LIDIAP is the EPFL laboratory of the Idiap Research Institute, an independent non-profit research institute located in Martigny, Valais.
Faculty Members
- Hervé Bourlard: Full Professor
- Daniel Gatica-Perez: Adjunct Professor
- Francois Fleuret: Adjunct Professor
- Jean-Marc Odobez: Maître d’enseignement et de recherche
Idiap Research Institute
Artificial Intelligence for Society
The Idiap Research Institute is an independent, nonprofit research foundation affiliated with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Its activities encompass basic research, training (graduate and post-graduate level), and technology transfer activities in the area of Artificial Intelligence for Society including, among others, multimedia information management, human-computer interaction, perceptual and cognitive systems, natural language processing and understanding, social media, biometric person recognition, multimodal information interfaces, applied artificial intelligence (AI) and large-scale machine learning.
Idiap research groups:
Speech & Audio Processing
Hervé Bourlard (EPFL Professor)
Phil Garner
Mathew Magimai-Doss
Petr Motlicek
Social Computing
Daniel Gatica-Perez (EPFL Adjunct Professor)
Machine Learning
François Fleuret (EPFL Adjunct Professor)
Perception and Activity Understanding
Jean-Marc Odobez (EPFL Maître d’enseignement et de recherche)
Biometrics Security and Privacy
Sébastien Marcel
Natural Language Understanding
James Henderson
Robot Learning & Interaction
Sylvain Calinon
Computational Bioimaging
Michael Liebling
Uncertainty Quantification and Optimal Design
David Ginsbourger
Biosignal Processing
André Anjos
Energy Informatics
Jérôme, KÄMPF
Idiap is active in ten application areas:
- HUMAN-HUMAN, HUMAN-MACHINE & HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
- EXPLOITATION OF RICH MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVES
- COLLABORATIVE AND CREATIVE SYSTEMS
- MOBILE SYSTEMS
- ENERGY MANAGEMENT
- HEALTH AND BIO-ENGINEERING
- SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
- SMART CITIES
- ENTERTAINMENT AND GAMES
- HOME AUTOMATION (DOMOTICS)