[visionlist] PhD position in Computer vision-based Human Motion Analysis in Queen Mary, University of London

[Ioannis (Yiannis) Patras]

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD Student to undertake 
research in the area of Human Motion Analysis and Understanding. The 
position is supported by an EU project and falls in the general area of 
modeling and recognition of Human Actions. The work is expected to build 
on recent developments in Computer Vision and Machine Learning for 
learning human facial/body/hand gestures from few examples, with 
emphasis on transfer learning for cross-modality, cross-category and 
cross-view learning.

Applicant

The applicant should have
- a degree (preferably MSc) in Computer Science or Electrical/Electronic 
Engineering
- excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Good programming skills and preferably experience with Matlab.
- Experience in one of the fields of Computer Vision and/or Machine 
Learning, and/or Statistical Pattern Recognition and/or Image 
processing. Preferably an MSc thesis in one of those areas
- Good mathematical background, especially in linear algebra and statistics.

The studentships cover both tuition fees and a stipend.


The research is supervised by Dr Ioannis Patras at School of Electronic 
Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London.

For informal inquiries and for information on how to officially apply, 
please email to Dr. Ioannis Patras (I.Patras at eecs.qmul.ac.uk):
- your updated CV,
- title and abstract of your final project
- academic transcript

More info: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~ioannisp/


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Dr. Ioannis Patras
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Tel. +44 20 7882 7523 Fax: +44 20 7882 7997
www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~ioannisp/