Doctoral Position in Computational Cognition

May 16, 2008
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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@unice.fr) or Olivier Le Meur (olivier.le-meur@thomson.net). Start date should be in September 2008.

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