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Three start-ups from Valais amongst the TOP 50 start-ups to invest in

For the 6th year in a row, Bilan magazine published its selection of the 50 Swiss start-ups to invest in. This year, three start-ups from Valais, chosen for ...

The TACT-HAND project featured in the annual magazine Micro&Nano

The TACT-HAND project in which Idiap participates was featured in the annual magazine Micro&Nano (p.42-43) from Micronarc, the Western Switzerland ...

Modeling human behavior with Airbnb

Researchers at Idiap and EPFL have been working with psychologists to understand how people form first impressions from photos. They focused on how people ...

Idiap spin-off KeyLemon acquired by ams

On Monday Feb 6th, ams, a worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, announced the acquisition of KeyLemon for an undisclosed amount [1].

On February 2nd, 2018, Ajay Tanwani successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled 'Generative Models for Learning Robot Manipulation Skills from Humans'

The thesis presents generative mixture models for learning robot manipulation skills from a few human demonstrations, and providing assistance to a human ...

David Ginsbourger awarded a titular professorship by the University of Bern

David Ginsbourger, head of the Uncertainty Quantification and Optimal Design group at Idiap Research Institute was awarded a professor title by the University ...

3 promotions to Senior Researcher at Idiap

Following a very strict evaluation process – comprising the nomination by Idiap's management and a formal approval by the Scientific College - , Idiap is ...

Andrei Popescu-Belis, professor at HEIG-VD and former Idiap researcher, receives prize for best article

An article, co-authored by Prof. Andrei Popescu-Belis, has received the Best Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing ...

Valais turned towards innovation

Secure access to computers thanks to facial and voice recognition software on the cutting edge of technology; develop an active principle based on Alpine herbs ...

Idiap published a new patent on a federated platform for reproducible research in Open Science

For many years the Idiap research institute has worked on reproducible research and developed several tools for this such as Bob or the BEAT platform.