Associated since Idiap’s creation in 1991, EPFL and the Institute have strong links. The new strategic alliance strengthens these links in the research, education and technology transfer areas.
Artificial intelligence and big data pioneers Octopeek (France) and Idiap announce a partnership. A member of Octopeek’s scientific staff will spend four years at the very heart of Idiap, culminating in a PhD—a unique opportunity to use video data to develop research on multimodal learning, and to spur innovation.
Thanks to a significant multi-million budget increase during the 2021-2024 period, Idiap’s new strategy will create over 60 highly skilled jobs, and interdisciplinary research groups dedicated to technology transfer towards businesses. This program is possible thanks to the support of the Canton of Valais and the Municipality of Martigny.
After spending almost 13 years with us, François Fleuret is appointed professor at UNIGE. To allow him to maintain his link with our institute and in recognition of his contributions, he is also appointed as an external member researcher of Idiap.
The Speech and audio processing group at Idiap, in collaboration with Swisscom, improves Swiss-German speech recognition for the voice assistant of the Swisscom TV Box through a multi-dialect approach.
Idiap researchers published the results of a study showing that analyzing pictures and audio from voluntarily recorded videos thanks to an app helps to determine with more objectivity the context of alcohol drinking among young people.
Thanks to her master's degree in AI and her internship in the Genomics & health informatics group, Colombine Verzat discovered that she particularly enjoyed implementing research in applied projects. We look back on her journey and how this master's degree allowed her to highlight what she really wanted to bring to the world of research.
Always observe what’s smaller while maintaining the highest image quality possible. This requires ever more powerful microscopes, but computational methods can also do it. This is the subject of the thesis that Olivia Mariani successfully defended.
Perfect understanding of a text is not possible without context. Same goes for a computer. It cannot do a good translation without understanding what is really defined in a text. At Idiap, Lesly Miculicich conducted research to make this possible through her thesis which she successfully defended last February.
Since his arrival at Idiap 20 years ago, Sébastien Marcel is shaking up the research community in biometry. After several major projects and a long term hard work, the researcher established the bases for a new biometrics standard.
Idiap is developing its research capacities by hiring four new senior researchers. Two women and two men, whose goal will be to work on topics with great potential in AI and to continue to progress in areas that have already contributed to the reputation of the institute.
Communications play a key role to share scientific breakthroughs and highlight researchers work. To follow Idiap’s growth, a new team member is joining the institute he knows for many years thanks to his internships.
Following an external audit, the Institute was declared to be an equal salary employer. Including more diversity remains an important goal for Idiap, as our professional environment suffers from a lack of diversity on the global scale.
Ranging from bikes to cars, batteries are a key element of the electric mobility. Managing the autonomy of these vehicles is challenging. Using machine learning and smart scooters, Idiap researchers intend to enhance battery charging plans for a better mobility experience.
To face the increasing use of biometrics systems, Android set up its own certification standard. The biometrics center of Idiap became accredited to deliver certificates meeting these standards. This competence builds up on the FIDO accreditation obtained in 2019.
Coordinated by Idiap, the Roxanne project aims to introduce AI technologies for law enforcement agencies. A few days ago, criminal investigation TV series were among the first data sets used to demonstrate early technologies developed by the project partners.
The first intake of students of the on-the-job Master in artificial intelligence just graduated. Offered by Idiap Research Institute and Swiss Distance University Institute, this curriculum allowed an engineer from Syngenta to become the artificial intelligence specialist to support the digital evolution of the production site.
Human-robot interactions are often lacking fluidity, especially outside of the lab. Today, researchers from Idiap are publishing in open access the algorithms which allowed a robot to be used in real conditions in a shopping mall in Finland in the framework of the European project Mummer.
A joint study by Idiap Research Institute, EPFL, and the University of Lausanne’s Institute of Psychology has provided us with a unique snapshot of how Swiss residents experienced the partial lockdown measures resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. The findings include gender disparities, doubts about the future and hopes for change.
To diminish facial recognition biases, data sets of representative pictures are necessary. Idiap decided to go a step further by participating in the creation of an ethical data set of pictures.
Idiap and EPFL renew their strategic alliance
