Research assistant position

June 23, 2022 at 7:41 am by

Reference: 20220623_HUBU

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Research area or group: Human Behavior Understanding Group

 

Context and Mission:

The Human Behavior Understanding Group seeks applications to fill a research assistant position focused on Deep Learning techniques for the analysis of humans in visual data as part of the project ‘Selfsupervised gaze estimation’

In this project we want to perform self-supervised learning on face images to be later finetuned on face analysis scenarios.

 

Main responsibilities:

  • Code self-supervised deep learning strategies
  • Evaluate on different face analysis scenarios

 

Mandatory skill requirements: (education, essential knowledge and professional experience, competences)

  • Experience coding Deep learning approaches
  • Experience in human behavior understanding scenarios
  • Experience working with images of faces
  • The candidate must be an effective communicator, multitask, and work well on collaborative and interdisciplinary designs.
  • Ability to think creatively.
  • Ability to work independently and make decisions.
  • Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines and pressure.

 

Highly valuable skills:

  • Having already published works associated to the topic of the project.

 

Conditions:

  • 4 months contract, full-time (37,5h/week)
  • Salary: according to CVC labour categories
  • Starting date: July 2022
  • The position will be located at Computer Vision Center (Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

 

Applications Procedure:

Applicants must submit their curriculum vitae through the online form, indicating the offer code 20220620_HUBU

*Important: it is imperative to indicate offer code; otherwise, application might not be processed.

 

Selection Procedure:

  1. Pre-selection: determination of compliance with the minimum requirements of the offer.
  2. Selection: assessment of the preselected candidates by scoring based on objective criteria.
  3. Potential candidates will be contacted to set up an interview.

 

Application deadline: 30 June 2022

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