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International Experts Gather in Martigny to Discuss Advances in AI and Facial Recognition on May 19 - 20, 2025

The Idiap Research Institute is hosting a major series of events from May 19 to 22, 2025, bringing together researchers, industry collaborators, and government ...

Improving Biometric Privacy with Generative AI

Face recognition is widely used today, from unlocking phones to enhancing surveillance systems. However, this technology often relies on large datasets of ...

Sébastien Marcel receives IEEE fellowship elevation

Sébastien Marcel, senior scientist at Idiap, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2025. The IEEE fellowship testifies “the advancement or ...

Idiap distinguishes two students for their outstanding work

Each year the institute gives two awards to distinguish two of its students. In 2023, the Best Paper Award went to Tobias Löw, and the Student Award to Hatef ...

World leaders in biometrics met at Idiap

Idiap hosted a Biometrics Week. This one of a kind event gathered several hundreds of people from various backgrounds ranging from academia to industry. ...

Improved facial recognition technologies inside cars

Institute’s researchers in biometrics developed tools for more efficient and more reliable facial recognition techniques in the automotive industry. They made ...

Idiap is looking for its next director

Idiap Research Institute and the School of Engineering at EPFL invite applications for the directorship of Idiap. The successful candidate will also hold a ...

Fake faces for more ethics in biometrics

The lack of representativity in databases used to train facial recognition tools often creates biases. Creating a repository of fake faces can resolve these ...

Idiaper appointed Professor at the University of Lausanne

Head of the Biometrcs security & privacy research group at Idiap, Sébastien Marcel was appointed Professor at School of Criminal Justice (Ecole des Sciences ...

« My career at Idiap allowed me to establish a standard »

Since his arrival at Idiap 20 years ago, Sébastien Marcel is shaking up the research community in biometry. After several major projects and a long term hard ...