The Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam is part of the University of
Amsterdam and consists of groups for Autonomous systems, and language
and question/answer processing. The third group is the ISIS group,
engaged in cognitive computer vision and content-based image retrieval.
The ISIS group was top-ranked in computer science in the Netherlands.
This last group searches two Ph.D – students for the OBJECT-project.
The OBJECT-project aims to unite four most important problems in current
computer vision: object tracking, learning an object representation,
recognition when it appears again, and denomination to an object class
as learned from experience. These functions must be present in any
general computer vision system. They are intriguing, but hard problems.
The goal of the project is to consider and experiment with a set of
building blocks. In the project we derive inspiration from the visual
processing pathways of the brain as investigated by Van Essen, where it
became clear that also the brain has a differentiated set of building
blocks in the visual system. Our study will remain on the computer
vision side.
We aim to form a team of 3 Ph.D students:
1. Long-term tracking of objects A source of inspiration is our
current results in tracking, and long-term appearance model
learning.
2. Detecting and recognizing an object A source of inspiration is
data oriented parsing and other combinatorics from natural
language processing and machine learning.
3. Learning a large set of object classes organized in a visual
ontology, which is the PhD done by Jan van Gemert.
For projects 1 and 2, we seek 2 Ph.D students, graduated in artificial
intelligence, signal processing, cognition, or applied statistics with a
solid background in computer vision or machine learning or related
experience. Given the ambition of the project, we will focus on
excellent students.
The training programme is part of the ASCI research school of the
Netherlands conducted at the University of Amsterdam. We offer
attendance of courses and conferences. Activities will be directed in
cooperation with the digital video datasets of Beeld & Geluid, in
Hilversum, the archive of Dutch broadcasting.
Each Ph.D will receive a one plus three year contract starting at Euro
1877 a month for the first year, increasing to Euro 2407 a month in the
fourth year.
Information may be requested from, to whom also application should be
directed:
Prof. Arnold Smeulders, smeulders@science.uva.nl
Dr. Jan Mark Geusebroek, mark@science.uva.nl
-- Dr. Jan-Mark Geusebroek ISLA, Informatics Institute Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.science.uva.nl/~mark/ _______________________________________________ Imageworld mailing list Imageworld@itu.dk http://mailman.itu.dk/mailman/listinfo/imageworld
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