Application deadline: 12/31/2015
Starting: as soon as possible.

Description:
The ADNVIDEO project (http://amidex.kalysee.com/), funded in the
framework of A*MIDEX (http://amidex.univ-amu.fr/en/home), aims at
extending multimodal analysis models. It focuses on jointly processing
audio, speech transcripts, images, scenes, text overlays and user
feedback. Using as starting point the corpus, annotations and approaches
developed during the REPERE challenge (http://defi-repere.fr), this
project aims at going beyond indexing at single modalities by
incorporating information retrieval methods, not only from broadcast
television shows, but more generally on video documents requiring
multimodal scene analysis. The novelty here is to combine and correlate
information from different sources to enhance the description of the
content. The application for this project relates to the issue of
recommendation applied to videos in the context of Massive Open Online
Courses where video content can be matched to student needs.

Objectives:
The candidate will participate in the development of a prototype for
video recommendation:

- Integration of existing multimodal high-level descriptors in prototype
- Generation of textual descriptors from videos (such as automatic image
  captioning, scene title generation, etc)
- Implementation of deep learning methods for video analysis

The allocation of the tasks can be adjusted depending on the wishes and
skills of the candidate.

Skills:
For this project, we are looking for one candidate with a PhD degree in
the areas of machine learning, artificial vision, natural language
processing, or information retrieval:
- Strong programming skills (C++, Java, Python...).
- Desire to produce functioning end-to-end systems, life-scale live
  demos
- Scientific rigor
- Imagination
- Top notch publications
- Excellent communication skills
- Enjoy teamwork
Candidates must presently work outside of France.

Location:
The work will be conducted in the University of Aix-Marseille at the
Laboratoire des Science de l'information et des système (LSIS
http://www.lsis.org), within the ADNVidéo project, supported by funding
from a AMIDEX foundation in collaboration with Kalyzee
(http://www.kalyzee.com/). Both LSIS and Kalysee are located in the
historical and sunny city of Marseille, in south of France
(http://www.marseille.fr/sitevdm/versions-etrangeres/english--discover-marseille).

Contact: sebastien.fournier@lsis.org
Duration: 6 month

Candidates should email a letter of application, a detailed CV including
a complete list of publications, and source code showcasing programming
skills.