Connectionists: Postdoc: Gesture Recognition in Normandy (France)

[Stéphane Canu]

GESTURE RECOGNITION POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

The following postdoctoral position is available to work on sequence 
learning for multimodal gesture recognition with Stéphane Canu (INSA Rouen).

Location: Normandy - Rouen (France) – ITEKUBE Caen (France)
Starting date: beginning of 2014
Duration: 2 years (1+1)
Net salary: ranges between ~1,800 Euros and 2,400 Euros per month, 
commensurate with experience.

PROJECT SUMMARY: this project consists of a joint project between 
Professor Stéphane Canu of INSA Rouen and David Ulrich of ITEKUBE

ITEKUBE has considerable experience building large multi touch tables 
(46inch) and wants to improve its HMI (human machine interface). By 
integrating machine learning it will be possible to expand gesture 
recognition from the simplest to the most complex one in a multimodal 
environment (for instance by using multi touch inputs and kinect as the 
same time), leading to a more intuitive and keyboard/mouse-free use of a 
computer.

The successful candidate will be undertaking novel research in 
multimodal signal learning methods, real-time gesture representation and 
recognition, data fusion and intention prediction to be included in the 
next generation of multi touch table HMI among others.

EXPERIENCE: Postdoctoral researcher (new Ph.D. or more experienced), 
extensive knowledge of support vector machines and time series modeling. 
Prior work with gesture recognition and/or signal recognition would be 
most appropriate.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS: Should be familiar with MatLab, and 
program in C++ on PC's with Windows 7/8 would also be desirable.

Interested individuals should send a CV, representative publications, a 
statement of research interests, and three letters of reference to scanu 
at insa-rouen.fr and david at itekube.com

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Stephane Canu

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