[Corpora-List] PhD studentship in computer vision, eye-tracking, and natural language, University of Edinburgh

[Mirella Lapata]

University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics

PHD STUDENTSHIP IN COMPUTER VISION, EYE-TRACKING, AND NATURAL LANGUAGE

Applications are invited for a fully funded, three-year PhD
studentship that combines ideas from computer vision, eye-tracking
research, and natural language processing. The aim of the PhD project
is to develop techniques for using human fixation data as recorded by
an eye-tracker to train computer vision models, thus reducing the need
for manual annotation. This approach will be augmented to exploit
textual data (e.g., image captions) to improve object
labeling. Another project aim is to crowd-source the eye-tracking
data, e.g., through the use of webcams.

Applicants for the studentship must have:

    * Strong undergraduate degree in computer science or a related
      discipline

    * Excellent programming skills

    * Solid mathematical foundations (especially linear algebra and
      probability theory)

    * Fluency in English, both written and spoken

    * UK or EU nationality -- this is mandatory; applicants of other
      nationalities will not be considered

    * Master's degree in a relevant area is desirable

    * Experience in computer vision, machine learning, natural
      language processing, or eye-tracking is desirable

The School of Informatics at Edinburgh is one of the top-ranked
computer science departments in Europe and offers an exciting,
interdisciplinary research environment. Edinburgh is a beautiful
historic city with a high quality of life.

Starting date: September 2013 as soon as possible after that.

The PhD work will be carried out under the supervision of Dr. Vittorio
Ferrari and Dr. Frank Keller, whose research interests can be found
at:

http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/calvin/
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/keller/

For pre-screening, please send applications to the email address
below, including:

    * Full CV

    * Full transcripts of both undergraduate and Master's degree (if
      applicable); this studentship requires high grades, especially
      in mathematics and programming courses

    * The names and email addresses of two referees

    * List of publications, if you have prior research experience

Contact: Vittorio Ferrari, vferrari at staffmail.ed.ac.uk

Deadline: 25 April 2013

-- 
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.


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