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Perception & Activity Understanding

The research group on the understanding of perception and activity conducts research analyses of human activities from multimodal data.

The analysis of human activities from multimodal data is useful for surveillance, behavior analysis, human–robot interfaces, and multimedia content analysis. This includes investigating the fundamental tasks of scene analysis such as detection, segmentation and tracking of people, their representation, and the characterization of their condition, as well as the modeling of sequential data and their interpretation in the form of gestures, activities, behavior, or social relationships, through the design of sound algorithms which exploit and extend models and methods of computer vision, machine learning, and multimodal data-fusion. Surveillance, traffic analysis, analysis of behavior, human-robot interfaces, and multimedia content analysis are the main application domains.

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User-friendly Robot Empowers Individuals with Mobility Disability

research — Feb 27, 2025

Robots designed to empower people with mobility disabilities are complex and difficult to adopt, as they require sophisticated movements to complete even basic tasks. At Idiap, researchers have developed a software that allows the robot to adapt to the unique needs of these people to provide a user-friendly experience.

Enhanced vine pruning thanks to artificial intelligence and augmented reality

tech — Nov 02, 2023

Idiap and the 3D2cut company developed a system capable of identifying vines and of assisting pruning. A scientific publication resulted from this collaboration. This project was supported by the The Ark foundation for innovation in Valais.

Aluminum parts manufacturing optimized with AI

tech — Apr 24, 2023

An Innosuisse project allowed Idiap to set up AI tools able to help experts to study the manufacturability of new aluminum elements requested by their customers.

Idiap is looking for its next director

institute — Jan 14, 2022

Idiap Research Institute and the School of Engineering at EPFL invite applications for the directorship of Idiap. The successful candidate will also hold a faculty position as full professor at EPFL School of Engineering.

Two Idiap PhD students awarded with an EPFL prize

education — Dec 20, 2021

Suraj Srinivas and Weipeng He received the 2021 PhD Thesis Distinction in Electrical Engineering by the EPFL.

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Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.Our group is regularly posting job openings ranging from internships to researcher positions. To check the opportunities currently available or to submit a speculative applications use the link below.