Postdoc positions in Parallel learning for Multimedia Semantic Indexing, France

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

Lix-Qualcomm Fellowships, France

Lix-Qualcomm Postdoctoral Fellowships,
Laboratory for Informatics at Polytechnique School, France

The Laboratory for Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique (Lix), France, is inviting applications for its 2009-2010 Lix-Qualcomm Postdoctoral Fellowships for research in computer science.

Deadline: 17 April 2009

Lix offers a unique academic research environment, bringing together permanent staff researchers from CNRS, INRIA and CEA, as well as resident faculty from Ecole Polytechnique, and is encouraging a mixture of theoretical, applied and experimental research. Including academic visitors, postdoctoral fellows and PhD students, Lix is home to about 120 researchers, organized in 11 research teams on the following subjects:

• Wireless and Ad Hoc Networking
• Computer graphics, vision and visual computing
• Bioinformatics
• Algorithms, optimization
• Formal languages for mobile and distributed systems
• Reliability and safety of software
• Complex systems
• Combinatorics
• Algebraic Modelization
• Cryptology
• Automatic proof processing
• Algorithms for Distributed Systems
• Operations research
• Algorithmic Game Theory
• Models for Continuous Time Computations

The LIX-Qualcomm postdoctoral fellowship provides young scientists of outstanding quality an opportunity to advance their academic career as resident research fellows in one of these 11 research teams. The fellow is free to continue his/her own research, however expected to identify and integrate with a Lix research team in his/her area of interest. Applicants are encouraged to solicit contact with staff researchers in their team(s) of research in advance.

The fellowship will be for one year, with an opportunity for a fellow to present candidature for renewal for one additional year. The fellowship is supported by a competitive stipend. Applicants must have received a PhD degree after January 2008 or should expect to receive one before the fellowship commences in fall 2009.

Applications will be accepted until April 17, 2009, and must be submitted on-line

Further information about the research teams at Lix can be found at the following address: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/

Further information about the fellowships and online application is given at the following address: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/fellowship/?page=announcement