[visionlist] Doctoral Students, Machine Vision Group, University of Oulu, Finland

[Hannakaisa Aikio]

The Machine Vision Group, University of Oulu, Finland, is renowned
worldwide for its expertise in computer vision. We collaborate with
other groups of similar status in Europe, China, USA and Japan.

The group is now searching for prominent candidates to work as

RESEARCH ASSISTANT (DOCTORAL STUDENT)

to accomplish doctoral studies in our challenging and inspiring research
projects. The work is carried out in a team consisting of other
postgraduate students and senior researchers. The research topics are
related to face analysis, biometrics and intelligent human-computer
interaction.

The Machine Vision Group has reached outstanding results in face
recognition, recognition of facial expressions and visual speech
recognition by using Local Binary Patterns. Also, novel methods for
recognizing actions and gestures have been developed. The methodology
and its extensions are widely used and developed further within the
scientific community. The group is involved in European project
consortiums/proposals in this area.

An ideal candidate should have a completed Master degree (or equivalent
studies in a PhD program) in computer science or electrical engineering
with previous experience on computer vision. Programming skills with
C/C++/Matlab is desired. Also, good knowledge of spoken and written
English is required.

Duration of the contract is at first, one year. There is a good
possibility to apply for a graduate school position for max. 4-year term
from e.g. the Infotech Oulu Graduate School. As a Finnish University,
there is no tuition fee for the studies.

Starting salary for the position is currently 1900-2200 Euros per month
(before tax) depending on the qualifications. Additionally, doctoral
students have several possibilities to apply for personal grants,
tax-free to a certain amount annually.

You can apply by sending your resume (incl. a list of publications) via
e-mail to Professor Matti Pietikäinen, mkp (at) ee.oulu.fi.

For more information on our research, please visit 
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/mvg.

Deadline for the applications is December 31, 2009.