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.