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Mr Marc-André Berclaz has been appointed as Operations Director of the new EPFL Valais Wallis academic cluster. Marc-André Berclaz is the current director of HES-SO and has an in-depth understanding of the academic and political environment in Valais and in Switzerland as well as in the fields of the future cluster. Starting from March 2013, he will gradually take up his functions within the project, and will work fulltime as from July 2013.

Professor Philippe Gillet will ensure the presidency of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) from August 2013 to January 2014. The Swiss Federal Council has named him on Wednesday, February 20 in order to replace Patrick Aebischer, who will benefit from a sabbatical leave in order to explore new forms of education.

Find the top 50 start-ups list and the full article in number 3 of Bilan from February 20.

The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) expresses once again its faith in Idiap by according a subsidy of 10 MCHF Swiss francs for the period of 2013-2016. Concurrently, Idiap strengthens its ties with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) by renewing and reinforcing the joint development plan that unites the two institutions since 2008.

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

A hands-on introduction to Bob and Python will take place at Idiap on January 30th between 2-4pm. Free places are still available.

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.

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

On December 11 2012, Hui LIANG successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Data-Driven Enhancement of State Mapping-Based Cross-Lingual Speaker Adaptation".

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

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.

Since couple years, each Swiss School is participating to the Day: “Oser tous les Métiers", an initiative to give the chance to children between 10-12 years old to discover different types of professions. The children are invited to follow one of their parents at work to discover their "working environment".

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

Crédit: RTS.ch, la première, émission CQFD, 5 octobre 2012

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

On 30th August 2012, Jagan Varadarajan successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Sequential Topic Models for Mining Recurrent Activities and their Relationships: Application to long term video recordings ", supervised by Dr. Jean-Marc Odobez.

Darshan has joined Idiap as a PhD student under the supervision of Daniel Gatica-Perez in the Social Computing Group.

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

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

Ils ont trois semaines pour transformer leurs idées en produit. 28 chercheurs ou entrepreneurs sont dans les starting-blocks d’un concours international inédit.