Idiap’s teams are happy to wish you a merry Christmas and and all the best for this new year!
The best PhD student research and the best PhD student paper were awarded to Tiago de Freitas Pereira and Yu Yu. They received their prizes from Idiap’s director.
How to save energy, fight climate change and improve your energy supply? Be smart and use artificial intelligence. To achieve this goal Idiap Research Institute created a new research group in Energy Informatics in collaboration with the Centre de recherches énergétiques et municipales (CREM) dedicated to research in the energy field and local communities.
The shortage of computer developers is impacting many sectors. Increasing the share of women in this area would partly address this shortage. Idiap is committed in this direction by raising girls' awareness and proposing a fellowship program for female researchers.
Researchers from Idiap Research Institute have carried out a study using smartphone data from young Swiss people to better understand the circumstances in which they are most likely to drink. A computer model developed based on Artificial Intelligence can estimate, with over 75% accuracy, whether alcohol was consumed on a given weekend night.
Digitalisation is impacting every business, from tourism to energy. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the tools that can provide a strategical asset to businesses, but the lack of experts can be a limitation when it comes to using such technologies. Thanks to the first master in AI tailored for companies’ development and in collaboration with Swiss Distance University and the Canton of Valais, Idiap Research Institute is offering a brand new solution which also creates new jobs. The target audience for this master is very broad, not only targeting the Canton of Valais.
Technology transfer is much more than an office dedicated to industrial relations. The TTO is one of the many assets of Idiap. Interview with Joël Dumoulin, a man wearing multiple hats.
Adrian Shajkofci, a PhD student in the Computational Bioimaging Group, co-advised by Michael Liebling and François Fleuret received a "Best Student Paper Award" at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), on October 9th 2018. This event is the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on image and video processing and computer vision. The 2018 theme was "Imaging beyond imagination".
Neil Lawrence, Director of the Machine Learning of Amazon hub in Cambridge is a new member of the Idiap Research Institute International Advisory Board. His experience and expertise will be an asset for Idiap.
The Perception and Activity Understanding group attended the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), in Madrid.
From European projects to intellectual property, meet Idiap’s legal advisor, Marie-Constance Landelle, whose work allows to improve Institute operations and to face new challenges.
A virtual coach to help you to write an email that can be misinterpreted or to help cricket players to enhance their performances. Those are the projects based on Artificial Intelligence and awarded by the Idiap Research Institute.
The Innovation Day 2018 took place in Martigny (Valais) on August 29th and has been covered by multiple Swiss media.
The Urbis project, which is a collaboration on citizen participation and mobile crowdsourcing between IPICYT Mexico and Idiap, was presented at the First National Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation in Mexico City on August 8 2018. The event was organized by the National Council of Science and Technology.
How to use artificial intelligence to analyse blood samples or to detect when a child is accessing an inappropriate website? Here are some of the projects submitted for the International Create Challenge (ICC) 2018 hosted and supported by Idiap until September 18th.
What if artificial intelligence could analyze an electro-cardiogram (ECG) or a medical image scan and highlight results that physicians should be looking at in priority? Thanks to signal and image processing, and machine learning techniques, that is the goal of the new Biosignal Processing Group at the Idiap Research Institute.
The 35th edition of the world renowned International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) was held a few days ago in Sweden.
L’Idiap et sa spin-off Recapp sont sortis vainqueurs d’un défi de reconnaissance vocale lancé par Swisscom et l’opérateur téléphonique belge Proximus.
Interview with Nicolas Filippov the new head of communications, marketing and public relations of the Idiap Research Institute.
Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Social Computing Group) talks about social media, machine learning, and diversity with Amenaza Roboto, the new platform for science and technology journalism in Spanish.
Idiap is happy to present the new edition of its 2017 Annual Report.
This year, Idiap will be exceptionally well represented at the conference, with 14 accepted papers.
Interpol’s New Software Will Recognize Criminals by Their Voices
The paper "Deep Neural Networks for Multiple Speaker Detection and Localization" by Weipeng He, Petr Motlicek and Jean-Marc Odobez shows that the deep learning-based method achieves 90% precision and recall for localizing multiple speakers in real robot recordings.
Idiap organizes the International Create Challenge (ICC) since 2012. For its 7th edition, Groupe Mutuel has joined the Institute from Martigny, offering a new optional theme: Do you have an idea/project in the healthcare/insurance domain? The HealthTech Innovators Award (up to 15K chf) by 'Groupe Mutuel' might be for you.
On Friday, May 4th Idiap’s Deputy Director, François Foglia, visited 5 school classes of the Cycle d’orientation of Montana in Valais.
Idiap has opened two new programs: Idiap Academic Visitor Program and Idiap Fellowship Program for Female Researchers
On Wednesday, April 25th, CREM organised a seminar on territorial energy systems at the Idiap Research Institute. Multiple speakers presented their research work on the topic.
The 7th edition of the International Create challenge is looking for new ideas in the fields of Artificial intelligence. A cash prize of CHF 15’000 awaits the winning teams.
The 3rd edition of the Valais/Wallis workshop in Artificial Intelligence was held at the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny, on April 19th, 2018. The focus with this edition was on “Real and artificial neural processing” and attracted about 70 people.
Merry Christmas and happy new year!
