Working for humanitarian matters

The IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2019 (GHTC) paper written by Mariana Vallo Docampo & Pascal Bruegger has been finally posted to the IEEE Xplore digital library ! The paper is Based on their experience with the ICRC. They designed a tailored ICT training for the humanitarian organization ICT specialists. You can learn more on the […]

iCoService Update !

We are proudly releasing a nice update to our microservices cluster! We recently added shared GPU support on top of Kubernetes. This was needed to deploy some larger deep learning models. The task was not easy as, by default, Kubernetes schedules only one container per GPU, which results in a considerable waste of computing resources. […]

Making Fribourg and Bulle smarter

La Liberté newspaper wrote about the SmartCity applied research project iCoSys, ISIS and Energy worked on. The project is about creating an intelligent network of measures using IoT Lora technology which will help the cities of Fribourg and Bull solve their problems of increased road traffic, noise and air quality. Read all about it there […]

iCoSys is working from home

We follow the Swiss authorities guidelines by working remotely from home. Our private services are still on and we are mastering the art of e-learning for our HEIA-FR students.

iCoSys @ the ICAIIC2020 in Japan !

Nicolas Zurbuchen and Pascal Bruegger presented their work on “Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Fall Detection using Wearable Sensors” at the ICAIIC2020 in Japan. Short abstract: The proportion of people 60 years old and above is rapidly increasing. A leading cause of death among elderly are falls. This paper presents the development of a […]

[[CALL FOR PARTICIPATION]]

You have a competitive spirit ? You want to contribute in the evolution of the Video Optical Character Recognition (Video-OCR) research area? Register at the Arabic Text in Videos Competition 2020 https://diuf.unifr.ch/main/diva/AcTiVComp/ AcTiVComp20 is part of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020) and it is organized by our PhD in Computer Science Oussama […]

Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences is fan of Lucy Linder !

The Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences news center presented an article about our brilliant collaborator Lucy Linder and her work at the Berkeley Lab for her Master thesis. Don’t hesitate to learn more about her and her work here : https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/01/29/researcher-develops-first-of-its-kind-quantum-algorithm-for-particle-physics-data/ 

iCoSys & Data Science @HEIA

iCoSys is proud to have both its heads of Institute named responsible for the new Data Science major, the latest specialization in the computer science curriculum at Haute école d’ingénierie et d’architecture de Fribourg (HEIA-FR) ! The major will be available next September, with Pierre Kuonen leading the Bachelors program and Jean Hennebert leading the […]

Fritz Kutter Computer Science Award won by Lucy Linder

We are very proud to announce that our collaborator Lucy Linder has won the prestigious Fritz Kutter Computer Science Award. This award is given each year from the Fritz Kutter fund managed by the ETH Zürich and honoring the best thesis (diploma, master, doctoral) at a Swiss university. Her work “Using a Quantum Annealer for […]

New student projects hosted at iCoSys are launched

As of mid September 2019, we are proud to host at iCoSys several new student projects that will be realised in our labs: Master level DeepFashion – AI based services for the fashion industry Chatbot Awakening – Deep retrieval chatbots for the press industry Tutory – AI boosted e-learning platform ASHEP – Adaptive scheduling of HEP […]