Job: Post-doc opening in computer science & multimodal affective interaction, Limsi, Orsay

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:00:28 +0100
From: Jean-Claude MARTIN <martin at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <493FE79C.2060608 at limsi.fr>
X-url: http://careproject.fr/
X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/courgeon/publi/files/Courgeon-et-al-AFFINE08.pdf
X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/jacquemi/


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POST-DOC OPENING
IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & MULTIMODAL AFFECTIVE INTERACTION
AT LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE
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The "Conversational Agents" team at LIMSI-CNRS (30 km south of Paris)
seeks immediately one qualified postdoctoral researcher in the field
of multimodal affective interaction.


The candidate will work within the framework of the CARE project
(Cultural experience: Augmented Reality & Emotion). CARE is a French
research project funded by the French research agency (ANR). The
project brings together 7 partners, whose goal is to integrate, adapt
and develop augmented reality related tools to enhance the emotional
impact of cultural events and live performances.


Besides the enhancement of the two specific scenarios considered in
the project (Ballet of Biarritz and Museum of Toulouse), CARE results
will include improved conception methods as well as new generic
interaction techniques based on augmented reality technologies and
affective interaction.


The task of the post-doc candidate will be to model, implement and
evaluate a model of multimodal affective interaction with an animated
agent. The model will be used to control expressive 3D facial
animations from video and motion captured data collected from a
dancer's performance. Mappings from the captured movements onto the
facial expressions will be proposed at different levels of
abstraction.


The candidates are expected to have an Engineering BSc/Msc degree and
a PhD in Computer Science. Experience in the following domains will be
appreciated: real-time 3D graphics, affective computing, virtual
avatars.


APPLICATION AND CONTACT
Application deadline is January 31st, 2009.
The Postdoctoral position is for one year. The position is open
immediately.
Interested candidates should send a short letter of motivation, along
with their CV to
Jean-Claude MARTIN (MARTIN at LIMSI.FR) &
Christian JACQUEMIN (Christian.Jacquemin at limsi.fr)


REFERENCES
CARE project: http://careproject.fr/
MARC expressive agent : 
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/courgeon/publi/files/Courgeon-et-al-AFFINE08.pdf
Jean-Claude MARTIN’s homepage: www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin
Christian JACQUEMIN’s homepage : http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/jacquemi/


SALARY
1900 Euros per month during one year

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