Germany: Ph.D. Position in Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis

The Image Understanding and PatternRecognition (IUPR) research group at the German Research Center forArtificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) has several positions available for Researchers

Topics include
* document analysis,
* pattern recognition,
* statistical machine learning methods,
* multimedia databases,
* geometric matching and
* optimization algorithms.

The research positions also provide the opportunity for completing a doctoraldissertation at the University of Kaiserslautern. Because the IUPR group is in close cooperation with manyinternational research facilities, internships in the USA andseveral European countries can be arranged and supported.

Applicants should have a background in computer science, mathematics, statistics, pattern recognition, signal or image processing, and/or human computer interaction.

Application Procedure

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Your application should consist of:

a cover letter
contact information (work/home phone, mailing address, email, FAX, …)
a time frame by which you need to make a decision
a statement of purpose (what you want to do in our lab and what you want to do later)
a CV, preferably in reverse chronological order and preferably in English
a copy of an official transcript is helpful
some pointers to representative publications (if any), maybe on a web page; if your papers are not available over the web, it would be helpful if you included 1-3 PDF versions of your papers as attachments