AI for Everyone

Photo by Desola Lanre-Ologun on Unsplash

To support individuals and communities outside mainstream Western societies, governments, NGOs, and businesses often use tools that were not designed with these users in mind. This needs to change.

Artificial intelligence should serve everyone, equitably. To achieve this, people—especially those whose voices are often not heard—need to be at the center of the design and deployment of AI systems. Through the development of participatory, trustworthy, and fair technology, research at Idiap empowers communities of users and fosters democratic, collective decision-making. The impact of our work is broad, ranging from citizen science initiatives to projects where the responsible use of AI can truly benefit communities.

Expertise domains

#Bioinformatics&HealthInformatics
#DataScience&SocialComputing
#HumanComputerInteraction
#Imaging&ComputerVision
#MachineLearning
#NaturalLanguageProcessing
#Robotics&AutonomousSystems
#Security&Privacy
#SignalProcessing
#Speech&AudioProcessing

More  

This program contributes to the following UN SDG


More  

People

ABBET, Philip
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
- website


AKSTINAITE, Vita
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


ALONSO DEL BARRIO, David
(Junior R&D / Research Assistant)


AMIRI, Mahdi
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


ANNAPUREDDY, Ravinithesh Reddy
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


ARMANI RENZO, Matheus
(Research Intern)


BEN MAHMOUD, Imen
(Research and Development Engineer)
- website


BHATTACHARJEE, Sushil (Kumar)
(Research Associate)
- website


BORNET, Olivier
(Head of Research and Development Team)
- website


BROS, Victor
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


BURDISSO, Sergio (Gastón)
(R&D / Research Assistant)


CANÉVET, Olivier
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
- website


CAROFILIS VASCO, Roberto Andrés
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


CARRON, Daniel
(Research and Development Engineer)
- website


CHEN, Haolin
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


CLIVAZ, Guillaume
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
- website


COLBOIS, Laurent
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


COMAN, Andrei (Catalin)
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


COPPIETERS DE GIBSON, Louise
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


COSTA BARBOSA, Lucas
(Research Intern)


DAYER, Yannick
(Research and Development Engineer)
- website


DROZ, William
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
- website


ECABERT, Christophe
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


EL HAJAL, Karl
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


EL ZEIN, Dina
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


FEHR, Fabio (James)
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


GAIST, Samuel
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
- website


GARNER, Philip
(Senior Research Scientist)
- website


GATICA-PEREZ, Daniel
(Senior Research Scientist with Academic Title)
- website


GENTILHOMME, Théophile
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
- website


GEORGE, Anjith
(Research Associate)
- website


HE, Mutian
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


HENDERSON, James (Brinton)
(Senior Research Scientist)
- website


HERMANN, Enno
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


HOU, Mingchi
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


HOVSEPYAN, Sevada
(Research Associate)
- website


ISMAYILZADA, Mahammad
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


JIMÉNEZ DEL TORO, Oscar (Alfonso)
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


JUNG, Vincent
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


KALAAJI, Dana
(Research Intern)
- website


KALOGA, Yacouba
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


KAYAL, Salim
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
- website


KHALIL, Driss
(Junior R&D / Research Assistant)
- website


KODRASI, Ina
(Research Scientist)
- website


KOMATY, Alain
(Research Associate)
- website


KOPP, Damian
(Research Intern)


KORSHUNOV, Pavel
(Research Associate)
- website


KOTWAL, Ketan
(Research Associate)
- website


KRIVOKUĆA HAHN, Vedrana
(Research Associate)
- website


KULKARNI, Ajinkya (Vijay)
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


KUMAR, Shashi
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


LUÉVANO GARCÍA, Luis Santiago
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


MACEIRAS, Jérémy
(Research and Development Engineer)
- website


MAGIMAI DOSS, Mathew
(Senior Research Scientist)
- website


MARCEL, Christine
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
- website


MARCEL, Sébastien
(Senior Research Scientist with Academic Title)
- website


MAYORAZ, André
(Research and Development Engineer)
- website


MENENDEZ RUIZ DE AZUA, Pablo
(Research Intern)


MICHEL, Samuel
(Research and Development Engineer)
- website


MOHAMMADI, Amir
(Research Associate)
- website


MOTLICEK, Petr
(Senior Research Scientist)
- website


MURALIDHAR, Skanda
(Research Associate)
- website


NANCHEN, Alexandre
(Senior Research and Development Engineer)
- website


NEUGBER, Samuel
(R&D / Research Assistant)
- website


OTROSHI SHAHREZA, Hatef
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


ÖZBULAK, Gökhan
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


PANNATIER, Yvan
(Research Intern)


PETERSEN, Molly (Rose)
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


POLAC, Magdalena
(R&D / Research Assistant)
- website


PRASAD, Amrutha
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


PULVIRENTI, Roberto
(Research Intern)


PUROHIT, Tilak
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


RABELLO DOS ANJOS, André
(Research Scientist)
- website


RAHIMI NOSHANAGH, Parsa
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


RANGAPPA, Pradeep
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


SANCHEZ LARA, Alejandra
(Research Intern)
- website


SANCHEZ-CORTES, Dairazalia
(Research Assistant)
- website


SARKAR, Eklavya
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


SHEIKH, Shakeel Ahmad
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


SHIRAKAMI, Haruki
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


SYLA, Valmir
(Research Intern)


TARIGOPULA, Neha
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


THORBECKE (NIGMATULINA), Iuliia
(PhD Student / Research Assistant)
- website


TORNAY, Sandrine
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


ULUCAN, Ibrahim
(Research Assistant)
- website


VAN DER MEER, Michiel
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


VAN DER PLAS, Lonneke
(External Research Fellow)
- website


VÁSQUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Laura
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


VERZAT, Colombine
(Research and Development Engineer)
- website


VIDIT, Vidit
(Postdoctoral Researcher)
- website


VILLATORO TELLO, Esaú
(Research Associate)
- website


VLASENKO, Bogdan
(Research Associate)
- website


WEN, Jing
(Research Intern)


XI, Lei
(Research Intern)


ZANGGER, Alicia
(Research and Development Engineer)
- website


 

Publication highlights

Generalization and Personalization of Passive Mobile Sensing-Based Mood Inference Models: An Analysis of College Students in Eight Countries. Meegahapola, W. Droz, P. Kun, A. de Gotzen, C. Nutakki, S. Diwakar, S. Ruiz Correa, D. Song, H. Xu, M. Bidoglia, G. Gaskell, A. Chagnaa, A. Ganbold, T. Zundui, C. Caprini, D. Miorandi, A. Hume. In Proc. of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT), 6(4), pp. 1-32, Dec. 2022.

A multidisciplinary approach with a large international team to quantify the performance of inference models for real-life smartphone sensor data, investigating country-specific, country-agnostic, and multi-country approaches. This work is an example of progress towards the development of diversity- aware algorithms for people in eight countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

 

Pre-training Data Quality and Quantity for a Low-Resource Language: New Corpus and BERT Models for Maltese, Kurt Micallef, Albert Gatt, Marc Tanti, Lonneke van der Plas and Claudia Borg, in Proceedings of the workshop on Deep Learning for Low-Resource NLP, 2022.

Technological tools are missing for many languages in the world. This paper com-pares methods for creating language technologies for a language that has limited resources: Maltese. We also present a newly created collection of texts for Maltese, that results in state-of-the-art performance on several language tasks, despite the fact that the new collection of text is much smaller than those typically used for high-resourced languages.Technological tools are missing for many languages in the world. This paper com-pares methods for creating language technologies for a language that has limited resources: Maltese. We also present a newly created collection of texts for Maltese, that results in state-of-the-art performance on several language tasks, despite the fact that the new collection of text is much smaller than those typically used for high-resourced languages.

 

Towards Accessible Sign Language Learning and Assessment, Neha Tarigopula, Sandrine Tornay, Skanda Muralidhar, Mathew Magimai-Doss, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2022.

Recently, a phonology-based sign language assessment approach has been proposed using sign language production acquired in 3D space using Kinect sensor. In order to scale the sign language assessment system to realistic application, there is need to reduce the dependency on Kinect, which is not accessible to wider community, and develop solutions that can potentially work with web-cameras. This paper takes a step in that direction by investigating sign language recognition and sign language assessment in 2D space either by dropping the depth coordinate in Kinect or using methods for skeleton estimation from videos. Experimental studies on Swiss German Sign Language corpus SMILE show that, while loss of depth information leads to considerable drop in sign language recognition performance, high level of sign language assessment performance can still be obtained.

Project highlights

AI4MEDIA, 2020-2024, H2020, GATICA-PEREZ: A EUROPEAN EXCELLENCE CENTRE FOR MEDIA, SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY

This project aims to deliver core AI advances and training to serve the media sector, while ensuring that European values of ethical and trustworthy AI are embedded in future deployments. In particular, we study phenomena related to European local news, with emphasis on human-centered AI methods to understand both local news content and local user perceptions.


UniDIVE, 2022-2026, COST Action, VAN DER PLAS: UNIVERSALITY, DIVERSITY AND idiosyncRASY IN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY

Recognizing that progress in natural language processing (NLP) needs to account for and foster language diversity, this network aims to provide theoretical models and practical advances about language universality and diversity, including language resources and tools covering a large variety of language phenomena in many languages, including those who are currently low-resourced and endangered.


FAIRMI, 2023-2026, SNSF, ANJOS: MACHINE LEARNING FAIRNESS WITH APPLICATION TO MEDICAL IMAGES

In medical imaging, the use of machine learning (ML) models to support large scale screening and diagnosis has substantially increased. However, the study of demographic bias of ML-based medical imaging remains unaddressed. This project will advance the state-of-the-art in ML fairness applied to the design of image-based computer-aided diagnosis systems.

 

Full list of related projects

WeNet, 2019-2023, H2020, Gatica-Perez

Smartphone sensing research involving university students in the Global South

 

AI4Media, 2020-2024, H2020, Gatica-Perez

Participatory approaches for human-centered AI understanding of local Swiss news

 

ICARUS, 2020-2024, H2020, Gatica-Perez

Design thinking approaches for urban security solutions in European cities

 

ELIAS, 2023-2027, Horizon Europe, Gatica-Perez

Machine learning for urban local development

 

SEM24, 2023-2025, Innosuisse, Van der Plas

Multilingual language technologies

 

IICT, 2022-2026, Innosuisse, Magimai Doss

Sign language and spoken subtitling technology to overcome language barriers

 

NCCR Evolang, 2020-2024, SNSF, Magimai Doss

Speech technologies for children speech

 

SMILE-II, 2021-2024, SNSF Sinergia, Magimai Doss

Technologies for Deaf/Hard of Hearing people

 

CollabCloud, 2022-2023, Loterie Romande & Idiap, Anjos

Collaborative research cloud Infrastructure powering discovery and exchange

 

FairMI, 2023-2026, SNSF, Anjos

Bias analysis and mitigation in image-based computer-aided diagnosis

 

SAFER, 2022-2024, Hasler, Marcel

Bias mitigation in facial recognition