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Journal Articles

Koekkoek, Jeroen et Lemire, Daniel (2025). Parsing Millions of DNS Records per Second. Software: Practice and Experience, 55 (4). 10.1002/spe.3396

Lemire, Daniel (In Press). Scanning HTML at Tens of Gigabytes per Second on ARM Processors. Software: Practice and Experience.

Brackett-Rozinsky, Nevin et Lemire, Daniel (2025). Batched Ranged Random Integer Generation. Software: Practice and Experience, 55 (1). 10.1002/spe.3369

Courcot, Blandine, Lemire, Daniel et Bélanger, Nicolas (2024). Dynamics of soil water potential as a function of stand types in a temperate forest: Emphasis on flash droughts. Geoderma Regional, 38. 10.1016/j.geodrs.2024.e00850

Keiser, John et Lemire, Daniel (2024). On-Demand JSON: A Better Way to Parse Documents?. Software: Practice and Experience, 54 (6). 10.1002/spe.3313

Laberge, Sharlène, Courcot, Blandine, Lagarde, Andréanne, Lebel Desrosiers, Simon, Lafore, Karima, Thiffault, Evelyne, Thiffault, Nelson et Bélanger, Nicolas (2024). Opportunities and challenges to improve carbon and greenhouse gas budgets of the forest industry through better management of pulp and paper by-products. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 12, 1381141. 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1381141

Nizipli, Yagiz et Lemire, Daniel (2024). Parsing Millions of URLs per Second. Software: Practice and Experience, 54 (5). 10.1002/spe.3296

Lemire, Daniel (2024). Exact Short Products From Truncated Multipliers. Computer Journal, 67 (4). 10.1093/comjnl/bxad077

Oogathoo, Shalini, Duchesne, Louis, Houle, Daniel, Kneeshaw, Daniel et Bélanger, Nicolas (2024). Precipitation and relative humidity favours tree growth while air temperature and relative humidity respectively drive winter stem shrinkage and expansion. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7, 1368590. 10.3389/ffgc.2024.1368590

Naimi, Safwen, Bouachir, Wassim et Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre (2024). 1D-Convolutional transformer for Parkinson disease diagnosis from gait. Neural Computing and Applications. 10.1007/s00521-023-09193-6

Clausecker, Robert et Lemire, Daniel (2023). Transcoding Unicode Characters with AVX-512 Instructions. Software: Practice and Experience, 53 (12). 10.1002/spe.3261

Jemaa, Hela, Bouachir, Wassim, Leblon, Brigitte, LaRocque, Armand, Haddadi, Ata et Bouguila, Nizar (2023). UAV-Based Computer Vision System for Orchard Apple Tree Detection and Health Assessment. Remote Sensing, 15. 10.3390/rs15143558

Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Risch, Anita C., Ashton, Louise, Augustine, David, Bélanger, Nicolas et 68 autres auteurs (2023). Bioavailability of Macro and Micronutrients Across Global Topsoils: Main Drivers and Global Change Impacts. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37 (6), e2022GB007680. 10.1029/2022GB007680

Oogathoo, Shalini, Duchesne, Louis, Houle, Daniel, Kneeshaw, Daniel et Bélanger, Nicolas (2023). Seasonal, Monthly, Daily, and Diel Growth, and Water Status Dynamics of Balsam Fir in a Cold and Humid Boreal Environment. Forests, 14 (4), 802. 10.3390/f14040802

Bélanger, Nicolas et Chaput-Richard, Clémence (2023). Experimental Warming of Typically Acidic and Nutrient-Poor Boreal Soils Does Not Affect Leaf-Litter Decomposition of Temperate Deciduous Tree Species. Soil Systems, 7 (1), 14. 10.3390/soilsystems7010014

Khlifa, Rim, Rivest, David, Grimond, Laurence et Bélanger, Nicolas (2023). Stability of carbon pools and fluxes of a Technosol along a 7-year reclamation chronosequence at an asbestos mine in Canada. Ecological Engineering, 186, 106839. 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106839

Mushtak, Noble et Lemire, Daniel (2023). Fast Number Parsing Without Fallback. Software: Practice and Experience, 53 (7), 1467-1471. 10.1002/spe.3198

Zgaren, Ahmed, Bouachir, Wassim et Bouguila, Nizar (2023). Automatic counting of planting microsites via local visual detection and global count estimation. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 1-15. 10.1109/TETCI.2023.3272004

Graf, Thomas Mueller et Lemire, Daniel (2022). Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters. Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, 27. 10.1145/3510449

Canuel, Claudie-Maude, Bernard, Anne, Thiffault, Nelson, Gélinas, Nancy, Drapeau, Pierre, Thiffault, Evelyne et Bélanger, Nicolas (2022). Analyse d’une stratégie de production de bois : perspectives d’experts. The Forestry Chronicle, 98 (1), 19-27. 10.5558/tfc2022-003

Canuel, Claudie-Maude, Bernard, Anne, Thiffault, Nelson, Gélinas, Nancy, Drapeau, Pierre, Thiffault, Evelyne et Bélanger, Nicolas (2022). Analysis of a wood production strategy from expert perspectives. The Forestry Chronicle, 98 (1), 10-18. 10.5558/tfc2022-004

Joseph, Ruth, Diochon, Amanda, Morris, Dave, Venier, Lisa, Emilson, Caroline E., Basiliko, Nathan, Bélanger, Nicolas, Jones, Trevor, Markham, John, Rutherford, Michael P., Smenderovac, Emily, Van Rees, Ken et Hazlett, Paul (2022). Limited effect of wood ash application on soil quality as indicated by a multisite assessment of soil organic matter attributes. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 14 (5), 500-521. 10.1111/gcbb.12928

Lemire, Daniel et Muła, Wojciech (2022). Transcoding Billions of Unicode Characters per Second with SIMD Instructions. Software: Practice and Experience, 52 (2).

Smenderovac, Emily, Emilson, Caroline, Porter, Teresita, Morris, Dave, Hazlett, Paul, Diochon, Amanda, Basiliko, Nathan, Bélanger, Nicolas, Markham, John, Rutherford, Michael P., Van Rees, Ken, Jones, Trevor et Venier, Lisa (2022). Forest soil biotic communities show few responses to wood ash applications at multiple sites across Canada. Scientifi Reports, 12, 4171. 0.1038/s41598-022-07670-x

Bilodeau-Gauthier, Simon, Ponce Palma, Gustavo, Miquel, Jean-Charles, Lafleur, Benoit, Brais, Suzanne et Bélanger, Nicolas (2022). Growth and foliar nutrition of a hybrid poplar clone following the application of a mixture of papermill biosolids and lime mud. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 52 (1), 1-12. 10.1139/cjfr-2021-0086

Klarqvist, Marcus D. R., Muła, Wojciech et Lemire, Daniel (2021). Efficient Computation of Positional Population Counts Using SIMD Instructions. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 33 (17). 10.1002/cpe.6304

Lemire, Daniel, Bartlett, Colin et Kaser, Owen (2021). Integer Division by Constants: Optimal Bounds. Heliyon, 7 (6). 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07442

Bélanger, Nicolas, Collin, Alexandre, Khlifa, Rim et Lebel-Desrosiers, Simon (2021). Balsam Fir and American Beech Influence Soil Respiration Rates in Opposite Directions in a Sugar Maple Forest Near Its Northern Range Limit. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4, 664584. 10.3389/ffgc.2021.664584

Keiser, John et Lemire, Daniel (2021). Validating UTF-8 In Less Than One Instruction Per Byte. Software: Practice and Experience, 51 (5), 950-964. 10.1002/spe.2920

Bélanger, Nicolas, Ponce Palma, Gustavo et Brais, Suzanne (2021). Contrasted growth response of hybrid larch (Larix × marschlinsii), jack pine (Pinus banksiana) and white spruce (Picea glauca) to wood ash application in northwestern Quebec, Canada. iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 14 (2), 155-165. 10.3832/ifor3597-014

Lemire, Daniel (2021). Number Parsing at a Gigabyte per Second. Software: Practice and Experience, 51 (8). 10.1002/spe.2984

Houle, Daniel, Marty, Charles, Gagnon, Christian, Bilodeau-Gauthier, Simon et Bélanger, Nicolas (2021). Is the past history of acidic deposition in eastern Canada reflected in sugar maple's tree rings 87Sr/86Sr, Sr and Ca concentrations?. Applied Geochemistry, 125, 104860. 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2020.104860

Li, Zhenxi, Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre et Bouachir, Wassim (2021). Multiple Convolutional Features in Siamese Networks for Object Tracking. Machine Vision and Applications, 32 (3), 59.

Fontana, Mario, Collin, Alexandre, Couchesne, Francois, Labrecque, Michel et Bélanger, Nicolas (2020). Root System Architecture of Salix miyabeana “SX67” and Relationships with Aboveground Biomass Yields. Bioenergy Research, 13 (1), 183-196. 10.1007/s12155-019-10062-1

Lévesque, Ann, Bélanger, Nicolas, Poder, Thomas G., Filotas,, Élise et Dupras, Jérôme (2020). From white to green gold: Digging into public expectations and preferences for ecological restoration of asbestos mines in southeastern Quebec, Canada. The Extractive Industries and Society, 7 (4), 1411-1423. 10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.006

Ihou, Koffi Eddy, Bouguila, Nizar et Bouachir, Wassim (2020). Efficient integration of generative topic models into discriminative classifiers using robust probabilistic kernels. Pattern Analysis and Applications. 10.1007/s10044-020-00917-1

Emilson, Caroline E., Bélanger, Nicolas, Brais, Suzanne, Chisholm, Colin E., Diochon, Amanda, Joseph, Ruth, Markam, John, Morris, Dave, Van Rees, Ken, Rutherford, Michael, Venier, Lisa A. et Hazlett, Paul W. (2020). Short-term growth response of jack pine and spruce spp. to wood ash amendment across Canada. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 12 (2), 158-167. 10.1111/gcbb.12661

Charron, Guillaume, Robichaud-Courteau, Thomas, La Vigne, Hughes, Weintraub, Samantha, Hill, Andy, Justice, Douglas, Bélanger, Nicolas et Lussier Desbiens, Alexis (2020). The Deleaves: A UAV device for efficient tree canopy sampling. Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems. Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems, 8 (3), 245-264. 10.1139/juvs-2020-0005

El Maachi, Imanne, Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre et Bouachir, Wassim (2020). Deep 1D-Convnet for accurate Parkinson disease detection and severity prediction from gait. Expert Systems with Applications, 143. 10.1016/j.eswa.2019.113075

Graf, Thomas Mueller et Lemire, Daniel (2020). Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters. Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, 25 (1). 10.1145/3376122

Muła, Wojciech et Lemire, Daniel (2020). Base64 encoding and decoding at almost the speed of a memory copy. Software: Practice and Experience, 50 (2), 89-97. 10.1002/spe.2777

Correia, David LP, Bouachir, Wassim, Gervais, David, Pureswaran, Deepa, Kneeshaw, Daniel D et De Grandpré, Louis (2020). Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Large-Scale Plant Phenology Studies From Noisy Time-Lapse Images. IEEE Access, 8, 13151 - 13160. 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2965462

Bélanger, Nicolas, Collin, Alexandre, Ricard-Piché, Jacinthe, Kembel, Steven W. et Rivest, David (2019). Microsite conditions influence leaf litter decomposition in sugar maple bioclimatic domain of Quebec. Biogeochemistry, 145 (1-2), 107-126. 10.1007/s10533-019-00594-1

Langdale, Geoff et Lemire, Daniel (2019). Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second. VLDB Journal, 28 (6). 10.1007/s00778-019-00578-5

Fontana, Mario, Labrecque, Michel, Messier, Christian et Bélanger, Nicolas (2018). Permanent site characteristics exert a larger influence than atmospheric conditions on leaf mass, foliar nutrients and ultimately aboveground biomass productivity of Salix miyabeana ‘SX67’. Forest Ecology and Management, 427 (1), 423-433. 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.02.005

Amichev, Beyhan Y., Volk, Timothy A., Hangs, Ryan D., Bélanger, Nicolas, Vujanovic, Vladimir et Van Rees, Ken C.J. (2018). Growth, Survival, and Yields of 30 Short-Rotation Willow Cultivars on the Canadian Prairies: 2nd Rotation Implications. New Forests, 49 (5), 649-665. 10.1007/s11056-018-9650-8

Kimmig, Sara R., Holmden, Chris et Bélanger, Nicolas (2018). Biogeochemical cycling of Mg and its isotopes in a sugar maple forest in Québec. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 230 (1), 60-82. 10.1016/j.gca.2018.03.020

Perreault, Lili, Brais, Suzanne, Bélanger, Nicolas et Quideau, Sylvie (2017). Soil and seedling response to dehydrated septic tank sludge versus forest floor additions at a disturbed site. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 98 (1), 114-127. 10.1139/CJSS-2017-0073

Book Sections

Pappas, Christoforos, Bélanger, Nicolas et 25 autres auteurs (2022). Smartforests Canada: A Network of Monitoring Plots for Forest Management Under Environmental Change. In Tognetti, Roberto; Smith, Melanie, & Panzacchi, Pietro (Ed.), Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions (p. 521-543). Cham, Suisse : Springer, coll. « Managing Forest Ecosystems », vol. 40. ISBN 978-3-030-80766-5 10.1007/978-3-030-80767-2

Papers in Conference Proceedings

Miladi, Fatma, Psyché, Valéry, Diattara, Awa, El Mawas, Nour et Lemire, Daniel (In Press). Evaluating a GPT-4 and Retrieval-Augmented Generation-Based Conversational Agent to Enhance Learning Experience in a MOOC. In 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education.

Miladi, Fatma, Psyché, Valéry et Lemire, Daniel (2024). Comparative Performance of GPT-4, RAG-Augmented GPT-4, and Students in MOOCs. In Breaking Barriers with Generative Intelligence. Using GI to Improve Human Education and Well-Being (BBGI 2024). Springer, coll. « Communications in Computer and Information Science ». 10.1007/978-3-031-65996-6_7

Miladi, Fatma, Psyché, Valéry et Lemire, Daniel (2024). Leveraging GPT-4 for Accuracy in Education: A Comparative Study on Retrieval-Augmented Generation in MOOCs. In AIED 2024 - 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (LBR Track). New York City : Springer-Verlag, coll. « Communications in Computer and Information Science », vol. 2150. 10.1007/978-3-031-64315-6_40

Naimi, Safwen, Bouachir, Wassim et Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre (2024). HCT: Hybrid Convnet-Transformer for Parkinson’s disease detection and severity prediction from gait. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2023). IEEE. 10.1109/ICMLA58977.2023.00119

Nfissi, Alaa, Bouachir, Wassim, Bouguila, Nizar et Mishara, Brian (2024). Unlocking the Emotional States of High-Risk Suicide Callers through Speech Analysis. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC 2024). IEEE. 10.1109/ICSC59802.2024.00012

Miladi, Fatma, Lemire, Daniel et Psyché, Valéry (2023). Learning Engagement and Peer Learning in MOOC: A Selective Systematic Review. In Frasson, Claude; Mylonas, Phivos, & Troussas, Christos (Ed.), Augmented Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems. 19th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2023. Springer, coll. « Lecture Notes in Computer Science », vol. 13891. 10.1007/978-3-031-32883-1_29

Anwar, Noreen, Philippe, Duplessis-Guindon, Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre et Bouachir, Wassim (2023). VisiTherS: Visible-Thermal Infrared Stereo Disparity Estimation of Human Silhouette. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops (p. 394-402).

Jemaa, Hela, Bouachir, Wassim, Leblon, Brigitte, LaRocque, Armand, Haddadi, Ata et Bouguila, Nizar (2023). Tree health assessment from UAV images: Improving object detection and classification using hard negative mining and semi-supervised autoencoder. In 2023 20th Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV) (p. 312-319). IEEE. 10.1109/CRV60082.2023.00047

Naimi, Safwen, Koubaa, Olfa, Bouachir, Wassim, Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre, Jeddore, Gregory, Baines, Patricia, Correia, David LP et Arsenault, André (2023). Automating lichen monitoring in ecological studies using instance segmentation of time-lapse images. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2023). IEEE. 10.1109/ICMLA58977.2023.00022

Nfissi, Alaa, Bouachir, Wassim, Bouguila, Nizar et Mishara, Brian L. (2023). Iterative Feature Boosting for Explainable Speech Emotion Recognition. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2023). IEEE. 10.1109/ICMLA58977.2023.00081

Zgaren, Ahmed, Bouachir, Wassim, Bouguila, Nizar et Hammoud, Riad I. (2023). MoundCount: A Detection-Based Approach for Automatic Counting of Planting Microsites on UAV Images. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops (p. 497-506).

Nfissi, Alaa, Bouachir, Wassim, Bouguila, Nizar et Mishara, Brian (2022). CNN-n-GRU: end-to-end speech emotion recognition from raw waveform signal using CNNs and gated recurrent unit networks. In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2022). IEEE.

Nikougoftar Nategh, Majid, Zgaren, Ahmed, Bouachir, Wassim et Bouguila, Nizar (2022). Automatic counting of mounds on UAV images: combining instance segmentation and patch-level correction. In 2022 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) (p. 375-381). IEEE. 10.1109/ICMLA55696.2022.00060

Dimitri Nguyen, Duc Minh, Miah, Mehdi, Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre et Bouachir, Wassim (2022). Transformers for 1D signals in Parkinson’s disease detection from gait. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022). IEEE. 10.1109/ICPR56361.2022.9956330

Jemaa, Hela, Bouachir, Wassim, Leblon, Brigitte et Bouguila, Nizar (2022). Computer vision system for detecting orchard trees from UAV images. In The International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. Copernicus GmbH. 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B4-2022-661-2022

Lemire, Daniel (2021). Unicode at Gigabytes per Second. In Lecroq, Thierry, & Touzet, Hélène (Ed.), SPIRE 2021: String Processing and Information Retrieval. 10.1007/978-3-030-86692-1_2

Li, Zhenxi, Bilodeau, Guillaume-Alexandre et Bouachir, Wassim (2020). MFST: Multi-Features Siamese Tracker. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). IEEE. 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412032

Zgaren, Ahmed, Bouachir, Wassim et Ksantini, Riadh (2020). Coarse-to-Fine Object Tracking Using Deep Features and Correlation filters. In Advances in Visual Computing : 15th International Symposium, ISVC 2020, San Diego, CA, USA, October 5-7, 2020, Proceedings. Cham, Suisse : Springer, coll. « Lecture Notes in Computer Science », vol. 12509. 10.1007/978-3-030-64556-4_40

Books

Lemire, Daniel (2025). Mastering Programming: From Testing to Performance in Go. . ISBN 9798280117723

Lemire, Daniel (2025). Maîtriser la programmation: Des tests à la performance en Go. . ISBN 9798316774128

Godin, Robert et Lemire, Daniel (2024). Programmation avec Python: des jeux au Web. . ISBN 979-8874122553

Lemire, Daniel, Mezghani, Neila, Boissières, Élodie, Godin, Robert, Louafi, Habib, Osei, Richmond, Shuraida, Shadi, Schmitt, Renée-Maria et Vieru, Dragos (2024). La science des données: Théorie et applications avec R et Python. Publication indépendante. ISBN 979-8-3257-7723-3

Godin, Robert et Lemire, Daniel (2024). Java pas à pas: Introduction à la programmation et au langage Java. . ISBN 979-8-8728-5037-3

Reports

Courcot, Blandine (2023). Suivi et modélisation du potentiel hydrique du sol dans un contexte de stress hydrique : le cas d’une érablière à bouleau jaune à la marge nordique de sa distribution (Notes de recherche du Laboratoire sur la science des données)..