Mission

The Pattern Recognition Lab's mission is to develop pattern recognition knowledge and technologies for the machine understanding of sensory information. It is oriented towards methods and systems for information understanding in the context of microsystems and their production environment.

History

The Pattern recognition lab was founded in 1988 by Heinz Hügli. Issued from a team active in the Electronics and signal processing group at IMT, the lab was created around activities in speech recognition and image processing.

Among the first projects carried on by the lab for industrial partners are imaging R&D work for large area electronic displays and timing applications. The lab gave birth to the prototype of the first videofinish camera and participated to the design of the giant displays used for open air sport events.

During its existence, PARLAB conducted more than 50 research projects and produced about 150 publications.

PARLAB terminated its research activities in 2008 when Prof. Heinz Hügli retired and IMT was transfered from University of Neuchâtel to EPFL.