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Idiap Research Institute

In research, Idiap Research Institute stands highest in Computer Science (#2,844 of 4,667 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#10,538 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science — Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition is 14.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,986
of 28,054 · #10,288 all time
Rank in Switzerland
#70
of 220
Research works
1.7k
▼ 7% vs 2013–17
Citations
43k
24.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
78%
world 28%

What is Idiap Research Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Computer ScienceField #2,844 of 4,667 19.2%139 #1286
Physical SciencesDomain #10,538 of 12,888 18.4%185 #7719

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Idiap Research Institute sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

What does Idiap Research Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition takes 14.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 50.0 works15×
  2. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 52.8 works8.1×
  3. Computer ScienceField · 138.7 works6.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.48× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.98× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 6.60× its world share, 139 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.85× its world share, 35 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.34× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.65× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.51× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.43× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 15 worksMedicineNursing: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.96× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.18× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 33 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 6.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Idiap Research Institute?

Ranked on the composite score, Samy Bengio, Ronan Collobert and Sébastien Marcel lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Idiap Research Institute.

  1. 1 Samy Bengio Switzerland · #3,799 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
  2. 2 Ronan Collobert Switzerland · #18,563 worldwide 2.7k citations · 39 works
  3. 3 Sébastien Marcel Switzerland · #32,352 worldwide 860 citations · 106 works
  4. 4 Daniel Gática-Pérez Switzerland · #41,214 worldwide 997 citations · 113 works
  5. 5 François Fleuret Switzerland · #62,570 worldwide 635 citations · 67 works
  6. 6 Hervé Bourlard Switzerland · #106,881 worldwide 623 citations · 110 works
  7. 7 Francesco Orabona Switzerland · #149,921 worldwide 327 citations · 50 works
  8. 8 Iain McCowan Switzerland · #158,574 worldwide 376 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 André Anjos Switzerland · #160,884 worldwide 421 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Sylvain Calinon Switzerland · #167,737 worldwide 366 citations · 70 works
All ranked researchers at Idiap Research Institute

Which keywords describe research at Idiap Research Institute?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Face Recognition, Pose Estimation, Age Estimation, Facial Landmark Detection and Security.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning81▲ 8.8×55 topics
  2. Neural Networks40▲ 9.7×20 topics
  3. Convolutional Neural Networks36▲ 18×9 topics
  4. Face Recognition28▲ 91×2 topics
  5. Pose Estimation21▲ 69×2 topics
  6. Machine Learning20▲ 2.3×43 topics
  7. Age Estimation20▲ 113×1 topic
  8. Facial Landmark Detection20▲ 178×1 topic
  9. Security16▲ 9.4×5 topics
  10. Feature Extraction15▲ 12×7 topics
  11. Authentication13▲ 31×3 topics
  12. Human Rights12▲ 4.4×8 topics
  13. Legal Philosophy11▲ 63×2 topics
  14. Legal Theory11▲ 59×2 topics
  15. Social Justice11▲ 7.0×5 topics
  16. Deep Neural Networks11▲ 36×3 topics
  17. Environmental Law11▲ 19×3 topics
  18. Constitutional Law11▲ 29×2 topics
  19. Civil Rights10▲ 55×1 topic
  20. Judicial Activism10▲ 83×1 topic
  21. Information Retrieval10▲ 16×3 topics
  22. Topic Modeling9▲ 24×2 topics
  23. Privacy9▲ 12×2 topics
  24. Acoustic Modeling9▲ 91×1 topic
  25. Biometric Recognition9▲ 143×1 topic
  26. Fingerprint9▲ 143×1 topic
  27. Sparse Representation9▲ 18×4 topics
  28. Speaker Verification9▲ 91×1 topic
  29. Support Vector Machines9▲ 11×3 topics
  30. Machine Translation9▲ 20×2 topics
  31. Text Classification9▲ 21×2 topics
  32. Semantic Similarity9▲ 27×1 topic
  33. Word Representation9▲ 27×1 topic
  34. Local Binary Patterns9▲ 48×2 topics
  35. Feature Selection8▲ 14×2 topics
  36. Ensemble Methods8▲ 40×2 topics
  37. Corpus Linguistics8▲ 14×2 topics
  38. Dimensionality Reduction8▲ 42×2 topics
  39. Neural Machine Translation8▲ 31×1 topic
  40. Statistical Machine Translation8▲ 31×1 topic

Which research topics does Idiap Research Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Face recognition and analysis, Brazilian Legal Issues, Biometric Identification and Security and Speech Recognition and Synthesis.

Face recognition and ana…20Face recognition and analysis: 20 fractional worksBrazilian Legal Issues: 10 fractional worksBiometric Identification and Security: 9 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 9 fractional worksTopic Modeling9Topic Modeling: 9 fractional worksFace and Expression Recognition: 8 fractional worksNatural Language Process…8Natural Language Processing Techniques: 8 fractional worksRobot Manipulation and Learning: 7 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Processing: 6 fractional worksGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 5 fractional works
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionLawSignal ProcessingArtificial Intelligence1 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Face recognition and analysis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 20 works
  2. 2 Brazilian Legal Issues Law 10 works
  3. 3 Biometric Identification and Security Signal Processing 9 works
  4. 4 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 9 works
  5. 5 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 9 works
  6. 6 Face and Expression Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 8 works
  7. 7 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 8 works
  8. 8 Robot Manipulation and Learning Control and Systems Engineering 7 works
  9. 9 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 6 works
  10. 10 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 5 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available78.5%not open21.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.0%domestic only72.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Idiap Research Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 7% lower than in 2013–2017.

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