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Postdoc Position Open at Scuola Superiore S.Anna

2008-01-01, by Emanuele Ruffaldi

The Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna is seeking for qualified experts on

Machine learning and Vision based human motion capture. Two Postdoctoral

position have been opened:

1) Postdoc in Machine Learning

The goal of this research activity is to develop models and algorithms

for the analysis of human skills based on the multimodal capturing of human

movements and biometrics signals.

*Job Description*

The research will take place inside the European SKILLS Integrated

Project for the skills capture and transfer addressing application

fields such as medical, entertainment, sport and industry.

*Duration* 24 months

*Requirements:*

Candidates should have an PhD diploma in one of the following fields:

physics, mathematics, electrical engineering or related field.

Required are strong mathematical and programming skills as well as the

ability to communicate and work well in a team.

2) Postdoc in Context-aware Human Motion and Computer Vision Analysis

The goal of this research activity is to improve the current techniques

for human motion and computer vision analysis when applied in specific

application areas involving human robot interaction and multi user

interaction.

*Job Description*

The research will take place inside the European SKILLS Integrated

Project for the skills capture and transfer addressing application

fields such as medical, entertainment, sport and industry.

*Duration* 24 months

*Requirements:*

Candidates should have an PhD diploma in one of the following fields:

physics, mathematics, electrical engineering or related field.

Required are strong mathematical and programming skills as well as the

ability to communicate and work well in a team.

Applicants may check the descriptions at the two following links.

http://www.sssup.it/context_elenco.jsp?ID_LINK=64&area=48&page=5

http://www.sssup.it/context_elenco.jsp?ID_LINK=64&area=48&page=4

A common deadline has been set for the 30th of January 2008.

The appointments will be in the PERCRO laboratory of Scuola Superiore

Sant'Anna (Pisa, Italy). Any further information can be requested at the
following email: skills.coordinator@skills-ip.eu