Artificial intelligence is going back to school: Monday, February 4, 13 students upon selection are beginning their new master integrated within a company. In this new role of employee-student, they will allow their employer to acquire skills at the forefront thanks to Idiap.
How to transport a given amount of resources from point A to point B at minimal cost?
A Chinese delegation from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China had meet with Swiss representatives for innovation. Idiap was among them.
The use of graphic interfaces is a common ground in today’s software. The Qt – read it as cute – Project is working to maintain and develop an open source framework that helps build Graphical User Interface and much more. Idiap is now an official contributor to this effort.
3D eye tracking startup Eyeware closes its first round of CHF 1.9M in venture funding.
Idiap’s teams are happy to wish you a merry Christmas and and all the best for this new year!
The best PhD student research and the best PhD student paper were awarded to Tiago de Freitas Pereira and Yu Yu. They received their prizes from Idiap’s director.
How to save energy, fight climate change and improve your energy supply? Be smart and use artificial intelligence. To achieve this goal Idiap Research Institute created a new research group in Energy Informatics in collaboration with the Centre de recherches énergétiques et municipales (CREM) dedicated to research in the energy field and local communities.
The shortage of computer developers is impacting many sectors. Increasing the share of women in this area would partly address this shortage. Idiap is committed in this direction by raising girls' awareness and proposing a fellowship program for female researchers.
Researchers from Idiap Research Institute have carried out a study using smartphone data from young Swiss people to better understand the circumstances in which they are most likely to drink. A computer model developed based on Artificial Intelligence can estimate, with over 75% accuracy, whether alcohol was consumed on a given weekend night.
Digitalisation is impacting every business, from tourism to energy. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the tools that can provide a strategical asset to businesses, but the lack of experts can be a limitation when it comes to using such technologies. Thanks to the first master in AI tailored for companies’ development and in collaboration with Swiss Distance University and the Canton of Valais, Idiap Research Institute is offering a brand new solution which also creates new jobs. The target audience for this master is very broad, not only targeting the Canton of Valais.
Technology transfer is much more than an office dedicated to industrial relations. The TTO is one of the many assets of Idiap. Interview with Joël Dumoulin, a man wearing multiple hats.
Adrian Shajkofci, a PhD student in the Computational Bioimaging Group, co-advised by Michael Liebling and François Fleuret received a "Best Student Paper Award" at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), on October 9th 2018. This event is the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on image and video processing and computer vision. The 2018 theme was "Imaging beyond imagination".
Neil Lawrence, Director of the Machine Learning of Amazon hub in Cambridge is a new member of the Idiap Research Institute International Advisory Board. His experience and expertise will be an asset for Idiap.
The Perception and Activity Understanding group attended the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), in Madrid.
From European projects to intellectual property, meet Idiap’s legal advisor, Marie-Constance Landelle, whose work allows to improve Institute operations and to face new challenges.
A virtual coach to help you to write an email that can be misinterpreted or to help cricket players to enhance their performances. Those are the projects based on Artificial Intelligence and awarded by the Idiap Research Institute.
The Innovation Day 2018 took place in Martigny (Valais) on August 29th and has been covered by multiple Swiss media.
How to use artificial intelligence to analyse blood samples or to detect when a child is accessing an inappropriate website? Here are some of the projects submitted for the International Create Challenge (ICC) 2018 hosted and supported by Idiap until September 18th.
The Urbis project, which is a collaboration on citizen participation and mobile crowdsourcing between IPICYT Mexico and Idiap, was presented at the First National Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation in Mexico City on August 8 2018. The event was organized by the National Council of Science and Technology.
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