Youth@Night at Workshop on Social Media and Public Security
research — Oct 13, 2016

Darshan Santani presented the Youth@Night project at Workshop on Social Media and Public Security

Biometrics: for better or for worse?
research — Oct 10, 2016

It is supposedly one of the most promising solutions for protecting us from terrorist attacks. Biometrics allows identifying a person by their biological characteristics like finger prints, the iris or the face. Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, technological solutions have known a fast progress: facial recognition software, “cerebral fingerprinting”, automatic control systems for moving crowds…But can we really trust biometrics with our security? And above all, what happens if these data fall into the wrong hands?

Can science solve an 80-year-old Indian mystery?
research — Oct 10, 2016

Sébastien Marcel is an unlikely judge of beauty queens, but his face recognition expertise could finally solve the identity of an Indian woman on a precious Swiss watch.

Idiap will participate in a Round Table discussion: Biometrics – a tool for cybersecurity?
institute — Oct 05, 2016

Between comfort, security and protection of our private lives: where is technology at? What are possible applications? Where is my data? What are my rights? What may I do and what not?

Venez aider la science au stand 1103 à la Foire du Valais.
institute — Sep 30, 2016

L'Institut de recherche Idiap et le centre suisse de biométrie vous présenteront leur technologie.

SenseCityVity at Poder Hacer: International Conference on Creative Cities
research — Sep 26, 2016

The SenseCityVity project was presented at Mexico City's First International Conference on Creative Cities.

Idiap and Y@N at the Swiss Days of Official Statistics 2016
research — Sep 23, 2016

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez discussed the value of geo-localized social media as a new urban data source at the Swiss Days of Official Statistics, Neuchatel, Sep. 15-16, 2016. He illustrated this emerging trend with the Youth@Night project and other recent work.

Results of the International Create Challenge 2016
tech — Sep 21, 2016

On Tuesday, September 20th, after three weeks of hard work and networking, the ICC’2016 participants found out which teams the jury had selected among the winners of the challenge. The organizers of the ICC’2016 are proud to announce the following winning teams:

Recapp in the TOP 100 Swiss Startups of 2016
tech — Sep 15, 2016

Recapp, an Idiap spin-off and sponsored by The Ark Foundation, is part of the top 100 Swiss Startups 2016. It's a big success for Dr. David Imseng, founder of Recapp.

Keynote on Civic Multimedia at CBMI 2016
research — Jul 19, 2016

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez gave a keynote talk on "Civic Multimedia, Crowdsourcing, and the Public Good" at the 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) in Bucharest, June 16, 2016.

Dr Afsaneh Asaei recognized as an IEEE Senior Member
education — Jul 14, 2016

Idiap congratulates Afsaneh Asaei for having been elevated to the IEEE senior member grade.

Ivana Chingovska received the PhD degree from EPFL
education — Jun 13, 2016

Ivana Chingovska received the PhD degree from EPFL on May 2nd 2016 after the public defense of her doctoral dissertation entitled: "Trustworthy Biometric Verification under Spoofing Attacks: Application to the Face Mode".

Two Idiap spin-off in the Swiss Top 100 !
tech — Jun 10, 2016

Two Idiap spin-off, Biowatch and Recapp, sponsored by The Ark Foundation, are part of Top 100 best Swiss start-ups 2015. The Valais is the 4th most prolific Swiss canton. Great success for these entrepreneurs.

Best Multimodal Paper Award to Nikolaos Pappas and co-authors at ICMR 2016
research — Jun 10, 2016

The paper "Multilingual Visual Sentiment Concept Matching" by Nikolaos Pappas, Mercan Topkara, Miriam Redi, Brendan Jou, Tao Chen, Hongyi Liu, Shih-Fu Chang has received the Best Multimodal Paper Award at the Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), held on June 6-9 in New York.

Biowatch, Idiap spin-off, recommended by Bilan as a start-up in which to invest
tech — Jun 07, 2016

Launched during the International Create Challenge 2014 by Matthias Vanoni, biometrics expert, Biowatch proposes an authentication solution for wearables, such as smartwatches.

Idiap's "5 to 6": discover the activities of the Idiap Research Institute the second Wednesday of each month
institute — Jun 02, 2016

Did you already ask yourself what goes on behind the walls of the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny? Are you, for example, interested in new technologies related to the world of robotics, biometrics or speech processing? Would you like to learn more about it?

Recapp, Idiap spin-off and winner of the ICC’2013, provides software capable of transcribing meetings
tech — Jun 01, 2016

Recapp’s software, already used by the Valaisan Parliament, has now its first application case on the communal level. The “General Council” of the Collombey-Muraz municipality now uses the software in order to transcribe its meetings.

Fin des projets étoiles mais continuation de Valais*Wallis Digital
institute — Jun 01, 2016

Le projet, Valais*Wallis Digital, mis sur pieds par l'Idiap avait été sélectionné comme projet étoile du bicentenaire de l'entrée du Valais dans la Confédération. L'année 2015 s'étant écoulée, un événement officiel réunissant tous les partenaires du projet a eu lieu pour présenter les résultats et se remémorer les bons moments autour de ce projet.

SenseCityVity presented at UNIL Seminar on Practices of Digital Humanities
research — May 25, 2016

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez introduced the SenseCityVity project in an invited talk at the University of Lausanne Seminar on Practices of Digital Humanities on May 25, 2016

L’Idiap cherche des cobayes
research — May 24, 2016

Stéphane Délétroz relaie un appel à volontaires assez particulier.