Civic Media, Mobile Crowdsourcing, and the Public Good: A Framework for Urban Data Science.
research — Dec 06, 2017

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 Science in Amsterdam.

James Henderson, Idiap senior researcher, appointed as Action Editor for TACL
research — Dec 05, 2017

James Henderson, who has joined Idiap in September 2017 and is now leading Idiap's Natural Language Understanding group, has recently been appointed as Action Editorfor the "Transactions of Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)" journal.

Idiap Researchers Nikolaos Pappas and Andrei Popescu-Belis awarded at the IJCNLP 2017
research — Dec 05, 2017

The paper "Multilingual Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification" by Nikolaos Pappas and Andrei Popescu-Belis has received the Best Paper Award at the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, held on November 27-December 1 in Tapei, Taiwan.

On November 27 ,2017, Gulcan Can successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled 'Visual Analysis of Maya Glyphs via Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning'
education — Dec 04, 2017

This thesis presents visual analysis methods for complex ancient Maya writings, specifically a promising crowdsourcing approach to build a large glyph dataset, competitive data-driven visual representations, and interpretable visualization methods that can be applied to explore various other Digital Humanities datasets.

SIIP - Speaker Identification Integrated Project passes final field test
research — Nov 28, 2017

LYON, France – In its final field test, the Speaker Identification Integrated Project (SiiP) successfully demonstrated the system’s innovative capabilities as language independent voice recognition system.

The "Diamond" winner of the MassChallenge 2017 is Moka Studio.
tech — Nov 17, 2017

Moka Studio is born in Martigny Valais in 2009.

Creating links between innovation in healthcare and customers
research — Nov 14, 2017

The SWISKO project, in which Idiap's Social Computing Group participates in collaboration with DomoSafety SA, the University of Bern, La Source School of Nursing Sciences, and the Home Care Association of the Canton of Neuchatel (NOMAD), was featured in the Magazine ASD (Aide et Soins a Domicile).

Valais/Wallis Workshop on Artificial Intelligence 2 held at Idiap
research — Nov 14, 2017

The Valais/Wallis workshop on Artificial Intelligence 2 was held in Martigny at the Idiap Research Institute on November 10th 2017.

David Ginsbourger, Idiap senior researcher invited to the nips workshop on bayesian optimization
research — Nov 08, 2017

David Ginsbourger is invited to give a talk at BayesOpt 2017 ("Bayesian optimization for science and engineering"). The workshop will take place in Long Beach, USA, on the last day of the NIPS conference (December 4-9 2017).

Idiap of Martigny develops a new imaging system for research
research — Nov 06, 2017

The Idiap Research Institute develops a new imaging system for research. The precision instrument has been built together with the air base of Sion and could be used by companies and the Universities of Applied Science of the Canton.

Video Artificial Intelligence: Koemei becomes SPEXIAN
tech — Nov 06, 2017

Koemei (former Idiap start-up) technology is now branded SPEXIAN.

Idiap Start-up Biowatch selected to Join Cyber Program at France-Based Business Hub
tech — Oct 16, 2017

Thales has selected nine startup companies to join a six-month, cybersecurity-focused business development program led by the company at the Station F startup campus in France.

ACM ICMI Community Service Award to Daniel Gatica-Perez
research — Oct 16, 2017

The Steering Board of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) has announced that the recipient of the 2017 Community Service Award is Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez, Head of the Social Computing Group at Idiap.

"Combining Electromyography and Tactile Myography to Improve Hand and Wrist Activity Detection in Prostheses" paper posted on Technologies/ journal social media platform
research — Oct 16, 2017

The paper of Noémie Jaquier, Mathilde Connan, Claudio Castellini and Sylvain Calinon from Idiap Research Institute and DLR-German Aerospace Center, "Combining Electromyography and Tactile Myography to Improve Hand and Wrist Activity Detection in Prostheses", has been posted on /Technologies/ journal social media platform.

David Ginsbourger, Idiap Senior Researcher invited to the 9th Trondheim Symposium in Statistics
research — Oct 02, 2017

David Ginsbourger is invited to give a talk at the 9th Trondheim Symposium in Statistics. The symposium will take place 6-7 October, 2017, at Baardshaug (https://baardshaug.no/).

Journée d’initiation à l’entrepreneuriat et l’innovation « Graines d’Entrepreneurs »
tech — Sep 28, 2017

Pour les jeunes valaisans de 11 à 16 ans le mercredi 4 octobre après midi à la Foire du Valais à Martigny, salle Vaisons la Romaine.

CREALOGIX acquires machine learning technology for data and video analytics
tech — Sep 21, 2017

CREALOGIX purchases the cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology of Koemei. The solution, developed by the Swiss start-up and spin-off of the Idiap Research Institute, enables the automated conversion of audio and video content into text data for analytics and optimisation, thanks to machine learning technology. This makes it easier to exploit multimedia content. As a result, data categories that are set to grow massively in the future and whose analysis is still largely neglected by companies today, can be used efficiently. Extensive concept search as well as usage analytics further simplify handling. With these innovative AI functions, the digital banking and digital learning specialist is complementing its existing digital product portfolio.

Results of the International Create Challenge 2017
tech — Sep 20, 2017

On Tuesday, September 19th, after three weeks of hard work and networking, the ICC’2017 participants found out which teams the jury had selected among the winners of the challenge. The organizers of the ICC’2017 are proud to announce the following winning teams:

The 17th Forum Economique Rhodanien is a big hit
institute — Sep 18, 2017

More than 300 people attended the forum and the 6 workshops have kept their promises.

Pepper, Idiap robot at the TEDx Martigny
tech — Sep 14, 2017

Pepper, a robot of Idiap Research Institute, had the chance to present its point of view about Artificial Intelligence.