[visionlist] Research Scientist position - XEROX Research Centre Europe - Grenoble, France

[Marchesotti, Luca]

The area: Text and Visual Pattern Analysis 

 

XEROX Research Centre Europe's Text and Visual Pattern Analysis Area
(TVPA) is an expanding team, which specializes in text and visual
content understanding. Our mission is the delivery of Xerox's innovative
solutions that make everyday interaction with visual and textual content
simple and effective. Our research is the result of combining skills
mainly in machine learning, pattern recognition and image analysis. In
particular we focus on text and image categorization, image enhancement,
quality assessment and document imaging. 

 

Your Job: Research Scientist 

 

As a research scientist in TVPA you will be asked to generate and follow
up on new ideas, on build strong competencies and intellectual property
in Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis. In particular, you will be
pursuing activities around our new research agenda on Applied Visual
Aesthetics. 

Moreover, you will collaborate in a small, agile team that leads the
development of the OMNIA Project. OMNIA is a three year project funded
by French Government aiming at developing innovative strategies for
multimodal asset retrieval based on three main axes: content, emotion
and visual aesthetics.

 

Research Topics: 

 

* Design of aesthetic measures (light/colour harmony/composition
analysis, aesthetic ontology design, user preference regression etc.) 

* Image mood analysis (development of features capturing emotional
content of visual information, design of classifiers for automatic
labeling of assets) 

* Assisted content creation and Image personalization (asset selection,
features transfer, colour harmonization, etc.)

 

Responsibilities: 

 

1.         Inventing, implementing and evaluating novel imaging
software.

 

2.         Studying the state of the art, disseminate results on
international conferences and journal papers, fulfill project
deliverables.

 

3.         Collaborating with other project partners in order to
integrate the research results in a common environment/platform (sharing
components, algorithms and methods).

 

Requirements 

 

- PhD in Computer Science with a strong history of systems building and
publishing

-Deep and substantial background on Pattern Recognition/Computer Vision
and Image Processing

-Strong English-language written and oral communications skills

 

Expected start date: Mid February 2009

Type of contract: Temporary position - 18 months

To apply: Please send your CV and cover letter to:
luca.marchesotti at xrce.xerox.com, xrce-candidates at xrce.xerox.com

 

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