DARPA is funding new tech that can identify manipulated videos and “deepfackes”

Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA has awarded three contracts to the nonprofit research group SRI International. Within the framework of ...

Senior researcher at Idiap elevated to IEEE Senior Member

Dr Sébastien Marcel, one of the Idiap senior researcher and head of the Biometrics Security & Privacy group, has been elevated by IEEE to IEEE Senior Member.

Idiap published a new patent on a federated platform for reproducible research in Open Science

For many years the Idiap research institute has worked on reproducible research and developed several tools for this such as Bob or the BEAT platform.

Idiap spin-off KeyLemon acquired by ams

On Monday Feb 6th, ams, a worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, announced the acquisition of KeyLemon for an undisclosed amount [1].

Identification at a low price thanks to finger vein patterns

Developped by the start-up Global ID, Idiap and HES-SO Valais, a new biometric identification system will soon be available at a good price. This technology ...

An Open-Source Web-Based Open-Science Platform

The Idiap Research Institute published a paper in the International Conference on Machine Learning on a new Open-Science Web Platform.

Idiap signs a new research agreement with BBC on voice biometrics

The Idiap Research Institute has signed a new research agreement with BBC to evaluate the speaker recognition technology developed by the biometrics security & ...

Matthias Vanoni, founder of Biowatch mentioned in the Bilan magazine

Matthias Vanoni, founder of Biowatch, participant and winner of the ICC'2014 International Create Challenge.

Vulnerabilities of face recognition studied at Idiap in Martigny

The biometrics group at Idiap develops methods to detect biometric hackers.

A more secure biometric authentication system

Now EPFL's Security and Cryptography Laboratory and the startup Global ID have developed an even more secure identification system that processes data more ...