Post-Doc Research in Face and Gesture Recognition

[Shaogang Gong]

	Post-doctoral Research in Visual Learning for 
	Face Gesture Recognition and Intention Prediction for 
	Visually Mediated Interaction
   
Department of Computer Science Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of London, UK

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research assistant in the
Dept of Computer Science at Queen Mary and Westfield College to work
on a new EPSRC research project.

The successful candidate will be undertaking novel research in
statistical learning methods, real-time view-based face and gesture
representation and recognition, data fusion for active camera control
and intention prediction. Our lab is equipped with extensive real-time
image capturing and tracking systems including Pentium and Pentium II
real-time active camera systems, SGI O2 systems, Datacube MaxVideo 250
and MD1/2GX, AMT DAP 500 parallel processors, with numerous SPARC
workstations. The candidate should have experience in computer vision
and neural network research. In particular, any experience in
view-based representation and statistical learning theories would be
an advantage (more details can be found on the Web at
http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/research/vision/ ).  You should also be
competent in programming C under X and NT windows and using Unix
systems.

You will be expected to start as soon as possible on a 2 year
contract. Salary in range of 17,293-22,237 pounds per annum inclusive,
depending on age and experience. The project is to be closely
collaborated with a concurrent project at Sussex COGS involving Prof
Hilary Buxton and Dr Jonathan Howell. The project will also involve
the BT and BBC R&Ds.

The Department of Computer Science at QMW has extensive experience in
object detection, tracking and recognition for dynamic scene
understanding in image sequences. Recent and current funded projects
relevant to this research include ESPRIT II VIEWS for visual
interpretation and evaluation of wide area scenes, RACE II Mona Lisa
for virtual studios, ESPRIT III FIVE working group for immersive
virtual environment, EPSRC IMV Initiative on real-time detection,
tracking and recognition of moving people, EC HCM Network PAMONOP on
parallel modelling of neural operators for pattern recognition, a BT
Short Term Research Fellowship Scheme on real-time view-based
estimation of head pose, and the EPSRC/BBC CASE program for studies on
the visual segmentation and tracking of moving actors in studio
environment.

For further details and an application form please phone +(44)
(0)171-975-5171 (24 hour answer-phone) quoting Ref. number 97135 or
send an email request to sgg at dcs.qmw.ac.uk. Completed applications and
CV should be returned by 20/03/98 to: The Recruitment Coordinator,
Personnel Office, Queen Mary and Westfield College, Mile End Road,
London, E1 4NS.
 
 
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