CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST – MHUG GROUP – Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION

Commitment & contract: 2 years fixed term contract, renewable

Location: Via Sommarive, 9, 38123 Povo, Trento TN

WHO WE ARE

MHUG (Multimedia and Human Understanding Group) is a research group of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy. The main research interests of MHUG are related to the investigation and implementation of new techniques in the fields of computer vision and multimedia. In computer vision, we address a large spectrum of themes including human-behavior analysis, action recognition, 2D/3D object detection, large-scale event detection, and video analysis. In multimedia, our research focuses on multimedia information retrieval, social signals processing, affective computing, cross-media retrieval, multi-modal learning, and so forth. http://mhug.disi.unitn.it/#/

PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

The research activity that will be developed is related to “Ecological Informatics” and requires performing several “computer vision tasks” such as object detection, tracking, and species recognition as well as the development of “deep learning methods” for the analysis of “underwater video streams”.

 It is expected that the applicant has a/an

• A Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

• Experience with Machine Learning and Deep Learning models (e.g. Pytorch, Tensorflow)

• Experience in Computer Vision and Programming in Python

• Good knowledge of the English language

• Good communication skills

• The ability to work independently and collaboratively in a highly interdisciplinary and multicultural environment is preferable

Please send your CV with a short motivation letter stating why and how you match the project description and the requirements given above to cigdem.beyan[at]unitn.it and niculae.sebe[at]unitn.it with the subject line marked with [UNDERWATER].

Deadline: 16/01/2023