<div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_WordSection1" style="font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Beating Roger Federer:</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Modeling visual learning and expertise through a bioinspired neural network embedded in an electronic device</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Goal:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>Internship for student in engineering school / Master degree’s student. The project can lead to a PhD grant.<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></b></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">When:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>5-6 months from February to July 2017</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></b></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Topic:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>How do expert tennis players, like Roger Federer for example, predict if a ball will bounce in or out the field to decide if it should be played or not? After thousands of trajectory presentations, best champions have developed extraordinary skills in such a task, but<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>little is known on how the visual system turns selective to spatiotemporal properties of the visual stimulus (e.g., 3D position, velocity and acceleration) and learns how to make an efficient use of it.</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The goal of the project is to build an embedded system – based on FPGA circuits and ARM processor – an artificial neural network<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>which would replicate – and perhaps beat – the visual and anticipatory performances of these expert players.</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">To achieve this goal successfully, we will develop a bio-inspired neural network, based on some of the key properties of human vision: the Smart NeuroCam (GST company) will be used to reproduce the retina functioning. It triggers its message under the form of spikes, in an asynchronous way (without any concept of frame per second), responding to spatial or temporal changes in the pattern of illumination. Several kinds of pre-processing filters can be implemented in VHDL language directly in the FPGA circuits, and the output is then sent to a neural network. The artificial network will learn to use this message, applying a simple learning rule, the Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP). This rule allows each neuron to become selective to a particular property of the stimulus, completely autonomously and with no supervision. Several layers will be built to allow perceiving more and more complex properties of the visual scene. Once the network will be established, its performances will be assessed in different conditions of learning and compared to those of the best tennis players.</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The project is funded by a French National Research Agency (ANR)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">, involving two sites and several researchers:<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Robin Baurès, Benoit Cottereau, Timothée Masquelier and Simon Thorpe, CerCo, Toulouse.</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Michel Paindavoine, GST, Dijon.</span></li></ul><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Where:<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The candidate will be based at CerCo, Toulouse (France), and will make the interface with the two sites, with regular trips. The computational neuroscience part will be done at Toulouse, and electronic part at Dijon.<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Objectives for the engineering / Master internship:</span></b></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Matlab (or Python) based simulations of numerical filters. These filters will be applied to the image processing from which spikes are generated and then sent to feed the neural network and STDP learning mechanism.</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">VHDL coding to implement these numerical filters into the FPGA circuits of the cameras</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">C/C++ coding of the neural network and STDP mechanism that should work on an embedded ARM processor system</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Experimental tests that will allow evaluating the performance of the whole system, from spikes generation to visual properties learning of the embedded system, to predict tennis ball’s trajectories<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></li></ul><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Required skills:</span></b></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Strong knowledge on electronic, and openness to computational neurosciences</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Knowledge in signal-image processing, and artificial neural network</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Interest for multidisciplinary research</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Ability to turn smoothly autonomous, once the road has been set</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Ability to be at the interface of two scientific fields and two working areas</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Programming with Matlab and/or Python for simulating the neural network</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Programming in VHDL language for FPGA circuits</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Programming in C/C++ language for porting the algorithms on ARM microprocessors</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">French is not a requirement if fluent in English, but willingness to learn would be beneficial</span></li></ul><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></b></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Relevant publications for the project:</span></b></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Masquelier, T., Guyonneau, R. & Thorpe S.J. (2009).<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Competitive STDP-Based Spike Pattern Learning.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Neural Comput, 21(5),1259-1276.</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Masquelier, T. & Thorpe, S.J. (2007).<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Unsupervised learning of visual features through spike timing dependent plasticity.<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">PLoS Comput Biol, 3(2):e31.</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Cottereau, B.R., McKee, S.P. & Norcia, A.M. (2014). Dynamics and cortical distribution of neural responses to 2D and 3D motion in human.<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Journal of Neurophysiology 111(3), 533-543.</span></li><li class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px;font-family:"times new roman",serif">SmartNeuroCam de GST :<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://gsensing.eu/fr/category/sections/products" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://gsensing.eu/fr/c<wbr>ategory/sections/products</a></span></li></ul><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Contact:</span></b></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Robin Baurès, PhD</span></b></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Associate Professor</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">CerCo, Université Toulouse 3, CNRS</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">CHU Purpan, Pavillon Baudot</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">31059 Toulouse Cedex 9 – France</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Office phone: <a href="tel:05%2062%2074%2062%2015" value="+33562746215" target="_blank">0033 (0)5 62 74 62 15</a></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Email :<span class="gmail-m_-6460014037221331955gmail-m_8494455063037401604x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:robin.baures@cnrs.fr" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">robin.baures@cnrs.fr</a></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-fa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