PhD position in Multimedia Indexing at Eurecom, France

This thesis is part of a collaborative project to analyze the multimedia information that is published on the Internet about cultural festivals, either by professional or by the public. These data are diverse (text, images, videos) and published on various sources (twitter, blogs, forums, catalogs). The project aims at analyzing and structuring this information in order to better understand the public and the cultural practices, and to recombine them to build synthetic view of these collections. This thesis will focus on the aspects of video analysis and multimodal fusion.
This thesis will tackle two problems:
- to develop techniques for the automatic analysis of video content, so that the collected data may be categorized in predefined categories. This component will be used to structure the collections and better understand their content and their evolution.
- to study mechanisms to recombine the multimedia content, and build synthetic views of the collections. Several strategies will be studied, depending on whether these views are intended for professional users or for the general public.
The research will focus in particular on mechanisms to automatically construct semantic classifiers, and on fusion techniques for the results of these classifiers. The recombination aspects will involve methods for the selection of important segments, followed by an assembly strategy according to the expected objective. A specific attention will be paid to evaluation techniques that will allow to measure the performance of different approaches.
APPLICATION
PhD applicants are expected to have a Master degree, with honors. This research involves a strong knowledge in signal processing and machine learning, as well as a good experience of programming in Matlab and C/C++.
English is mandatory, French is a plus, but not required.
Candidates are invited to submit a resume, transcripts of grades for at least the last two year, 3 references, and motivation for the position. Applications should be sent to the Eurecom secretariat, secretariat-AT-eurecom.fr, with the subject MM_BM_PhD_REEDIT_Sept2014
EURECOM
EURECOM is a leading teaching and research institution in the fields of information and communication technologies (ICT). EURECOM is organized in a consortium form combining 7 European universities and 9 international industrial partners, with the Institut Mines-Telecom as a founding partner. Our 3 fundamental missions are:
- Research: focused on Networking and Security, Multimedia Communications and Mobile Communications.
- High level education: with graduate and postgraduate courses in communication systems, plus three Master of Sciences programs entirely dedicated to foreign students.
- Doctoral program: in cooperation with several doctoral schools, supported by our research collaborations with various partners, both industrial and academic, and funded by various sources, including national and european programs.