Eight Years of Face Recognition Research: Reproducibility, Achievements and Open Issues

This paper is a joint work between Tiago de Freitas Pereira from the Biometrics Security & Privacy group at Idiap Research Institute and Manuel Günther and his ...

Three journal papers published in the same issue of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science

Idiap's Biometrics Security & Privacy group asserts its expertise and leadership in the specialized press with three papers published in the same issue of IEEE ...

Improved facial recognition technologies inside cars

Institute’s researchers in biometrics developed tools for more efficient and more reliable facial recognition techniques in the automotive industry. They made ...

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 ...