Swiss algorithms to help customers in a Finnish shopping mall

Human-robot interactions are often lacking fluidity, especially outside of the lab. Today, researchers from Idiap are publishing in open access the algorithms ...

Idiap develops a real-time perception system for Human-Robot-Interaction

The Perception and Activity Understanding group presents the unified system of visual, audio, and non-verbal perception that is currently used within the ...

Idiap presented the European project MuMMER at the IROS robotics conference.

The Perception and Activity Understanding group attended the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), in Madrid.

Idiap will present next week at the ICRA (Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation) conference a novel approach allowing robots to detect multiple simultaneous speakers.

The paper "Deep Neural Networks for Multiple Speaker Detection and Localization" by Weipeng He, Petr Motlicek and Jean-Marc Odobez shows that the deep ...

On November 27 ,2017, Gulcan Can successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled 'Visual Analysis of Maya Glyphs via Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning'

This thesis presents visual analysis methods for complex ancient Maya writings, specifically a promising crowdsourcing approach to build a large glyph dataset, ...

Idiap ranked first at the 2016 MediaEval Person Discovery challenge

The Eumssi team led by Idiap and comprising as well the LIUM partner ranked first out of 6 teams in the Person Discovery challenge of the MediaEval ...

Idiap and Octopeek sign a 4-year R&D partnership

Artificial intelligence and big data pioneers Octopeek (France) and Idiap announce a partnership. A member of Octopeek’s scientific staff will spend four years ...

With the growth of the institute, in addition to increased Federal funding to further support its activities, Idiap is opening several additional permanent ...

For robots to be widely adopted across industries and beyond structured manufacturing environments,it is critical for them to be programmable by a wide range ...

The Perception and Activity Understanding group seeks one highly motivated PhD candidate to work within the AI4Autism project aiming at improving the digital ...