The new CALVIN research group at the Computer Vision Laboratory of ETH Zurich is looking for several PhD students.

There are three main topics:

• large-scale learning of thousands of object/scene/attribute categories and their mutual contextual relations from the Internet
• human pose estimation and action recognition in uncontrolled video, such as TV shows
• modeling the parallel between the structure of visual scenes and the structure of natural sentences to aid visual learning and automatic image annotation

Your profile:

• Masters degree (preferably in Computer Science; Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, and Physics are also accepted)
• Solid programming skills; the projects involve programming in Matlab and C++
• Solid mathematics knowledge (especially linear algebra and statistics)
• Creative and highly motivated
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Prior knowledge in the areas of computer vision, machine learning or data mining is a plus (ideally a master thesis in a related field)

Please send applications include:
a complete CV, graduation marks, topic of your master thesis, the name and email address of one reference (preferably your master thesis supervisor). If you already have reserch experience, please include a publication list and references.

For further questions, please contact: Prof. Vittorio Ferrari ( ferrari[ at ]vision.ee.ethz.ch )