Awards
International Awards & Distinctions
2023
Hervé bourlard was awarded the title of Life Fellow
from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
January 2023
2022
Sylvain Calinon and his colleagues from CNRS received the12 stars of Europe 2022 award
from the Minister of Higher Education and Research for their European H2020 MEMMO project
December 2022
Angelos Katharopoulos received the Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering
from EPFL for his PhD thesis entitled Stop Wasting my FLOPS: Improving the Efficiency of Deep Learning Models
November 2022
Daniel Gatica-Perez won the ACM ICMI Sustained Accomplishment Award 2022
at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction in Bengaluru, India
November 2022
Daniel Gatica-Perez and his colleagues receives the Ten-Year Impact Award in Ubiquitous Computing
at the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
for the paper StressSense: Detecting Stress in Unconstrained Acoustic Environments using Smartphones
September 2022
Sylvain Calinon, Adrien Escande, Yue Hu, and Patrick Wensing won the IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award
IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award
August 2022
2021
Ina Kodrasi won the Best PhD Award
at the EUSIPCO 2020
January 2021
Thibaut Kulak received the Best Poster Award
during the Workshop "Towards Curious Robots: Modern Approaches for Intrinsically-Motivated Intelligent Behavior" at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021)
for his paper Intrinsically-Motivated Robot Learning of Bayesian Probabilistic Movement Primitives
June 2021
Hervé Bourlard received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Award
Awarded for the first time to a Swiss researcher, this prestigious prize, was jointly awarded to Prof. Hervé Bourlard, Idiap’s director and head of the Speech & Audio Processing research group, and his colleague Prof. Nelson Morgan from the Berkeley University (USA).
July 2021
Weiping He won the EPFL Electrical Engineering Doctoral Program PhD Thesis Distinction
for the PhD thesis Deep learning approaches for auditory perception in robotics
2021
2020
Lakmal Meegahapola was nominated Exemplary Reviewer
by the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters journal
January 2020
Trinh-Minh-Tri Do and Daniel Gatica-Perez won the 10-year Impact Award
at the 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Mobile Multimedia (MUM) 2020
with their paper By their apps you shall understand them: mining large-scale patterns of mobile phone usage
Social computing group
November 2020
2019
Ina Kodrasi and Simon Doclo won the Award for outstanding publications in information technology
from the ITG 2019
with their paper Analysis of Eigenvalue Decomposition-Based Late Reverberation Power Spectral Density Estimation
November 2019
Noémie Jaquier won the Best Presentation Award
at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
with her paper Bayesian Optimization Meets Riemannian Manifolds in Robot Learning
Robot learning & interaction group
November 2019
Tiago de Freitas Pereira won the Research Award
from the European Association for Biometrics
with his paper Learning How To Recognize Faces in Heterogeneous Environments
Biometrics security & privacy group
September 2019
Pavel Korshunov won the Best Paper Award
at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
with his paper Tampered Speaker Inconsistency Detection with Phonetically Aware Audio-visual Features
Biometrics security & privacy group
June 2019
Thanh-Trung Phan, Skanda Muralidhar, Daniel Gatica-Perez won the Honorable Mention Paper Award
at the International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
with their paper #Drink Or #Drunk: Multimodal Signals and Drinking Practices on Instagram
Social computing group
May 2019
Raghavendra Ramachandra, Sushma Venkatesh, Kiran Raja, Sushil Bhattacharjee, Pankaj S Wasnik, Sébastien Marcel, Christoph Busch won the Best paper Award
from the International Association for Pattern Recognition
with their paper Custom Silicon Face Masks: Vulnerability on Commercial Face Recognition Systems & Presentation Attack Detection
Biometrics security & privacy group
May 2019
Christian Jaques won the Best paper Award
at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
with his paper Multi-Spectral Widefield Microscopy of the Beating Heart through Post-Acquisition Synchronization and Unmixing
Computational bioimaging group
April 2019
2018
Adrian Shajkofci won the Best Student Paper Award
at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
with his paper Semi-Blind Spatially-Variant Deconvolution in Optical Microscopy with Local Point Spread Function Estimation by Use of Convolutional Neural Networks
Computational bioimaging group
October 2018
David Ginsbourger named Oustand Reviewer
at the International Conference on Machine Learning
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Uncertainty quantification and optimal design group
July 2018
2017
Nikolaos Pappas, Andrei Popescu-Belis won the Best paper Award
at the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
with their paper Multilingual Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification
Natural Language Processing group
December 2017
Daniel Gatica-Perez received the Community Service Award
at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
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Social computing group
November 2017
Sylvain Calinon won the Best Paper Award
of the Intelligent Service Robotics (ISR) journal
with his paper A Tutorial on Task-Parameterized Movement Learning and Retrieval
Robot learning and interaction group
June 2017
James Newling, Francois Fleuret won the Best Paper Award
at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
with their paper A Sub-Quadratic Exact Medoid Algorithm
Machine learning group
April 2017
Subhadeep Dey won the Ganesh N. Ramaswamy Memorial Student Grant
from the IEEE
with his paper Exploiting Sequence Information for Text-Dependentspeaker Verification
Speech and audio processing group
March 2017
Jean-Marc Odobez received the best associate Editor Award
from the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology
2017
2016
Dario Azzimonti won the C. Moser Award for outstanding Ph.D. or M.Sc. theses within the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science
of the University of Bern
with his thesis Contributions to Bayesian set estimation relying on random field priors
Uncertainty quantification and optimal design group
December 2016
Nikolaos Pappas, Mercan Topkara, Miriam Redi, Brendan Jou, Tao Chen, Hongyi Liu, Shih-Fu Chang won the Best Multimodal Paper Award
at the Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
with their paper Multilingual Visual Sentiment Concept Matching
Natural Language Processing group
June 2016
2015
Marzieh Razavi won the Best Paper Award
at the Language and Technology Conference
with her paper Pronunciation Lexicon Development for Under-Resourced Languages Using Automatically Derived Subword Units: A Case Study on Scottish Gaelic
Speech and audio processing group
November 2015
Christopher McCoola, Roy Wallacea, Mitchell McLarenb, Laurent El Shafeya, Sébastien Marcel won the Premium Best Paper Award
at the IET Biometrics
with their paper Session variability modelling for face authentication
Biometrics security & privacy group
September 2015
2014
Laurent El Shafey won the Best Biometrics Student Paper Award
at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics
with his paper Audio-visual gender recognition in uncontrolled environment using variability modeling techniques
Biometrics security & privacy group
October 2014
Laurent El Shafey won the European Biometrics Research Award
with his paper Scalable Probabilistic Models: Applied to Face Identification in the Wild
Biometrics security & privacy group
September 2014
2013
Vasil Khalidov, Florence Forbes and Radu Horaud won the Best paper Award
at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
with their paper Alignment of Binocular-Binaural Data Using a Moving Audio-Visual Target
Perception and Activity Understanding
October 2013
Alexandre Heili and Jean-Marc Odobez won the Best Paper Award
for Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance
with their paper Parameter Estimation and Contextual Adaptation for a Multi-Object Tracking CRF Model
Perception and Activity Understanding
January 2013
2012
Dinesh Jayagopi, Dayra Sanchez-Cortes, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, and Daniel Gatica-Perez won the Outstanding Paper Award
at the ACM Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), Santa Monica, USA
with the paper entitled Linking Speaking and Looking Behavior Patterns with Group Composition, Perception, and Performance
Social Computing
October 2012
Kenneth Funes won the Student Best paper Award
at the CVPR workshop on Gesture Recognition
with his paper Gaze estimation from multimodal Kinect data
Perception and Activity Understanding
June 2012
2011
Trinh- Minh-Tri Do and Daniel Gatica-Perez won the Best paper Award
at the IEEE Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers (ISWC)
with the paper entitled GroupUs: Smartphone Proximity Data and Human Interaction Type Mining
Social Computing
June 2011
2010
Raul Montoliu and Daniel Gatica-Perez won the Best paper Award
at the Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Conference (MUM)
with their paper entitled Discovering Human Places of Interest from Multimodal Mobile Phone Data
Social Computing
December 2010
Venkatesh Bala Subburaman and Sébastien Marcel won the Workshop Best paper Award
at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
with their paper Fast Bounding Box Estimation based Face Detection
Biometrics security & privacy group
September 2010
Norman Poh, Josef Kittler, Sebastien Marcel, Driss Matrouf and Jean-Francois Bonastre won the Best Paper Award
at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition
with their paper Model and Score Adaptation for Biometric Systems: Coping with Device Interoperability and Changing Acquisition Conditions
Biometrics security & privacy group
August 2010
2009
Stéphanie Lefèvr won the Best Student Paper Award
at the International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
with her paper Structure and appearance features for robust 3D facial actions tracking
Perception and Activity Understanding
June 2009
Idiap Awards 2022
Idiap PhD Student Research Award
Student: Teguh Lembono
Winner of the student award, Teguh Lembono received his PhD thesis degree on July 28th 2022. He now holds a position at Amazon in Germany as Applied Scientist in Robotics & AI. Lembono was praised for his work by his PhD thesis defense committee. His research contributions addressed challenges at the crossroad of planning, machine learning and optimization, with applications to biped and quadruped robots. He has an excellent overview of the diverse research areas in robotics by mastering both its theoretical and practical aspects. Lembono’s publications have been cited 182 times, giving him an h-index of 7. In addition to his exemplary professional results, he did not hesitate to take time to help others at Idiap. He also co-supervised several BSc/MSc students at EPFL for semester projects.
Idiap PhD Student Paper Award
Student: Alexandre Bittar
For his paper in Frontiers in Neuroscience, A surrogate gradient spiking baseline for speech command recognition, Alexandre Bittar won Idiap’s Paper 2022 Award. The paper represents a new research direction for the institute and its potential impact is quite high as the content constitutes a fundamentally different approach to speech processing. Although the subject is speech commands–isolated words–the neural architecture associated to this publication has potential for good performance and much lower power consumption. In addition, the research is completely open in that the journal is fundamentally open access and the software is also open. The paper only appeared this year. However, it has already formed the basis of two project proposals.