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Independent Research Institute, based in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Leading the way of #AI for the benefit of society since 1991.
🎉Winners of the 2025 Idiap Create Challenge - our 9-day AI hackathon - are Team SYNTHIA, with their music improvisation companion, and Team HestIA, with a platform supporting new mothers’ mental health.

Stay tuned for next edition!👀

#research #innovation #AI #entrepreneurship
September 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🚀 The Idiap Create Challenge is on!

From AI-powered music companions to smart energy systems, this 14th edition is all about collaboration, creativity & cutting-edge #AI.

We can’t wait to see what the teams will build!💡

#ICC25 #IdiapCreateChallenge2025 #Innovation #entrepreneurship #hackathon
August 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Discover novel approaches to AI gaze estimation developed by researchers Jean-Marc Odobez and Pierre Vuillecard.

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AI & Gaze: Enabling Enhanced Societal Applications
Gaze is a fundamental indicator of attention and interest, and a non-verbal cue involved in communication and social signaling, a key element across various domains such as human-computer interaction,...
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July 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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📰 To study the #behaviour of #chimpanzees non-intrusively, a team of researchers from the Uni. of Neuchâtel and Idiap Research Institute, in Martigny, has proposed a new approach based on artificial intelligence to automatically analyse primate videos...

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Recognising the behaviour of chimpanzees: let artificial intelligence do the work! - NCCR Evolving Language
To study the behaviour of chimpanzees in a non-intrusive fashion, a team of researchers from the University of Neuchâtel and Idiap Research Institute, in Martigny, members of the NCCR Evolving Languag...
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July 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Congratulations to @jamesbhenderson.bsky.social for obtaining an Advanced Grant from the @erc.europa.eu, one of the most prestigious funding schemes in Europe! 🎉👏

His project BALM stood out among 2K+applications for its excellence in #AI and innovation in #NLP and #ML.

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June 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
💡 “𝘉𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘐 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴" shares Oskar Wysocki, winner of two grants for his innovation project ValViser.

Discover how he plans to transform fleet management with his startup! ➡️ www.idiap.ch/en/allnews/i...

@snsf.ch BRIDGE Fondation The Ark
June 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨 Only 1 week left to register for the 14th Idiap Create Challenge!

Have an idea, a team, or just the drive to innovate in #AI?

Apply now! 👉 www.idiap.ch/en/innovatio...

9 days of hacking, learning, networking and the possibility to establish your startup among the Swiss Alps await!
June 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Looking for a PhD post? Funded by the Swiss NSF, I have openings for two candidates working here at Idiap in the general area of generative modelling using spiking networks.
More information at the application link: careers.werecruit.io/fr/idiap/off...
and about Idiap here: www.idiap.ch/en/careers
May 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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💡 Combine symbolic & neural AI to tackle biomedical challenges! Attend this tuto to use knowledge graphs + LLMs for evidence-based discovery with real cases in antibiotics & oncology
🔹Taught by Maxime Delmas & Andre Freitas
(@idiap.bsky.social)
📅 Mon 8 Sep at #bc2
👉Register: tinyurl.com/5n8w3pwb
May 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Have an entrepreneurial mindset and bold AI-powered ideas that could disrupt the market?🚀 Let’s turn your vision into a game-changing solution during the 14th Idiap Create Challenge! 👉 Register now: www.idiap.ch/en/innovatio...
May 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Just one month to go!🚀
The Martigny Biometrics Workshop will take place on May 19-20 at Idiap.
Join a vibrant community of over 150 experts from various background and fields within #biometrics.

👉Registration: eab.org/events/regis...

👉More: eab.org/events/progr...
April 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What about a featherlight and performing #AI? 💻 @pgarner.bsky.social and Mutian He uncover the topic on a recent publication accepted at @iclr-conf.bsky.social at the end of April.

👉𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: www.idiap.ch/en/allnews/l...

#ML #research #ICLR2025
Lightweight AI for Greater Performance
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in everyday tech, from smartphones to medical devices, the demand for models that are not just powerful but also efficient and lightweight ...
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April 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Learn more about the collaboration between Idiap and the Swiss Data Science Center on @renkuio.bsky.social

👉To the news: www.idiap.ch/en/allnews/i...

#AI #research #collaboration #datascience #cloudplatform #innovation #computerscience
Idiap and the SDSC Collaborate on a Cloud Platform for Reproducible Research
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April 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Improving #privacy with #generativeAI for a more resilient society: Hatef Otroshi and Sébastien Marcel tell us more about it in a recent publication accepted at ICLR.

👉 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: lnkd.in/eJ9ygH_w

#AI #AIforSociety #research #biometrics #security#expertise #genAI #deepfakes #syntheticimages
March 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Learn more about Daniel Gatica-Perez, principal investigator at Idiap and teacher in the digital humanities section at EPFL 💻💡
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“Technology alone won't be able to solve major societal challenges”
Daniel Gatica-Perez, named the best teacher in the digital humanities section for 2024, believes it’s important to stress the human factor in how technology is adopted and used. His research looks at ...
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March 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
An exciting day at the heart of #innovation and collaboration between #industry and #research at the EPFL Engineering Industry Day with part of our R&D engineering team.

👉 Interested in collaborating with us? Let’s connect and innovate together! www.idiap.ch/en/innovation

#AI #AIforSociety #tech
March 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
📣 The 14th edition of the Idiap Create Challenge is coming up soon! 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗼𝘄 as a 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿, an 𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗘𝗢, or a 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿!

👉 Find all the information on our brand-new webpage: www.idiap.ch/en/innovatio...

Join us and shape the future of #AI!

#hackathon #research #entrepreneurship #switzerland
March 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🤖 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.

👉 Read more: www.idiap.ch/en/allnews/u...

#AI #AI4Society #robotics #assistivetech #research
User-friendly Robot Empowers Individuals with Mobility Disability
Robots designed to empower people with mobility disabilities are complex and difficult to adopt, as they require sophisticated movements to complete even basic tasks. At Idiap, researchers have develo...
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March 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM