The International Create Challenge (ICC) is a real accelerator of start-up creation and a promotion tool for the regional economy.
The Sparsity workshop is one-day event taking place on March 25, 2015 at EPFL.
Submission: deadline - May 04 2015
SenseCityVity+, the new phase of the SenseCityVity project, has started today under the support of EPFL Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV).
As a consequence of the successful Kick-off Workshop of the Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing, the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and the Idiap Research Institute decided to elevate at a more European level the initiative of the Idiap Research Institute to create a cooperative research consortium towards the establishment of the European Cooperative Identification Technology Research Consortium (EAB-CITeR) In the process to establish EAB-CITeR, the resources of Idiap and the critical mass of over 160 current EAB members shall complement each other.
Daniel Gatica-Perez discussed the work done in the SenseCityVity project at the DigitalPolis Symposium in Paris, France, Jan 29-31, 2015. The symposium gathered a multidisciplinary audience developing theoretical and technical approaches to understand digital cities.
On Monday January 19th 2015, the Idiap Research Institute, together with its partners, officially kicked off its star-project “Valais*Wallis Digital”. After 2 years of intensive work, Valais*Wallis Digital, which aims at celebrating the bicentenary of Valais’ entry into the Swiss Confederation in 2015, wants to motivate the population to get out their memories in relation to the « old country », to digitize and to share them on the platform or the mobile application especially developed for the project.
Idiap has signed a new research agreement with Google ATAP.
Idiap has awarded Kenneth Funes Mora and Laurent Son Nguyen for their outstanding work.
IMD has announced 26 winners of the Start-up Competition 2014/2015. The companies will work with IMD’s MBA and EMBA classes in 2015.
In his work, Marco Fornoni developed image representations and classification algorithms for automatically labeling an image with the high-level semantic concept describing the scene as a whole (e.g. "a mountain scene").
Our work on mobile crowdsourcing for urban awareness was presented at the Symposium PI in Monthey on Friday 28th November.
On November 25, the Government of Valais officially opened the festivities for the bicentenary of Valais’ entry into the Swiss Confederation.
Thursday, November 20 and Friday, November 21, 2014
Once more, Idiap has welcomed a group of 21 children - 17 girls and 4 boys of around 12 years old - from all over the Canton of Valais during the “Oser tous les métiers” day on November, 13th 2014.
2 events on Biometry in Idiap
Author: François Perraudin
The results of the SenseCityVity project were presented at the EPFL Center for Cooperation and Development (CODEV) Seed Money Conference, held on October 30, 2014.
On November 28, 29 and 30 a symposium on art and emerging technologies will take place at the “Théâtre du Crochetan” in Monthey/Valais.
The NOVICOM project, led by Oya Aran as Marie Curie Research Fellow and Daniel Gatica-Perez as Scientist in Charge, was featured today as a Project Story on
the European Commission Horizon 2020 website.
Oya is currently a SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow at the Social Computing Group at Idiap.
On October first 2014, Ramya Rasipuram made the public defense of her PhD thesis entitled "Grapheme-based Automatic Speech Recognition using Probabilistic Lexical Modeling". She received the EPFL PhD thesis diploma from her thesis Director Hervé Bourlard.
On 02 October 2014, the submitted paper by L. El Shafey, E. Khoury, and S. Marcel : "Audio-visual gender recognition in uncontrolled environment using variability modeling techniques" was awarded IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) Best Biometrics Student Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2014 (IJCB, 2014 29 September - 2 October 2014 at Clearwater, Florida, USA).
The winners of the International Create Challenge 2014, accelerator program organized by Idiap in Martigny, have been announced:
On 10 September 2014 the jury of the 8th European Biometrics Research and Industry Award has selected the three laureates of the 2014 edition of this prestigious competition.
Idiap pursues its development with new scientific research groups. Recently, the institute has acquired an American robot worth CHF 30’000.-. This investment opens new perspectives, in particular thanks to the interconnection between the different domains of competencies developed in Martigny.
During a press conference on August 28, 2014 the Idiap Research Institute revealed and launched its new crowd funding platform funding.idiap.ch
On August 11, 2014, Alexandre Heili publicly defended his PhD thesis entitled "Human Tracking and Pose Estimation in Open Spaces". He received the EPFL PhD thesis diploma from his thesis director Jean-Marc Odobez.