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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

JOB: Postdoctoral position in multimedia retrieval at IDIAP/EPFL

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Postdoctoral position in
computer vision and multimedia retrieval
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We are looking for a highly motivated candidate for a postdoctoral position in computer vision and multimedia retrieval. The work will take place in the context of a project recently funded by the European Community, whose main goal is to leverage multimodal content analysis (audio/speech/video/text) along with social media data to address contextual media retrieval and recommendation tasks. Idiap will address the extraction of video concepts and their use in the envisioned application. The project involves academic partners in Spain, France and Germany as well as a news agency and a video content managing company.

The ideal postdoctoral candidate is expected to have a PhD in computer science or electrical engineering with a strong background in one or more of the following topics: multimedia indexing and retrieval, computer vision, machine learning, automatic image or video annotation. Prior participation in international evaluation campaigns like Trecvid or MediaEval will be a plus. The applicant should have strong programming skills and be familiar with C/C++ and the Linux environment.

The starting date is December 2013. The position is for up to 3 years. Salaries are competitive.

Interested candidates should a email a letter of motivation, a detailed CV, and the names of three references to:

Jean-Marc Odobez    (odobez@idiap.ch, tel : +41 (0)27 721 77 26)
Daniel Gatica-Perez (gatica@idiap.ch)

Idiap (EPFL's Lidiap laboratory, idiap.epfl.ch) is located in Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in French-speaking Switzerland surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, which offers multiple recreational activities,including hiking, climbing, and skiing, as well as varied cultural activities, all within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva. Idiap is an equal opportunity employer and offers a young, multicultural environment where English is the main working language.

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Jean-Marc Odobez,
IDIAP Senior Researcher, EPFL Maitre d'Enseignment de Recherche (MER)
IDIAP Research Institute (http://www.idiap.ch)
Tel: +41 (0)27 721 77 26
Email: Jean-Marc.Odobez at idiap.ch
Web: http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez

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