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The Idiap Research Institute will participate in the robotics festival organized this Saturday at EPFL! Apr 18, 2013

"Festival Robotique" Saturday April 20, 2013, EPFL Lausanne.

Best paper award for Alexandre Heili and Jean-Marc Odobez Jan 30, 2013

at the Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS), 2013.

Emogen, winners of the IMD Startup Competition 2013 Dec 21, 2012

The venture EmoGen, participant of the ICC’2012 and new Idiap spin-off, has been selected amongst the winners of the IMD Startup Competition 2013.

Idiap Awards 2012 Dec 18, 2012

Every year the Idiap Research Institute grants two awards to its students: the Idiap Paper Award and the Idiap Research Award.

Best Paper Paper Award Nomination at MUM 2012 Dec 07, 2012

The paper "Checking In or Checked In: Comparing Large-Scale Manual and Automatic Location Disclosure Patterns,"

Competition on speaker recognition in mobile environment using the MOBIO database Dec 07, 2012

Jan 14-April 8, 2013

Competition on face recognition in mobile environment using the MOBIO database Dec 07, 2012

Jan 14-April 8, 2013

The 2nd competition on counter measures to 2D facial spoofing attacks, Jan 14-April 8, 2013 Dec 06, 2012

Following the first competition on counter measures to 2D spoofing attacks consisting of printed photographs,The TABULA RASA project organizes a second competition for comparison of the performance of spoofing counter measures, this time on a more diverse set of spoofing attacks (photos and videos replay on iPhone and iPad). The competition will be part of the 6th International Conference of Biometrics (ICB 2013 http://atvs.ii.uam.es/icb2013/ ).

Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks! By Sébastien Marcel Dec 05, 2012

Haking IT Security Magazine highlights Biometric technology in its issue "Hakin9 Extra Digest 11/12", on : Tuesday, 4 Dec, 2012.

TABULA RASA Spoofing Challenge, June 4-7, 2013 Madrid Spain Dec 05, 2012

The TABULA RASA project is organizing a Spoofing Challenge and is inviting researchers to develop ingenious attack plans and to deceive various biometric authentications systems of different modalities that will be demonstrated at the 6th International Conference of Biometrics (ICB 2013 ). The most brilliant attempt, which will be decided on its spoofing success and originality, will be awarded with the "Best Spoofing Attack Award", accompanied by an incentive prize.

Idiap and EPFL are organizing a joint Machine Learning Workshop (MLWS), Monday, Nov.19, 2012 Nov 08, 2012

The objective of this workshop is to improve the collaboration between researchers working on topics related to machine learning, from its theoretical aspects (learning theory, signal processing, compressed sensing, etc.) to applications (computer vision, speech processing, behavior analysis, etc.).

What your phone can do: Daniel Gatica-Perez at TEDx Martigny Nov 08, 2012

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap senior researcher, head of the social computing group, on stage at TEDx.

Idiap - Samsung collaboration renewed Nov 06, 2012

Outstanding Paper Award at ICMI 2012 Oct 31, 2012

Conflict detector picks the best bits in political debates Oct 05, 2012

Credit: NewScientist, 14:55 03 October 2012 by Paul Marks

Anindya Roy: EAB Industry Award 2012 Sep 10, 2012

The 6th European Biometrics Industry Award 2012 has been given to Anindya Roy for his work conducted at the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland) under the supervision of Sébastien Marcel and was awarded by Safran Morpho with a prize of 2,000€.

StressSense -- SONVB research in ACM TechNews Aug 28, 2012

Monday, August 27, 2012 The StressSense system was featured in ACM TechNews.

Sixth European Biometrics Research and Industry Award 2012 Aug 17, 2012

SONVB research on stress detection using smartphones featured in New Scientist Aug 17, 2012

StressSense a smartphone-based method to infer stress from speech signals was featured in New Scientist magazine.

VlogSense research featured in Spanish media Aug 16, 2012

Our research on video blogging analysis was recently discussed in radio interviews and online news:

Best student paper award for Kenneth Funes at the CVPR workshop on Gesture Recognition, 2012. Jul 16, 2012

Best paper nomination for K. Farrahi and D. Gatica-Perez at IEEE ISWC 2012 Jul 02, 2012

Idiap Research Institute and Nokia Research Center Lausanne organize the Mobile Data Challenge 2012 with global success Jun 20, 2012

Two major European projects coordinated by Idiap are sponsoring the next International Conference on Biometrics Jun 15, 2012

Multimodal Signal Processing: Human Interactions in Meetings Jun 14, 2012

A new book on multimodal signal processing for the analysis of human communication has been published by Cambridge University Press on June 7, 2012. The book was edited by Hervé Bourlard and Andrei Popescu-Belis, with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh, and five other Idiap researchers have contributed chapters to it.

InEvent – Accessing Dynamic Networked Multimedia Events May 15, 2012

Started in November 2011, Idiap leads a 3-year European-funded research project named inEvent.

Research on smartphone data analysis and personality traits discussed in New Scientist May 14, 2012

BOB is born Apr 12, 2012

After a bit less than 2 years of intense development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of Bob 1.0 as an open-source project.

The LASEC lab and Idiap beat to the rhythm of a new common project Mar 29, 2012

Idiap announced the start this month of the Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT) project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) with the EPFL as a full partner, through the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) of Prof. Vaudenay.

BEAT: New FP7 project on Security coordinated by Idiap Mar 07, 2012

We are glad to announce the start this month of the Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT) project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) with Sébastien Marcel as the Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator at the Idiap research institute.

SONVB was featured in the Swiss National Science Foundation Research Magazine, March 2012. Mar 06, 2012

Idiap signs a Memorandum of Understanding with two Indian Institutions Jan 13, 2012

In december 2011, Idiap signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology at Guwahati (IITG) and the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Hyderhabad, India

Hari Parthasarathi successfully defended his PhD thesis. Jan 06, 2012

2011 Idiap Awards Dec 23, 2011

Jie Luo successfully defended his PhD thesis. Dec 20, 2011

Winter Workshop on Bayesian Biometrics for Forensics. Dec 12, 2011

The workshop will be held in Martigny at Idiap, Wednesday 14th of December 2011, room 106.

Idiap is pleased to announce the release of Juicer and Tracter version 1.0. Nov 18, 2011

New technology tracks multiple athletes at once, a collaboration EPFL-Idiap Nov 08, 2011

International sports federations would like to be able to follow the movements of individual athletes more easily during televised matches, even when they’re hidden from view. Today, EPFL’s Computer Vision Laboratory announces an innovative system that accomplishes this task and the implications go far beyond sports.

Idiap involved in a new Hasler programme called "SmartWorld". Nov 08, 2011

Image processing: the human (still) beats the machine. Nov 02, 2011

Oya Aran funded by the SNSF Oct 28, 2011

Idiap celebrates its 20th anniversary! Sep 01, 2011

2011 is very special for our research institute as it celebrates its 20th anniversary!

New research project with Samsung Aug 30, 2011

Idiap 20th Anniversary - IM2 Summer Institute 2011 - Martigny. Jul 22, 2011

LIDIAP and Idiap - in detail with Prof. Bourlard. Jul 19, 2011

Best paper nominations and award at the IEEE ISWC 2011 Jul 15, 2011

Successful scientific workshops during the "Hérisson sous gazon" festival. Jul 04, 2011

A flying scooter, strawberry sweets and a humanoid robot... those were the objects at the centre of workshops run by NCCRs "IM2", "MaNEP" and "Affective Sciences" at the "Hérisson sous gazon" festival.

IEEE MDM Best Runner-up Paper Award for Trinh-Minh-Tri DO Jun 14, 2011

IEEE ICASSP'2011 Award for Afsanei Asaei Jun 07, 2011

ICMI2011 - 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction May 25, 2011

The Workshop will take place in Alicante, Spain, 14-18 November 2011

New demo video of the Automatic Content Linking Device May 06, 2011

Idiap researchers involved in the organisation of the next International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2011). Apr 12, 2011

Three Idiap seniors researchers get an academic title. Mar 15, 2011

Award-winning publication for Afsaneh Asaei, Idiap research assistant. Mar 04, 2011

Afsaneh Asaei's paper was selected as the winner of the IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Travel Grant.

The Idiap Research Institute Introduces the 'Virtual Secretary' Feb 01, 2011

What about a system able not only to recognize who is speaking during a meeting but to understand the conversation and propose relevant documents like past reports, web pages as well as summaries and analyses of past meetings ? Artificial Intelligence and Speech Recognition specialists at Idiap are developing that smart automated assistant.

VANAHEIM project in the latest issue of the European urban transport magazine, Mobility. Jan 31, 2011

rsr.ch radio podcast: Biometric Person Recognition by Dr. Sébastien Marcel Dec 13, 2010

MUM 2010, Best Paper Award for Raul Montoliu and Daniel Gatica-Perez. Dec 13, 2010

2010 - Idiap PhD student awards Dec 03, 2010

The 2010 Idiap awards have been granted to:

IJCB 2011 Competition on counter measures to 2D facial spoofing attacks. Nov 15, 2010

For this competition we would like to measure the performance of algorithms that act as a counter-measure to spoofing.

TABULA RASA new EU FP7 project. Nov 11, 2010

We are glad to announce that Idiap coordinates a new EU FP7 project entitled Trusted Biometrics under Spoofing Attacks (TABULA RASA).

EU Project Coordinator Award Nov 09, 2010

New MOBIO prototype of face recognition embedded on an iPhone 4. Oct 06, 2010

Idiap researchers successfully implemented probably one of the first face recognition system on an iPhone4.

EURESEARCH Success Story Oct 01, 2010

Euresearch the Swiss guide to European research and support for European business and innovation highlights in its recent Success Stories Newsletter the EU FP7 project MOBIO (Mobile Biometry).

Idiap researchers received a best paper award sponsored by Microsoft Research. Sep 22, 2010

ICPR 2010, best Scientific Paper Award for researchers of the MOBIO project. Sep 16, 2010

A New Hasler project called "CONTEXT" accepted Aug 11, 2010

Context modelling for object detection.

A new Hasler project called "SESAME" accepted Aug 10, 2010

SEarching Swiss Audio MEmories

Upcoming event, IM2 Summer Institute 2010 Aug 06, 2010

The IM2 Summer Institute 2010 will be held at the GOLFHOTEL Les Hauts de Gstaad, in Saanenmöser from September 13th to September 15th 2010.

Advancement of women in science Aug 05, 2010

Active participation of IM2 in a festival for children

Idiap project CODICES broadcasted on euronews.net "Archaeology Mayan script" Jun 24, 2010

Dr Daniel Gatica-Perez, (from the Idiap Research Institute, in Martigny, Switzerland): “People who are exploring ancient Maya culture – in order to try to find glyphs, they usually use catalogues and this is a classic catalogue. It’s like a telephone book. Instead of names what we have are essentially glyphs and this is a very large collection. And, essentially, if you don’t have computational means to find a glyph you don’t know or a glyph you are learning about, you probably have to parse all of these manually. And this can be time consuming.”

Glyphes Maya, le logiciel qui a du caractère Jun 10, 2010

En 2010, Indiana Jones troquerait certainement son fouet contre un ordinateur ou un rayon laser. Depuis quelques années, grâce à un arsenal de nouvelles technologies, les archéologues ont avancé à grands pas. Dans les inventions récentes, il y a ce moteur de recherche capable de déchiffrer l’écriture maya.

The Internet of Meetings May 04, 2010

Software created by European researchers is transforming business and education through the complete capture of the audio, video and textual record. It is the internet, for meetings.

Web-Ifying the Real World May 04, 2010

Web-fying real life is the vision of the AMI consortium, which stands for Augmented Multiparty Interaction. The consortium is the force behind two highly successful European projects, AMI and AMIDA

2 Idiap nominees to the 2010 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship May 03, 2010

Idiap has a new robot platform -- Pippo! Apr 21, 2010

Pippo is a PeopleBot , i.e. a mobile robot able to move indoors on flat floors. It is 112 cm high and it is equipped with a gripper, a table-sensing IR's, a precise pan-tilt camera, lasers and microphones.

Project NOVICOM highlighted in the magazine "Projects" (Science, Technology and Innovation) Apr 19, 2010

Computational methods of analysing nonverbal cues

European project "VANAHEIM" highlighted in the famous magazine "Science & Vie" Apr 09, 2010

rsr.ch - Impatience: Les glyphes mayas Mar 23, 2010

The Swiss National Radio broadcasted an interview of Daniel Gatica-Perez et Jean-Marc Odobez, senior researchers at Idiap, about the The Mayan GLYPHs

MOBIO, Call for Use Case Scenarios 2010 Mar 15, 2010

Idiap project "CODICES" makes the cover page of the SNSF magazine "Horizons" Mar 02, 2010

The Swiss research magazine "Horizons" presents exciting aspects from the world of science and research. It is published four times per year. The articles are available only in French and German.

Idiap publications also accessible through the EPFL infoscience portal Feb 24, 2010

Hervé Bourlard Guest Editor for upcoming IEEE magazine Feb 22, 2010

Hervé Bourlard is one of the Guest Editors of the upcoming IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Media Search.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society is initiating a new, technical series called IEEE-Thematic Meetings on Signal Processing (IEEE-THEMES) Feb 19, 2010

Alessandro Vinciarelli has been appointed Associate Editor for the Social Sciences Column of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Jan 18, 2010

Next four-year period, 2010-2013, of IM2 approved Jan 13, 2010

Idiap is the coordinator of the European Project "Massive Sets of Heuristics for Machine Learning (MASH)". Dec 21, 2009

This project aims at developing new machine learning methods relying on very large number of hand designed heuristics, together with statistical tools to facilitate the design of these heuristics in an open and collaborative framework.

Recordings of the workshop on Foundations of Social Signal Processing Dec 15, 2009

The presentation recordings of the Workshop on Foundations of Social Signals are now online. Rome, December 3-5, 2009.

The COMTIS project (Improving the Coherence of Machine Translation Output by Modeling Intersentential Relations) now has its own website. Dec 09, 2009

2009 Idiap PhD Awards Dec 02, 2009

SSPNet online newsletter Nov 23, 2009

We are happy to announce that the first issue of the SSPNet newsletter is now online.

rsr.ch - Impatience: La Voix de son maître Nov 19, 2009

On November 13, the Swiss National Radio has broadcast an interview of Prof. Hervé Bourlard, director of Idiap, and Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis, senior researcher at Idiap, about the challenges of speech recognition, speaker identification, and meeting recording.

Workshop on Foundations of Social Signal Processing Nov 13, 2009

Rome, December 3-5, 2009.

Best Student Paper Award Nov 10, 2009

The Idiap Resarch Institute has been chosen to organise two contests during the ICPR 2010 Nov 09, 2009

Idiap involved in an EIT KIC proposal Nov 06, 2009

TransFICS, a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC)

NIPS 2009 workshop on Learning from Multiple Sources with Applications to Robotics Nov 04, 2009

NIPS Workshop, December 11 or 12, 2009, Whistler, BC, Canada

Call for papers on "Mobile Media Search", Special Issue of "IEEE Signal Processing Magazine" Nov 03, 2009

Call for papers on "Signal and Information Processing for Social Networks" for IEEE Thematic Meetings on Signal Processing Nov 02, 2009

New Book on Multimodal signal processing Oct 29, 2009

Multimodal signal processing: methods and techniques to build multimodal interactive systems by Jean-Philippe Thiran (Author), Herve Bourlard (Author), Ferran Marques (Author), Academic Press Inc (23 novembre 2009), 448 pages, ISBN-10: 0123748259

The MOBIO consortium is organizing a contest for the next International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Oct 15, 2009

It will be held in 2010 at Istanbul on August 23

A new partner joins the MOBIO project Oct 08, 2009

The MOBIO consortium is happy to welcome the new partner Visidon in his project.

Call for Papers IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Oct 07, 2009

Special Issue on Mobile Media Search

A first step towards building a lasting IM2 community: The IM2 LinkedIn Group Oct 02, 2009

First IEEE International Workshop on Social Signal Processing Sep 23, 2009

Idiap involved in a new European FP7 Project called "VANAHEIM" Sep 18, 2009

VANAHEIM: Video/Audio Networked Surveillance System Enhancement through Human

How Does a Dictation Machine Recognize Continuous Speech? Sep 17, 2009

by T.Dutoit, L.Couvreur, H.Bourlard

Idiap involved in a new European FP7 Project called "HUMAVIPS" Sep 16, 2009

HUMAVIPS: Humanoids with auditory and visual abilities in populated spaces

New funding (SNSF/Sinergia) for Idiap Research Institute Sep 15, 2009

The SNSF funds Idiap for a Sinergia project as coordinator

IM2 Summer Institute 2009 Aug 26, 2009

This year, the IM2 Summer Institute will be held in Chavannes-de-Bogis (Best Western Hotel) from the 31st of August until the 2nd of September.

NCCR - A Swiss success story Jun 30, 2009

National Centres of Competence in Research

ICMI-MLMI 2009 Jun 16, 2009

November 02-06, 2009, The Workshop will take place in the Boston area, Cambridge, MA, USA

Smoovee, the software that corrects video vibrations May 15, 2009