On 10 September 2014 the jury of the 8th European Biometrics Research and Industry Award has selected the three laureates of the 2014 edition of this prestigious competition.
Idiap pursues its development with new scientific research groups. Recently, the institute has acquired an American robot worth CHF 30’000.-. This investment opens new perspectives, in particular thanks to the interconnection between the different domains of competencies developed in Martigny.
During a press conference on August 28, 2014 the Idiap Research Institute revealed and launched its new crowd funding platform funding.idiap.ch
On August 11, 2014, Alexandre Heili publicly defended his PhD thesis entitled "Human Tracking and Pose Estimation in Open Spaces". He received the EPFL PhD thesis diploma from his thesis director Jean-Marc Odobez.
Klewel, based at IdeArk in Martigny, figures amongst the 10 nominees for the Swiss ICT Award 2014, the Oscars of the Swiss informatics sector.
The Idiap Research Institute is proud to announce that 2 new researchers have recently joined the research team. Sylvain Calinon and Michael Liebling will reinforce, complement and develop the Institute’s expertise and competencies in human-robot interaction and computational bioimaging.
KeyLemon offers computer access solutions based on speech and face recognition.
LYON, France – Developing a Privacy by Design solution in voice biometrics to combat all forms of transnational crime was the focus of the first Speaker Identification Integrated Project (SIIP) meeting hosted by INTERPOL.
At Switzerland's Idiap Research Institute, one man is on the front lines of the fight against cyberterrorism. He's an expert in biometrics. The more individual the biometric, the more difficult it is to attack.
Vein recognition is a biometric that has traditionally been seen as difficult to hack or spoof, as the biometric patterns created by the vein structure in a person’s finger are hidden from view.
TiE50 is an annual awards program keenly contested by thousands of technology start-ups worldwide. One of this year’s winners is Powzy, winner of the ICC’2013.
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Today, accessing your computer with the help of facial recognition is possible. However, by wearing a particularly realistic mask, one can fool certain biometric identification systems and open a session through another person’s identity.
Renowned Audio Solutions Manufacturer Adds Microphone Technologies Company as It Continues Developing Innovative Products Enhancing the Robustness of Its DSP Offering
ReMeeting, Idiap start-up and winner of the ICC’2013, has been selected amongst the three finalists of this year’s Prix Créateur BCVS competition.
On May 2 2014, Laurent El-Shafey made the public defense of his PhD thesis entitled "Scalable Probabilistic Models For Face and Speaker Recognition". He received the EPFL PhD thesis diploma from his thesis co-Director Sébastien Marcel.
The Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing is born!
SenseCityVity is a Switzerland-Mexico collaborative project between Idiap Research Institute and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), and the National Center for Supercomputing of the Instituto Potosino de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CNS-IPICYT), supported by EPFL's Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV).
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On February 27 2014, the workshop "Comment innover dans vos réunions" took place at the Idiap Research Institute in Martigny. François Foglia, Deputy Director of Idiap, presented the institute's activities to the workshop participants.
Idiap has signed recently a new research agreement with Doctor Web a Russian anti-malware company.
Doctor Web is famous for having discovered a Trojan variant that affected more than 600,000 Macs.
Katayoun (Kate) Farrahi has joined the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK as a lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in North America).
Last week, Idiap’s outstanding research success under FP7 was highlighted during the inaugural day of the Swiss Horizon 2020 launch event at the Stade de Suisse in Berne.
Edgar Roman-Rangel (former PhD student at the Social Computing Group at Idiap and EPFL, and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva) has been awarded a SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility fellowship. His project, on the area of computational archaeology, is entitled "Tepalcatl: Automatic Categorization of Potsherds". The project starts on April 1, 2014 and will be conducted at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
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The 2013 Idiap awards have been granted to Laurent EL SHAFEY and Leonidas LEFAKIS.
The Social Computing group received a prototype of the new Kinect 2.0 for Windows as part of Microsoft's Developer Kit Program.