<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-02a7a2f6-7fff-7bb9-936a-6369d6616601" class=""><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align: justify;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;" class=""><font color="#434343" face="Helvetica Neue, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(67, 67, 67); white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal;" class="">Please forward to anyone interested. Thanks!</span></font></h3><div class=""><font color="#434343" face="Helvetica Neue, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(67, 67, 67); white-space: pre-wrap; font-weight: normal;" class="">----------------------------------------------------</span></font></div><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align: justify;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Title:</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> PhD position in computer vision and machine learning for multimodal emotion and sentiment analysis at Idiap, Switzerland.</span></font></h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align: justify;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font size="3" class="">Position description.</font></span></h3><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class="">The Idiap Perception and Activity Understanding group seeks one highly motivated PhD candidate to work on the development of a multimodal non-verbal cue extraction platform (gaze, head gestures, emotion, speaking status) and its exploitation for different applications, like HCI, HRI, multimodal sentiment analysis, or mental health monitoring. The research will be focused on some of the above topics and will investigate deep learning models and methods (domain adaptation, unsupervised or weakly supervised learning; attention-based neural networks and transformers) to improve cue extraction or user state inference. Experiments will be conducted on project data (e.g. datasets of behaviors and robot-children interactions) as well as standard datasets from the computer vision and multimodal communities (gaze, emotion; sentiment analysis or health monitoring). </span></div><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class="">The work will be primarily done in the context of the ePartner project, a swiss and dutch project aiming at developing and evaluating personalized child health (care) solutions contributing to the early detection of health problems in primary school children and providing effective tailored (preventive) interventions using digital tools (tablets; avatar and robot buddies). The role of Idiap in this project is to develop robust non-verbal cue extraction tools along with some analysis of children's behavior. The recruited student will work with a research associate on the project and in collaboration with project partners (Eyeware SA, Delft University of Technology).</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px;" class="">Profile and application information can be accessed at:</span></div><div class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://careers.werecruit.io/en-gb/idiap/offers/phd-position-in-computer-vision-and-machine-learning-for-multimodal-emotion-and-sentiment-analysis-at-idiap-switzerland-3911af">https://careers.werecruit.io/en-gb/idiap/offers/phd-position-in-computer-vision-and-machine-learning-for-multimodal-emotion-and-sentiment-analysis-at-idiap-switzerland-3911af</a></div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:44D9C04D-1E09-44C2-A1C8-0EB473969FEA@idiap.ch" class=""></blockquote><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></span><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">-- </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Jean-Marc Odobez, </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">IDIAP & EPFL Senior Researcher (EPFL MER)</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Perception and Activity Understanding group<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Tel: +41 (0)27 721 77 26</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Web: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><a href="http://people.epfl.ch/jean-marc.odobez" class="">http://people.epfl.ch/jean-marc.odobez</a></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez" class="">http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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