De : "Le Meur Olivier" olivier.le-meur [ à ] thomson.net
Doctoral Position in Computational Cognition, Thomson R D, University
of Nice, FRANCE
Doctoral Position in Computational Cognition:
Topic: Towards a next generation of saliency model: Combining bottom-
up Saliency and Cognitive Information
A three-year doctoral position (PhD) is available on a project
investigating the active viewing of dynamic scenes. The research,
funded by Thomson R D, focuses on understanding how attention and
gaze are oriented in video depicting real-world events. The project
includes development of new techniques for analyzing and visualizing
eye tracking data in video as well as computational modeling.
Candidates should have a PhD in Cognitive Sciences (or any related
Cognitive Science discipline) with a strong experience in software
development (C/C++). A background and knowledge of MATLAB or similar
programming environment are preferred.
Thomson R D team focuses on understanding human vision during complex
real-world scene perception and the University of Nice has an
expertise in eye-tracking methodology. Because human vision involves
active information seeking via eye movements, much of the work
focuses on human gaze control, computational modeling and
implementation of underlying attentional processes in the human
brain. A new way promoted in the lab will be the use of EFRPs
technique (Eye-tracking combined with EEGs). Thomson R D team works
in the video/image processing domain and investigates the solutions
to improve significantly the efficiency of video-based applications.
A particular focus concerns the understanding of the visual attention
deployment as well as the design of computational models simulating
the human perception.
The position will be based in Thomson R D lab located at Rennes,
France. Salary is competitive and a number of facilities are provided
by Thomson R D as well as the University of Nice.
Interested candidates should send a CV, a brief (2 page max)
statement of research interests, representative reprints, and the
names and contact information of one reference by email to Thierry
Baccino (baccino [ à ] unice.fr) or Olivier Le Meur (olivier.le-
meur [ à ] thomson.net). Start date should be in September 2008.
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Contact
Thierry BACCINO, Université de NICE,
Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis,
LPEQ (EA 1189) 24, Av des Diables Bleus,
F-06357, cedex 4, NICE,
+(33) (0)4.92.00.12.04
EMail: baccino [ à ] unice.fr
http://www.unice.fr/LPEQ/pagesperso/thierry/thierrybaccino.htm
Olivier LE MEUR, THOMSON R D
THOMSON R D
1 avenue Belle Fontaine – CS 17616
35576 Cesson-Sévigné Cedex
France
 +(33) (0)2.99.27.36.54
EMail: olivier.le-meur [ à ] thomson.net
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