[vslist] PhD studentship in visual attention & natural images

Wed Jul 17 15:31:01 2002

PhD studentship in visual attention & natural images                            
Institute of Neuroscience, Plymouth, UK                                         

A Ph.D. studentship in natural image psychophysics and modelling will
become available in Jochen Braun's lab as part of a European project
"Attend-to-learn and learn-to-attend with neuromorphic VLSI", which
combines perceptual, computational, and hardware research.  Subject to
signature of contracts, this position will be available for 3 years,
starting in October 2002.

The aim of the project is to develop a general architecture for
memory-guided attention using both software modelling and neuromorphic
VLSI technology. The architecture will be tested on natural visual and
auditory stimuli and its performance compared to human
observers/listeners.  In Plymouth, a group of two post-docs and two
students will develop visual and auditory stimuli that are restricted
enough to be tractable by an artificial system, yet rich enough for
psychophysical tests of attention and learning in human
observers/listeners.  This will require a novel psychophysics of object
attention with natural and quasi-natural stimuli.

The project requires regular contact with the other project collaborators,
which include ETH Zurich and University of Bern, Switzerland, the National
Institute of Health, Rome, Italy, Siemens AG, Germany, and UC Davis, USA.

Applications should include a CV, names of two or three referees, and a
covering letter and should be sent to Prof. Jochen Braun by email
(achim@pion.ac.uk) or by mail (Institute of Neuroscience, 12 Kirkby Place,
Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK).  Closing date is 31 September, 2002.