current projects and initiatives





European Projects


 

 

alignAI 

Aligning LLM Technologies with Societal Values  

 

ELIAS 

European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability  


Social Innovation Projects


 

 

Participatory AI

Idiap Center for Participatory AI 

 

Civique

The Civique Platform: Mobile Data for Local Causes 


Research Collaborations with Industry


 

 

MDC 

The Mobile Data Challenge Initiative 

Data Portal with Nokia


past projects




 

WeNet 

The Internet of Us 

Funded by the European Commission

 

AI4Media 

Artificial Intelligence for Society and the Media Industry 

Funded by the European Commission

 

ICARUS 

Innovative Approaches to Urban Security 

Funded by the European Commission

 

NATAI 

The Nature of Artificial Intelligence

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

2000 Lakes

Alpine Research and Citizen Science Toward Microbial Conservation of High-Mountain Lakes in Switzerland 

Funded by the CLIMACT initiative

 

Dusk2Dawn 

Characterizing Youth Nightlife Spaces, Activities, and Drinks

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

HealthVlogging

Social Media Culture and Health-Related Practices on YouTube

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

Corona Citizen Science

Research on the Covid-19 experience in Switzerland 

Social Innovation project

 

ADIVA

Behavior and Feedback in Video Interviews

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

TOT 

Trust over Time 

Funded by Initiative for Media Innovation (IMI)

 

RISE 

Rich Interpersonal Skill Analytics for Recruitment

Funded by Innosuisse

 

ADVANCE 

Augmented Dialogue Tool based on Behavior Computing 

Funded by Innosuisse

 

ADEL 

Detection of Leadership from Voice and Body 

Funded by E4S Center

 

LOIS

Leveraging On-Device Smartphone Inference for Social Surveys 

Funded by EPFL-UNIL CROSS program

 

SenseCityVity

Mobile Sensing and Collective Action for Urban Awareness in Latin America 

Funded by EPFL CODEV

 

UBImpressed 

Ubiquitous First Impressions and Ubiquitous Awareness

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

Youth@Night 

A Multi-disciplinary Study of Young People's Going Out Behavior

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

Bites'n'Bits 

Understanding Eating Routines in Context 

Funded by Nestle Research

 

MAAYA 

Multimedia Analysis and Access for Documentation and Decipherment of Maya Epigraphy

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

Multimodal Linguistic Crowdsourcing

Tracing Swiss Heritage Speakers' Identities in North America

Funded by EPFL-UNIL CROSS program 

 

Mi Casa es Su Casa

Understanding Peer Accommodation in Developed and Developing Countries

Funded by EPFL-UNIL CROSS program

 

Mirror

Mobile Data to Improve Decision Making in African Cities

Collaboration with EPFL Afrotech

 

SONVB 

Sensing and Analyzing Organizational Nonverbal Behavior 

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

NISHA 

NTT-Idiap Social Behavior Analysis Initiative 

Funded by NTT Communication Science Labs, Japan

 

VlogSense 

Modeling Conversational Behavior in Social Media 

Funded by National Center of Competence in Research on 

Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2)

 

HAI 

Human Activity and Interactivity Modeling 

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

LS-CONTEXT 

Large-Scale Human Context Discovery from Mobile Phones 

Funded by Nokia Research 

 

CODICES 

Automatic Analysis of Mexican Codex Collections

Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

 

DomoCare 

A New Home Care Preventive Protocol 

Funded by Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI)

 

MUMIA: COST Action IC-1002 

Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access

 

NOVICOM 

Automatic Analysis of Group Conversations via Visual Cues in Nonverbal Communication

Funded by European Commission, Marie Curie Program

 

HUMAVIPS 

Humanoids with Auditory and Visual Abilities in Populated Spaces

Funded by European Commission

 

PASCAL2 

Network of Excellence on Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modeling, and Computational Learning 

Funded by European Commission