Connectionists: post-doctoral fellowship

[A. Taylan Cemgil]

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP.

Institute of Information Science and Technologies, National Research Council
(ISTI-CNR), Pisa, Italy,
and BILKENT UNIVERSITY, Ankara, Turkey.

Subject: Sequential Monte Carlo Learning for Event Detection in Multimodal
Sources

The candidate will study particle filters or sequential Monte Carlo
techniques for instantaneous event detection and feature extraction in
multimedia data. Particle filters which are generalized versions of Kalman
filters in which the process and observation equations could possibly be
nonlinear and the process and measurements are possibly non-Gaussian.
Particle filters provide a state space formulation which is a generalization
of the Kalman filtering to the nonlinear evolution and observation equations
and to non-Gaussian signal and noise. Due to its potential in modeling
non-stationary data, it is very adapt to detect instantaneous events.

MUSCLE (Multimedia Understanding Through Semantics and Computation
www.muscle-noe.org) is an EC-sponsored Network of Excellence that aims at
establishing and fostering closer collaboration between research groups in
multimedia datamining and machine learning. The Network integrates the
expertise of over forty research groups working on image and video
processing, speech and text analysis, statistics and machine learning. The
goal is to explore the full potential of statistical learning and
cross-modal interaction for the (semi-)automatic generation of robust
meta-data with high semantic value for multimedia documents.

Contact: A. Enis Cetin cetin at bilkent.edu.tr or Ercan Kuruoglu
kuruoglu at isti.cnr.edu

Duration: 18 Months : 9 months in Italy and 9 Months in Turkey
Salary: 2350 Euros/month (net) + Health insurance + Travel expenses


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 Ali Taylan Cemgil, Research Associate, U. of Cambridge, UK

 web:   http://www-sigproc.eng.cam.ac.uk/~atc27/
 phone: +44 1223 332766

 Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory
 Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge
 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK
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