Connectionists: [jobs] Idiap/EPFL (Switzerland): PhD position in multimodal emotion and sentiment analysis.

[Jean-Marc Odobez]

Please forward to anyone interested. Thanks!
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Title: PhD position in computer vision and machine learning for multimodal emotion and sentiment analysis at Idiap, Switzerland.
Position description.

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). 

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).

Profile and application information can be accessed at:
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>

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Jean-Marc Odobez, 
IDIAP & EPFL Senior Researcher  (EPFL MER)
Perception and Activity Understanding group
Tel: +41 (0)27 721 77 26
Web:  http://people.epfl.ch/jean-marc.odobez
          http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez




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