History
Founded in 1991, Idiap celebrates its 30 years of activity in 2021. From its foundation to its anniversary, we present here several events that make up the history of our institute.
| 2020 | Creation of two research groups in brand new fields: Energy Informatics & Genomics and Health Informatics |
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| 2019 | Idiap becomes first non-US site of the Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR) |
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| 2018 | Idiap launches a brand new artificial intelligence applied master |
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| 2018 | KeyLemon, Idiap's spin-off, is acquired by Apple's supplier AMS. |
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| 2017 | Launch of the new Idiap Website |
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| 2016 | Designed for local businesses, the first Innovation Day celebrates Iadiap's 25th anniversary. |
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| 2015 | Idiaps's project Valais*Wallis Digital marks the bicentennial of Valais joining the Swiss Confederation. |
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| 2014 | The Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing—the first in Europe—opens its doors at Idiap. |
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| 2014 | At the instigation of the institute’s director, seven leading figures from the world of science carry out an in-depth audit of Idiap’s activities. |
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| 2013 | Idiap’s first patents validated. |
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| 2012 | The first International Create Challenge—ICC'2012—is launched. |
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| 2012 | Creation of the Association Interactive Multimodal Information Management (AIM2)—the continuation of the NCCR IM2. |
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| 2012 | The project MediaParl begins, with the support of the Loterie Romande and Valais’ cantonal parliament. |
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| 2012 | For the first time, Idiap’s operating accounts exceed the symbolic 10 million francs mark. |
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| 2011 | First EPFL academic posts awarded to three Idiap permanent researchers. |
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| 2011 | For Idiap's 20th anniversary a contest is organized with the police to measure how fast information is transmitted in the local community. |
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| 2011 | Idiap signs a collaboration agreement with the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and the International Institute of Information Technology of Hyderabad. |
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| 2010 | Idiap unveils the first version of its technology portfolio. |
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| 2009 | Opening of a showroom at the institute. |
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| 2008 | A strategic alliance is signed between Idiap and the ETH domain. |
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| 2008 | KeyLemon, developing face recognition technologies, is founded by two Idiap members, Gilles Florey and Yann Rodriguez. |
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| 2007 | Idiap moves into new premises at the Centre du Parc, Martigny. |
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| 2007 | Launch of Klewel, Idiap’s first spin-off. |
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| 2006 | Idiap celebrates its 15th anniversary and shows that a professional imitator can't fool a GMM-based speaker verification system. |
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| 2005 | Creation of IdeArk SA—the start-up incubator with the aim to develop Idiap technologies. |
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| 2004 | The funding of a new round of 16px-scale European projects (AMI/AMIDA) has a significant international impact. |
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| 2004 | Idiap's offices are too small and the Institute moves to Martigny downtown. |
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| 2003 | First project with the United States government. |
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| 2002 | The 12th IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) conference on Neural Networks for Signal Processing is the first international conference organized by Idiap in Martigny. |
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| 2002 | To follow its growth, Idiap builds the Dalle Molle Pavilion in Martigny. |
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| 2002 | Idiap is under the spot lights after analyzing Osama bin Laden recordings. |
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| 2002 | Publication by Ronan Collobert, Samy Bengio, and Johnny Mariéthoz of the Torch open-source machine learning library, which will later be developed into PyTorch by Facebook. |
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| 2001 | Coordinated by Idiap, the National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2) is launched. |
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| 1996 | A new director—Professor Hervé Bourlard—comes on board. |
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| 1995 | First internet connection, Idiap becomes the door to Valais. |
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| 1991 | With the support of the Dalle Molle Foundation, Idiap first sees the light of day, taking up residence in Villa Tissières, Martigny. |
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