. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Sean UN Wood* and Jean Rouat. (2019). Unsupervised Low Latency Speech Enhancement with RT-GCC-NMF. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics In Signal Processing 13 (2), 332 - 346. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Belgoum*, Zakaria; Abdelnour* Jérôme , Brodeur* Simon , Rouat Jean. (2018). Audio dataset for Household Multimodal Environment (HoME). IEEE Dataport, http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/w77r-4902 [Online] DOI. (Article publié).
  • Brodeur*, Simon; Carrier*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2018). CREATE: Multimodal Dataset for Unsupervised Learning, Generative Modeling and Prediction of Sensory Data from a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments. IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/H2M94J. (Article publié).
  • Moinnereau, Marc-Antoine; Brienne, Thomas; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean; Whittingstall Kevin, Plourde Eric. (2018). Classification of auditory stimuli from EEG signals with a regulated recurrent neural network reservoir. arXiv:1804.10322 [eess.SP] (Article publié).
  • Brodeur* S., Perez E., Anand A., Golemo F., Celotti* L, Strub F., Rouat J., Larochelle H., Courville A. (2018). HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment. arXiv:1711.11017 [cs.AI], published at ICLR (Article publié).
  • Erfani* Y, Pichevar R, Rouat J. (2017). Audio watermarking using spikegram and a two-dictionary approach. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 12 (4), 840 - 852. (Article publié).
  • Wood* S, Rouat J, Dupont S, Pironkov* G. (2017). Blind Speech Separation and Enhancement with GCC-NMF. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 25 (4), 3329-3341. (Article publié).
  • M. 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 PP (99), 875-889. (Article publié).
  • Chanauria* N, Bharmauria* V, Bachatene L, Cattan S, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2016). Comparative effects of adaptation on layer II?III and layer V?VI neurons in cat V1. European Journal of Neuroscience 44 (12), 3094-3104. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Bharmauria*, Bachatene L, Cattan S, Chanauria* N, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2016). High noise correlation between the functionally connected neurons in emergent V1 microcircuits. Exp Brain Res 234 (2), 523-532. (Article publié).
  • Bharmauria* V, Bachatene L, Ouelhazi A, Cattan S, Chanauria* N, Etindele-Sosso F, 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 620 14-19. DOI. (Article publié).
  • 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 43 (2), 204-219. (Article publié).
  • 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 604 103-108. (Article publié).
  • Bachatene L, Bharmauria* V, Cattan S, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2015). Modulation of functional connectivity following visual adaptation: Homeostasis in V1. Brain Research 1594 136-153. (Article publié).
  • Bachatene L, Bharmauria* V, Cattan S, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2015). Reprogramming of orientation columns in visual cortex: a domino effect. Nature Science Report 5 9436. (Article publié).
  • Bharmauria* V, Bachatene L, Cattan, S, Chanauria* N, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2015). Stimulus-dependant augmented gamma oscillatory activity between the functionally connected cortical neurons in V1. European Journal of Neuroscience 41 (12), 1587–1596. (Article publié).
  • 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 16 (1), (Article publié).

Rapports

  • Luca Herranz-Celotti*, Luca; Rouat, Jean. (2022). Surrogate Gradients Design. Université de Sherbrooke. 23 p. DOI.
  • N. Garg, I. Balafrej*, T. C. Stewart, J-M. Portal, M. Bocquet, D. Querlioz, D. Drouin, J. Rouat, Y. Beilliard, F. Alibart. (2022). Voltage-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity (VDSP): Unsupervised probabilistic Hebbian plasticity rule based on neurons membrane potential. Université de Sherbrooke. 19 p. DOI.
  • Celotti*,Luca; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2021). AriEL: volume coding for sentence generation comparisons, https://openreview.net/forum?id=qTTccuW4dja. Université de Sherbrooke. 21 p.
  • Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Rouat, Jean; Dupont, Stéphane. (2021). Multi-level Attention Fusion Network for Audio-visual Event Recognition, arXiv:2106.06736. Université de Sherbrooke. 10 p.
  • Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Dupont, Stéphane; Rouat, Jean. (2020). AVECL-UMONS database for audio-visual event classification and localization, arXiv:2011.01018. Université de Sherbrooke. 5 p.
  • Celotti*, Luca; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2020). AriEL: volume coding for sentence generation, https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13600. Université de Sherbrooke. 16 p.
  • Commère*, Louis, Rouat, Jean. (2020). Evaluation of a Vision-to-Audition Substitution System that Provides 2D WHERE Information and Fast User Learning, https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09041. Université de Sherbrooke. 15 p.
  • Rouat, Jean. (2019). IGLU, Interactive Grounded Language Understanding, Last year and dissemination activities report. Université de Sherbrooke. 190 p.
  • Brodeur*, Simon; Carrier*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2018). CREATE: Multimodal Dataset for Unsupervised Learning, Generative Modeling and Prediction of Sensory Data from a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.10214.pdf. Université de Sherbrooke. 35 p.
  • Moinnereau, Marc-Antoine; Brienne, Thomas; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean; Whittingstall Kevin, Plourde Eric. (2018). Classification of auditory stimuli from EEG signals with a regulated recurrent neural network reservoir, arXiv:1804.10322 [eess.SP]. Université de Sherbrooke. 4 p.
  • Rouat, Jean. (2018). IGLU, Interactive Grounded Language Understanding, Second year and dissemination activities report. Université de Sherbrooke. 249 p.
  • Rouat, Jean. (2017). IGLU, Interactive Grounded Language Understanding, First year and dissemination activities report. Université de Sherbrooke. 123 p.

Documents de travail

  • Abdelnour, Jérôme; Rouat, Jean; Salvi, Giampiero. (2021). NAAQA: A Neural Architecture for Acoustic Question Answering. 12 p. DOI.
  • Balafrej*, Ismaël; Rouat, Jean. (2020). P-CRITICAL: A Reservoir Autoregulation Plasticity Rule for Neuromorphic Hardware. 10 p. DOI.

Ressources en ligne

  • Zakaria Belgoum; Jérôme Abdelnour; Simon Brodeur; Jean Rouat. (2018). Audio dataset for Household Multimodal Environment (HoME). Site Web. DOI.
  • Brodeur, Simon ; Carrier, Simon ; Rouat, Jean. (2018). CREATE: Multimodal Dataset for Unsupervised Learning, Generative Modeling and Prediction of Sensory Data from a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments. Site Web. DOI.
  • Brodeur, Simon; Perez, Ethan; Anand, Ankesh; Golemo, Florian; Celotti, Luca ; Strub, Florian; Rouat, Jean; Larochelle, Hugo ; Courville, Aaron. (2017). HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment. Site Web.

Articles de conférence

  • El Ferdaoussi*, Ahmad; Rouat, Jean; Plourde Éric. (2023). Optimizing Neuromorphic Spike Encoding of Dynamic Stimulus Signals Using Information Theory. Proceedings, DOI. (Article publié).
  • Yarga*, Sidi Yaya Arnaud; Rouat, Jean; Wood, Sean. (2022). Efficient spike encoding algorithms for neuromorphic speech recognition. Proc. International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS), DOI. (Article publié).
  • El Ferdaoussi*, Ahmad; Plourde, Éric; Rouat, Jean. (2022). Optimizing Spike Encoding of Speech Using Information Theory for Neuromorphic Systems. Proc. of ICONS 2022, (Article accepté).
  • Bahadi* S., Rouat J., Plourde E. (2021). Adaptive Approach for Sparse Representations Using the Locally Competitive Algorithm for Audio. proceedings of the IWMLSP, 1-6. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Garg*, Nikhil; Balafrej*, Ismael; Beilliard, Yann; Drouin, Dominique; Alibart, Fabien; Rouat, Jean. (2021). Signals to Spikes for Neuromorphic Regulated Reservoir Computing and EMG Hand Gesture Recognition. International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems. (Article publié).
  • Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Dupont, Stéphane; Rouat, Jean. (2020). Intra and Inter-modality Interactions for Audio-visual Event Detection. ACM First International Workshop on Human-centric Multimedia Analysis. 5-11. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Brousmiche*, Mathilde; Rouat, Jean; Dupont, Stéphane. (2020). SECL-UMons Database for Sound Event Classification and Localization. Proc., 756-760. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Richan*, E.; Rouat, J. (2019). A study comparing shape, colour and texture as visual labels in audio sample browsers. Proceedings, 223 -. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Brousmiche* M, Rouat J, Dupont S,. (2019). Audio-Visual Fusion And Conditioning With Neural Networks For Event Recognition. IEEE, Int. Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing. DOI. (Article publié).
  • Prince-Tremblay*, Jordan; Balafrej*, Ismaël; Labelle, Félix; Martel-Denis, Félix; Matte, Éric; Chouinard-Beaupré, Julien; Letourneau, Adam; Mercier-Nicol, Antoine; Brodeur, Simon; Ferland, François; Rouat, Jean. (2018). A Cooperative Visually Grounded Dialogue Game with a Humanoid Robot. https://nips.cc/Conferences/2018/Schedule?showEvent=12165, (Article publié).
  • Abdelnour* J, Salvi G, Rouat J. (2018). CLEAR: A Dataset for Compositional Language and Elementary Acoustic Reasoning. https://nips2018vigil.github.io/static/papers/accepted/16.pdf, (Article publié).
  • 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. IEEE Proceedings of the MLSP workshop, (Article soumis).
  • Brodeur* S, Perez E, Anand A, Golemo F, Celotti* L, Strub F, Rouat J, Larochelle H, Courville A. (2018). HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment. OpenReview.net, [Online]. (Article publié).
  • Celotti*, Luca; Brodeur*, Simon; Rouat, Jean. (2018). Language coverage and generalization in RNN-based continuous sentence embeddings for interacting agents. https://nips2018vigil.github.io, (Article publié).
  • Commère*, Louis; Wood*, Sean; Rouat, Jean. (2018). Sensory substitution of vision by audition for the visually impaired. Neurosymposium 2018. Canada, (Article accepté).
  • Commère*, Louis; Grond, Florian; Côté, François; Rouat, Jean. (2018). Sonification Of 3D Point Clouds For Substitution Of Vision By Audition For Blind Users. Proceedings of the 24th int. conf. on Auditory display, États-Unis d'Amérique, 256-258. DOI. (Article publié).
  • El Ferdaoussi*, A.; Brodeur*, S., Calvet*, E.; Abdelnour*, J.; Richan*, E.; Bharmauria*, V.; Bachatène, L.; Charnauria*, N.; Molotchnikoff, S.; Rouat, J. (2018). Study of the emergence of cortical maps in large-scale simulation of the primary visual cortex. NeuroSymposium 2018. Canada, (Article publié).
  • Richan*, Etienne; Rouat, Jean. (2018). Towards translating perceptual distance from hearing to vision using neural networks. TIMBRE 2018: timbre is a many splendored thing proceedings, Canada, 59-60. DOI. (Article accepté).
  • J. Abdelnour*, S. Brodeur*, M. Brousmiche*, L. Celotti*, J. Civera, A. Courville, J.-B. Delbrouck, H. de Vries, S. Dupont, F. Golemo, O. Mastropietro, P. Azagra, A. C. Murillo, P.Y. Oudeyer, O. Pietquin, B. Piot, G. Pironkov, J. Rouat, G. Salvi, O. Seddati, F. Strub, S. Wood*. (2018). Year 2 of Interactive Grounded Language Understanding. CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2018. France, (Article publié).
  • Wood* S, Rouat J. (2017). Blind Speech Separation with GCC-NMF. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, (Article publié).
  • Chanauria* N, Bharmauria V, Bachatene L, Etindele Sosso F, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2017). Co-ordinated adaptive changes of layer 2/3 and layer 5/6 multiunit activity (MUA) orientation tuning in the cat visual cortex. Abstract's book of the society of Neuroscience, 227.21 / CC15. (Article publié).
  • Brodeur* S, Perez E, Anand A, Golemo F, Celotti* L, Strub F, Rouat J, Larochelle H, Courville A. (2017). HoME: a Household Multimodal Environment. NIPS 2017 workshop, (Article publié).
  • Brodeur* S, Rouat J. (2017). Optimality of Inference in Hierarchical Coding for Distributed Object-Based Representations. 15th. IEEE Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CIWT), 1 -- 5. (Article publié).
  • Brodeur* S, Celotti* L, Rouat J. (2017). Proposal of a Generative Model of Event-based Representations for Grounded Language Understanding. proceedings of first int. workshop on Grounding Language Understanding, 81 -- 86. (Article publié).
  • Wood* S, Rouat J. (2017). Real-Time Speech Enhancement with GCC-NMF. ISCA Proceedings, 2665--2669. (Article publié).
  • Wood* S, Rouat J. (2017). Real-Time Speech Enhancement with GCC-NMF: Demonstration on the Raspberry Pi and NVIDIA Jetson. proceedings of INTERSPEECH, 2048--2049. (Article publié).
  • Wood* S, Rouat J. (2017). Towards GCC-NMF Speech Enhancement for Hearing Assistive Devices: Reducing Latency with Asymmetric Windows. Proceedings of the CHAT conf., 83 -- 88. (Article publié).
  • Chanauria* N, Bharmauria* V, Bachatène L, Cattan S, Etindele-Sosso F, Rouat J, Molotchnikoff S. (2016). Intriguing! Auditory stimulus shifts orientation selectivitity of visual neurons in cat V1. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, 434.08 / SS16. (Article publié).
  • Séguin-Godin* G, Mailhot F, Rouat J. (2015). Efficient event-driven approach using synchrony processing for hardware spiking neural networks. Proceedings of IEEE-ISCAS, 2696-2699. (Article publié).
  • Siahpoush* S, Erfani* Y, Rode T, Lim 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 IEEE EMBS, 5146-5150. (Article publié).

Propriétés intellectuelles

Brevets

  • Rouat J, Pichevar* R, Loiselle* S, Le* T, Hoang* A, Lavoie*J, Bergeron* J. (2018). Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition Using A Spiking Neural Network And Processing Thereof On A Portable And/Or Distributed Computer. 8,346,692. États-Unis d'Amérique. (Délivré).
  • Rouat, J.; Caron*, L.-C; de Ladurantaye*, V., Mailhot, F.; Bergeron*, J. (2017). Method, system and aggregation engine for providing structural representations of physical entities. 2,835,701. Canada. (Délivré).
  • Rouat J, Bergeron* J, Caron* LC, de Ladurantaye* V, Mailhot F. (2016). Method, system and aggregation engine for providing structural representations of physical entities. 9,317,540. États-Unis d'Amérique. (Délivré).
  • Rouat J, Pichevar* R, Loiselle* S, Le* T, Hoang* A, Lavoie*J, Bergeron* J. (2013). Spatio-Temporal Pattern Recognition Using A Spiking Neural Network And Processing Thereof On A Portable And/Or Distributed Computer. 2,642,041. Canada. (Délivré).
  • Mailhot F, Séguin-Godin* G, Rouat J. Method and System for event based neural networks. PCT/CA2016/050579. États-Unis d'Amérique. (Périmé).

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés

  • Intelligence artificielle bio-inspirée. GEI792. Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.
  • Intelligence artificielle probabiliste. GEI791. Université de Sherbrooke. Canada. (2CR).
  • Neurosciences computationnelles et applications en traitement de l'information. GEI723. Université de Sherbrooke. Canada. (3CR).
  • Sensation et Perception. GIF480. Université de Sherbrooke. Canada. (2CR).
  • Techniques avancées en analyse, représentation et filtrage des signaux. GEI787. Université de Sherbrooke. Canada.

Gestion d'évènements

  • Co-organizer. (2011-2022) Bi-annual NECOTIS research workshops on bridging neuroscience and engineering. (Atelier).
  • Coordinator. (2015-2018) Bi-annual workshops of the CHIST-ERA IGLU consortium. They were held 2 times/year in Europe . The first was in Lille, France in Nov. 2015, the second was in Mons, Belgium in June 2016, the next in Barcelona, Spain in December 2016, etc. (Atelier).
  • Co-organizer. (2018) Interactive Learning for Multimodal Communicative Robots, IROS 2018, Workshop, Madrid. (Atelier).
  • Coordinator. (2018) CHIST-ERA HLU, Human Language Understanding and Grounding, "Summer school" ANR Paris, France. (Séminaire).
  • co-organizer. (2017) International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding (GLU2017), KTH, Stockholm, Sweden. (Conférence).
  • Co-organizer. (2014-2017) Workshops on Sonification and Sensory Substitution organized on regular bases at CIRMMT (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology). (Séminaire).

Activités de collaboration internationale

  • Director & Coordinator. Suède. I am the coordinator and leader of the CHIST-ERA IGLU (Interactive Grounded Language Understanding) consortium that comprises 7 research teams with international reputations from 5 countries (MILA lab - UdeM; NECOTIS - UdeS; KTH, Sweden; MONS Univ., Belgium; Lille1 Univ. & INRIA Bordeaux, France; Zaragoza Univ., Spain & Sheffield Univ, UK). I am in charge of the administration, of the legal aspects, of the organization and of the academic and scientific orientations of the consortium.