Stéphane Dedieu

Founder, Owner @Bloo Audio Inc

CA

Bloo Audio Inc is a privately owned company that develops and licences advanced, differentiated, miniaturized microphone array systems and state of the art beamforming algorithms for the consumer electronics and telecommunications industries.Our technology improves speech pickup and audio communications in noisy and reverberant environments, as well as speech recognition success rates (Siri, Google Speech, Dragon by Nuance), voice identification, and echo cancellation in full duplex speakerphone accessories.Our recent advancements in machine learning and deep learning drive custom feature extraction and signal classification, optimizing sensor data analysis for applications like environmental sound classification and defect detection (e.g, MIMII Valve Sound). Expertise: • Digital Signal Processing, Speech Enhancements: Advanced algorithms for beamforming, noise reduction, filters, voice activity detection (VAD), sound source localization (SSL)• Advanced feature extraction techniques for ML/DL: STFT, wavelets, synchrosqueezing• AI and Machine Learning: TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-Learn for signal processing and classification • Numerical Analysis: FEM/BEM simulations (COMSOL), optimization, genetic algorithmsInception of the business: Fall 2013. Incorporated Feb. Summer 2015: “Invited Researcher” at Ecole de Technologie Superieure in Montreal at CRITIAS: http://critias.etsmtl.ca/the-chair/chair/ for developing advanced microphone technology. May 13–16, 2018: 31st Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2018). Paper:\"Network Device Allocation Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms\" by Jason Falbo, Stephane Dedieu.October 3 – October 6, 2023 Acoustics Week in Canada 2023, Montreal, QCPaper:\"Binaural Beamformer: An early Proof of Concept for Wearables Audio Devices\", Stéphane Dedieu, Thomas Padois, Jérémie Voix.