CALL FOR APPLICATIONSPhD/Postdoctoral/Sabbatical researcher positionLearning salient
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Description
Recently, the field of action
and activity recognition in sport videos has been
receiving a lot of attention. However, in order to be
able to classify the actions in the scene, it is
necessary to first identify or detect the actors or
objects involved. Many authors either annotate manually
the position of each of them, or assume they are already
given. In either case, these approaches greatly restrict
the amount of videos that can be used. Therefore,
methods for automatic object or player detection are
necessary. Several works address the detection of each
object as an individual task, i.e. do not consider the
possible relationships between objects (i.e. a structural
approach). This project proposes a novel
framework to learn important elements from sport video
sequences. The basic idea behind the proposal is that
some key elements are salient in sport video and we
would like to devise strategies for automatically
learning them. For instance, in table tennis, despite
the large possible variations in terms of camera pose,
background, colors, etc., some key elements are
consistently present in such videos: the table, two
players moving around it, the rackets, the ball. The successful candidate will actively participate in R&D and also in team activities such as organization of seminars, short courses, study group meetings and co-supervision of undergraduate and graduate students. All these activities are related to the Research Support Centers NAP e-Science of the University of São Paulo. |
Required qualifications / skills
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Application procedure and schedule
Required documents: Fellowship conditions:
The selected candidate will apply for a fellowship from
FAPESP (São Paulo
Research Foundation) with the one of the following
conditions: PhD
(3-4 years, fellowship US$ 16K/year plus US$ 4.9K/year for
for travel expenses such as attending to conferences); Postdoc
(2-4 years, fellowship US$ 30K/year plus US$ 4.5K/year for travel
expenses such as attending to conferences); Sabbatical
(1 year, fellowship US$ 50K-70K/year ). All fellowships may cover
expenses for moving to São Paulo/Brasil (including
flight tickets). PhD and Postdoc fellowships may apply
for an extra period (4 months to 1 year) to do part of
the research in any top research university abroad
(FAPESP BEPE fellowship). Medical care at the University
of São Paulo hospital is also available. The Sabbatical
fellowship includes health insurance for non-brazilians. Please email applications and
inquiries to Prof. Roberto M. Cesar Jr.:
Subject: NAP/USP Postdoc application |
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