Research topic: Parallel Learning for Multimedia Semantic Indexing
Keywords: Machine Learning, Parallelism, Multimedia Indexing.
Context
Description of the position
The first part of the job will be to implement parallel versions of the classification methods developed in the MRIM team and to use these parallel versions to optimize together the various elements (feature sets, classification operators and fusion operators) involved in them.This optimization should be done as systematically as possible. Given the highly combinatorial aspect and the computational cost (even on a parallel architecture) of such optimization, appropriate heuristics must be studied and implemented to achieve the best outcome in a given time.
The second part of the job will be to implement integrated approaches for the simultaneous recognition of several hundred concepts taking into account since the earliest levels of the learning of the correlations between them.
This work will, wherever possible, planned following the TRECVID evaluation campaigns on concept detection in video shots. The experiments are usually held during the summer (July-August) and the campaigns stretch from February to November of the current year. The objective is to evaluate during the 2009 and 2010 campaigns what is planned to be developed in the first and second part described above.
Nature of the position and location
Fixed-term position of 12 months at LIG research lab
Integration in LIG’s MRIM group (research in Multimedia Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems) and
collaboration with LIG’s GETALP and MESCAL groups and GIPSA-Lab’s GPIG group.
Location: Grenoble, France (Saint Martin d’Hères campus).
Salary: around 2,000 Euros net per month.
Education and required skills
Required profile
− Significant and acknowledged skills and experience in software design and development.
− Significant knowledge and experience in C or C++ language.
− PhD thesis in one of the following domains: parallel programming, information retrieval, machine
learning, statistical data processing, image processing.
Complementary skills
− Experience in the optimisation of algorithms
− Experience of team work
Deadline for applications
Applications are possible until September 30, 2009. The position will start on the beginning of November or of December 2009. As soon as a suitable candidate is found, the job offer will be closed.
Contact
Georges Quénot – Laboratoire LIG – Equipe MRIM – http://mrim.imag.fr/georges.quenot
Address: Bâtiment B – 385 avenue de la Bibliothèque – 38400 Saint Martin d’Hères -- France
Email: Georges.Quenot@imag.fr – Tel : +33 (0)4 76 63 58 55
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