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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 ...

Major Bob release

This release brings many changes and some packages have been completely re-written.

« 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 ...

Android accredits Idiap's biometrics center

To face the increasing use of biometrics systems, Android set up its own certification standard. The biometrics center of Idiap became accredited to deliver ...

Sanitary and cyber precautions, a key challenge for hospitals

With one million Swiss francs budget and supported by the Innosuisse agency, the CANDY project will develop and patent a contact-less scanner allowing to ...

A biometrics workshop on presentation attack detection

The European Association for Biometrics organized its workshop at Idiap. European researchers and representatives from various companies gathered to discuss ...

The European Biometrics Research Award goes to Tiago de Freitas Pereira, PostDoc researcher at Idiap

In the face recognition research field, new challenges are going harder as the field limits are expanding. Tiago de Freitas Pereira award from the European ...

Idiap becomes the world’s third biometrics certification center

The reference in authentication standards, the FIDO Alliance has confirmed the accreditation of Idiap’s Biometrics Center as only the third member of a what ...