Ten-Year Impact Award to AMI Corpus Paper "The AMI Meeting Corpus: A Pre-announcement"
Idiap at a glance
The Idiap Research Institute is an independent, not-for-profi t, research institute located in Martigny, Valais,
Switzerland. Idiap has as strong academic link with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
While partly subsidized by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of Martigny, Idiap obtains most
of its funding from numerous national and international (EU and US) research projects, as well as from collaboration with industries.
At the national level, Idiap is the Leading House of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) on
“Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2)”.
With a research staff of more than 80 scientists (including EPFL professors, seniors, postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and developers), the primary missions of Idiap are research, education, and technology transfer.
Idiap Research Institute
Centre du Parc
Rue Marconi 19
P.O. Box 592
CH-1920 Martigny
Switzerland
tel. +41 27 721 77 11
fax +41 27 721 77 12
Key fi gures
37 research programs (CH - EU - USA)
135 publications per year
2300 m2 of space occupied
8 million CHF in the budget
1991 year of foundation
50 TB of total storage space
Human resources
100 employees
23 nationalities
3 professors
15 senior scientists
35 PhD Students
15 support & development engineers
20 internships (average/year)
Smart Meeting Room
Idiap’s research infrastructure include a fully instrumented meeting room
for up to four people including individual lapel microphone, microphone arrays, close-up and wide-angle
cameras, as well as slide, whiteboard and pens capture.
All data sources are synchronized, timestamped, recorded, can then be annotated, converted and processed, and are usually made available on the the MultiModal Media File Server at mmm.idiap.ch.
IdeArk SA is a subsidiary company created in 2005 by Idiap and the city of Martigny.
IdeArk is a company whose mission is to coordinate and facilitate the transformation
of the results of research activities into innovative solutions; to allow their commercial
exploitation and develop relationships with potential industrial and business partners
at the cantonal, national and international levels; and to anticipate and identify future
market opportunities.
This company assumes the role of interface between research and industry. It is in
charge of communicating the preoccupations of the entrepreneurs to the scientists.
Idiap and IdeArk form a coherent structure for the transfer of the Institute’s
research by dissociating the research component from the exploitation component.
IdeArk SA is also a cantonal economic promotion tool as part of the global strategy of innovation promotion, called “The Ark” which has been launched by the canton of Valais. Of a resolutely international scope, The Ark combines several technology sites into one and the same entity. It aims to make the Valais a true technology park and to nurture research and to foster the capacity for innovation among existing businesses.
