Connectionists: Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Computer Vision at EPFL

[Pascal Fua]

EPFL's Computer Vision Lab (http://cvlab.epfl.ch/) has openings for two 
post-doctoral fellows. The positions are initially offered for 1 year 
and can be extended for up to 4 years total.



Description:

	1. We are about to begin a joint project with FLARM (http://flarm.com/) 
, a Swiss Company that develops collision avoidance devices for light 
aircrafts, helicopters, and drones. This is important because the skies 
are becoming ever more crowded by both commercial and general aviation, 
to which must now be added Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known 
as drones, along with paragliders, blimps, and many other flying 
vehicles. To this end, we add to existing devices a wide-angle camera to 
be used to detect aircraft that might be on a collision course. This 
will involve developing robust and energy efficient Deep Learning 
algorithms to detect potential threats that only occupy a small portion 
of the field of view, may move against complex backgrounds, and are 
filmed by a camera that itself moves against the background.

	2. In earlier work, we have developed automated delineation algorithms 
that can be used to trace structures ranging from dentrites and axons in 
microscopy images to roads and rivers in aerial images. We now want to 
turn these algorithms into reliable ones that scale up to much larger 
problems than those we have addressed so far. This will involve 
developing techniques for optimization on large graphs as well for 
Transfer and Active Learning to train the underlying deep networks 
without requiring huge amounts of data.


Position:



The Computer Vision Laboratory offers a creative international 
environment, a possibility to conduct competitive research on a global 
scale and involvement in teaching. There will be ample opportunities to 
cooperate with some of the best groups in Europe and elsewhere.

EPFL is 
located next to Lake Geneva in a beautiful setting 60 kilometers away 
from the city of Geneva. Salaries for post-doctoral fellows start from 
CHF 81,400 per year, the precise amount to be determined by EPFL's 
department of human resources.



Education:



Applicants are expected to have finished, or be about to finish their 
Ph.D. degrees, to have a strong background in Computer Vision and 
Statistical Machine Learning, and to have a track record of publications 
in top conferences and journals. Strong programming skills (C or C++) 
are a plus. French language skills are not required, English is mandatory.



Application:



Applications must be sent by email to Ms. Staudenmann 
(ariane.staudenmann at epfl.ch). They must contain a statement of interest, 
a CV, a list of publications, and the names of three references. Please 
also specify which one of the two positions you are most interested in.
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