Position: Research Scientist in Text and Visual Pattern Analysis

The area: Text and Visual Pattern Analysis

XRCE's Text and Visual Pattern Analysis Area is an expanding team, which specializes in text and visual content understanding. Our mission is the delivery of Xerox's innovative solutions that make everyday interaction with visual and textual content simple and effective. Our research is the result of combining skills mainly in machine learning, pattern recognition and image analysis. In particular we focus on text and image categorization, image enhancement, quality assessment and document imaging.

Your Job: Research Scientist

As a research scientist in TVPA you will be asked to generate and follow up on new ideas, on build strong competencies and intellectual property in Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis. In particular, you will be pursuing activities around our new research agenda on Applied Visual Aesthetics.
Moreover, you will collaborate in a small, agile team that leads the development of the OMNIA Project. OMNIA is a three year project funded by French Government aiming at developing innovative strategies for multimodal asset retrieval based on three main axes: content, emotion and visual aesthetics.

Research Topics:

• Design of aesthetic measures (light/colour harmony/composition analysis, aesthetic ontology design, user preference regression etc.)
• Image mood analysis (development of features capturing emotional content of visual information, design of classifiers for automatic labelling of assets)
• Assisted content creation and Image personalization (asset selection, features transfer, colour harmonization, etc.)

Responsibilities:

1. Inventing, implementing and evaluating novel imaging software.
2. Studying the state of the art, disseminate results on international conferences and journal papers, fulfill project deliverables.
3. Collaborating with other project partners in order to integrate the research results in a common environment/platform (sharing components, algorithms and methods).

Requirements:

• PhD in Computer Science with a strong history of systems building and publishing
• Deep and substantial background on Pattern Recognition/Computer Vision and Image Processing
• Strong English-language written and oral communications skills
  

Type of contract: Temporary position - 18 month position

To apply: Please send your CV and cover letter to: luca.marchesotti@xrce.xerox.com and xrce-candidates@xrce.xerox.com

Application deadline: April 30th, 2009

Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) is a young, dynamic research organization, which creates innovative new business opportunities for Xerox in the digital and Internet markets. XRCE is a multicultural and multidisciplinary organization set in Grenoble, France. We have renowned expertise in natural language processing, work practice studies,image processing and document structure. The variety of both cultures and disciplines at XRCE makes it both an interesting and stimulating environment to work in, leading to often unexpected discoveries! XRCE is part of the Xerox Innovation Group made up of 800 researchers and engineers in four world-renowned research and technology centres.

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