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Idiap Research Institute

In research, Idiap Research Institute stands highest in Computer Science (#1,468 of 4,417 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#4,071 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (Signal Processing is 23.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,342
of 22,385 · #2,308 all time
Rank in Switzerland
#41
of 186
Research works
1.7k
◆ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
43k
24.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.07×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
78%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Idiap Research Institute

What is Idiap Research Institute known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Computer ScienceField #1,468 of 4,417 15.6%139 #497
Physical SciencesDomain #4,071 of 10,670 14.7%185 #1712

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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Idiap Research Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 66% of research at Idiap Research Institute is in Physical Sciences, 22% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (49%), Social Sciences (14%), Engineering (13%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 201 fractional works · 66.1% of its workComputer Science: 149 fractional works · 48.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 57 fractional works · 18.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 52 fractional works · 17.2% of its workSignal Processing: 21 fractional works · 7.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 39 fractional works · 12.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 13 fractional works · 4.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 68 fractional works · 22.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 43 fractional works · 14.0% of its workLaw: 14 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 11 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCommunication: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 12 fractional works · 3.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 20 fractional works · 6.7% of its workMedicine: 17 fractional works · 5.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 15 fractional works · 5.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKIdiap ResearchInstitute305fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences66%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences22%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science14948.9%
    2. Engineering3912.7%
    3. Environmental Science51.6%
    4. Physics and Astronomy41.2%
    5. Mathematics30.8%
    6. Energy10.4%
    7. Chemistry10.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    9. Materials Science00.1%
    1. Social Sciences4314.0%
    2. Psychology123.8%
    3. Decision Sciences61.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting41.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.8%
    6. Arts and Humanities20.6%
    1. Medicine175.5%
    2. Health Professions31.0%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology72.5%
    2. Neuroscience51.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Idiap Research Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Signal Processing takes 23.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 21.5 works23×
  2. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 52.3 works14×
  3. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 57.5 works7.8×
  4. Computer ScienceField · 148.8 works6.3×
← 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: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.46× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.98× its world share, 5 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 6.28× its world share, 149 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.85× its world share, 39 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.32× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.72× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.53× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 17 worksMedicineNursing: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.40× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.87× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.25× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.11× its world share, 43 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 6.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science6.28×149 works
  2. Decision Sciences1.87×6 works
  3. Psychology1.25×12 works
  4. Social Sciences1.11×43 works
  5. Neuroscience0.98×5 works
  6. Engineering0.85×39 works
  7. Mathematics0.72×3 works
  8. Physics and Astronomy0.53×4 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.46×8 works
  10. Energy0.45×1 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.40×4 works
  12. Health Professions0.39×3 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.37×2 works
  14. Environmental Science0.32×5 works
  15. Medicine0.28×17 works
  16. Nursing0.27×0 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.20×2 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.16×2 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.15×0 works
  20. Chemistry0.13×1 works
  21. Dentistry0.11×0 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×0 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.08×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Idiap Research Institute?

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

  1. 1 Ronan Collobert Switzerland · #54,482 worldwide 33k citations · 145 works
  2. 2 Sébastien Marcel Switzerland · #75,757 worldwide 15k citations · 444 works
  3. 3 Samy Bengio Switzerland · #87,220 worldwide 44k citations · 391 works
  4. 4 Barbara Caputo Switzerland · #89,231 worldwide 14k citations · 565 works
  5. 5 Sylvain Calinon Switzerland · #124,654 worldwide 11k citations · 314 works
  6. 6 Daniel Gática-Pérez Switzerland · #135,900 worldwide 15k citations · 408 works
  7. 7 André Anjos Switzerland · #147,791 worldwide 4.5k citations · 79 works
  8. 8 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza Switzerland · #225,200 worldwide 829 citations · 93 works
  9. 9 François Fleuret Switzerland · #231,834 worldwide 8.1k citations · 212 works
  10. 10 Iain A. McCowan Switzerland · #326,351 worldwide 4.5k citations · 70 works
All ranked researchers at Idiap Research Institute

What are the most cited papers from Idiap Research Institute?

The most cited paper from Idiap Research Institute is "Multiple Object Tracking Using K-Shortest Paths Optimization" (Jérôme Berclaz, François Fleuret, Engin Türetken et al., 2011), with 1,046 citations. Next come "Multimodal human–computer interaction: A survey" (968) and "The BCI competition III: validating alternative approaches to actual BCI problems" (937).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Multiple Object Tracking Using K-Shortest Paths Optimization Jérôme Berclaz, François Fleuret, Engin Türetken et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Open access 3 Feb 2011 1,046
2 Multimodal human–computer interaction: A survey Alejandro Jaimes, Nicu Sebe · Computer Vision and Image Understanding 3 Feb 2007 968
3 The BCI competition III: validating alternative approaches to actual BCI problems Benjamin Blankertz, K. Robert Müller, Dean J. Krusienski et al. · IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering Open access Jun 2006 937
4 Social signal processing: Survey of an emerging domain Alessandro Vinciarelli, Maja Pantić, Hervé A. Bourlard · Image and Vision Computing Open access 5 Dec 2008 827
5 The INTERSPEECH 2013 computational paralinguistics challenge: social signals, conflict, emotion, autism Björn Wolfgang Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton M. Batliner et al. Conference paperOpen access 25 Aug 2013 749
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Idiap Research Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, 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-now 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 Learning88▲ 8.4×57 topics
  2. Neural Networks44▲ 9.4×21 topics
  3. Convolutional Neural Networks39▲ 18×9 topics
  4. Face Recognition30▲ 86×2 topics
  5. Machine Learning23▲ 2.2×44 topics
  6. Pose Estimation22▲ 63×2 topics
  7. Age Estimation21▲ 101×1 topic
  8. Facial Landmark Detection21▲ 158×1 topic
  9. Security18▲ 8.6×5 topics
  10. Feature Extraction17▲ 12×7 topics
  11. Human Rights14▲ 4.7×8 topics
  12. Legal Theory14▲ 69×3 topics
  13. Authentication14▲ 31×3 topics
  14. Legal Philosophy14▲ 72×2 topics
  15. Social Justice14▲ 7.4×5 topics
  16. Environmental Law13▲ 20×3 topics
  17. Constitutional Law13▲ 32×2 topics
  18. Civil Rights12▲ 61×1 topic
  19. Judicial Activism12▲ 92×1 topic
  20. Deep Neural Networks12▲ 33×3 topics
  21. Acoustic Modeling11▲ 92×1 topic
  22. Speaker Verification11▲ 92×1 topic
  23. Topic Modeling10▲ 22×2 topics
  24. Information Retrieval10▲ 15×3 topics
  25. Support Vector Machines10▲ 10×3 topics
  26. Biometric Recognition10▲ 141×1 topic
  27. Fingerprint10▲ 141×1 topic
  28. Privacy10▲ 11×2 topics
  29. Sparse Representation10▲ 17×4 topics
  30. Text Classification10▲ 20×2 topics
  31. Machine Translation10▲ 19×2 topics
  32. Semantic Similarity10▲ 26×1 topic
  33. Word Representation10▲ 26×1 topic
  34. Local Binary Patterns10▲ 48×2 topics
  35. Feature Selection9▲ 14×2 topics
  36. Dimensionality Reduction9▲ 41×2 topics
  37. Ensemble Methods9▲ 38×2 topics
  38. Corpus Linguistics9▲ 14×4 topics
  39. Non-negative Matrix Factorization9▲ 75×1 topic
  40. Spectral Clustering9▲ 75×1 topic

Which research topics does Idiap Research Institute publish most on?

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

Face recognition and ana…21Face recognition and analysis: 21 fractional worksBrazilian Legal Issues: 12 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and S…11Speech Recognition and Synthesis: 11 fractional worksBiometric Identification…10Biometric Identification and Security: 10 fractional worksTopic Modeling10Topic Modeling: 10 fractional worksFace and Expression Recognition: 9 fractional worksNatural Language Process…8Natural Language Processing Techniques: 8 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Processing: 7 fractional worksRobot Manipulation and Learning: 7 fractional worksGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 5 fractional works
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionLawArtificial IntelligenceSignal Processing1 others

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

  1. 1 Face recognition and analysis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 21 works
  2. 2 Brazilian Legal Issues Law 12 works
  3. 3 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 11 works
  4. 4 Biometric Identification and Security Signal Processing 10 works
  5. 5 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 10 works
  6. 6 Face and Expression Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 9 works
  7. 7 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 8 works
  8. 8 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 7 works
  9. 9 Robot Manipulation and Learning Control and Systems Engineering 7 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: 40% of research is openly available.

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

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Idiap Research Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Idiap Research Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0013% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Idiap Research Institute0.0014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Idiap Research Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Idiap Research Institute15.0% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.3% in 2005.

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