PhD thesis: Audio-visual intelligent sensing

Queen Mary, university of London, UK/ Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

To start around September 2015

Applications are invited for 4 (four) PhD Studentships to undertake research in the areas of computer vision and audio processing for people monitoring in multi-camera multi-microphone environments, and will be part of an interdisciplinary project on audio-visual monitoring for smart interactive and reactive environments. The Studentships (to be started in or after September 2015) are part of an interdisciplinary project between the Centre for Intelligent Sensing (http://cis.eecs.qmul.ac.uk) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the Centre for Information Technology (http://ict.fbk.eu) at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy.

The Project will focus on methods for long-term people tracking, activity recognition, acoustic scene analysis, behaviour analysis, distant-speech recognition and understanding applied to individuals as well as groups. Such information will enable learning 'patterns of usage' of the environment, and patterns can in turn be used to adapt and optimise the sensing accordingly.

Each PhD student will spend approximatively 50% of their time in London and 50% of their PhD time in Trento and will have access to state-of-the-art audio-visual laboratories, including a multi-camera multi-microphone installation at a large open hallway and a smart home facility equipped with cameras, microphones and automated devices.

More information on the call can be found at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKZ561/phd-studentships-in-audio-visual-intelligent-sensing

For what concerns activities related to audio and speech processing, please also refer to the following web sites http://shine.fbk.eu and http://dirha.fbk.eu