Civique: Engaging Citizens in Local Action
research — Sep 12, 2017

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

ICC'2017 team 'EyeViewPost-it' selected for the TEDx Martigny
tech — Sep 08, 2017

An ICC'2017 participant, EyeViewPost-it, has been chosen to present its idea to a large audience at the TEDx Martigny Friday September 8, 2017.

Idiap co-organizes the 17th Economic Forum of the Rhône Valley, entitled “Artificial Intelligence in all its forms”
institute — Aug 16, 2017

The forum will take place on September 15th, 2017 at the hotel Vatel in Martigny.

On August 10, 2017, Marzieh Razavi successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "On Modeling the Synergy Between Acoustic and Lexical Information for Pronunciation Lexicon Development".
education — Aug 16, 2017

The work described in this thesis takes place in the context of data-driven integration of linguistic knowledge and acoustic information for the pronunciation lexicon development.

An Open-Source Web-Based Open-Science Platform
research — Aug 02, 2017

The Idiap Research Institute published a paper in the International Conference on Machine Learning on a new Open-Science Web Platform.

Next speaker serie talk, wed. 30th of August: Dr. Charles Kervrann, INRIA Rennes, France, on Computational methods for fluorescence microscopy and quantitative bioimaging
research — Jul 26, 2017

The talk will take place at Idiap at 14H00, conference room 106

Euronews video on DexROV project trials: "How will the new intelligent breed of ROVs benefit us?"
research — Jul 18, 2017

The DexROV team has just completed a 2 weeks long campaign of integration and tests in the DexROV project, with a satellite link established between Brussels and Marseille to enable far distance monitoring and control of an underwater robot.

Idiap signs a new research agreement with BBC on voice biometrics
research — Jul 13, 2017

The Idiap Research Institute has signed a new research agreement with BBC to evaluate the speaker recognition technology developed by the biometrics security & privacy group.

The next talk of the Idiap Speaker Series will take place at Idiap on July the 20th, 11H00, conference room 106.
research — Jul 12, 2017

The Prof. Bart Vandereycken from the University of Geneva will give the talk entitled: Algorithms on manifolds: geometric means and recommender systems.

Best Paper Award for the Dr Sylvain Calinon
research — Jul 12, 2017

Dr Sylvain Calinon received the 2017 Best Paper Award of the Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR) journal for his article "A Tutorial on Task-Parameterized Movement Learning and Retrieval".

Matthias Vanoni, founder of Biowatch mentioned in the Bilan magazine
tech — Jun 20, 2017

Matthias Vanoni, founder of Biowatch, participant and winner of the ICC'2014 International Create Challenge.

Idiap Speaker Series : 'Multilingual speech recognition in under-resourced environments' (Webcast now available).
research — Jun 19, 2017

When speech processing systems are designed for use in multilingual environments, additional complexity is introduced. Identifying when language switching has occurred, predicting how cross-lingual terms will be pronounced, obtaining sufficient speech data from diverse language backgrounds: such factors all complicate the development of practical speech-oriented systems. In this talk, I will discuss our research group's experience in building speech recognition systems for the South African environment, one in which 11 official languages are recognised. I will also show how this relates to our participation in the BABEL project, a recent 5-year international collaborative project aimed at solving the spoken term detection task in under-resourced languages.

The next Idiap Speaker Series will take place at Idiap on June 2nd 2017, room 106
research — Jun 01, 2017

The Prof. Marelie Davel will give the talk entitled: Multilingual speech recognition in under-resourced environments

Michael Liebling appointed Adjunct Professor at UC Santa Barbara
research — May 16, 2017

Michael Liebling has been appointed Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Idiap Speaker Series : 'Charisma: Measurement and outcomes' (Webcast now available).
— May 15, 2017

Charisma has been devilishly difficult to measure; there has also been a dearth of studies estimating the causal impact of charisma on outcomes. In this seminar I will use a new definition of charisma to demonstrate how it can be manipulated, and will also show the economic impact of charisma on worker productivity. Moreover, I will discuss how charisma can be coded from archival data, and demonstrate its utility for predicting a range of outcomes including winning the U.S. presidential election, the amount of views on TED talks, and retweets of tweets.

Understanding how technology can revolutionize humanitarian work
education — May 12, 2017

A new EPFL course offers students the opportunity to learn more about how new technologies can be used by humanitarian organizations. The students critically assessed new information-sharing methods by conducting a real-life exercise using the app Civique, which was developed by the Idiap Research Institute, an EPFL partner institution.

Vulnerabilities of face recognition studied at Idiap in Martigny
research — May 02, 2017

The biometrics group at Idiap develops methods to detect biometric hackers.

Best paper award for James Newling at the AI & Statistics International Conference
research — Apr 26, 2017

Congratulations to James Newling for his best paper award at the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

A more secure biometric authentication system
research — Apr 25, 2017

Now EPFL's Security and Cryptography Laboratory and the startup Global ID have developed an even more secure identification system that processes data more safely than current standards and that leverages 3D vein imaging technology developed by the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny, the University of Applied Sciences in Sion (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) and Global ID.

Biowatch SA awarded first prize at the Swiss Fintech Convention 2017 in Geneva
tech — Apr 12, 2017

Lausanne, Switzerland, February 3rd, 2017