On Dec 8th 2010, Sarah Favre successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Social Network Analysis for Automatic Role Recognition".

Every year, IMD searches for the most promising startups it can find to work with the MBA students. Over the past 13 years over 180 early-stage ventures have profited from this collaboration. Today, IMD representatives (Jim Pulcrano and Benoit Leleux) announce the twenty startups that have been selected to work with our MBA and EMBA students in 2011. Among them, Koemei (Idiap Spin-off) will participate to the venture.

On Dec 6th 2010, Deepu Vijayasenan successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "An Information Theoretic Approach to Speaker Diarization of Meeting Recordings".

The 2010 Idiap awards have been granted to:

La journée "Osez tous les métiers" est organisée chaque année par le Secrétariat Valaisan à l'égalité et à la famille et a pour objectif d’aider filles et garçons à choisir leur métier au-delà de préjugés liés au genre.

For this competition we would like to measure the performance of algorithms that act as a counter-measure to spoofing.

At Idiap, Carl will be working on head pose estimation and visual focus of attention for the TA2 project.

Abdurrahman Eray Baran has joined Idiap as a PhD student under the supervision of Volkan Cevher, assistant tenure track professor

Sreeharsha has joined Idiap as a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Fabio Valente.

Prof. Abutalebi will work with Prof. Bourlard in the framework of "Array-based Speech Signal Processing".

In November 15, Dr. Ronan Collobert will join the Idiap staff as permanent researcher.

Euresearch the Swiss guide to European research and support for European business and innovation highlights in its recent Success Stories Newsletter the EU FP7 project MOBIO (Mobile Biometry).