Research Projects

Ongoing projects:

  • NeuraViPeR - EU H2020 FET Open project on Neural Active Visual Prosthetics for Restoring Function.
  • SCIDVS - Swiss National Science Foundation project to develop a scientific DVS.
  • VIPS - Swiss National Science Foundation Bridge project to develop low-power vision edge devices.
  • NPP - Neuromorphic Processor Project, an industry-funded project to develop theory and hardware accelerators for deep neural network inference and training.
  • WeCare - Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia project to develop a sweat biomonitoring platform.
  • HearEar - Swiss National Science Foundation funded project to develop a smart, low-power audio IoT  for audio tasks such as keyword spotting.
  • NCCR Robotics- see also this link -  Swiss National Foundation center to bring together robotics groups of Switzerland to develop new technologies.

Past projects:

  • SWITCHBOARD - H2020 European Initial Training Network (ITN) for basic research on biological retinas
  • ProbSens - Marie Curie postdoc fellowship for Josep Maria Margarit
  • COCOHA -European Union H2020 funded project which aims to develop a cognitively controlled hearing aid.
  • FRAS - Swiss National Science Foundation funded project to develop a fast auditory recognition system.
  • FLA - Flight Light Autonomy - A DARPA funded project with inilabs as one member. We are developing DVS/DAVIS sensors for agile drone flight
  • SEP - Swiss National Science Foundation funded project to develop inference hardware.
  • Visualise- European Union FP7 funded project which aims to examine the unique role that non-standard ganglion cells play in dynamic visual processes
  • SeeBetter- European Union funded FP7 project which aims to develop a new generation of event-driven silicon retinas inspired by the latest biological findings in retina research.
  • Dollbrain - Swiss National Foundation funded project to design a low-power chip which recognizes the presence of a person.
  • COGAIN - Network of excellence on Communication by Gaze Interaction.
  • CAVIAR - European Commission FP5 project to develop a multi-chip vision system based on Address-Event Representation (AER) communication of spike events.
  • ADA- Intelligent playful space shown to more than 500k visitors for the Swiss Expo 2002.