[visionlist] (Senior/Principal) Researcher position, "Human Computing" at technicolor, Rennes (FR)

[Guillotel Philippe]

Full-Time (Senior/Principal) Researcher - Human Computing -


Technicolor provides technology, systems and services to its Media & Entertainment clients involved in the different components of the video chain (content creation, production, distribution and consumption). The Technicolor Research centers continuously invest in research to anticipate incoming technological evolutions, outperforming current limits. Therefore, based on a strong expertise in image and video processing, Technicolor is developing new research fields and in particular around the Human Computing area. The ambition here is to capture different human information (gesture, motion, emotions, feelings, brain, environment...), develop innovative systems to interpret those information, derive computational models and propose new applications/services where the human is the center point (it includes Human-Machine interfaces and interactions, motion/haptic sensors, intelligent camera...). 
The targeted applications for Technicolor include cinema, television, games, home, web, video, communication...

On this basis, Technicolor Research & Innovation Center in Rennes, France, is looking for a new senior/principal researcher to provide significant technical leadership in Human Computing and Applications. This position will involve participating in hands-on research work as well as in the creation of vision, research strategy and new projects. Including:
- Analyze, evaluate and improve Human understanding
- Develop and integrate solutions to capture and interpret human information, those information could be visual, haptic, contextual, biological or psychological
- Develop new applications making use of those Human Information with a special focus on video processing and home/users technologies. Man-Machine interfaces and interactivity is an obvious topic but not restricted to it

The successful candidates must have a PhD, and specific knowledge in Computer Vision (Human-Machine Interactions) and Cognitive Sciences (in particular Physiology). Some knowledge in some of the following areas is expected: Signal processing & analysis, Human-Machine or Brain-Computer Interfaces, Human Perception, Physiology, Neurology or Psychophysics. Since software developments is also part of this job, some experience in PC environments and programming (C, C++ on Windows/Linux) is required.


The position is located in Rennes, France (http://www.rennes.fr/). 

Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, recent list of publications, a statement of research interests and samples of research productivity.
Resumes may be submitted electronically in either Word (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf) or Portable Document Format (PDF). And send to philippe.guillotel at technicolor.com 

!! Welcome to the Dream Industry !!

Philippe GUILLOTEL
Technicolor Research & Innovation
1, av. de Belle Fontaine - CS 17616
35576 Cesson-Sevigne - France
Phone +33.2.99.27.32.63
Fax     +33.2.99.27.30.15
Email philippe.guillotel at technicolor.com 
Web http://www.thlab.net/~guillotelp/