[visionlist] Postdoc and PHD position, UCL (Belgium), ssVEP of objects and people interaction

A
postdoctoral position (2 years) and a PhD position are available at the University
of Louvain (Belgium, http://www.uclouvain.be/en-universite.html) for a collaborative research
project between

 The Spring lab

(PI:
Dana Samson : https://sites.google.com/site/thespringlab/)

 The face categorization lab

(PI:
Bruno Rossion : http://face-categorization-lab.webnode.com//).

 The project
concerns the perception and representation of social and nonsocial interactions
between objects and people (faces and bodies). Behavioral methods and
recordings of eye movements will be used but the main method will be the
recording of steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) in humans, and the
EEG frequency-tagging approach in particular, where multiple visual stimuli
(objects and people) can be presented concurrently. Both the postdoc and PhD
students will work in designing and running SSVEP experiments on objects,
bodies and faces, with an approach developed recently for face perception (e.g.,
http://www.journalofvision.org/content/11/2/16.full.pdf).

 Candidates
should have a master degree or a PhD in experimental, cognitive, biological or
mathematical psychology, or in a related field (e.g., neuroscience, biomedical
science, computer science, physics, mathematics). Training in vision and EEG
research is important, especially for the postdoc position. MatLab programming
skills are necessary for the postdoc and an asset for the PhD student.

The
candidates will work in international laboratories that have multiple
methods available (EEG, fMRI, TMS, eyetracker, brain-damaged patients,
developmental populations)
and a wide range of international collaborations.

 The
appointment is for 2 years for the postdoc, with a start in october 2013 (flexible, within a few
months). The appointment is for 3 years (+1) for the PhD student.

 Applications
should be sent by email to both Dana Samson (dana.samson@uclouvain.be)
and Bruno Rossion (bruno.rossion@uclouvain.be) and should include a CV, a brief
statement of research interests, the expected date of availability and the
names of 3 references. Applications should be sent immediately and applications
will be considered until the positions are filled.

 Starting
salary should be in the range of 2200 euros (postdoc) and 1600 euros (PhD
student) per month, net income.

[Imageworld] CFP – Journal of Real-Time Image Processing Special Issue on “Real-Time Computer Vision in Smart Cities’

         

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

[Imageworld] PhD position in Computer Vision and Machine Learning

The Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam (ISLA) of the University of
Amsterdam offers a 4 year PhD position in the field of computer vision
and machine learning. The topic of the PhD is to recognize objects in
a visual data stream. In such a stream the object classes of interest
shift over time. Hence, the traditional approach to learn classifiers
for a predefined set of objects is unsuited. A promising approach in
classifying unseen objects into a novel category is to learn a
semantic attribute image representation. The aim for this PhD is to
develop new algorithms to learn such a high-level semantic
representation from weakly annotated images and to learn the mapping
to an unknown class from freely available (textual) sources. Another
project aim is to model the visual data stream to understand which
images or novel concepts could become a visual trend.

The position is within the Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam (ISLA)
and will be supervised by dr. Thomas Mensink and dr. Cees Snoek. The
position is part of a 5-year Personal VIDI Grant funded by the Dutch
Organization for Scientific Research. The successful candidate will
work in a stimulating environment of a leading and highly active
research team including one faculty member, a post-doc and six PhD
students. The team has repeatedly won the major visual search
competitions, including NIST TRECVID, PASCAL Visual Object Challenge,
ImageCLEF, and the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge.

Requirements
– Master degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science or related field;
– Excellent programming skills (the project is in Matlab, Python and C/C++);
– Solid mathematics foundations, especially statistics and linear algebra;
– Highly motivated;
– Fluent in English, both written and spoken;
– Proven experience with computer vision and/or machine learning is a big plus.

Additional Information
http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/13-205.html

Kind regards,

Thomas Mensink
thomas.mensink@uva.nl

[Imageworld] TPNC 2013: 3rd call for papers

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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING

TPNC 2013

Cáceres, Spain

December 3-5, 2013

Organized by:

Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO)
University of Extremadura

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/
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AIMS:

TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2013 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature.

VENUE:

TPNC 2013 will take place in Cáceres, in Western Spain, 300 kms. to the southwest of Madrid and 100 kms. to the Portuguese border. The old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical, experimental, or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

* Nature-inspired models of computation:

– amorphous computing
– cellular automata
– chaos and dynamical systems based computing
– evolutionary computing
– membrane computing
– neural computing
– optical computing
– swarm intelligence

* Synthesizing nature by means of computation:

– artificial chemistry
– artificial immune systems
– artificial life

* Nature-inspired materials:

– computing with DNA
– nanocomputing
– physarum computing
– quantum computing and quantum information
– reaction-diffusion computing

* Information processing in nature:

– developmental systems
– fractal geometry
– gene assembly in unicellular organisms
– rough/fuzzy computing in nature
– synthetic biology
– systems biology

* Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economics, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc.

A flexible “theory to/from practice” approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions.

STRUCTURE:

TPNC 2013 will consist of:

‐ invited talks
‐ invited tutorials
‐ peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Risto Miikkulainen (Austin), Evolving Neural Networks (tutorial)
Yew-Soon Ong (Singapore), Advances in Memetic Computation
Xin Yao (Birmingham), Evolutionary Algorithm Portfolios for Numerical Optimisation

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Selim G. Akl (Kingston, CA)
Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL)
Peter J. Bentley (London, UK)
Hans-Georg Beyer (Dornbirn, AT)
Mauro Birattari (Brussels, BE)
Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN)
Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US)
Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR)
John A. Clark (York, UK)
Carlos A. Coello Coello (Mexico DF, MX)
David W. Corne (Edinburgh, UK)
Peter Dayan (London, UK)
Bernard De Baets (Ghent, BE)
Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA)
Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Granada, ES)
Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK)
Nikola Kasabov (Auckland, NZ)
Vladik Kreinovich (El Paso, US)
Kwong-Sak Leung (Hong Kong, CN)
Xiaohui Liu (London, UK)
Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Julian F. Miller (York, UK)
Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU)
Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR)
Nikhil R. Pal (Kolkata, IN)
Günther Palm (Ulm, DE)
José Carlos Príncipe (Gainesville, US)
Helge Ritter (Bielefeld, DE)
Conor Ryan (Limerick, IE)
Hava Siegelmann (Amherst, US)
Moshe Sipper (Beer-Sheva, IL)
Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE)
Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG)
Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE)
Kay Chen Tan (Singapore, SG)
Dacheng Tao (Sydney, AU)
Jon Timmis (York, UK)
Marco Tomassini (Lausanne, CH)
Michael D. Vose (Knoxville, US)
Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR)
Harald Weinfurter (Munich, DE)
Rolf Würtz (Bochum, DE)
Jun Zhang (Guangzhou, CN)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

LOCAL COMMITTEE:

Víctor Berrocal-Plaza
José M. Chaves-González
Juan A. Gómez-Pulido
David L. González-Álvarez
José M. Granado-Criado
Alejandro Hidalgo-Paniagua
José M. Lanza-Gutiérrez
Álvaro Rubio-Largo
Sergio Santander-Jiménez
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (chair)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standards of the Springer Verlag’s LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2013

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of the journal Soft Computing (Springer, 2011 impact factor: 1.880) will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from April 17 to December 3, 2013. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/Registration

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: July 16, 2013 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 27, 2013
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 3, 2013
Early registration: September 10, 2013
Late registration: November 19, 2013
Starting of the conference: December 3, 2013
End of the conference: December 5, 2013
Submission to the post-conference special issue: March 5, 2014

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

TPNC 2013
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universidad de Extremadura
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

[Imageworld] Master’s in Artificial Intelligence – Swiss AI Lab IDSIA & University of Lugano, Switzerland

Starting Fall 2013 – application deadline 1 July:Master’s Degree in Computer Science with a Specialization in Artificial Intelligence (AI)Master of Science in Informatics with a Specialization in Intelligent Systems (IS)Topics include Computer Vision, Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition, 
Neural Networks, Optimization, Evolutionary Computation, Probabilistic 

Reasoning, Robotics.Taught by award-winning experts of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIAand the University of Lugano (USI), in the scenic southernpart of Switzerland, the world’s leading science nation.More info including instructions and deadlines:http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/aimaster.htmlJürgen Schmidhuber

[Imageworld] JOB: Post-doc/RA position in Real-Time Vision and SLAM, Imperial College London

An opportunity has arisen for a Research Associate to work with Prof
Andrew Davison in the Robot Vision Research Group as part of a large and
exciting new EPSRC-funded project. The overall project aim is an
integrated attack on the software, compiler, runtime/operating systems
and architecture challenges in manycore computer systems, driven by 3D
scene understanding. Our aim is to use real-time computer vision as a
way of pushing the frontiers for the practical architectures and system
software at the heart of future mass-market devices

[Imageworld] CfP: Workshop on Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology (@ICCV2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS:Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology: From Earth to MarsInternational Workshop in Conjunction with ICCV 2013,
Sydney, Australiahttp://www.cvc.uab.es/adas/CVVT2013IMPORTANT
DATES

[Imageworld] ICME 2013 – CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2013
July 15-19, 2013 • Fairmont, San Jose, USA

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies (Communications, Computer, Circuits and Systems; and Signal Processing) since 2000.

This year we have received over 1200 submission and put together an excellent technical program.

We will also include excellent menus for reception, banquet and breaks. Options for providing lunch are currently being worked out.

Industrial tours will also be arranged.

Please look into our website at http://www.icme2013.org and register for this exciting event.

We look forward to seeing you at ICME 2013.

ICME 2013 Organizing Committee

[Imageworld] Assistant Professor Position in Biomedical Imaging or Machine Learning / Ecole Centrale de Paris / INRIA Saclay, IDF

Assistant Professor Position in Biomedical Imaging or Machine Learning /
Ecole Centrale de Paris / INRIA Saclay, IDF

[please diffuse to colleagues who might be interested]

Description :
Department of Applied Mathematics at Ecole Centrale Paris
(http://www.ecp.fr) and the Research Center of INRIA Saclay,
Ile-de-France Research Center invite applications for a research faculty
position at the level of assistant professor in the field of either
machine learning or biomedical image analysis at the level of assistant
professor. This is a five-year fixed term appointment with possible
renewal. We give higher priority to the overall originality and promise
of the candidate’s work.

Mission :
We are seeking exceptional applicants in the areas of either machine
learning or biomedical image analysis. We are also interested in
applicants doing research at the Frontiers of Computer Science, Applied
Mathematics and Bioengineering with emphasis on biomedical imaging.

Profile :
Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. in the above mentioned fields,
must have demonstrated exceptional ability to pursue a cutting-edge
program of research, and expected to (minimally) contribute to graduate
(and undergraduate) teaching in their Respective research areas.

Context:

École Centrale Paris is one of the top three engineering schools in
France, part of the elite of “Grande Écoles” offering access to
excellent quality graduate and under-graduate students while INRIA is
one of the most reputable research institutes world wide. The Center for
Learning and Visual Computing (http://cvc.centrale-ponts.fr) consists of
approx 25 members involving 5 permanent researchers working in the areas
of computer vision, machine learning and biomedical image analysis.

This position offers full health, unemployment and retirement benefits
and competitive salary. The review of applications will begin on
September 1, 2013, and applicants are strongly encouraged to submit
applications by that date; however, applications will continue to be
accepted at least until November 1, 2013.

How to apply:
Applications should include a curriculum vita, brief statements of
research and teaching interests (three pages), and the names of at least
three references. Candidates are requested to ask References to send
their letters directly to the search committee.

Applications and letters should be sent to the Search Committee Chair,
via electronic mail to:
o Prof. Nikos Paragios, nikos.paragios@ecp.fr

[Imageworld] CFP: Workshop on Photographic Aesthetics and Non-photorealistic Rendering (PAESNPR13)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Photographic Aesthetics and Non-Photorealistic Rendering
(PAESNPR13)

https://sites.google.com/site/paesnpr13/

to be held at PSIVT 2013 (www.psivt.org/psivt2013/)

Guanajuato, Mexico,
28 October 2013

Paper submission deadline: 11 August 2013

Along with the ubiquity of digital imagery, there is considerable
interest in analysing images to measure their aesthetic properties as
well as processing them to enhance their visual appeal. The interest in
measuring and enhancing visual appeal is motivated by the needs of
camera manufacturers, photographic enhancement software suppliers,
printer manufacturers, and photo-sharing services to increase user
satisfaction. Research has emerged recently which applies computer
vision, computer graphics and machine learning both to understand the
statistical nature of visual appeal and to improve it.
Non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) combines computer graphics and
computer vision to produce renderings in various artistic or stylised
ways and, beyond increasing appeal, has many possible applications, such
as augmented environments, videoconferencing, post-production of films,
computer games, interactive TV, education and training, video-based
consumer electronics and scientific imaging. This workshop will provide
an opportunity for researchers working in measuring and enhancing visual
appeal to meet and discuss their ideas in a collegial and interactive
format. Papers are invited on relevant topics including, but not limited
to, the following:

What constitutes style in photography, and can it be learned through
computer vision techniques?

What do expert photographers see that amateurs do not when composing a
picture? Can computer vision and behavioral studies (eye-tracking) tell
us?

How do aesthetic considerations affect the design of image pipeline
algorithms used in digital cameras?

Nonphotorealistic rendering from images or video:
— Expressive rendering
— Style transfer
— Visual composition

We encourage participation from researchers with either quantitative
(computer science, engineering, mathematical) or qualitative (artistic,
art history, art theory) approaches.

The PSIVT conference is endorsed by IAPR, and proceedings are published
in Springer LNCS.

Organizers
Ramakrishna Kakarala, Nanyang Technological University
Paul L Rosin, Cardiff University

Program Committee

Xuemei Zhang, Apple
Philip Ogunbona, U. of Wollongong
Martin Constable, Nanyang Technological University
J. S. Hong, National Chi-Nan University
Orazio Gallo, NVIDIA
Mingtian Zhao, UCLA
Yu-Kun Lai, Cardiff University
Jan Eric Kyprianidis, TU Berlin
David Mould, Carleton University
Adrien Bousseau, INRIA
Rafal Mantiuk, Bangor University
Peter Hall, University of Bath