Freitag, 30. September 2011

[Imageworld] Call for Papers: PRL-SI on Scene Understanding and Behaviour Analysis

CALL FOR PAPERS
Pattern Recognition Letters
http://ees.elsevier.com/patrec/

Special Issue on Scene Understandings and Behaviours Analysis


Perceiving and understanding scenes and human behaviours is a key
technology for smart environments, human-machine interaction and robotics
and all are growing research fields with many future applications.
Surveillance of populated environments, recognition of human activities
and intentions, tracking of pedestrians in urban areas or detection of
intruders are examples tasks that all rely on the ability to robustly
detect abnormal. There is a great demand for even more robust systems,
especially over a wider range of conditions for indoors and outdoors
environments. There is also an increasing interest from industry for
small-scale, low-priced and robust surveillance systems.

This Special Issue is meant to bring together researchers which address
the problem of Scene Understanding and Behaviour Analysis from the
perspective of the different involved research communities. The topics of
the conference include, but are not limited to:

- perceptual search and attention guidance in scenes,
- multimodal perception,
- spatio-temporal reasoning,
- active spatial exploration,
- object recognition from local features,
- structure for object recognition,
- 3D object recognition,
- object categorization,
- conceptualization and scene classification,
- grammars for objects and scenes,
- objects in context: scenes and objects,
- scene recognition without objects,
- visual localization,
- human behaviour understanding,
- mobile robot navigation: mapping and visual SLAM,
- surveillance,
- smart environments: computational perception of human activities, -
wearable sensors for visually impaired people,
- events and activities detection and understanding in video data.

Authors are encouraged to submit their papers electronically by using
online manuscript submission at: http://ees.elsevier.com/patrec/

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into
the special issue, it is important that authors select the acronym "SUBA"
of this special issue when they reach the "Article Type" step in the
submission process.

All papers will be rigorously refereed and will undergo a competitive
selection process. The length of your manuscript should not exceed 7500
words, plus the necessary figures and tables. Papers already submitted or
presented in a Conference may be submitted for this Special Issue provided
the authors have obtained significant new results or developed significant
new methods over and above what was already submitted or presented at a
Conference.

Submission period
=================
The Elsevier Editorial System (http://ees.elsevier.com/patrec/) will be
set in due time to allow authors to upload their contributions to the
special issue in the period November 10, 2011 - December 20, 2011.

Important Dates
===============
Submission deadline: December 20, 2011
Notification to authors: April 20, 2012
Publication data (tentative): January, 2013


Guest Editors
=============
Antonio Bandera University of Malaga, Spain
ajbandera@uma.es

Jorge Dias Universidade Coimbra, Portugal
jorge@deec.uc.pt

Francisco Escolano University of Alicante, Spain
escolano.ua@gmail.com


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Mittwoch, 28. September 2011

[Imageworld] CfP: Fourth IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2012
Seattle, WA USA
April 27-29, 2012

Website: http://research.microsoft.com/iccp2012/

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: December 12, 2011
Supplementary Material Submission: December 16, 2011
Paper Decisions: February 12, 2012

ICCP 2012 seeks high quality submissions in all areas related to computational photography.  We welcome all submissions that introduce new ideas to the field including, but not limited to, those in the following areas:

Computational cameras
Computational illumination
Computational optics (wavefront coding, compressive optical sensing, digital holography, .)
High-performance imaging (high-speed, hyper-spectral, high-dynamic range, thermal , confocal, ...).
Multiple images and camera arrays
Sensor and illumination hardware
Scientific imaging and videography
Advanced image processing
Organizing and exploiting photo/video collections

In addition to papers, ICCP 2012 will have submission paths for talks, posters, and demos.
Please see the conference website: http://research.microsoft.com/iccp2012/ for additional details.

Program Chairs:

Michael Cohen (Microsoft Research)
Michael Gehm (U. of Arizona)
Neel Joshi (Microsoft Research)
Yoav Schechner (Technion)


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Dienstag, 27. September 2011

[Imageworld] Re: Research development position in Mulsys Limited, a spin out company from the University of Surrey, UK

Research development position


Mulsys Limited, a spin out company from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom


The successful candidates are expected to have broad knowledge in either areas of 2D/3D image and video compression & transmission or spatial audio coding & transmission (most preferably a PhD degree in one of those areas/ sub-areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering). A good knowledge of general aspects of signal processing is a major plus. Successful candidates are also expected to have good programming practice (especially in C/C++ and Matlab). The successful candidate will be required to help in developing software modules (e.g. codecs) as well as analysis tools to be used in the integration activities of several research projects. Willingness to conduct research and advancing the state-of-the-art in their area is a significant criterion in assessing the successful candidates. Applicants should demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.


The candidate will be located in the I-Lab, University of Surrey, to work on a joint European FP7 project. I-Lab Multimedia Communication Systems Research offers a complete solution to applications and services for current and future fixed and mobile communication systems by incorporating user aspects into technological research and development. I-Lab's user-centric research and development approach is the key to future telecommunication applications and services. I-Lab's goal is to bring communications and media technologies together in order to improve our daily lives.


Applications should include a letter of motivation and curriculum vitae in the first instance. Salary is based on the level of the experience of the applicant. Please note that only the applicants with UK/ or EU nationalities will be considered, to avoid any work permit restrictions. The position is open immediately until filled. Starting date can be as soon as possible.


Interested applicants should contact Erhan Ekmekcioglu through ee0002@surrey.ac.uk with an indication of this application in the subject line.

[Imageworld] Tenure-track Faculty Position in Bioengineering: Lehigh University, PA, USA

Faculty Position in Bioengineering: Lehigh University 

The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Lehigh University seeks to fill a tenure-track position in Bioengineering at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor. The college is searching for outstanding individuals who utilize a combination of techniques from biology, engineering, and mathematics to solve bioengineering problems. They will join a growing interdisciplinary group of faculty members that form a cluster at Lehigh University working on Technology for Health.  Lehigh also offers many additional opportunities for collaboration across departmental, program, and college boundaries.

We seek candidates who will complement existing strengths, develop a strongresearch program, and collaborate effectively with colleagues at Lehigh.  We are particularly interested in applicants with an interest in systems bioengineering, including research foci such ascomputation to enhance diagnostics, as well as engineering for stem cell and regenerative medicine.  Current areas of interest/expertise on the Lehigh campus include: cellular and tissue mechanics, biofluid dynamics, computational biology, molecular mechanobiology, biomaterials, drug delivery, biopharmaceutical engineering, nanotechnology, BioMEMS, and medical device design.  Applicants are required to have a doctorate in a relevant field, and the ability and interest to teach core bioengineering courses. (See
http://www.lehigh.edu/bioe/) He/she will be expected to have a strong commitment to high quality undergraduate and graduate engineering education, maintain an active and funded research program, and develop strong partnerships with medical research centers and/or the biotechnology industry.  Bioengineering at Lehigh is a multi-disciplinary program that draws its faculty from a number of departments, including Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Chemistry and Physics. 

Lehigh has made a long-term commitment to growth in Bioengineering, starting with the establishment of a new undergraduate program in 2002. We have launched a new graduate program in 2009, have plans for a sizable new research facility, and expect to expand faculty strength further. Lehigh University offers several other excellent resources and facilities such as the Genomic and Proteomic Core Analysis Facility, the High Performance Computing Cluster Corona, the Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and the Center for Optical Technologies. 
Also, Lehigh University is a recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award for promoting the careers of women in academic science and engineering.

Using our 
online application (https://rceas-par.dept.lehigh.edu/apply/?position=bio), please submit a CV, a Teaching Proposal describing instructional philosophy for both undergraduate and graduate education, a 3-6 page Research Proposal describing an externally fundable research effort, and names of at least three references. Applications can also be sent by mail to: Chair, Bioengineering Search Committee, LehighUniversity, Bioengineering Program, c/o Elaine Correll, Iacocca Hall, Bethlehem, PA 18015-4791. For the full consideration applications should bereceived prior to November 30, 2011 but the search will remain open until an appropriate candidate is selected. (AA/EOE)

 

Lehigh University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status. Lehigh University providescomprehensive benefits including domestic partner benefits. http://www.lehigh.edu/~inprv/faculty/worklifebalance.html

 

 

[Imageworld] Call for Papers: JoPhA Special Issue on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding

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Journal of Physical Agents JoPhA
www.jopha.net

Special Issue on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding


Scene Understanding has become a popular topic in Computer Science which
combines issues such as attention in cognitive systems, object detection
and recognition, global scene recognition and human sensing. Hence, it
involves joining efforts and sharing knowledge from different research
areas such as Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence,
Software Engineering and Cognitive Sciences. Besides, it is closely
related to several emerging application areas (e.g., smart environments,
video surveillance, visual-based mobile robot navigation, wearable
sensors, and the detection and understanding of events and activities in
video data). This Special Issue is meant to bring together researchers
which address the problem of Scene Understanding from the perspective of
the Robotics and Computer Vision research communities. The topics of the
conference include, but are not limited to:

perceptual search and attention guidance in scenes,
multimodal perception,
spatio-temporal reasoning,
active spatial exploration,
object recognition from local features,
structure for object recognition,
3D object recognition,
object categorization,
conceptualization and scene classification,
grammars for objects and scenes,
objects in context: scenes and objects,
scene recognition without objects,
visual localization,
human behaviour understanding,
mobile robot navigation: mapping and visual SLAM,
surveillance,
smart environments: computational perception of human activities,
wearable sensors for visually impaired people
...

Authors are encouraged to submit their papers electronically by using
online manuscript submission at: http://www.jopha.net

All papers will be rigorously refereed and will undergo a competitive
selection process. Papers already submitted or presented in a Conference
may be submitted for this Special Issue provided the authors have obtained
significant new results or developed significant new methods over and
above what was already submitted or presented at a Conference.

Important Dates
===============
Submission deadline: December 20, 2011
Notification to authors: March 20, 2012
Publication data (tentative): September, 2012


Guest Editors
=============
Antonio Bandera University of Málaga Málaga, Spain
ajbandera@uma.es

Jorge Dias Universidade Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal
jorge@deec.uc.pt

Francisco Escolano University of Alicante Alicante, Spain
escolano.ua@gmail.com


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[Imageworld] Symposium at ICSC2012: Spatial cognition in Robotics

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Symposium on 'Spatial cognition in robotics'
ICSC 2012 in Rome, Italy
September 4-8, 2012
http://w3.uniroma1.it/icsc/2012/

Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, organization, use and
update of knowledge about spatial environments. These capabilities enable
humans to manage basic and high-level cognitive tasks in everyday life.
The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers which address
the problem of Spatial Cognition from the perspective of the Robotics
research community, and to share our experiences with researchers from
other space-related scientific disciplines (behavioural, cognitive,
computational, developmental, neuroanatomical, physiological, social).

If you are interesting to participate, please send us the tentative title
of the contribution and the names of the authors to ajbandera@uma.es. We
need to submit the symposium proposal before October 31!

Topics
======
The topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to:

- multimodal perception,
- spatio-temporal reasoning,
- active spatial exploration,
- conceptualization and scene classification,
- grammars for scenes,
- topological mapping,
- objects in context: scenes and objects,
- scene recognition without objects,
- visual localization,
- mobile robot navigation: mapping and visual SLAM,
- ...

Symposium Convenor
=================
Antonio Bandera
ajbandera@uma.es
University of Malaga, Spain

Publication
===========
Accepted short papers will be published in a special issue of COGNITIVE
PROCESSING - INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE (Impact Factor:
1,03)

Important Dates
===============
Symposium proposals(General abstracts with authors and titles of
single contributions): October 31, 2011
Abstracts of single contributions to symposia: January 31, 2012
Short papers (optional): April 15, 2012

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Montag, 26. September 2011

[Imageworld] 3 Phd positions, Computer Science Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland

The Computer Science Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland, has three new openings for PhD 
students, financed in part by the Hasler Foundation.



PhD position 1: project POPWiN - Parallel Object Remote Programming  for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks 
over IPv6. Theoretical Computer Science and Sensor Nets Laboratory (http://tcs.unige.ch)

This project is in collaboration with the Grid and Cloud Computing group of the HES-SO University of Applied 
Sciences of Fribourg, Switzerland. The whole project is dedicated to the development of programming tools for 
heterogeneous wireless networks over IPv6.  The PhD candidate to the open position in the TCS group will be 
responsible for the design and the implementation of the communication mechanisms in the wireless networks.  
The successful candidate should have some knowledge of wireless communications. She/He will work on the 
following topics: Energy-balance routing mechanisms; Implementation of Geographic Coordinates systems; 
Adaptive and cooperative tracking mechanisms.

The candidate should have a background in Computer Sciences and some interest in applied mathematics, 
modelling, programming tiny devices (sensors) and, wireless computer networks.

Contract duration: 1 initial year, up to 3-4 years.
The starting date is January 2012.



PhD positions 2 and 3: Project EyeWalker, Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory (http://cvml.unige.ch), 
Multimodal Interaction Group (http://cvml.unige.ch/MMI).

The goal of the EyeWalker project (Ultralight portable vision system for mobility aids) is to develop a low-cost, 
ultralight computer vision device for elderly users with mobility problems. The EyeWalker would warn users of 
potentially risky situations or help locate a few particular objects both indoors and outdoors, in known or 
unknown environments, under widely varying illumination conditions. Collaboration between: University of 
Geneva, Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM, http://www.csem.ch), Haute Ecole de 
Suisse Occidentale (HEIG-VD, Yverdon, http://www.heig-vd.ch/). 

Profile for Positions 2 and 3: Master's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field. Good knowledge of 
signal/image/video processing and pattern recognition. Excellent programming skills, taste and capacity to put 
new ideas into working prototypes.  They will work on the following topics: Computer Vision, Machine 
Learning, Real-time prototyping. Although the working language is English, Geneva is a French-speaking place 
and experiments will be carried out with elderly persons in French.

Contract duration: 1 initial year, up to 3-4 years. 
Starting date: as soon as possible.



Application:

Applications should include a curriculum vitae and two letters of reference. The applicant should understand that 
the referees might be contacted. Please send detailed applications by email to:

*  (PhD position 1) Dr. Pierre Leone, Theoretical Computer Science Laboratory, Pierre.Leone@unige.ch

*  (PhD positions 2 and 3) Dr. Guido Bologna, Computer Vision & Multimedia Laboratory, Guido.Bologna@unige.ch

Computer Science Department, University of Geneva
Battelle campus, Building A, Office 211
7, route de Drize, CH-1227 Carouge (Geneva), Switzerland

[Imageworld] postdoctoral positionb in computer vision and machine learning for multi-modal interaction modeling

The IDIAP Research Institute (www.idiap.ch), a laboratory associated
with EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) seeks
qualified candidates for

1 postdoctoral research position in computer vision and machine learning
for multi-modal interaction modeling.

The research will be conducted in the context of the HUMAVIPS
(http://humavips.inrialpes.fr/) project, a 3-year project funded by the
European Community. The overall goal of the project is to endow a
humanoid robot (NAO) with audio-visual sensing and interaction
cabilities allowing him to navigate in a complex environment, localize
a group of people, join it and interact with it.

The research done at Idiap focus on the design of multimodal perceptual
algorithms to recognize human non-verbal behaviors (when people speak,
whom they look at), investigate new approaches to model and indentify
people interactions and relationships (e.g. who speaks to whom, who is
the most important person of the group) and exploit the recognized
conversational patterns and relationship in a robot-to-group of people
multimodal interface design.

The postdoctoral researcher will address one of the above theme.
She/he should have a strong background in statistics, applied
mathematics,
and computer vision. Experience in one or several of the following
areas is required:
- computer vision and tracking
- event recognition and discovery
- human-robot or human-computer multimodal interface design
The applicant should be familiar with C/C++ programming and the Linux
environment.
The position offers the opportunity to collaborate with the best
research teams in europe,
and involvment in PhD supervision.

Contract:
Starting date: as soon as possible.
The initial appointement will be until the end of the project (31/01/2013).

The salary ranges from CHF 70 000 to 75 000/year according to training
and previous experience.

Application:
--------------
For further details and application please contact:

Jean-Marc Odobez (odobez@idiap.ch, tel : +41 (0)27 721 77 26)

About IDIAP:
------------
Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and
supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole
Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
It is located in the town of Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the
south of Switzerland, surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe,
and offering exciting recreational activities, including hiking,
climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural activities.
It is within close proximity to Geneva and Lausanne.
Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is
the working language. Free French lessons are provided.

Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a young,
dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal opportunity
employer
and is actively involved in the "Advancement of Women in Science" European
initiative. The Institute seeks to maintain a principle of open competition
(on the basis of merit) to appoint the best candidate, provides equal
opportunity for all candidates, and equally encourage both genders to apply.


--
Jean-Marc Odobez,
IDIAP Senior Researcher,
EPFL Maitre d'Enseignement et de Recherche (MER)
IDIAP Research Institute (http://www.idiap.ch)
Tel: +41 (0)27 721 77 26
Web: http://www.idiap.ch/~odobez

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[Imageworld] Biometric School 2012 (Winter Edition) - call for participation

Biometric School 2012 (Winter Edition)
9-13 January 2012
Permai Rainforest Resort, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
http://www.biometricschool.org, info@biometricschool.org
An event co-sponsored by IEEE and IAPR.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

*** Early registration deadline is 31 Oct 2011 ***

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WHAT's NEW

Scholarships contributing to up to 60% of registration fee are made available. To be considered, a letter of support from the candidate's supervisor is required. Priority will be given to candidates who present a poster.

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Objective: To expose the latest developments and technology behind the most commonly used biometrics (face, fingerprint, and iris recognition) in automatic person recognition, multimodal biometrics, and biometric cryptosystems.

Audience: Engineers and scientists; post-graduate students and academic staff; entrepreneurs, project managers, and government officers who need an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms behind the technology.

(Audience size is limited to 50)

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REGISTRATION

Register by 31 October 2011 to obtain early registration rates with full board:
RM2500 (student) / RM3000 (non-student)
Registration includes accommodation, meals, and social event

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TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

* Fingerprint recognition: state of the art and novel developments
Prof. Davide Maltoni (Italy)

* Touchless fingerprint recognition & Biometrics and privacy protection
Prof. Jaihie Kim (Korea)

* Iris recognition: state of the art, issues & challenges
Prof. Tieniu Tan (China)

* Face recognition in challenging conditions, facial pre-processing, learning & inference
Dr. Simon Prince (UK)

* Linear and advanced classifier design for biometric systems
Prof. Kar-ann Toh (Korea)

* Fusion strategies and template security in biometric systems
Dr. Karthik Nandakumar (Singapore)

* Novel research directions in multimodal biometrics: Incorporating quality, cohort and client-dependent information
Dr. Norman Poh (UK)

* Biometric-key computation
Dr. Andrew Teoh (Korea)

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IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration and abstract submission deadline : 31 October 2011
Late registration deadline : 23 December 2011
School : 9-13 January 2012

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MORE INFORMATION
Visit http://www.biometricschool.org or email info@biometricschool.org

[Imageworld] CFP: Workshop on Deep Hierarchies in Vision

Please circulate freely.

=====================
Call for papers:
=====================

Workshop on Deep Hierarchies in Vision
(in conjunction with CogSys2012 - 5th Int. Conf. on Cognitive Systems)
Webpage: http://www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~sinan/DHV/

=> February 21, 2012; Vienna-Austria <=

Organizers: Ales Leonardis, Norbert Krueger, Richard Bowden, Sinan Kalkan, Nicolas Pugeault, Frank Guerin
Webpage for the 5th Int. Conf. on Cognitive Systems: http://cogsys2012.acin.tuwien.ac.at/

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Overview:
=====================

Processing in the brain in general and visual processing in particular is organized in a hierarchical fashion, from simple localized features to complex, large scale features. The visual system consists of a hierarchy, in which neurons in early visual areas extract simple image features (orientation, motion, disparity) over a small local region of visual space, which are then transmitted to neurons in higher visual areas responding to more complex features (e.g. shape) over a larger region of visual space. Hierarchical representations can derive and organize features at multiple levels. Hierarchical representations with many levels are called 'deep hierarchies'. They build on top of each other by exploiting the shareability of features among more complex compositions or objects themselves. Sharing features, on the one hand, means sharing common computations, which brings about (highly desirable) computational efficiency. On the other hand, reusing the commonalities between objects' models places their representations in relation to other objects, thus leading to high generalization capabilities and lower storage demands.

However, although all neurophysiologic evidence suggests that in the human visual system quite a number of levels are realized, it has turned out that the design and/or learning of such deep hierarchical systems is a very difficult task. Most existing computer vision systems are 'flat' (e.g., having rather simple features - such as SIFT - as input and then applying some kind of SVM learning) and hence cannot make use of the advantages connected to deep hierarchies. Here in particular the generalization capabilities are crucial for any form of cognitive intelligence. As a consequence, we see the issue of establishing deep hierarchies as one major challenge for the establishment of truly cognitive systems.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from vision, robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and neurophysiology to discuss existing obstacles in the design of deep hierarchies, possible solutions as well as perspectives for deep hierarchies in vision and robotics.

A special issue with contributions from the workshop on 'Deep Hierarchies in Vision' in a journal is planned.

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Invited speakers:
=====================

Christian Igel
The Image Group,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Justus Piater
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Laurenz Wiskott
Institut für Neuroinformatik
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Peter Janssen
Division of Neurophysiology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

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Submission:
=====================

We invite two-page extended abstracts until the 1st of December, 2011. We provide a Latex template for two-page extended abstracts at:
http://www.kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~sinan/DHV/.

Please follow this template and submit a PDF file online at our workshop website. The submissions will be reviewed by three reviewers, and the decisions will be announced by the 20th of December, 2011. A special issue with contributions from the workshop on 'Deep Hierarchies in Vision' in a journal is planned.

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Important Dates:
=====================

Abstract Submission: 01.12.2011 (23:59 UTC/GMT)
Notification of Acceptance: 20.12.2011
Camera-ready Submission: 15.01.2012
Workshop: 21.02.2012

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Program Co-chairs:
=====================

Laurenz Wiskott
Institut für Neuroinformatik
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Peter Janssen
Division of Neurophysiology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

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Contacts:
=====================

Ales Leonardis, ales.leonardis@fri.uni-lj.si
Norbert Krueger, norbert@mmmi.sdu.dk
Sinan Kalkan, skalkan@ceng.metu.edu.tr



--
Sinan KALKAN, Asst. Prof.
Dept. of Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University
Ankara TURKEY
Web: http://kovan.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~sinan
Tel:  + 90 - 312 - 210 5547  / + 90 - 312 - 210 7371
Fax: + 90 - 312 - 210 5544

[Imageworld] Post doctoral position at LORIA, Nancy, France

Effective immediately, postdoctoral position  for 1 year 

Modeling from multi-modal dynamic images : application to the vocal tract

Currently,  dynamic models of the vocal tract are  computed from MRI images of sustained sounds using PCA techniques. This is insufficient to handle the dynamic properties of the vocal tract.

In nancy, we have designed a multimodal acquisition system which allows us to obtain ultrasound dynamic images of the vocal tract which are registered with the MRI images.

The goal of this post-doctoral position is to build automatically a model of the tongue that makes use of both the MRI and the ultrasound data.

The challenge is to introduce highly dynamic but possibly incomplete and inaccurate features in the learning stage while roughly preserving the shape learned from MRI.


Background: PhD in computer science, electrical engineering or applied mathematics with  expertise in shape modeling and computer vision.   Please contact  Marie-Odile Berger (marie-odile.berger@loria.fr) for inquiries. More informations on the  team can be found at http://magrit.loria.fr


--  Marie-Odile BERGER - INRIA  & LORIA  Post: INRIA Nancy grand est, Projet Magrit - Batiment C, 615 rue du jardin botanique, 54600 Villers CEDEX, France  Phone: +33 3 54 95 85 01  WWW URL: http://magrit.loria.fr

[Imageworld] Job announcement in Zaragoza (Spain)

Job Announcement:
Post-doctoral and PhD fellowships as well as a job position for a
software developer
are available at University of Zaragoza (Spain).

Research team: Medical Image Analysis Laboratory from Communication
Technologies Group (GTC) at Aragon Institute for
Engineering Research (I3A).

Current research projects are in the field of computational anatomy,
non-rigid registration and brain morphometry from MR images.

Candidates with skills on some of the following topics are sought:
- Programming for performance
- parallel computing (open MP, GPGPU), scientific computing
- maths: finite/infinite dimension group theory, differential
geometry, numerical analysis
- Programming skills and Matlab knowledge will be valuable.

Candidates for the post-doctoral fellowship must have PhD in physics,
biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science,
neuroscience or other related fields.

Applicants should submit curriculum vitae to Salvador Olmos
(olmos@unizar.es)

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[Imageworld] Reminder: IEEE ITS Special Issue "Machine Learning for Traffic Sign Recognition" - Call for Papers

Dear all,

this is a gentle reminder of the upcoming submission deadline (Oct 15)
for the IEEE ITS special issue "Machine Learning for Traffic Sign
Recognition". Please see the CFP below for details.

Furthermore, the results of the IJCNN competition have been published on
our website, http://benchmark.ini.rub.de. The test data of the GTSRB
dataset (incl. ground-truth) is available as well, together with a
result analysis tool that allows you to compare different approaches and
inspect any misclassified images.

Kind regards
Johannes Stallkamp


Call for papers
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IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Special Issue:

Machine Learning for Traffic Sign Recognition

Recognition of traffic signs is a challenging real-world problem
relevant for intelligent transportation systems. It is a
multi-category classification problem with unbalanced class
frequencies. Traffic signs show a wide range of variations between
classes in terms of color, shape, and the presence of pictograms or
text. However, there exist subsets of classes (e.g., speed limit
signs) that are very similar to each other. Further, the classifier
has to cope with large variations in visual appearances due to
illumination changes, partial occlusions, rotations, weather
conditions etc.

Although first commercial systems have reached the market and several
studies on sign recognition have been published, systematic
comparisons of different approaches are scarce.

The special issue focuses on unbiased evaluation of new and existing
methods from computer vision, machine learning, and related fields for
traffic sign recognition. Empirical evaluation should be based on
freely available benchmark data.

The special issue is organized in the context of the German Traffic
Sign Recognition Benchmark (GTSRB), a competition at this year's IEEE
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IJCNN 2011).
The GTSRB data is freely available from http://benchmark.ini.rub.de.


Important dates
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Manuscript submissions due: October 15 2011:
Notification of acceptance: November 20 2011
Revised manuscripts due: December 15 2011
Publication: second issue 2012

Submission
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Manuscripts should be submitted at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/t-its by selecting the manuscript type
`Special Issue on MLFTSR'.


Special issue editors
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Johannes Stallkamp, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Marc Schlipsing, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Jan Salmen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Christian Igel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark


Contact
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tsr-benchmark@ini.ruhr-uni-bochum.de


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Johannes Stallkamp
Lehrstuhl Theorie kognitiver Systeme
Institut für Neuroinformatik
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
44780 Bochum, Germany

office: NB 3 / 71
tel: +49 234 32 25566
fax: +49 234 32 14209
email: Johannes.Stallkamp@ini.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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Sonntag, 25. September 2011

[Imageworld] Postdoctoral position on Robotics, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic (Vitezslav Beran)

POST DOCTORAL (RESEARCH) RECRUITMENT

Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Faculty of Information
Technology, Brno University of Technology

Multi-year Research Position


Job Description:

The successful candidate for this position will have the chance to
develop new modules and sub-systems on robotic platform. The focus of
the development is on:
* sensory data processing, signal processing, and/or image processing,
* environment modeling and understanding,
* robot localization,
* mission planning, and
* robot user interface for remote operators.
Our platform is based on Robot Operating System (ROS) that integrates
developed modules.

Job responsibilities include among others the following:
* participate in all aspects of a robotic technologies with an
emphasis on research, development, and implementation,
* lead the research, design, and implementation of various components
of a robotic system,
* help with the design, implementation, and data analysis of various
experiments needed to fulfill the mission of our research projects,
* interact with various members of a research team, supervise
graduate students, publication and presentation,
* evaluate, install, and maintain software packages, and
* administer the computing infrastructure.

The positions are initially limited to 12 months but can be extended
to 24 months based on a successful evaluation after the first 8
months. The gross salary will be 2,000 EUR per month. Anticipated
starting date is January 1st, 2012 (can be negotiated).

Qualifications:

Applicants should have (by the starting date) a PhD in computer
science and/or cognitive science or related areas and ideally should
have a strong background in one of the research areas, namely:
* low- and mid-level processing of sensor data,
* machine learning,
* machine perception,
* robotic systems,
* automation and control.
Knowledge of C/C++ is necessary.


How to Apply:

To apply, please send completed applications including a complete CV,
two representative published manuscripts, and the names and contact
information of 2 references to:

Prof. Pavel Zemcik
Vice-dean for external relations
Bozetechova 2
612 66 Brno
Czech Republic
e-mail: prodekan-zahranici@fit.vutbr.cz
web: www.fit.vutbr.cz

You may also contact Vitezslav Beran, Ph.D. via email
(beranv@fit.vutbr.cz) for additional information.
Screening begins September 15th, 2011 and will continue until the
position is filled. The position may begin as early as January 1st,
2012, or soon thereafter.

The scientific and research activities at the Faculty of Information
Technology at Brno University of Technology are directed towards
up-to-date research areas concerning the theory, methods and
applications of information technologies.

We urge all qualified applicants to apply for this position.
Appointment will be based on qualifications as they relate to position
requirements without regard to race, color, national origin, religion,
age, sex, disability or veteran status. Women and minority candidates
are encouraged to apply.


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Ing. Vítězslav Beran, Ph.D.
Assistant professor
Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia
Faculty of Information Technology
Brno University of Technology
Božetěchova 2, 612 66 Brno
Czech Republic

beranv@fit.vutbr.cz
http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~beranv
+420 54114-1281
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[Imageworld] 2012 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop: Call for Proposals


Johns Hopkins University

Center for Language and Speech Processing

2012 Summer Workshop on Machine Learning for Language Engineering


One-page proposals
 are invited for the 18th annual JHU summer workshop.  The 6-week workshop aims to facilitate and financially support a focussed team effort to advance the state-of-the-art in any field of Human Language Technology (HLT) or related areas of Machine Intelligence, such as Computer Vision (CV).

IMPORTANT DATES
:

Proposal Submission .................................................... October 24, 2011
Preliminary Review Notification .................................... November 1, 2011
Invitations to Review Meeting ....................................... November 1-4, 2011
Interactive Review Meeting .......................................... December 2-4, 2011
Workshop Dates ........................................................... June 25 - August 7, 2012

Proposals are welcome (via e-mail to clsp@jhu.edu) on any topic of interest to HLT, CV and technically related areas.  For example, proposals may address novel topics or long-standing problems in one of the following areas.

SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
:  Proposals are welcomed that address any aspect of information extraction from speech signal (message, speaker identity, language,...). Of particular interest are proposals for techniques whose performance would be minimally degraded by input signal variations, or which require minimal amounts of training data.

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
: Proposals for knowledge discovery from text are encouraged, as are proposals in traditional fields such as parsing, machine translation, information extraction, sentiment analysis, summarization, and question answering.  Proposals to improve the accuracy or to enrich the output of such systems, or extend their reach by improving their speed, scalability, and coverage of languages and genres are desired.

VISUAL SCENE INTERPRETATION
: New strategies are needed to parse visual scenes or generic (novel) objects, analyzing an image as a set of spatially related components.  Such strategies may integrate global top-down knowledge of scene structure (e.g., generative models) with the kind of rich bottom-up, learned image features that have recently become popular for object detection.  They will support both learning and efficient search for the best analysis.

TASK-BASED EVALUATION METHODS
: Different tasks that utilize human language technology impose different types of demands on the technology and require different levels of performance.  Proposals are solicited that address task-based evaluation of functionality as well as usability of various technologies such as speech transcription, spoken term detection, information extraction, machine translation, and text, image and video retrieval.

Research topics selected for investigation by teams in past workshops may serve as good examples for prospective proposers (http://www.clsp.jhu.edu/).

An independent panel of experts will screen all received proposals for suitability. Results of this screening will be communicated by November 1, 2011. Authors passing this initial screening will be invited to an interactive peer-review meeting in Baltimore on December 2-4, 2011.  It is expected that the proposals will be revised at this meeting to address any outstanding concerns or new ideas.  Two to three research topics and the teams to tackle them will be selected at this meeting for the 2012 workshop.

We attempt to bring the best researchers to the workshop to collaboratively pursue the selected topics for six weeks.  Authors of successful proposals typically become the team leaders.  Each topic brings together a diverse team of researchers and students.  The senior participants come from academia, industry and government.  Graduate student participants familiar with the field are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance. Undergraduate participants, selected through a national search, are rising star seniors: new to the field and showing outstanding academic promise.

If you are interested in participating in the 2012 Summer Workshop we ask that you submit a one-page research proposal for consideration, detailing the problem to be addressed.  If your proposal passes the initial screening, we will invite you to join us for the December 2-4 meeting in Baltimore (as our guest) for further discussions aimed at consensus.

If a topic in your area of interest is chosen as one of the topics to be pursued next summer, we expect you to be available for participation in the six-week workshop. We are not asking for an ironclad commitment at this juncture, just a good faith understanding that if a project in your area of interest is chosen, you will actively pursue it.  We in turn will make a good faith effort to accommodate any personal/logistical needs to make your six-week participation possible.


Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to clsp@jhu.edu by 4PM EST on Mon, October 24, 2011.

[Imageworld] Seeking Partner for a Joint R&D Project Poland-Israel

PLEASE FORWARD this letter to the Director of R&D or the appropriate department.

We are seeking an Israeli partner company to jointly propose and
submit a project to the program "Poland - Israel Call for Proposals
for Joint R&D Projects" (
http://www.matimop.org.il/Content.aspx?code=230&cat=21 ) in the area
of intelligent video surveillance.

We are an industrial-academic R&D consortium in Poland consisting of a
company Silesian Fiber Optic Networks - Śląskie Sieci Światłowodowe or
3S, and an academic institution PJIIT or Polish-Japanese Institute of
Information Technology. The consortium is currently conducting
research on advanced capabilities of video surveillance systems
including person identification, tracking, learning and recognition of
behavior, activity and situation in a funded two year project.

We are interested in submitting a joint proposal to develop an
intelligent video processing module for video surveillance networks.
The Polish side's part of the joint proposal would include refinement
of the research results of our current project and an industrial grade
software implementation, with a specific focus on tracking multiple
people through extended range of space and time, detection and
recognition of critical situations, and an ability to learn to
recognize actions or behaviors. The contribution of the partner from
Israel could extend or enhance these capabilities. As an example, it
could include developing functionality that complements the
intelligent video processing capabilities, designing and building the
system portion of the module, or plug-in interfaces to industrial
surveillance software systems. We are also open to considering other
proposals, that would make use of our experience and capabilities.

The company 3S ( http://www.3s.pl ) is located in Gliwice. It
specializes in design, installation and management of video monitoring
systems and in building and managing high capacity fiber optic
networks for distribution of video, audio and data. Its 1000 km fiber
optic network extends throughout the Upper Silesian Industrial Region,
which has the largest concentration of industry in Poland.

Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology - PJIIT / PJWSTK (
http://www.pjwstk.edu.pl/en ) offers courses and conducts research in
fields of Computer Science, Computer Art, Multimedia, Robotics,
Computer Networks, and Intelligent Systems, and awards degrees up to
Ph.D. and Habilitation. Its branch in Bytom which will host the
proposed project is conducting two funded research projects, a Human
Motion project oriented towards applications in medicine and
entertainment, and the above mentioned video surveillance project in
cooperation with the 3S company. These projects are supported by two
new well equipped laboratories: a Motion Capture Lab/Studio with Vicon
T40 motion cameras and Basler HD video cameras, and a Computer
Vision/Video Surveillance Lab, with direct access to distributed
pan-tilt-zoom HD camera network installed in Bytom's Market Square and
other public places.

If your company is interested please contact:

Jakub Segen tel +1-732-784-8466 <js@pjwstk.edu.pl>
Marek Kulbacki tel +48-71-759-1397 <mk@pjwstk.edu.pl>

The deadline for the submissions is OCTOBER 10, 2011
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[Imageworld] Fellowships for experienced researchers

Experienced researchers (PhD completed at least 4 years before the
current call date 2011) in the domain of computer vision and machine
learning are invited to apply for an Ikerbasque fellowship. The work
place will be the department of Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence, San Sebastian, Spain.

The Ikerbasque Fellowship has a duration of 12 months, starting
anytime in 2012 (shorter Fellowhips down to 6 months can exceptionally
be considered). The Fellowship grant will depend mainly on the
research track of the candidate and interest of the research project
presented.

This fellowship is also suited for researchers who will be on
sabbatical leave. The researcher can pursue his/her own research work
in the field of computer vision and machine learning.

Interested researchers can contact Dr. Fadi Dornaika at
fadi_dornaika@ehu.es for more details. Some of the research interests
of the local group are as follows (not limited to):
- Image registration
- Face tracking
- Facial expression recognition
- Simultaneous tracking and recognition
- Manifold learning for visual object recognition
- Feature extraction and graph-based embedding
- Feature selection


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Samstag, 24. September 2011

[Imageworld] SFOP (scale invariant feature operator) - new release

We are happy to announce a first release of the

--- Scale-Invariant Feature Operator (SFOP) ---

implemented in C++
as well as an improved Matlab implementation.

Both versions use image pyramids, significantly reducing computing times.
They are available for download at http://www.ipb.uni-bonn.de/sfop/#software.

We are also working on a GPU implementation using OpenCL which be be announced soon.

Feel free to contact us in case of any questions, problems or suggestions for improvement.

Kind regards

Falko Schindler (falko.schindler@uni-bonn.de)
Wolfgang Förstner (wf@ipb.uni-bonn.de)
--  'Das Leben ist ohne Probleme auch nicht leichter'. Arno Geiger                                     ------------------------------       Wolfgang Förstner         Prof. Dr.-Ing.          Institute of    Geodesy and Geoinformation  Department of Photogrammetry         Nussallee 15         D-53115 Bonn           Germany     Tel.: +49 228 73 2713     Fax.: +49 228 73 2712          e-mail: wf@ipb.uni-bonn.de home-page: www.ipb.uni-bonn.de ------------------------------  

Freitag, 23. September 2011

[Imageworld] Research Positions at the Australian National University

Research Positions in Engineering (including Computer Vision and Robotics)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Research School of Engineering at the Australian National University is
advertising multiple research positions in Engineering. Computer Vision
and Robotics are areas of interest in this school, so applications in
this are are
welcome, but so are applicants from other areas of engineering.

The positions are aimed at applicants with 0 to 5 years since PhD.
Positions are for up to 5 years. The aim of these positions is to
help excellent
young researchers to develop an independent research career.

Applicants are requested to contact Associate Professor Thushara Abhayapala
on +61 2 6125 8683 or head.eng@cecs.anu.edu.au .

Applicants in Computer Vision should also cc enquiries to Professor Richard
Hartley at Richard.Hartley@anu.edu.au .

More details of the position are to be found at the following links:

http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=2286

http://www.unijobs.com.au/show.php?title=research_fellow_52931


Some of this information is also copied below:

Position Overview The Research School of Engineering at the Australian
National University (ANU) is one of the premier engineering research
institutions in the world. The ANU is supported by research intensive
funding from the Australian Government to provide international
research leadership across a wide range of areas and to train future
international research leaders. We seek applications from outstanding
early career researchers for Future Engineering Research Leadership
Fellows. These positions are up-to 5 years research intensive
positions targeted towards individuals with 0-5 years experience since
the award of their PhD.

We wish to recruit individuals with growing international reputations
for research excellence and with the ambition to become future world
leaders in their discipline. Successful candidates will be expected to
define their own research agendas and will be provided with mentoring
and support to apply for competitive funding to begin building a
research team and develop their own laboratory facilities where
appropriate. The successful candidate will be expected to supervise
graduate students in their research area and contribute to the
teaching effort of the School.

Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant field of Engineering,
evidence of the ability to pursue an independent research program and
a strong commitment to both graduate and undergraduate teaching
programs of the school. Applications should include a research vision
statement, a brief statement on teaching interests, a detailed
curriculum vitae including a publication list, and the names and
contact details of five referees. The research vision might include a
strong synergy with one or more research groups in the Research School
of Engineering as well as the ability to reach across traditional
research silos.

The position comes with a yearly budget to cover visitors and
conference travel as well as the possibility to negotiate significant
startup funds for academics in experimental areas.

The Australian National University is an equal opportunities employer,
encouraging applications from women and applicants from diverse
backgrounds.

For more information about the positions, please contact Associate
Professor Thushara Abhayapala on +61 2 6125 8683 or
head.eng@cecs.anu.edu.au

--
Professor Richard Hartley,
Research School of Engineering,
Building 115, ANU
ACT 0200, Australia

Researcher,
National ICT Australia.
Ph:       +61 2 6125 8668  (ANU)
Ph:       +61 2 6267 6231  (NICTA)
Fax:     +61 2 6125 8660
Mobile: +61 4 1777 9965

ANU CRICOS Provider No. 00120C
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[Imageworld] CFP: Neurocomputing Special Issue on Learning for Scalable Multimedia Representation

1.      Scope

With the rapid development of computer storage and network technologies, an explosive growing number of multimedia data are generated and shared each single day. A variety of social websites, such as Youtube, Flickr, Picasa and Facebook, provide us a plenty of multimedia data, bringing along both challenges and opportunities to deal with the problems in large-scale multimedia understanding and management. Research on inferring the compact and accurate representations for different media types brings profound impacts to the traditional multimedia search and recognition technologies and enables a wide variety of applications and services, such as indexing, recommendation, advertising, and personalization. The study on multimedia representation has attracted extensive research interests over last decades. In the web 2.0 era, many new research issues are rising. For example, web multimedia data are always accompanied with Meta data, including tag, web-links, user ratings, etc. It therefore turns to a great challenge to properly combine the different sources to obtain a good multimedia and cross media representation.  While machine learning has been shown effective for multimedia representation, the computation efficiency of the algorithms is particularly important when the size of the multimedia databases keeps growing. In this special issue, we target at bringing together research breakthroughs on learning multimedia representation for large scale multimedia database and the related applications. Novel learning algorithms for scalable multimedia representation and related interesting application are highly encouraged. Discussion on new technologies that will be potentially impactful with primary results is welcomed too. This special issue targets the researchers and practitioners from both the industry and academia. Topics of interest include but not limited to:

         Feature-oriented scalable multimedia representation

o   Multimedia feature design

o   Semantic feature extraction

o   Feature selection

o   Spatial-temporal contextual feature for video representation

o   Multi-view learning for feature fusion

o   Combining content feature and metadata such as web links and tags for multimedia and cross media representation

         Dimension reduction, matrix factorization and indexing techniques for scalable multimedia representation

o   Supervised/Semi-supervised learning for multimedia semantic representation

o   Kernel methods for multimedia representation

o   Scalable manifold learning

o   Sparse representation

o   Multimedia hashing and indexing

o   Semantic indexing

o   Learning for cross media representation

         Related applications

o   Classification/recognition /tagging/retrieval of Web multimedia

o   Large-scale multimedia copy detection and near-duplication retrieval

o   Relevance feedback in multimedia representation

o   Personalized representation for retrieval, query suggestion and recommendation

o   Large scale cross-media retrieval and new media type retrieval

2.      Submission Guideline

Authors should prepare their manuscript (6-15 pages in the Neurocomputing publishing format) according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the Neurocomputing at http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following the Neurocomputing reviewing procedures.

Notes: when submitting your manuscript, at the step of "Selecting an Article Type is Required for Submission", please indicate: "Special Issue: LSMR".

Important Dates:

         Paper submission due:      Nov. 1, 2011

         First notification:                 Jan. 30, 2012

         Revision:                              Mar. 15, 2012

         Final decision:                     May.1, 2012

         Publication date:                 Fall 2012 (Tentative)

Guest Editors:

         Dr. Yi Yang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. (yiyang@cs.cmu.edu)

         Dr. Qingshan Liu, The State University of New Jersey, USA. (qsliu@cs.rutgers.edu)

         Prof. Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China. (yzhuang@cs.zju.edu)

[Imageworld] Research development position in Mulsys Limited, a spin out company from the University of Surrey, UK

Research development position


Mulsys Limited, a spin out company from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom


The successful candidates are expected to have broad knowledge in either areas of 2D/3D image and video compression & transmission or spatial audio coding & transmission (most preferably a PhD degree in one of those areas/ sub-areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering). A good knowledge of general aspects of signal processing is a major plus. Successful candidates are also expected to have good programming practice (especially in C/C++ and Matlab). The successful candidate will be required to help in developing software modules (e.g. codecs) as well as analysis tools to be used in the integration activities of several research projects. Willingness to conduct research and advancing the state-of-the-art in their area is a significant criterion in assessing the successful candidates. Applicants should demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.


The candidate will be located in the I-Lab, University of Surrey, to work on a joint European FP7 project. I-Lab Multimedia Communication Systems Research offers a complete solution to applications and services for current and future fixed and mobile communication systems by incorporating user aspects into technological research and development. I-Lab's user-centric research and development approach is the key to future telecommunication applications and services. I-Lab's goal is to bring communications and media technologies together in order to improve our daily lives.


Applications should include a letter of motivation and curriculum vitae in the first instance. Salary is based on the level of the experience of the applicant. The position is open immediately until filled. Starting date can be as soon as possible.


Interested applicants should contact Erhan Ekmekcioglu through ee0002@surrey.ac.uk with an indication of this application in the subject line.