Switzerland - ETH Zurich PhD and Postdoc Positions in Computer Vision
July 21st, 2008
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PhD and post-doc positions available at the new CALVIN research group
The new CALVIN research group at the Computer Vision Laboratory of ETH Zurich is looking for several PhD students and a post-doc interested in working on the following topics:
- large-scale learning of thousands of object and attribute categories and their mutual contextual relations from the internet
- human pose estimation and action recognition in uncontrolled video, such as TV shows
- modeling the parallel between the structure of visual scenes and the structure of natural sentences to aid visual learning and automatic image annotation
Your profile: (PhD student apoplication)
- Masters degree (preferably in Computer Science; Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, and Physics are also accepted)
- Solid programming skills; the projects involve programming in Matlab and C++
- Solid mathematics knowledge (especially linear algebra and statistics)
- Creative and highly motivated
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken
- Prior knowledge in the areas of computer vision, machine learning or data mining is a plus (ideally a master thesis in a related field)
Your profile: (post-doc apoplication)
- PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or closely related area
- Publications in the top computer vision and/or machine learning conferences and journals
- Highly motivated and willing to work with PhD students
- Proficient in English, both written and spoken
We’re convinced you will find the Computer Vision laboratory and ETH in general an exciting environment for research. We are a highly international team, with people from about 15 countries. Zurich has an excellent social life, and ETH offers competitive salaries.
- PhD: 3.5 years. Ideally your PhD thesis is finished in about 3 years.
Post-doc: to be discussed
Start date: As soon as possible
Contact:
Prof. Vittorio Ferrari
Computer Vision Laboratory
Sternwartstrasse 7
ETH-Zentrum
CH - 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 63 20714
Fax: +41 44 63 21199
Office: ETF D113.2
E-mail: ferrari@vision.ee.ethz.ch
Please send applications via email
For PhD student applications include:
- a complete CV
- graduation marks
- topic of your master thesis
- the name and email address of one reference (preferably your master thesis supervisor)
- if you already have reserch experience, please include a publication list and references.
For post-doc applications, include:
- a complete CV
- topic of your PhD thesis
- the names and email addresses of two references (including your PhD supervisor)
- complete list of publications
Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zurich website
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