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Internship - Compression and Optimization of Face Recognition Models

Internship - Compression and Optimization of Face Recognition Models

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Courbevoie, France

Internship

01-12-2025

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Skills

Communication Python Data Analysis Research PyTorch Deep Learning Computer Vision Mathematics

Job Specifications

Job Description

Internship summary

IDEMIA develops high-performance face recognition models used worldwide in applications such as law enforcement, border control, and access control. Our technologies range from large, NIST-evaluated architectures to compact architectures embedded in sensors and constrained devices.

As model sizes and accuracy requirements increase, improving deployment efficiency has become a key challenge. This internship focuses on exploring modern model compression techniques to make our largest models lighter, faster, and easier to deploy on resource-limited platforms.

The objective is to design, implement, and evaluate these methods in order to produce highly efficient face recognition models that maintain strong accuracy while significantly reducing size, latency, and memory footprint.

Key Missions

The intern will work on compressing large face recognition models using approaches such as:

Pruning to reduce computation and parameter count
Quantization (INT8/INT4) to optimize memory and inference speed
Knowledge Distillation to transfer performance from high-accuracy models to smaller ones.
Low-Rank Adaptation as a lightweight mechanism to adapt existing models

Profile Description

Education: Engineering student from a prestigious school in the final year of the engineering cycle, or a Master's student (M2) specializing in computer vision, image processing, or Deep Learning.

Required Technical Skills

Strong background in mathematics, data analysis, C, Python, and PyTorch
Ability to handle large-scale data and work in a research environment (exploring unfamiliar domains)
Knowledge in biometrics is a plus

Soft Skills & Languages

Curious
Proactive and autonomous
Results- and solutions-oriented
Clear and convincing communication
Fluent spoken and written English

We Offer

What We Offer

High-impact projects in digital identity and public safety.
Continuous learning in a collaborative, innovative environment.

About the Company

IDEMIA Group unlocks simpler and safer ways to pay, connect, access, identify, travel and protect public places. With its long-standing expertise in biometrics and cryptography, IDEMIA develops technologies of excellence with an impactful, ethical, and socially responsible approach. Every day, IDEMIA secures billions of interactions in the physical and digital worlds. IDEMIA Group brings together three market-leading businesses that enable mission-critical solutions: • IDEMIA Secure Transactions is the leading technology pr... Know more