<div dir="ltr"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><b style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Open PhD Fellowships at the Image Processing and Computer Vision Group of DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain </b><b style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">within the INPhINIT “la Caixa” Marie Curie Fellowships Programme. </b></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">The <a target="_blank" style="color:rgb(38,94,21);padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" href="https://portal.upf.edu/es/web/etic/inicio">DTIC</a> as
a “Maria de Maeztu Centre of Excellence” is a hosting institution
within the INPhINIT “la Caixa” Fellowships Programme. Two of the
proposed topics for the fellowships are:</p><ul style="color:rgb(97,97,97);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li><span style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(16,74,145);font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",sans-serif"><a target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(16,74,145)" href="http://gpi.upf.edu/news/353">Geometric analysis of video recordings</a></span></span></li></ul><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;border-top:medium none;border-bottom:medium none;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px">Video
content is ubiquitous nowadays thanks to the proliferation of digital
cameras in the society and the constant publication and sharing of
videos in different internet platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter,
etc. The purpose of this project is to study the dynamic content of
videos in order to better understand the geometric 3D configuration of
the scene that has produced the video. More specifically, our goal is to
segment the scene in the different objects that compose it, infer the
depth ordering of the objects, estimate their motion, trajectories and
interactions and also complete the objects that are occluded. This
constitutes a complete geometric analysis that may enrich the semantic
understanding of the video. Different applications that may benefit from
this analysis are automatic video postproduction, advanced driver
assistance systems, 2D to 3D video conversion, and video summarization.<br>Research topics: optical flow, depth estimation, segmentation, inpainting, dynamic scene understanding.<div><br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://gpi.upf.edu/news/353">More info</a></div></blockquote><div><ul style="color:rgb(97,97,97);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li><span style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(16,74,145);font-size:16px"><a target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(16,74,145)" href="http://gpi.upf.edu/news/352">Audio-visual approaches for music information retrieval</a></span></li></ul></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;border-top:medium none;border-bottom:medium none;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><div>Music
is a highly multimodal concept, where various types of heterogeneous
information are associated to a music piece (audio, musician’s gestures
and facial expression, lyrics, etc.). This has recently led researchers
to apprehend music through its various facets, giving rise to multimodal
methods for content-based semantic description of music material. In
this project, we research on the complementarity of audio and
image/video description algorithms for the automatic description and
indexing of user-generated music performance videos. We address relevant
music information research tasks, in particular music instrument
recognition, music transcription, synchronization of audio / video
streams, similarity, quality assessment, structural analysis and
segmentation and automatic video mashup generation. In order to do so,
we develop strategies to build multimedia repositories and gather human
annotations.</div><div><br></div><div>Research topics: music information retrieval, music transcription, automatic classification, image processing, machine learning.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;border-top:medium none;border-bottom:medium none;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><div><a target="_blank" href="http://gpi.upf.edu/news/352">More info</a></div></blockquote><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><b style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Conditions</b></p><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">3-year contract</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">€34,800 gross annual salary + €3,564 annual additional funding</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Award of €7,500 for the PhD fellow in case he/she presented the thesis within a period of 3.5 years</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Additional training in transversal skills: technology transfer, entrepreneurship, professional development.</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Research stays in academia and industry.</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Participation in networking and outreach activities.</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Deadline for incorporation of candidates: September/October 2018.</p></li></ul><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><b style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Requirements</b></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Fellowship eligibility:</p><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Be
in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of
their research careers and not yet have been awarded a doctoral degree.</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Not
have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.)
in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the
recruitment date. Short stays such as holidays will not be taken into
account.</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Have a demonstrable level of English (B2 or higher).</p></li></ul><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">PhD program admission</p><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px">Accredited
undergraduate degree (Bachelor degree or recognised equivalent degree
from an accredited Higher Education Institution).</li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px">Accredited
graduate/master’s degree (equivalent to a Spanish Master
Universitario/Oficial, Master’s of Research…. ) which enables them to
access a Phd programme in their home country.</li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px">Total of 300 ECTS credits, 60 of those have to correspond to an official graduate, research oriented, master’s programme.</li></ul><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><b style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Selection criteria </b></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Preselection</p><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Academic records and CV (50%).</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Motivation and goals declaration (30%): originality, innovation, impact and link with the selected Research Centre.</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Recommendation letters (20%).</p></li></ul><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Interview</p><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Potential (40%), motivation and impact (30%), CV (30%).</p></li></ul><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><b style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Important dates</b></p><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr"><a target="_blank" style="color:rgb(38,94,21);padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" href="http://www.inphinitlacaixa.org/">Website</a> open for applications: November 8th, 2017.</p></li><li style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em" dir="ltr">Application deadline: February 1st, 2018.</p></li></ul><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><a target="_blank" style="color:rgb(38,94,21);padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" rel="noopener" href="https://obrasociallacaixa.org/en/investigacion-y-becas/programa-de-becas-de-posgrado/inphinit/programme-description">https://obrasociallacaixa.org/<wbr>en/investigacion-y-becas/progr<wbr>ama-de-becas-de-posgrado/inphi<wbr>nit/programme-description</a></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><b style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">How to apply </b></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Applications are managed through the program website, More information about the procedure: <a target="_blank" style="color:rgb(38,94,21);padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" href="http://www.inphinitlacaixa.org/">www.inphinitlacaixa<wbr>.org</a></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">For additional information on the PhD program: <a target="_blank" style="color:rgb(38,94,21);padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-decoration:none;border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(153,102,51)" href="mailto:phd.dtic@upf.edu">phd.dtic@upf.edu</a></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">For additional information on the topic: coloma.ballester@<span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" class="gmail-m_3170150000804933691m_-4104659920719617725gmail-m_8034874659132005927gmail-skimlinks-unlinked"><a target="_blank" href="http://upf.edu/">upf.edu</a> </span>and gloria.haro@<span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" class="gmail-m_3170150000804933691m_-4104659920719617725gmail-m_8034874659132005927gmail-skimlinks-unlinked"><a target="_blank" href="http://upf.edu/">upf.edu</a></span></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><b style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">About UPF DTIC</b></p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">The
UPF DTIC PhD program offers advanced training in a broad range of
topics in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.</p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">This
is an innovative program, unique in Catalonia and Spain in terms of its
content, which aims to provide a bridge between various disciplines in
this field. The DTIC PhD program has been growing steadily and currently
hosts about 130 PhD students and 40 faculty and tenure-track professors
who can supervise a PhD thesis. The program received a Mention of
Excellence award from the Ministry of Science and Innovation in 2011.</p><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0.7em;margin-bottom:0.7em;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,tahoma,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">The
DTIC department consistently ranks among the top computer science
departments in Spain (e.g. the only computer science department from an
Spanish university that has even been included in the top 100 of the
Shanghai Ranking). The DTIC’s research activities are organized around
15 groups pursuing a wide range of topics that include networking,
wireless communications, multimedia, image and music processing, medical
imaging, interactive technologies, learning technologies, artificial
intelligence, data mining, and computational neuroscience, among others.<b style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"></b><br style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">The
UPF university was awarded in 2010 the distinction of International
Excellence Campus by the Spanish Ministry of Education and it is widely
considered to be one of the best universities in Spain (e.g. is the top
Spanish university according to 2013 Times Higher Education Ranking).</p>The
UPF is located in Barcelona. Its excellent location on the shores of
the Mediterranean, its gentle climate, its open, cosmopolitan character,
its gastronomy and architecture make Barcelona an extraordinary place
to live. The DTIC is sited in UPF’s Communication Campus, which was
opened in 2009 and is located within the vibrant 22@ technological
district of Barcelona.</div>