Serge Ayer

Serge Ayer

Professor of Computer Science and Communication Systems

Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Fribourg

Biography

Serge Ayer is a full time professor in the “ Computer Science Communication Systems” faculty of the the “ Haute école d’ingénierie et d’architecture” of Fribourg.

Serge Ayer received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from ETHZ in 1991 and the Ph.D. in Communications Systems from EPFL in 1995. In 1998, he co-founded Dartfish, a spin-off from EPFL and a Swiss company delivering video-based solutions to the sports and education markets worldwide. He was member of management and CTO of the company for about 20 years. In 2010, he also co-founded Vidinoti, another startup from EPFL developing location-based augmented reality solutions. He was the CEO of the company until 2014 and its chairman since 2015. He is now Professor at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Fribourg.

During the past 20 years, he was active in developing and managing projects in the areas of computer vision, cloud-based and Internet of Things based solutions. He is the author of more than 15 patents for EPFL, Dartfish and Vidinoti. His current research projects are focusing on Internet of Things and localization systems.

Interests

  • Embedded Systems and Internet of Things
  • Localisation systems
  • Scientific computing
  • Cloud Computing
  • Programming languages

Education

  • Ph.D. in Communication Systems, 1995

    Swiss Federal Institure of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)

  • Dipl. Informatik-Ing. (Ms.S. in Computer Science), 1991

    ETH Zürich

  • Certificat Professionel de Musique, 1986

    Conservatoire de Musique, Fribourg

  • Maturité Type C (scientific), 1983

    Collège St-Michel, Fribourg

Skills

Positioning systems

Embedded systems

Wireless communication systems

Cloud

clogo

C++

JavaScript

Java

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Professor and Researcher

Haute école d’ingénierie et d’architecture

Sep 2014 – Present Fribourg
  • In charge of research projects in the field of augmented reality, positioning systems and Internet of Things.
  • Lectures in Programming and Internet Of Things.
  • Member of the Applied Research Institute for Smart and Secure Systems.
 
 
 
 
 

Chairman

Vidinoti SA

Jul 2014 – Present Fribourg
  • Chairman of the company, in charge of tasks for defining the company and product strategy, as well as tasks related to finance and funding.
 
 
 
 
 

CEO, co-founder

Vidinoti SA

Jul 2010 – Jun 2014 Fribourg
  • In charge of the development of the company, including development of patents and of the Augmented Reality, a platform including an Internet application for content creation and a sdk for the development of mobile applications by 3rd parties
 
 
 
 
 

Scientific collaborator

EPFL

Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Lausanne
  • In charge of augmented reality related projects and of the Montreux Jazz Festival archiving project.
 
 
 
 
 

CTO, co-founder

Dartfish SA

Jan 1999 – Aug 2016 Fribourg
  • In charge for the development of all software and hardware products of the company. In charge of research projects in cooperation with academic partners.
 
 
 
 
 

First assistant

EPFL

Oct 1996 – Dec 1998 Lausanne
  • In charge of supervising student and research projects and of coaching Ph.D. students.
 
 
 
 
 

Data mining Solutions Specialist

IBM

Sep 1995 – Sep 1996 Geneva/Zurich
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Researcher

IBM

Apr 1994 – Jul 1994 San Jose, California
  • Visiting researcher collaborating on the QBIC (Query By Image Content) project.

Accomplish­ments

Emmy Awards: StroMotion wins the Emmy for the George Wensel Outstanding Innovative Technical Achievement Award

Dartfish May 2005
StroMotion, a technology developed by Dartfish, wins an Emmy Award through NBC Olympics coverage

Featured Projects

Smart Connected Building

Solution for an autonomous sensor network

Ubiment

Development of a universal positioning system

LPWAN-VPN

A private Low Power Wide Area Network

Featured Publications

Frederike Dümbgen, Cynthia Oeschger, Mihailo Kolundzija, Adam Scholefield, Emmanuel Girardin, Johan Leuenberger, Serge Ayer
January 2019 2019 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2019, Pisa, Italy, September 30 - October 3, 2019

Multi-Modal Probabilistic Indoor Localization on a Smartphone

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David Hasler, Luciano Sbaiz, Serge Ayer, Martin Vetterli
January 1999 Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP ‘99, Kobe, Japan, October 24-28, 1999

From Local to Global Parameter Estimation in Panoramic Photographic Reconstruction

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Minh N. Do, Serge Ayer, Martin Vetterli
January 1999 Visual Information and Information Systems, Third International Conference, VISUAL ‘99, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2-4, 1999, Proceedings

Invariant Image Retrieval Using Wavelet Maxima Moment

PDF DOI
Harpreet S. Sawhney, Serge Ayer
January 1996 IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.

Compact Representations of Videos Through Dominant and Multiple Motion Estimation

PDF DOI
Serge Ayer, Harpreet S. Sawhney
January 1995 Procedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 95), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June 20-23, 1995

Layered Representation of Motion Video Using Robust Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Mixture Models and MDL Encoding

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Serge Ayer
January 1995 EPFL

Sequential and competitive methods for estimation of multiple motions

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Featured patents

Computerized method and device for annotating at least one feature of an image of a view

A computerized method for annotating at least one feature of an image of a view, comprising the steps of: obtaining the image with an …
Mathieu Monney, Serge Ayer, Martin Vetterli
Jan 1, 2011

Method for analyzing the motion of a person during an activity

A method is disclosed for analyzing with a computer (1) the motion of an athlete (3), of a team or a patient during an activity, said …
Serge, Ayer, Pascal, Binggeli, Thomas, Bebie, Michael, Frossard, Philippe, Schroeter, Emmanuel Reusens
Jan 1, 2005

Automated annotation of a view

In a view, e.g. of scenery, of a shopping or museum display, or of a meeting or conference, automated processing can be used to …
Martin Vetterli, Serge Ayer
Jan 1, 2001

Method and system for combining video sequences with spatio-temporal alignment

Given two video sequences, a composite video sequence can be generated which includes visual elements from each of the given …
Serge Ayer, Martin Vetterli
Jan 1, 1999

Automated cartographic annotation of digital images

For annotating a digital image with information from a digital map, features which are visible from a viewer position are extracted …
Serge Ayer, Martin Vetterli
Jan 1, 1997

Popular Topics

Augmented Reality Communication systems Internet of Things Localization systems Low Power Wide Area Networks

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