2026 Jean-Marc Valin: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Overview

Jean-Marc Valin is affiliated with Google in the United States and specializes in research within the field of Computer Science, with a primary focus on Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and related subfields. Their work spans several key areas including speech and audio processing, speech recognition and synthesis, music and audio processing, advanced data compression techniques, adaptive filtering techniques, hearing loss and rehabilitation, as well as speech and dialogue systems.

Their body of work features numerous publications across diverse venues. Notable frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Interspeech 2022
ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jean-Marc Valin include:

"Real-Time Packet Loss Concealment With Mixed Generative and Predictive Model," 2022, Interspeech 2022
"An Overview of Coding Tools in AV1: the First Video Codec from the Alliance for Open Media," 2020, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
"Improved Singing Voice Separation with Chromagram-Based Pitch-Aware Remixing," 2022, ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
"End-to-end LPCNet: A Neural Vocoder With Fully-Differentiable LPC Estimation," 2022, Interspeech 2022
"Semi-supervised Time Domain Target Speaker Extraction with Attention," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Jean-Marc Valin collaborates regularly with a team of researchers, including:

Arvindh Krishnaswamy
Umut Isik
Ritwik Giri
Paris Smaragdis
Ahmed Mustafa

Their work contributes primarily to the development of techniques and technologies related to speech and audio processing and synthesis, emphasizing computational methods that address real-time communication challenges, audio coding, and neural vocoding.

Best Publications

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

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

573
Citations
LPCNET: Improving Neural Speech Synthesis through Linear Prediction

Jean-Marc Valin;Jan Skoglund

376
Citations
Robust localization and tracking of simultaneous moving sound sources using beamforming and particle filtering

Jean-Marc Valin;François Michaud;Jean Rouat

374
Citations
An Overview of Core Coding Tools in the AV1 Video Codec

Yue Chen;Debargha Murherjee;Jingning Han;Adrian Grange

363
Citations
Enhanced robot audition based on microphone array source separation with post-filter

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

226
Citations
Definition of the Opus Audio Codec

Jean-Marc Valin;Koen Vos

220
Citations
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

184
Citations
A Hybrid DSP/Deep Learning Approach to Real-Time Full-Band Speech Enhancement

Jean-Marc Valin

176
Citations
Code reusability tools for programming mobile robots

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

159
Citations
High-Quality, Low-Delay Music Coding in the Opus Codec

Jean-Marc Valin;Gregory Maxwell;Timothy B. Terriberry;Koen Vos

121
Citations
Robust 3D Localization and Tracking of Sound Sources Using Beamforming and Particle Filtering

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

113
Citations
Robust Recognition of Simultaneous Speech by a Mobile Robot

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

106
Citations
A High-Quality Speech and Audio Codec With Less Than 10-ms Delay

J.-M. Valin;T.B. Terriberry;C. Montgomery;G. Maxwell

94
Citations
Enhanced Robot Speech Recognition Based on Microphone Array Source Separation and Missing Feature Theory

S. Yamamoto;J.-M. Valin;J.-M. Valin;K. Nakadai;J. Rouat

92
Citations
Autonomous initialization of robot formations

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

90
Citations
On Adjusting the Learning Rate in Frequency Domain Echo Cancellation With Double-Talk

J.-M. Valin

87
Citations
Real-Time Robot Audition System That Recognizes Simultaneous Speech in The Real World

Shun'ichi Yamamoto;Kazuhiro Nakadai;Mikio Nakano;Hiroshi Tsujino

83
Citations
Dynamic robot formations using directional visual perception

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

81
Citations
A Real-Time Wideband Neural Vocoder at 1.6 kb/s Using LPCNet

Jean-Marc Valin;Jan Skoglund

80
Citations
PoCoNet: Better Speech Enhancement with Frequency-Positional Embeddings, Semi-Supervised Conversational Data, and Biased Loss

Umut Isik;Ritwik Giri;Neerad Phansalkar;Jean-Marc Valin

79
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

François Michaud Université de Sherbrooke

Kazuhiro Nakadai Tokyo Institute of Technology

Hiroshi G. Okuno Waseda University

Tetsuya Ogata Waseda University

Iain B. Collings Macquarie University

Debargha Mukherjee Google (United States)

External Links

Personal website of Jean-Marc Valin

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