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<font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Applications
are invited for a funded PhD position in machine learning at the
École de technologie supérieure (ETS), U. of Quebec, Montreal,
Canada. </font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">The
candidate will work under the supervision of Profs. Eric Granger and
Ismail Ben Ayed in the Laboratory for Imaging, Vision and Artificial
Intelligence (LIVIA, see link below)</font><font face="Times New Roman, serif">.
The position is available immediately after the candidate passes ETS
application requirements. Financial support is available for the
project’s duration (maximum of 3-4 years).<br></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" align="justify" lang="en-CA"><font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"></font></font></font>We
are looking for highly motivated doctoral students, who are
interested in performing cutting-edge research in spatio-temporal
face recognition for video surveillance applications, with a
particular focus on deep learning (e.g, CNN and LSTM) architectures,
information fusion and domain adaptation. </font></font></font>
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<font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Prospective
applicants should have:</font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Strong
academic record with an excellent M.Sc. degree in computer science,
applied mathematics, or electrical engineering, preferably with
expertise in one or more of the following areas: machine learning,
neural networks, computer vision and face recognition; </font></font></font>
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good mathematical background;</font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Good
programming skills in languages such as C, C++, Python and/or
MATLAB.</font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">A
prior publication in one of the major conferences or journals in
computer vision/machine learning is not necessary but would be a very
desirable.</font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Application
process: For consideration, please send a resume, names and contact
details of two references, transcripts for undergraduate and graduate
studies, and a link to a Masters thesis (as well </font>as relevant
publications if any) to </font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-CA"><font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Eric
Granger (<a href="mailto:Eric.Granger@etsmtl.ca%29">Eric.Granger@etsmtl.ca)</a></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-CA"><font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99)">Ben
Ayed, Ismail </span>(</span></font><a href="mailto:Ismail.BenAyed@etsmtl.ca">Ismail.BenAyed@etsmtl.ca</a><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration:none">)</span></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-CA"><font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">Laboratory
for Imaging, Vision and Artificial Intelligence (LIVIA):</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-CA"><font face="Times, serif"><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2"><a href="http://www.etsmtl.ca/Unites-de-recherche/LIVIA/accueil?lang=en-CA">http://www.etsmtl.ca/Unites-de-recherche/LIVIA/accueil?lang=en-CA</a></font></font></p>
</div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><b>Jose Dolz</b></span><br></div>
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