PhD position in Multimedia indexing at Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France

http://www.eurecom.fr/en/content/multimedia-indexing

DESCRIPTION

This thesis is part of a collaborative project to analyze the multimedia information
that is published on the Internet about cultural festivals, either by professional
or by the public. These data are diverse (text, images, videos) and published on various
sources (twitter, blogs, forums, catalogs). The project aims at analyzing and structuring
this information in order to better understand the public and the cultural practices, and
to recombine them to build synthetic view of these collections. This thesis will focus
on the aspects of video analysis and multimodal fusion.

This thesis will tackle two problems:
- to develop techniques for the automatic analysis of video content, so that the collected
data may be categorized in predefined categories. This component will be used to structure
the collections and better understand their content and their evolution.
- to study mechanisms to recombine the multimedia content, and build synthetic views of the
collections. Several strategies will be studied, depending on whether these views are intended
for professional users or for the general public.

The research will focus in particular on mechanisms to automatically construct semantic classifiers,
and on fusion techniques for the results of these classifiers. The recombination aspects will
involve methods for the selection of important segments, followed by an assembly strategy according
to the expected objective. A specific attention will be paid to evaluation techniques that will
allow to measure the performance of different approaches.

APPLICATION

PhD applicants are expected to have a Master degree, with honors. This research
involves a strong knowledge in signal processing and machine learning, as well as
a good experience of programming in Matlab and C/C++.
English is mandatory, French is a plus, but not required.

Candidates are invited to submit a resume, transcripts of grades for at least the last two year,
3 references, and motivation for the position.
Applications should be sent to the Eurecom secretariat, secretariat@eurecom.fr, with the subject
MM_BM_PhD_REEDIT_Sept2014

EURECOM

EURECOM is a leading teaching and research institution in the fields of information and communication
technologies (ICT). EURECOM is organized in a consortium form combining 7 European universities
and 9 international industrial partners, with the Institut Mines-Telecom as a founding partner.
Our 3 fundamental missions are:
- Research: focused on Networking and Security, Multimedia Communications and Mobile Communications.
- High level education: with graduate and postgraduate courses in communication systems, plus
three Master of Sciences programs entirely dedicated to foreign students.
- Doctoral program: in cooperation with several doctoral schools, supported by our research collaborations
with various partners, both industrial and academic, and funded by various sources, including national
and european programs.

Research Associate/Assistant Post at the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University

We have a position at our lab in a project which will apply our work on Linked Data/Semantic Web and Web APis in the domains of eLearning and the Future Internet.

Duration of Post: until end of May 2016.
Salary Scale: 28,695 - 37,394 (British Pounds)

Deadline for applications is: October 23rd

More details and application forms can be found at: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/jobs/  [Post 10673]

Post Job Summary

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have recently come to the fore through high profile providers such as Udacity, Coursera, edX and the OU's own FutureLearn. According to some commentators this new initiative will radically change the higher education landscape through the provision of high quality freely available educational materials. The FORGE project is applying technologies related to rich interactive eBooks, social networking learning platforms and Linked Data to turn large scale Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) facilities into a learning resource. See http://ict-forge.eu/

The weSPOT project aims at propagating a scientific inquiry approach for science learning and teaching in combination with current curricula and teaching practices. It lowers the threshold for linking everyday life with science teaching in schools through technology. weSPOT supports the meaningful contextualization of scientific concepts by relating them to personal curiosity, experiences, and reasoning founded on a theoretically sound and technology supported personal inquiry approach. See http://wespot.net/
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Best

John

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Deputy Director, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University

Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

phone: 0044 1908 653800, fax: 0044 1908 653169

email: john.domingue@open.ac.uk web: kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/

President, STI International

Amerlingstrasse 19/35, Austria - 1060 Vienna

phone: 0043 1 23 64 002 - 16, fax: 0043 1 23 64 002-99
email: john.domingue@sti2.org  web: www.sti2.org 

-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

AppsFluxus'15 - Cognizance IIT Roorkee Sponsored Android Apps Development Workshop & Championship

Dear Sir/Madam,

Greeting from AppsFluxus'15 IIT-Roorkee !!! 

We "Team of AppsFluxus-2015" on behalf of Cognizance’15 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee & Finland Labs as the host of this National Android Apps Championship would like to entreat you to be a part of India's biggest android apps challenge i.e. AppsFluxus’15. Click here to know about our official Zonal Center.

AppsFluxus'15 is National Android Apps Championship and a workshops series jointly being organized by Association with Cognizance’15 IIT (Roorkee) & Finland labs.  All the preliminary rounds will be held at only selected Engineering & Polytechnic institutes across INDIA in present academic year and the grand finale will be on March at IIT-Roorkee under the banner of National Android Apps Championship.  

  

   AppsFluxus-2015 Event Details

·         Stage 1st (2-days Android app Workshop will be be held at zonal centers)

·         Stage 2nd (Prelims round of AppFluxus'15 will be just after the completion of workshop)

·         Stage 3rd (Final round of all zonal center winners to be held on 27-29 March at IIT-Roorkee campus)   

AppsFluxus’15 proposed National Level Skills Development workshops

·         Android Apps Development workshop

·          Big data Hadoop workshop

·         Cloud Computing Development

·          Networking CISCO Security

·          Web Development

  

Requirement for official Zonal Center 

·         Seminar hall /Computer lab & open ground to conduct hands-on-session for all participants.

·         Projector/screen along with to cordless mikes for teaching & presentation.

·         This zonal center can only be arranged for a minimum of 60 students

How to enlist for official Zonal Center  

Make the confirmation letter on college letter head & send a scan copy of letter by mail. First-come-first-served policy will be followed for selection of Zonal Centers.    

Research Scientist Positions at Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is expanding its Research & Development team on its New York City and Minneapolis campuses, seeking research scientists with expertise in machine learning and natural languageprocessing (http://labs.thomsonreuters.com).

Qualified candidates will have the chance to make a meaningful difference in fields that include Science, Intellectual Property, Law, Finance and Tax & Accounting, in addition to News, whichincludes the expansive Reuters corpora. This is an exciting opportunity to work with large unstructured data sets covering broad segments of multidisciplinary endeavors.

As a Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters, you will apply your skills to develop novel algorithms and solutions backed by strong experimental design. Working closely with product and development groups, your ideas will have a direct impact on Thomson Reuters' products and services while reaching the world at large.

Current openings are best suited for recent grads or post-docs interested in maintaining academic connections while focusing their research on challenging real world problems. 

For more information about these positions and details on how to apply, please see the postings below:

Sr. Research Scientist (NYC): http://goo.gl/4JoUVW

Research Scientist (MPLS): http://goo.gl/vR3dqi

Research Scientist (NLP): http://goo.gl/5R6JVl

Contact:

   Isabelle Moulinier, Director – Research

   isabelle.moulinier@thomsonreuters.com

Post-doctoral position in IR

Information Retrieval Group, School of Computing Science, College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow

Salary: Grade 6 / 7 £27,057– £30,434 / £33,242 - £37,394 per annum

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJN133/research-assistant-associate/

Apply online at:  http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/jobs/

Closing date: 29 September 2014.

Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate position within the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk). A good quality first degree is essential for this post, and programming skills in C and Java/Python are expected. The candidates should ideally have experience in Linux programming. A background on information retrieval and social media analytics is expected.

The project is part of the EPSRC "TI3 (Towards an Intelligent Information Infrastructure)" programme, and we aim to equip future networks with 'situational awareness', which is knowledge that can help make management decisions about networks and their services in the face of any challenges, whether from (e.g.) component failures, natural disasters, misconfigurations or attacks. Making future networks resilient is supremely important and is a major research activity, especially given the critical nature of networks and the services they support for many areas of society. In this project, research will be carried out over two years jointly at the universities of Glasgow and Lancaster, involving investigators with a wide range of expertise (resilient and autonomic communications, network instrumentation and management, information retrieval and data science), in collaboration with leading industrial partners in the areas of networked safety-critical systems, industrial control networks, and hardware-accelerated custom compute platforms.

The research is concerned with resilience monitoring and management in networked systems and services. More specifically the position covers the following areas of research:

• Infrastructure-specific context modelling from global and local content analysis in short timescales. The work will involve developing novel techniques to analyse global (social) media and infrastructure/provider-specific feeds in order to link global events with actual or potential incidents that may have adversarial impact on specific infrastructures.

We invite applications from enthusiastic individuals with experience in relevant aspects of Computer Science, or an appropriate, related discipline. The role will require you to engage with external partners and stakeholders, and therefore you should possess excellent communication skills with evidence of working effectively within a team.

The School of Computing Science offers a stimulating environment for research career development. You will join an ambitious research group that is internationally recognised, and will be expected to contribute to the strong profile of the group through participation in the development and publication of research results.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Joemon Jose, email: joemon.jose@glasgow.ac.uk or telephone +44 141 330 1636.

This position has funding for up to 24 months in the first instance.

Best Regards

Joemon
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Joemon M Jose FBCS, FIET, CITP
Professor of Information Retrieval
School of Computing Science
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
(t)  44-141-330 1636
(f) 44-141- 3304913
(w) http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jj
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Postdoc and research fellow positions in Helsinki

[Several positions include IR. /Samuel]

Postdoctoral and Research Fellow Positions in Computer Science in Helsinki, Finland

Application deadline October 12, 2014

Topics include: Algorithms, Augmented Research, Bioinformatics, Distributed Algorithms,
Distributed Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Logic, Machine Learning, System Design, etc.

More info at: http://www.hiit.fi/node/2856

Why Helsinki? The collaborating Aalto University and University of Helsinki form a leading hub of
computer science and modelling. Helsinki region is a safe, pleasant and attractive place to live in,
with well-functioning services such as public transport etc. Finland has a comprehensive social
security and health care system, including exceptionally good parental leaves and children's day
care services.

Group leaders: Professor Keijo Heljanko, Dr. Antti Honkela, Professor Giulio Jacucci,
Docent Tomi Janhunen, Professor Samuel Kaski, Professor Harri Lähdesmäki,
Professor David McGookin, Professor Petri Myllymäki, Professor Jukka Suomela,
Professor Hannu Toivonen and Professor Stavros Tripakis.

PhD Learning Analytics (Delft, the Netherlands)

The Web Information Systems group at the Delft University of
Technology, Netherlands is looking for a PhD researcher, whose
research focuses on the modeling and analysis of learners and their
learning processes in the context of MOOCs (Massive Open Online
Courses).

The research to be conducted will largely be data-driven, using and
improving technologies developed within various areas of computer
science including information retrieval, data analytics and user
modeling. It will be inspired by the big data challenges that MOOCs
offer.

We invite applications from candidates who:

- Have a solid background in computer science or a related discipline;
- Have been trained in areas such as information retrieval, big data
processing, data mining, computational linguistics, web data
management, data visualization or semantic web technologies;
- Are able to rapidly prototype Web applications with a modern technology stack;
- Are interested in contributing to open-source software projects such
as the Open edX platform;
- Have a passion for online education, the ability to collaborate in
inter-disciplinary research, and the academic skills to be part of a
research team aiming to make a high impact.

Not necessary but useful are also:

- Experience with large-scale data processing technologies such as
Hadoop or Storm;
- Prior teaching experience (both online and in the traditional
classroom setting).

The contract duration is 4 years for PhD student. TU Delft offers an
attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, free
high-speed Internet access from home, and the option of assembling a
customised compensation and benefits package (the 'IKA'). Salary and
benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for
Dutch Universities.

For more information about this position, please contact:
Dr. Claudia Hauff, phone: +31 15 27 84570, e-mail: C.Hauff@tudelft.nl

To apply, please e-mail a detailed CV along with a letter of application to:
Tamara Brusik, e-mail: T.Brusik@tudelft.nl

The closing date for applications for this position is October 15, 2014.