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AI for medias: less fake news, more ethics

The European project AI4MEDIA will start in September and gather 30 partners. Idiap and HES-SO Valais-Wallis are part of it. Researchers and media actors want ...

Citizen science explores the aftermaths of the COVID-19 lockdown

A nationwide study aims to understand the emotional effects of the lockdown on Swiss residents and what steps they are taking to cope with it. Thanks to an app ...

Idiap among the representatives of Swiss innovation in Spain

The Embassy of Switzerland in Spain is organizing each year a Swiss Innovation Night. This year was under the title "Impact of Artificial Intelligence in ...

An award for a research paper focusing on drinking hashtags and images

Idiap’s Social Computing Group received a paper award at Pervasive Health 2019. Their research focused on drinking practices pictured on Instagram and ...

Congratulations to Dr. Skanda Muralidhar for defending his thesis

On April 4th 2019, Skanda Muralidhar obtained the PhD degree at EPFL after successfully defending his thesis, advised by Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez at Idiap’s ...

Daniel Gatica-Perez among 2018th most influential scholars by AMiner

Recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field of Web and Knowledge Engineering, Multimedia, the head of Idiap’s Social Computing group is among the ...

Building a more inclusive Web supported by AI

How to empower communication among people through technology that is aware of diversity? To achieve this goal, the WeNet European project will develop a ...

Using mobile data to model the drinking habits of Swiss youth

Researchers from Idiap Research Institute have carried out a study using smartphone data from young Swiss people to better understand the circumstances in ...

Collaboration with Mexico at First National Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation

The Urbis project, which is a collaboration on citizen participation and mobile crowdsourcing between IPICYT Mexico and Idiap, was presented at the First ...

AI and diversity: the whole world is not yet represented

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) talks about social media, machine learning, and diversity with Amenaza Roboto, the new platform for science ...