Research Blog

 

This is a feed of recent activities (projects, papers, people, ...)

 
Friday, 28 September 2018
Michael Halstead is joining the Biometrics group at Idiap in September 2018 as a postdoc.

Welcome Michael !

Michael completed his Ph.D titled “Locating People in Video Surveillance from Semantic...


After working several years since 2010 as PostDoc and a Research Associate on face anti-spoofing, vein recognition and other topics in the Biometrics group, André has been hired as a permanent member...


Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Biometrics refers to the automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioural (speech, ...) and biological (face, fingerprint, iris, ...)  characteristics for identification or...


Friday, 6 April 2018
Saeed Sarfjoo is joining the Biometrics group at Idiap in April 2018 as a postdoc.

Welcome Saeed !

Seyyed Saeed Sarfjoo received the B.Sc. degree in information technology from Isfahan University,...


Friday, 6 April 2018
Ketan Kotwal is joining the Biometrics group at Idiap in March 2018 as a postdoc.

Welcome Ketan !

Ketan Kotwal obtained his MTech and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) in 2012...


Friday, 1 September 2017
Anjith George is joining the Biometrics group at Idiap in October 2017 as a postdoc.

Welcome Anjith !

Anjith  George is currently pursuing Ph.D. from a Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT...


David Geissbühler is joining the Biometrics group at Idiap in June 2017 as a postdoc.

Welcome David !

David obtained a PhD in High-Energy Theoretical Physics from the University of Bern (Switzerland)....


Wednesday, 15 February 2017
From left to right: Vedrana Krivokuća, Jaden Diefenbaugh, Olegs Nikisins, André Anjos, Amir Mohammadi, Sébastien Marcel, Sushil Bhattacharjee, Teodors Eglitis, Hannah Muckenhirn, Pavel Korshunov,...


Wednesday, 2 November 2016
Vedrana Krivokuca is joining the biometrics group at Idiap in January 2017 to work on a biometric template protection.

Welcome Vedrana !

Vedrana Krivokuća is joining the biometrics group at Idiap in...


The Idiap Research Institute ( http://www.idiap.ch ) seeks qualified candidates for one PostDoc position in the field of biometric template protection. The research will be conducted in the context of...


Wednesday, 3 August 2016
This is summertime and the biometric group changed in one year.

For left to right: Tiago de Freitas Pereira, Olegs Nikisins, Hannah Muckenhirn, Sushil Bhattacharjee, Teodors Eglitis (down), Sébastien...


Ivana Chingovska received the PhD degree from EPFL on May 2nd 2016 after the public defense of her doctoral dissertation entitled: "Trustworthy Biometric Verification under Spoofing Attacks:...


Idiap published a book chapter entitled “Face Recognition in Challenging Environments: An Experimental and Reproducible Research Survey” appearing in the Springer book “Face Recognition Across the...


After 4 years of development, the BEAT platform is now available for download as an open-source project, under the Affero GNU GPL version 3. It is composed of 6 packages which can be reached on this...


Monday, 22 February 2016
Idiap published on Feb 18 2016 a PCT patent on biometric vein anti-spoofing (also called presentation attack detection) under the reference WO/2016/023582.

(WO2016023582) A METHOD OF DETECTING A...


Monday, 22 February 2016
Teodors Eglitis is joining the biometrics group at Idiap in June to work on the BIOWAVE project.

Welcome Teodors !

Teodors Eglitis obtained an MSc degree in electronics from Riga Technical University,...


Friday, 19 February 2016
Ali Komaty is joining the biometrics group at Idiap in March to work on the ODESSA project.

Welcome Ali !

Ali Komaty received his PhD from the French Naval Academy Research Institute (IRENav), in Brest,...


Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Olegs Nikisins is joining the biometrics group at Idiap in March to work on the BIOWAVE project.

Welcome Olegs !

Olegs Nikisins obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Riga Technical...


Wednesday, 20 January 2016
The Swiss Centre for Biometrics Research and Testing and the Biometric group at Idiap Research Institute organize the Speaker Anti-spoofing competition. The competition will be part of the IEEE 8th...


The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) organized its annual Symposium in Martigny Switzerland on Jan 19 2016 afternoon after the meetings of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 Biometrics.
 
The Symposium...