The DIVA research group (Document, Image and Voice Analysis) is dealing with multimedia engineering, with a focus on image and signal processing, speech recognition and document analysis. More than half of the research activity is financed by external grants, from public institutions as well as from industrial partners. The group deploys its activities in well established international networks.
Prof. Ingold is a member of the editorial board of several international journals as well as a member of the board of directors of the French association GRCE (Groupe de Recherche sur la Communication Ecrite).

During the last decade the research activity of the group, previously called GIRAF (for Groupe de recherche sur l'Image et la Reconnaissance Automatique de Formes), was concentrated on image analysis in three main research area: 1) scene analysis, 2) content based image retrieval and 3) document analysis. Since summer 2001, the group has extended its research activities towards multimedia, especially by including signal and voice analysis. The complete list of projects is available on this site.