Open PhD positions at InfoMus Lab, University of Genoa

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PhD positions at InfoMus Lab - Casa Paganini, DIST-University of Genoa (Italy)
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Two PhD positions will be available at InfoMus Lab - Casa Paganini, starting from September 2008, on an EU-IST and other research projects (see www.infomus.org and www.casapaganini.org), including the EyesWeb XMI project (www.eyesweb.org).

Required skills for candidates include:
- solid computer engineering background (from software engineering to high skills in programming languages, especially C++);
- experience in multimedia real-time applications; computer vision (motion segmentation, multi-camera people tracking, silhouette-based analysis of human movement); sound and music computing; human-machine interaction (multimodal analysis of human movement and audio signals).

Research will address investigation and development of computational models for expressive multimodal non-verbal communication, with a particular focus on expressive movement and gesture, and studies on interpersonal communication (entrainment). The work will include design and set-up of experiments and implementation of software modules for the EyesWeb XMI platform.

Candidates should send their detailed curricula by email to: Antonio Camurri (antonio.camurri@unige.it) and Gualtiero Volpe (gualtiero.volpe@unige.it)
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