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Civic Media, Mobile Crowdsourcing, and the Public Good: A Framework for Urban Data Science.

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) gave a talk about his work in Latin America and Switzerland at the First European Seminar on Urban Data ...

On November 27 ,2017, Gulcan Can successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled 'Visual Analysis of Maya Glyphs via Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning'

This thesis presents visual analysis methods for complex ancient Maya writings, specifically a promising crowdsourcing approach to build a large glyph dataset, ...

Creating links between innovation in healthcare and customers

The SWISKO project, in which Idiap's Social Computing Group participates in collaboration with DomoSafety SA, the University of Bern, La Source School of ...

ACM ICMI Community Service Award to Daniel Gatica-Perez

The Steering Board of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) has announced that the recipient of the 2017 Community Service Award is ...

Civique: Engaging Citizens in Local Action

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez recently presented the civique.org platform in local and international events.

Understanding how technology can revolutionize humanitarian work

A new EPFL course offers students the opportunity to learn more about how new technologies can be used by humanitarian organizations. The students critically ...

Maya glyph analysis on Horizons Magazine

The work by R. Hu, J.-M. Odobez, and D. Gatica-Perez on extraction of Maya hieroglyph strokes was covered by Horizons Magazine, the scientific magazine of the ...

Results of street harassment survey presented in Lausanne

The results of a mobile survey on street harrassment in Lausanne were presented yesterday by the City's Observatory of Security.

MAAYA project at EPFL Open Days 2016

Idiap researchers presented tools for analysis and visualization of ancient Maya hieroglyphs at the EPFL Open Days 2016 in Lausanne.

Invited talk at ECCV Workshop on Apparent Personality Recognition

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez presented work on computational analysis of job interviews and online video resumes.