[Imageworld] Research Engineer Position at INRIA Willow, Paris, France

[Ivan Laptev]

Research Engineer Position, 1 year (possible extension to 2 years)

Topic: Detection, recognition and tracking of people in video.

Context:
INRIA Willow is pursuing research in video analysis. We target realistic 
and large-scale video data (TV, movies, YouTube) and focus on the 
recognition of people, their actions, person-scene and person-object 
interactions. This research has resulted in a number of recent 
publications at ICCV11, NIPS11, ICCV09, CVPR09, CVPR08. We have also 
proposed Action Classification Competition at PASCAL VOC 2010 and 
co-organized workshops and tutorials on human analysis, e.g., ECCV10 
Tutorial on Human Action Recognition and CVPR11 Workshop on Gesture 
Recognition.

To support and strengthen our research efforts, we are looking for an 
engineer to work on the detection, recognition and tracking of people in 
realistic video. Based on our prior work CVPR09, the first goal will be 
to create a system able to reliably detect and track people in hundreds 
of hours of video. The second goal will be to extend this system and to 
recognize detected people (face recognition) as well as their traits 
(gender, age, etc.). For videos accompanied by scripts, we also aim to 
design an automatic annotation system which will learn and recognize 
actors from their visual appearance in video and their names in 
associated scripts in a fully automatic fashion. The work in this 
project will build on and will integrate our recently developed research 
code while extending and improving it for addressing the challenge of 
video analysis at a large scale.

WILLOW (http://www.di.ens.fr/willow/) is a joint research group between 
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), 
l'École Normale Superieure (ENS) and Centre National de la Recherche 
Scientifique (CNRS) - three strong research institutions in France. 
Based in central Paris, WILLOW currently includes four permanent 
researchers, several post-docs and visitors as well as a number of PhD 
and Master students working in different areas of computer vision and 
machine learning.

Requirements:
We encourage applications from strong and motivated candidates with
- Master or PhD degree in computer science (Grandes École profile for 
French applicants),
- Prior experience in Computer Vision,
- Strong programming skills and experience with C/C++ and Matlab,
- Fluent written and spoken English.

Prior knowledge in the following topics will be considered as an 
advantage: large-scale data analysis; video and image analysis; visual 
recognition and machine learning. Successful candidates will have an 
opportunity to contribute to the state-of-the-art research by publishing 
papers at the major venues of computer vision. The salary scale depends 
on prior experience and ranges between 2,000-2,500 Euros Net per month.

Contact:
To apply, please send your CV together with the names of two referees to 
Ivan Laptev <ivan.laptev at inria.fr> and Josef Sivic <Josef.Sivic at ens.fr>.