LIDIAP is the EPFL laboratory of the Idiap Research Institute, an independent non-profit research institute located in Martigny, Valais.
Faculty Members
- Hervé Bourlard: Honorary 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:
- Biometrics Security and Privacy | Sébastien Marcel (Professor)
- Biosignal Processing | André Anjos
- Computational Bioimaging | Michael Liebling (Professor)
- Computation, Cognition & Language | Lonneke Van der Plas (Professor)
- Energy Informatics | Jérôme Kämpf
- Genomics & Health Informatics | Raphaëlle Luisier
- Machine Learning | Damien Teney
- Natural Language Understanding | James Henderson
- Perception and Activity Understanding | Jean-Marc Odobez (EPFL Maître d’enseignement et de recherche)
- Reasoning & Explainable AI | André Freita
- Robot Learning & Interaction | Sylvain Calinon
- Signal Processing for Communication | Ina Kodrasi
- Social Computing | Daniel Gatica-Perez (EPFL Adjunct Professor)
- Speech & Audio Processing | Hervé Bourlard (EPFL Honorary Professor) – Phil Garner – Mathew Magimai-Doss – Petr Motlicek
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)