The Idiap research institute from Martigny held its traditional Innovation Day on August 28th. The researchers presented how cutting edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, biometrics or robotics can be transferred into the business world.
Stepping down as CFO, Ed Gregg was an actor and witness of Idiap's evolution over the last 15 years. Beyond his managerial role, known for his rigor, he knew how to discreetly bring his personal touch to the institute.
Bob is a signal-processing and machine learning toolbox originally developed by Idiap Research Institute. Upgrading from version 5 to 6, the last release of Bob is offering some important improvements with a focus on video support.
Robots often lack flexibility to meet the needs of today’s small production cycles. Thanks to the European H2020 project called Collaborate led by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, our institute will contribute to improve collaboration between robots and humans.
The Embassy of Switzerland in Spain is organizing each year a Swiss Innovation Night. This year was under the title "Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Society". Our institute was among the representatives to share its research.
Idiap’s researchers received the best paper award from the AI Foundation at the prestigious International Conference on Machine Learning 2019. Their work focused on methods to detect audio-visual inconsistencies in fake videos.
Idiap researchers are looking for volunteers to test security systems. Their aim is not only to detect potential vulnerabilities, but also to reinforce security of private data. To achieve this goal, their challenge is to create a panel representing human diversity.
Idiap’s Social Computing Group received a paper award at Pervasive Health 2019. Their research focused on drinking practices pictured on Instagram and classified thanks to hashtags, images, and artificial intelligence.
The reference in authentication standards, the FIDO Alliance has confirmed the accreditation of Idiap’s Biometrics Center as only the third member of a what remains a very exclusive club, placing it at the heart of those security issues that make up the sensitive and fast-growing domain of biometric certification.
The prestigious International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) bestowed it Best Paper Award during its International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics. Idiap Biometrics security and privacy research group was among the authors of the awarded paper.
Artificial deep neural networks are a powerful tool, able to extract information from large datasets and, using this acquired knowledge, make accurate predictions on previously unseen data. Due to the very large number of parameters required, they are also particularly difficult to understand.
The Perception and Activity Understanding group presents the unified system of visual, audio, and non-verbal perception that is currently used within the MuMMER.
Christian Jaques, a researcher in the Idiap’s Computational Bioimaging Group and PhD student in electrical engineering at EPFL was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the latest IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging.
On May 7th 2019, Idiap will be hosting the “Artificial Intelligence & Energy” Symposium. Organized by the Centre de Recherches Energétiques et Municipales and the Idiap Research Institute, this event aims to open new perspectives in the energy research field.
On April 4th 2019, Skanda Muralidhar obtained the PhD degree at EPFL after successfully defending his thesis, advised by Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez at Idiap’s Social Computing group
Recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of Web and Knowledge Engineering, Multimedia, the head of Idiap’s Social Computing group is among the most influential researchers according to the AMiner platform.
Idiap’s new Financial Manager, Christophe Rossa, explains us the challenges and specificities of our institute financial aspects. Discover how his 10 years’ experience managing a casino finances is an asset for the Institute.
To keep the pace with its research, our institute must be able to have a particularly fast internet connection. Idiap is currently undergoing a massive upgrade of its own network. Thank to optic fibre and new wires the network speed will increase by a factor ten.
How to empower communication among people through technology that is aware of diversity? To achieve this goal, the WeNet European project will develop a platform to connect people using ethical principles and artificial intelligence technology. Idiap is part of this project.
Following a comparable path, robots could learn to move and walk as human being do. The goal of the MEMMO project is to develop a unified approach to motion generation for complex robots with arms and legs.
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.
3D eye tracking startup Eyeware closes its first round of CHF 1.9M in venture funding.
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.
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.
How to transfer a futuristic technology to a working application?
