Idiap Research Institute

📣 The 14th edition of the Idiap Create Challenge is coming up soon! Want to be part of this thrilling experience? 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 as a 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿, an 𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗘𝗢, or a 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿, and support a leading Swiss AI institute with 30+ years of experience in the field. 👉 Find all the information on our brand-new webpage: https://lnkd.in/ez89nD26 Join us and shape the future of #AI! #AIforSociety #IdiapCreateChallenge25 #ICC25 #innovation #research #entrepreneurship #switzerland

🤖 Empowering people with mobility disabilities thanks to a user-friendly robot: Idiap's researchers Shalutha Rajapakshe, Emmanuel Senft and Jean-Marc Odobez present their solution in a recent publication participating at the 20th IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI). 👉 Read more about their study: https://lnkd.in/dExT2_Qd #AIforSociety #robotics #assistiverobotics #AIforEveryone #AIforAll

Congratulations to Sébastien Marcel on his elevation to IEEE Fellow! 👏 This achievement recognizes his contributions to biometric security and privacy, where he continues to make an impact as a senior researcher at Idiap while also passing his knowledge on to master's students at the ESC UNIL – École des sciences criminelles of the Université de Lausanne. We wish him continued success! 🎉 👉 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gbRq6VVP #AIforSociety #research #innovation #education #biometrics #award #fellowship #IEEE

We are pleased to welcome Guy Fagherazzi, Director of the Department of Precision Health at the Luxembourg Institute of Health, for our second distinguished lecture! Together with postdoc Abir Elbéji, they will share their insights on the topic of #AI for #precisionhealth. 🧬 🧫 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 📅 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 🕙𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 10:30 AM CET 🌍 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: on site and online 👉 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://lnkd.in/eQxpxicA #research #innovation #education #health #AIforHealth #AIforSociety

What an inspiring Distinguished Lecture by Samy Bengio who discussed the #GlobalityBarrier and the #InductiveScratchpad. 🙌 The positive energy in the room was high as he explored how #LLMs can simplify, step-by-step, complex problems. It was a great opportunity for our team to exchange ideas with Samy on some of the most pressing topics in #AI. 💡 #AIforSociety #distinguishedlecture #distinguishedspeaker #samybengio #innovation #education #research

We’re excited to welcome back to Idiap our alumnus Samy Bengio, Senior Director of AI and Machine Learning Research at Apple. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from the co-creator of #Torch (developed during his time at Idiap!) and one of the leading minds in #AI. 💡 📅 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻? Wednesday, February 5, 2025 🕒 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲? 10:30 AM CET 🌍 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲? On-site or online. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/e4-jaNUS #AIforSociety #DistinguishedLecture #research #knowledge #innovation #machinelearning

📢 Our 2024 Scientific Report is out! A compilation of our latest scientific achievements, supporting #AI for #Society across our four research programs. The report highlights the breadth and depth of our research outcomes and open source contributions (software and datasets) that are shaping the future of AI. 👉Discover the full report: https://lnkd.in/dFptYGbE 👉Explore more about Idiap: https://www.idiap.ch/en/ 👉Learn about our Research Programs: https://lnkd.in/dXYzRPFy #AIforSociety #Research #Innovation #Knowledge #ScientificReport #Switzerland

Kicking Off the Year with a Technical Boost! 🚀 Starting a new role can be exciting - but figuring out the tools and workflows can leave you feeling a bit lost. That’s why we kicked off the year with 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗢𝗻𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘆, a hands-on training session led by our expert Research & Development team, where theory meets practice.   The goal? Empowering everyone - whether new or a long-time team member - to make the most of our resources and level up their skills. 💡 Interested in joining the team? Check out our latest openings: https://lnkd.in/e6hCAU88 Idiap website: https://www.idiap.ch/en/ #Onboarding #TechnicalTraining #Innovation #Teamwork #Idiap #AIforSociety #AI #research #institute

Finishing on a High! 🏆 We are thrilled to wrap up the year celebrating our researchers receiving prestigious international awards: 👉 Best Paper Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics S. Shetty, T. Lembono, T. Löw, S. Calinon 𝑇𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑂𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 https://lnkd.in/d5gEiY9F 👉 Outstanding Paper Award at Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) X. Quan, M. Valentino, L. A. Dennis, A. Freitas 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝐿𝐿𝑀-𝑆𝑦𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑚 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 https://lnkd.in/dU_c4_yj 👉 Best Student Paper Award, 18th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) A. Gupta, S. Tafasca, N. Chutisilp, J.-M. Odobez 𝐴 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 https://lnkd.in/d-Fm6yty 👉 Special Recognition for Sustainable Practices, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) A. Maeder, L. Meegahapola, D. Gatica-Perez 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑆𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑡𝑎: 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐴𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐷𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 https://lnkd.in/d6HnVDA4 👉 Best Paper Award, 6th International Workshop on Gaze Estimation and Prediction in the Wild (GAZE 2024) at CVPR 2024 A. Gupta, P. Vuillecard, A. Farkhondeh, J.-M. Odobez 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑍𝑒𝑟𝑜-𝑆ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛-𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 https://lnkd.in/d8fG3EUD 👉 Outstanding Contribution Award, International Workshop on Federated Foundation Models at NeurIPS 2024 W. Lu, H. Yu, J. Wang, D. Teney, H. Wang, Y. Chen, Q. Yang, X . Xie, X. Ji 𝑍𝑜𝑜𝑃𝐹𝐿: 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘-𝐵𝑜𝑥 𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝐹𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 https://lnkd.in/erEFEMGa Sylvain Calinon Jean-Marc Odobez Daniel Gatica-Perez Damien Teney Tobias Löw Suhan Shetty Teguh Santoso Lembono Lakmal Meegahapola Samy Tafasca Anshul Gupta Pierre Vuillecard Naravich Chutisilp Arya Farkhondeh Marco Valentino Andre Freitas #AIforSociety #AI #Awards #conferences #2024 #research #AIresearch

I am delighted that SERI, the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, confirmed Idiap's funding as Research Institute of National Importance for the next four years. Founded in 1991, Idiap drives #AI4Society through four research programs: 1) Human-AI Teaming 2) Sustainable & Resilient Societies 3) AI for Life 4) AI for Everyone. Want to collaborate? Discover our strategic direction here: https://lnkd.in/d52bG9KF ... and you are welcome to visit us in Canton Valais, recently recognized by Lonely Planet as a top-10 travel destination for 2025! #Alps #QualityofLife #Research #Innovation #Science #Technology #Switzerland Etat du Valais - Staat Wallis Idiap Research Institute