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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">The Perception lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt (PI: Thomas Wallis) is seeking a highly motivated student with a deep interest in perception to pursue a doctoral
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">The lab studies visual perception in humans using psychophysics and computational models. A secondary interest is in machine vision systems, including deep neural networks.
Topics of current interest include peripheral visibility and scene appearance, segmentation and grouping, explainable AI, and image quality assessment. More information can be found on this Google Scholar profile (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Xs2TXzAAAAAJ&hl=en)
and on our forthcoming lab website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">This position is funded by the state of Hessen and includes a teaching expectation of 3 contact hours per week per semester (3 "Semesterwochenstunden"). Some of this teaching
will be conducted in German. The research topic is negotiable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">The application deadline is November 28, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">The formal job advertisements, application instructions and further information can be found on the TU Darmstadt's website in German (https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/karriere_an_der_tu/stellenangebote/aktuelle_stellenangebote/stellenausschreibungen_detailansichten_1_433088.de.jsp)
and in English (https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/karriere_an_der_tu/stellenangebote/aktuelle_stellenangebote/stellenausschreibungen_detailansichten_1_433088.en.jsp). Application materials are welcome in either German or in English. Informal enquiries
can be directed to Prof. Thomas Wallis (thomas.wallis@tu-darmstadt.de).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Representative recent publications:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Funke, C. M., Borowski, J., Stosio, K., Brendel, W., Wallis, T. S. A., & Bethge, M. (2021). Five points to check when comparing visual perception in humans and machines.
Journal of Vision, 21(3), 16. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Zimmermann, R. S., Borowski, J., Geirhos, R., Bethge, M., Wallis, T. S. A., & Brendel, W.. (2021). How Well do Feature Visualizations Support Causal Understanding of CNN
Activations? Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Accepted as a Spotlight (< 3% of submissions).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Wallis, T. S. A., Funke, C. M., Ecker, A. S., Gatys, L. A., Wichmann, F. A., & Bethge, M. (2019). Image content is more important than Bouma’s Law for scene metamers. ELife,
8, e42512.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Kümmerer, M., Wallis, T.S.A., Gatys, L.A., & Bethge, M. (2017). Understanding Low- and High-Level Contributions to Fixation Prediction. The IEEE International Conference
on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Thomas Wallis</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Prof. Thomas S. A. Wallis, PhD (he/him</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">;
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for Cognitive Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Technische Universität Darmstadt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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