<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a90397bd-7fff-8298-e142-2048bd0ca7be"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--------------Please feel free to share----------------</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap"> – MHUG GROUP – Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">POSTDOCTORAL </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">POSITION</span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Commitment & contract: <b>2 years </b>fixed term contract, <b>renewable</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Location: Via Sommarive, 9, 38123 Povo, Trento TN</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>WHO WE ARE</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MHUG (Multimedia and Human Understanding Group) is a research group of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy. The main research interests of MHUG are related to the investigation and implementation of new techniques in the fields of computer vision and multimedia. In computer vision, we address a large spectrum of themes including human-behavior analysis, action recognition, 2D/3D object detection, large-scale event detection, and video analysis. In multimedia, our research focuses on multimedia information retrieval, social signals processing, affective computing, cross-media retrieval, multi-modal learning, and so forth. <b><a href="http://mhug.disi.unitn.it/#/">http://mhug.disi.unitn.it/#/</a></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>PROJECT DESCRIPTION </b></span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The research activity that will be developed is related to <b>“Ecological Informatics” </b>and requires performing several <b>“computer vision tasks” </b>such as object detection, tracking, and species recognition as well as the development of <b>“deep learning methods” </b>for the analysis of “underwater video streams”.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:12pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> <b>It is expected that the applicant has a/an</b></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38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