ACM ICMI Community Service Award to Daniel Gatica-Perez

The Steering Board of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) has announced that the recipient of the 2017 Community Service Award is ...

Creating links between innovation in healthcare and customers

The SWISKO project, in which Idiap's Social Computing Group participates in collaboration with DomoSafety SA, the University of Bern, La Source School of ...

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, ...

Civic Media, Mobile Crowdsourcing, and the Public Good: A Framework for Urban Data Science.

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) gave a talk about his work in Latin America and Switzerland at the First European Seminar on Urban Data ...

2017 Idiap Awards for James Newling and Gulcan Can

Idiap is proud to award James Newling and Gulcan Can for their outstanding work.

What does Instagram reveal about food consumption in Switzerland?

The work by Trung Phan and Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) on analysis of Instagram patterns of food consumption in Switzerland was covered in ...

Modeling human behavior with Airbnb

Researchers at Idiap and EPFL have been working with psychologists to understand how people form first impressions from photos. They focused on how people ...

Children education project supported by SenseCityVity at the World Water Forum 2018

Supported by the SenseCityVity research team in Mexico and Switzerland in 2017, the project "Education for Water Protection in Colombia" will participate at ...

Civique: Engaging Citizens in Local Action

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez recently presented the civique.org platform in local and international events.

Understanding how technology can revolutionize humanitarian work

A new EPFL course offers students the opportunity to learn more about how new technologies can be used by humanitarian organizations. The students critically ...