Best paper award at the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 2023

Congratulations to Michael Jungo, PhD student at iCoSys for winning the best student paper award at the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2023. The conference took place in San Jose, California, and is considered one of the top conference for the Document Analysis and Recognition – DAR community. The paper, entitled […]

Forum de l’innovation pour les PME – FORWARD

Our institute will be present at FORWARD, the innovation forum for SMEs on 10th of March 2023 at EPFL. Two projects will be presented and debated during the panel : “Comment rendre ma PME (vraiment) plus digitale?”  “How to make my SME (really) more digital?“: The Swiss AI Center for SMEs, a project funded by […]

ARTificial Journey, an art installation using machine learning

iCosys is showcasing an interactive art installation at the light festival 2023 in Murten, running from January 18th to 29th, 2023. The installation, called ARTificial Journey, immerses visitors in a fairytale world created using various artificial intelligence technologies such as Midjourney and FILM for visual components, an infrared camera and YoloV5 for visitor detection, and […]

New HEIA-FR R&D brochure using procedural art

The new R&D brochure of the HEIA-FR entitled “Collaborer pour innover” has been released with an unique feature. iCoSys was asked to design the new title page of the brochure using procedural art, with the possibility to create an infinite amount of variations. The result is a unique work of art, which uses as its […]

Closure of project EU BIOSMART – final publication

We are happy to announce the closure of the EU BIOSMART project in which HEIA-FR was partner, involving PICC, CHEMTECH and iCoSys. A final publication has now been made available, referring to BIOSMART under the title: “A push to ensure fresh foods end up getting tasted instead of wasted“. A short movie was also created […]

Face verification to help healthcare in Nepal

Useful results at the end of the world ?! Nice project of Benjamin Pasquier involving AI biometric face recognition to help healthcare in Nepal. Congratulations to Benjamin, a brilliant student from our University of Applied Science. Benjamin created a facial recognition web application to facilitate patient monitoring in a Nepalese hospital. At the end of his […]

Artificial intelligence for law

Nice article from La Liberté about the start-up NEUR.ON, which is making its mark at the interface between law and artificial intelligence (AI)! In collaboration with the HEIA-FR, Neur.on has developed a software that allows automated translations in the legal and financial field. Several large law firms have already adopted it! “The tool is based […]

New AI microservices on our iCoService cluster

We are proudly releasing a couple of new Artificial Intelligence microservices! Students, collaborators and even profs are contributing to extending the list of microservices on our Kubernetes cluster. Check them out here: https://icosys.ch/icoservices. All microservices are accessible through REST API following the openapi v3 specification (OAS3).   Flip-ML. The objective of this microservice is to […]