Always observe what’s smaller while maintaining the highest image quality possible. This requires ever more powerful microscopes, but computational methods can also do it. This is the subject of the thesis that Olivia Mariani successfully defended.
Computational Bioimaging
The technique of computational imaging and biomedical image analysis lies at the heart of the group’s imaging research. Research areas of this group include developing algorithms for image deconvolution and super-resolution in optical microscopy, three-dimensional tomography reconstruction from projections, and, more generally, combining unusual sensing devices and approaches with computational methods to produce images ideally-suited for the observation and quantification of complex and live biological systems.
Group News
Christian Jaques, a researcher in the Idiap’s Computational Bioimaging Group and PhD student in electrical engineering at EPFL was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the latest IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging.
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".
The Idiap Research Institute develops a new imaging system for research. The precision instrument has been built together with the air base of Sion and could be used by companies and the Universities of Applied Science of the Canton.
Michael Liebling has been appointed Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Group Job Openings
- Several Openings for Cross-Disciplinary Senior Researcher positions — by admin — last modified Mar 01, 2021
- With the growth of the institute, in addition to increased Federal funding to further support its activities, Idiap is opening several additional permanent senior research scientist positions.
Current Group Members

LIEBLING, Michael
(Senior Researcher, UC Santa Barbara Adjunct Professor)
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MARELLI, François
(Research Assistant)
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LEYVRAZ, Cindy
(Master Student)
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CLERC, Rémi
(Research Intern)
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Alumni
- BARRAS, Léonard
- CHAN, Kevin
- JAQUES, Christian
- KÖPRÜLÜ, Cevahir
- MARIANI, Olivia
- RAM, Dhananjay
- SHAJKOFCI, Adrian
Active Research Grants
Past Research Grants
- 3DFINGERVEIN - 3D FingerVein Biometrics
- 4DHEART - 4DHeart: 4D analysis of heart development and regeneration using advanced light microscopy
- AMICLEAR - AMICLEAR: détection de fibres d’AMIante par CLassification d’images de microscopie Electronique pour l’Analyse de Résidus
- COMETS-M - Computational Methods for Temporal Super-resolution Microscopy
- LIVEHEART - The Cellular Basis of Cardiac Development Revealead by Live Imaging
- PLATFORM_MMD - Platform for Reproducible Acquisition, Processing, and Sharing of Dynamic, Multi-Modal Data
- SRML - Super-resolution through Machine Learning