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François Michaud

François Michaud

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Computer Science

D-Index
48
Citations
9854
World Ranking
6159
National Ranking
242

Overview

François Michaud is affiliated with Université de Sherbrooke in Canada and has a research focus encompassing Computer Science and Medicine. Their work notably intersects technology and health, emphasizing rehabilitation and telehealth.

Their published papers cover topics relevant to rehabilitation technology, social robotics, and telemedicine, including:

  • Clinicians' perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • A Personalized Home-Based Rehabilitation Program Using Exergames Combined With a Telerehabilitation App in a Chronic Stroke Survivor: Mixed Methods Case Study (2021, JMIR Serious Games)
  • User perspectives on emotionally aligned social robots for older adults and persons living with dementia (2022, Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering)
  • Optimization of Upper Extremity Rehabilitation by Combining Telerehabilitation With an Exergame in People With Chronic Stroke: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study (2020, JMIR Research Protocols)
  • Multi-Session Visual SLAM for Illumination-Invariant Re-Localization in Indoor Environments (2022, Frontiers in Robotics and AI)

Michaud's co-authors frequently include François Grondin, Michel Tousignant, Dominic Létourneau, Jean-Samuel Lauzon, and Mathieu Labbé.

Common venues for their publications are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
  • JMIR Research Protocols
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their research fields include:

  • Computer Science
  • Medicine

Within these, they focus on subfields such as:

  • Signal Processing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Social Psychology
  • Rehabilitation

Core topics of Michaud's research work involve:

  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Advanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Technology Use by Older Adults

Best Publications

  • RTAB-Map as an open-source lidar and visual simultaneous localization and mapping library for large-scale and long-term online operation

    Mathieu Labbé;François Michaud

  • Robust sound source localization using a microphone array on a mobile robot

    J.-M. Valin;F. Michaud;J. Rouat;D. Letourneau

  • Online global loop closure detection for large-scale multi-session graph-based SLAM

    Mathieu Labbé;François Michaud

  • Appearance-Based Loop Closure Detection for Online Large-Scale and Long-Term Operation

    M. Labbe;F. Michaud

  • Exploring the use of a mobile robot as an imitation agent with children with low-functioning autism

    Audrey Duquette;François Michaud;Henri Mercier

  • Robust localization and tracking of simultaneous moving sound sources using beamforming and particle filtering

    Jean-Marc Valin;François Michaud;Jean Rouat

  • Enhanced robot audition based on microphone array source separation with post-filter

    J.-M. Valin;J. Rouat;F. Michaud

  • Roball, the Rolling Robot

    François Michaud;Serge Caron

  • Mobile Robotic Toys and Autism

    François Michaud;Catherine Théberge-Turmel

  • Multi-Modal Locomotion Robotic Platform Using Leg-Track-Wheel Articulations

    François Michaud;Dominic Létourneau;Martin Arsenault;Yann Bergeron

  • Exoskeletons' design and usefulness evidence according to a systematic review of lower limb exoskeletons used for functional mobility by people with spinal cord injury.

    Veronique Lajeunesse;Claude Vincent;François Routhier;Emmanuelle Careau

  • Localization of simultaneous moving sound sources for mobile robot using a frequency- domain steered beamformer approach

    J.-M. Valin;F. Michaud;B. Hadjou;J. Rouat

  • Autonomous spherical mobile robot for child-development studies

    F. Michaud;J.-F. Laplante;H. Larouche;A. Duquette

  • Robotic Software Integration Using MARIE

    Carle Côté;Yannick Brosseau;Dominic Létourneau;Clément Raïevsky

  • Code reusability tools for programming mobile robots

    C. Cote;D. Letourneau;F. Michaud;J.-M. Valin

  • Memory management for real-time appearance-based loop closure detection

    Mathieu Labbe;Francois Michaud

  • A qualitative study of in-home robotic telepresence for home care of community-living elderly subjects.

    Patrick Boissy;Hélène Corriveau;François Michaud;Daniel Labonté

  • A new predictive thermal sensation index of human response

    Maher Hamdi;Gérard Lachiver;François Michaud

  • Telepresence Robot for Home Care Assistance.

    François Michaud;Patrick Boissy;Daniel Labonte;Helene Corriveau

  • Robust 3D Localization and Tracking of Sound Sources Using Beamforming and Particle Filtering

    J.-M. Valin;F. Michaud;J. Rouat

Frequent Co-Authors

Maja J. Matarić
Maja J. Matarić University of Southern California
Kazuhiro Nakadai
Kazuhiro Nakadai Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hiroshi G. Okuno
Hiroshi G. Okuno Waseda University
Tetsuya Ogata
Tetsuya Ogata Waseda University
Joelle Pineau
Joelle Pineau McGill University
Pamela J. Hinds
Pamela J. Hinds Stanford University
Nick Cercone
Nick Cercone York University
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Kerstin Dautenhahn University of Waterloo
Zdzisław Pawlak
Zdzisław Pawlak Polish Academy of Sciences

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