Phd /Postdoc position in biological vision

[Wolfgang Maass]

A position for a Phd-student or Postdoc is available in our research project

      COMPUTER MODELS FOR BIOLOGICAL VISION SYSTEMS

This is a subproject within a larger research project on COGNITIVE
VISION, see http://www.acin.tuwien.ac.at/groups/robtec/fsp/fsp.htm
Research for this subproject is carried out by our Institute in
collaboration with the Department for the Physiology of Cognitive
Processes (Director Nikos Logothetis) at the MPI for Biological
Cybernetics in T=FCbingen, see http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/lo/.

The research in this subproject will focus on the design of
theoretical models as well as computer models on several spatial
scales, with biologically realistic anatomy and dynamics. These models
will serve as testbed for the exploration of learning algorithms that
may endow such models with partial visual function for movement
analysis and object recognition. In addition these models will serve
as links to experimental neuroscientists at the MPI T=FCbingen for the
design of new experiments and the integration of new experimental data
on movement analysis and object recogntion in primates.. These models
will also serve as link to researchers from computer vision in the
larger COGNITIVE VISION project, where we will compare empirically
successful approaches for generic object recognition in computer
vision and associated learning algorithms with biological data and
models.

We are looking for a highly qualified and strongly motivated
student/postdoc with experience in areas such as computer vision,
machine learning, computer simulations, computational neuroscience,
programming.  Courses and seminars for Phd-students are carried out in
English, leading to a Phd in Computer Science at the Graz University
of Technology.

Applications should be sent by August 16 to Wolfgang Maass
maass at igi.tugraz.at

-- Prof. Wolfgang Maass
Institut fuer Grundlagen der Informationsverarbeitung
Technische Universitaet Graz
Inffeldgasse 16b ,   A-8010 Graz,  Austria
Tel.:  ++43/316/873-5811 Fax   ++43/316/873-5805
http://www.igi.tugraz.at/maass/Welcome.html