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ASCI Newsletter January 16, 2012
Dear ASCI members,
The next courses/events are open for registration:
March 12-16, 2012: A22 - Knowledge Driven Image Segmentation
March 27-30, 2012: ASCI Springschool on Embedded Systems.
More info further on in this newsletter.
The next ASCI newsletter will appear on February 17. If you would like to post a vacancy or a news item please send an email to the ASCI Office February 15 at the latest.
With regards,
Ilse Oonk & Rina Abbriata
ASCI Office
A22: Knowledge driven Image Segmentation
Goal
To provide a comprehensive introduction into recent advances in knowledge-driven segmentation methods. This course will be mainly aimed at ASCI PhD students working on imaging / segmentation related projects.
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of image processing and pattern recognition methods is assumed.
Date + Location
12 - 16 March 2012. Location: to be decided.
The course will address three main topics:
1. Deformable models
2. Statistical models
3. Pattern recognition approaches to image segmentation
More information
ASCI Spring School on Embedded Systems 2012
The 2012 edition of the ASCI Spring School on Embedded Systems will be organized from March 27-30, 2012.
The central theme of this edition is "Energy-aware Computing". While power consumption has always been a critical design requirement for embedded systems (since many of them are battery operated or cannot be actively cooled), in recent years, it has also become a true first-class citizen in chip design for the general-purpose domain. For example, server farms, like those from Google, consume in the order of tens of Megawatts, resulting in electricity charges of several million dollar per month and where recurrent costs now far exceed the capital cost of the data center.
Registration is open and the preliminary program is online!
The 21st International ACM Symposium on
High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
(HPDC'12)
Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
June 18-22, 2012
http://www.hpdc.org/2012
The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference on the design, the implementation, the evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. HPDC'12 will take place in Delft, the Netherlands, a historical, picturesque city that is less than one hour away from Amsterdam-Schiphol airport. The conference will be held on June 20-22 (Wednesday to Friday), with affiliated workshops taking place on June 18-19 (Monday and Tuesday).
**** SUBMISSION DEADLINES ****
Abstracts: 16 January 2012
Papers: 23 January 2012 (No extensions!)
**** HPDC'12 GENERAL CHAIR ****
Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
**** HPDC'12 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ****
Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Matei Ripeanu, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
**** HPDC'12 WORKSHOPS CHAIR ****
Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
**** SCOPE AND TOPICS ****
Submissions are welcomed on all forms of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, including but not limited to clusters, clouds, grids, utility computing, data-intensive computing, and massively multicore systems. Submissions that explore solutions to estimate and reduce the energy footprint of such systems are particularly encouraged. All papers will be evaluated for their originality, potential impact, correctness, quality of presentation, appropriate presentation of related work, and relevance to the conference, with a strong preference for rigorous results obtained in operational parallel and distributed systems.
The topics of interest of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following, in the context of high-performance parallel and distributed computing:
- Systems, networks, and architectures for high-end computing
- Massively multicore systems
- Virtualization of machines, networks, and storage
- Programming languages and environments
- I/O, storage systems, and data management
- Resource management, energy and cost minimizations
- Performance modeling and analysis
- Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
- Data-intensive computing
- Applications of parallel and distributed computing
**** PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ****
Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 12 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted via the conference web site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A limited number of papers will be accepted as posters.
Papers must be self-contained and provide the technical substance required for the program committee to evaluate their contributions. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. See the ACM Prior Publication Policy for more details.
**** IMPORTANT DATES ****
Abstracts Due: 16 January 2012
Papers Due: 23 January 2012 (No extensions!)
Reviews Released to Authors: 8 March 2012
Author Rebuttals Due: 12 March 2012
Author Notifications: 19 March 2012
Final Papers Due: 16 April 2012
Conference Dates: 18-22 June 2012
**** CALLS FOR PAPERS ****
**** FOR THE HPDC'12 WORKSHOPS ****
**** in conjunction with ****
The 21st International ACM Symposium on
High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
(HPDC'12)
Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Monday-Tuesday, June 18-19, 2012
http://www.hpdc.org/2012/workshops
The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference on the design, the implementation, the evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. HPDC'12 will take place in Delft, the Netherlands, a historical, picturesque city that is less than one hour away from Amsterdam-Schiphol airport. In conjunction with HPDC'12, nine workshops will be held on the two days preceding the main conference (Monday and Tuesday, June 18-19).
**** WORKSHOPS ****
The nine workshops to be held with HPDC'12, which cover four areas, are the following:
APPLICATION DOMAINS
1. Astro-HPC: Workshop on High-Performance Computing for Astronomy
2. ECMLS2012: 3rd Int'l Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences Workshop
3. SocMP'12: First Workshop on Social Media Processing
4. Science Cloud: 3rd Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing
DATA PROCESSING
5. DIDC: Fifth Int'l Workshop on Data-Intensive Distributed Computing
6. ISDP: In-Situ Data Processing technologies
PERFORMANCE
7. LSAP2012: 4th Workshop on Large-scale Systems and Applications Performance
INFRASTRUCTURE
8. MapReduce'12: The Third Int'l Workshop on MapReduce and its Applications
9. VTDC12: 6th Int'l Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing
**** WORKSHOP WEBSITES ****
The websites of the workshops are linked from the workshops page of the HPDC'12 website at
www.hpdc.org/2012/workshops.
**** SUBMISSIONS ****
Each of the workshops has its own requirements and schedule for submissions. Please check
the workshops page on the HPDC'12 website (www.hpdc.org/2012) for details.
**** PROCEEDINGS ****
The proceedings of the workshops will be distributed along with the proceedings of the
main conference, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library.
**** HPDC'12 WORKSHOPS CHAIR ****
Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
**** HPDC'12 GENERAL CHAIR ****
Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
CALL FOR PAPERS
5th Workshop on Mapping of Applications to MPSoCs
and
15th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems
Map2MPSoC/SCOPES 2012
May 15-16, 2012
Schloss Rheinfels, St. Goar, Germany
http://www.scopesconf.org
The workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES) and the workshop on Mapping of Applications to MPSoCs (Map2MPSoC) will organize a joint Map2MPSoC/SCOPES workshop in 2012.
The Map2MPSoC/SCOPES workshop will feature a combination of research papers and research presentations (details see below). The research papers will also be published in the ACM digital library. The workshop will be held in cooperation with ACM SIGBED and EDAA.
AIM AND SCOPE
The influence of embedded systems is constantly growing. Increasingly powerful and versatile devices are developed and put on the market at a fast pace. Their functionality and number of features is increasing, and so are the constraints on the systems concerning size, performance, energy dissipation and timing predictability. To meet all these constraints, multi-processor systems on a chip (MPSoCs) are becoming popular in embedded systems. In order to meet the performance and energy constraints of embedded applications, heterogeneous architectures incorporating functional units optimized for specific functions are commonly employed. This technological trend has dramatic consequences on the parallelization, mapping, compiler and design technology used to develop these systems.
The Map2MPSoC/SCOPES workshop focusses on the software generation process for modern embedded systems. Topics of interest include all aspects of the compilation and mapping process of embedded single and multi-processor systems. This includes (but is not limited to):
- models of computation and programming languages;
- performance analysis techniques for models of computation;
- automatic code parallelization techniques;
- mapping and scheduling techniques for for embedded multi-processor systems;
- code generation techniques for embedded single and multi-processor
architectures;
- design-space exploration techniques for use in the HW/SW codesign process;
- techniques to exploit the dynamic behavior in embedded applications;
- interactions between operating systems and compilation techniques;
- techniques for compiler aided profiling, measurement, debugging and
validation of embedded software.
WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
The workshop structure (presentations followed by intensive discussions) allows for an interactive atmosphere in which industrial and academic representatives can exchange new ideas and trends in the area multi-processor mapping and code generation.
VENUE
The workshop will take place in the beautiful “Schloss Rheinfels” hotel at St. Goar, Germany. Schloss Rheinfels is a castle at one of the nicest places within the Rhine valley, itself a world heritage site. Among a set of hotels focusing on wellness, the hotel was voted the #1 hotel within Germany in 2007. There is a beautiful view from the hotel onto the river Rhine.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Map2MPSoC/SCOPES accepts two types of submissions:
Research papers
Research papers should present original research results not published or submitted for publication in other forums. Accepted papers will be published via the ACM digital library and they will be scheduled for a presentation during the workshop.Research papers should not exceed 10 pages in ACM format (single-spaced, 2 columns, 9pt font; for instructions visit the ACM website http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Papers must be
submitted in PDF format using the Map2MPSoC/SCOPES paper submission website. To permit blind review, submissions should not include the author names.
Research presentations
Research presentations should present research results relevant to the topics addressed by the workshop. These presentations may be based on research results that have previously been presented in other forums. Research presentations do not include a publication in the Map2MPSoC/SCOPES proceedings. Accepted research presentations will be scheduled for a presentation during the workshop. Authors that are interested in giving a research presentations at the Map2MPSoC/SCOPES 2012 workshop should submit a 2 page abstract in ACM format
(single-spaced, 2 columns, 9pt font; for instructions visit the ACM website http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format using the Map2MPSoC/SCOPES paper submission website. Author names should be included on these abstracts.
IMPORTANT DATES
Research papers
Abstract submission research papers: Feb 17, 2012
Full research paper submission: Feb 24, 2012 (hard deadline)
Notification of acceptance: Mar 19, 2012
Final paper submission: Apr 2, 2012
Research presentations
Abstract submission research presentations: Mar 26, 2012
Notification of acceptance: Apr 2, 2012
ORGANIZATION
Henk Corporaal (general chair), Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Sander Stuijk (program chair), Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Peter Marwedel (publicity chair), Dortmund University of Technology, DE
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Iuliana Bacivarov, ETH Zurich, CH
Marco Bekooij, NXP Semiconductors, NL
Koen de Bosschere, University of Gent, BE
Anca Molnos, Delft University of Technology, NL
Nikil Dutt, University of Irvine, USA
Heiko Falk, Ulm University, DE
Soheil Ghiasi, UC Davis, USA
Christian Haubelt, University of Rostock, DE
Andreas Krall, TU Vienna, AT
Akash Kumar, National University of Singapore, SG
Rainer Leupers, RWTH Aachen, DE
Bilha Mendelson, IBM Research Lab, IL
Yunheung Paek, Seoul National University, KR
Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, NL
Chung-Ching Shen, University of Maryland, USA
Todor Stefanov, Leiden University, NL
Jürgen Teich, University of Erlangen, DE
WORLDCOMP'12
The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
July 16-19, 2012, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/
Location: See the above web site for venue/city
You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings and indexed in Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and Technology; DBLP / Computer Science Bibliography; CNRS, INIST, PASCAL; and others.
Accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (they will also be available online). Like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 42%) will appear in journals and edited research books after the conference (publishers include: Springer, BMC, Elsevier, and others).
WORLDCOMP'12 is composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, workshops, and panel discussions); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates: July 16-19, 2012. For the complete list of joint conferences, see below.
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 12, 2012: Submission of full papers (about 7 pages)
April 12, 2012: Notification of acceptance (+/- two days)
April 26, 2012: Final papers + Copyright/Consent + Registration
July 16-19, 2012: WORLDCOMP 2012 and all its affiliated conferences
CO-SPONSORS:
Currently being prepared - The ACADEMIC sponsors of the last offering of WORLDCOMP (2011) included research labs and centers affiliated with (a partial list): University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Texas at Austin; University of Southern California; Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota; Germany's University of Siegen; UMIT, Institute of Bioinformatics and Translational Research, Austria; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Iowa; Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia; University of Naples Federico II, Italy; University of Naples Parthenope, Italy; Second University of Naples, Italy; ICEL, Texas A&M University Com.; University of North Dakota; and others.
CORPORATE Co-Sponsors and Sponsors at-large included (a partial list):
Intel Corporation; Microsoft Research; Altera Corporation; Pico Computing; SuperMicro Computer, Inc., USA; High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano); International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine; World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies; Int'l Council on Medical and Care Compunetics; UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Scientific Technologies Corporation; and HoIP - Health without Boundaries; and others.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers by uploading them to the evaluation web site at: http://world-comp.org Submissions must be uploaded by March 12, 2012 and they must be in either MS doc or pdf formats (about 7 pages including all figures, tables, and references - single space, font size of 10 to 12). All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their final papers for publication.) Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each author. The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the content of the paper. The name of the conference that the paper is being submitted for consideration must be stated on the first page of the paper as well as a 100 to 150-word abstract. The length of the final/Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (two-column IEEE style) pages.
Each paper will be peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness. In cases of contradictory recommendations, a member of the conference program committee will be charged to make the final decision (accept/reject); often, this would involve seeking help from additional referees by using a double-blinded review process. In addition, all papers whose authors include a member of the conference program committee will be evaluated using the double-blinded review process. (Essay/philosophical papers will not be refereed but may be considered for discussion/panels). All proceedings of WORLDCOMP will be published and indexed in: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering & Technology; DBLP / CS Bibliography; The French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS, INIST databases, PASCAL (covers the core scientific literature in Science; about 90% of inclusions are journals; only about 9% are proceedings; worldcomp tracks are selected to be among the 9% - accessable from INIST, Datastar, Dialog, EBSCO, OVID, Questel.Orbit, Qwam, and STN International); and others.
LIST OF CONFERENCES:
o BIOCOMP'12 - 13th Int'l. Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
o CDES'12 - 12th Int'l Conference on Computer Design
o CGVR'12 - 16th Int'l Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
o CSC'12 - 9th Int'l Conference on Scientific Computing
o DMIN'12 - 8th Int'l Conference on Data Mining
o EEE'12 - 11th Int'l Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise
Information Systems, and e-Government
o ERSA'12 - 12th Int'l Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems
and Algorithms
o ESA'12 - 10th Int'l Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications
o FCS'12 - 8th Int'l Conference on Foundations of Computer Science
o FECS'12 - 8th Int'l Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
Science and Computer Engineering
o GCA'12 - 8th Int'l Conference on Grid Computing and Applications
o GEM'12 - 9th Int'l Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods
o ICAI'12 - 14th Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence
o ICOMP'12 - 13th Int'l Conference on Internet Computing
o ICWN'12 - 11th Int'l Conference on Wireless Networks
o IKE'12 - 11th Int'l Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering
o IPCV'12 - 16th Int'l Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision,
& Pattern Recognition
o MSV'12 - 9th Int'l Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization
Methods
o PDPTA'12 - 18th Int'l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Techniques and Applications
o SAM'12 - 11th Int'l Conference on Security and Management
o SERP'12 - 11th Int'l Conference on Software Engineering Research and
Practice
o SWWS'12 - 11th Int'l Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
All conferences listed above will be held simultaneously; ie, same location and dates. A link to each of the conferences can be found at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org
MOBILITY 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
MOBILITY 2012, The Second International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users
October 21-26, 2012 - Venice, Italy
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/MOBILITY12.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPMOBILITY12.html
- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitMOBILITY12.html
Submission deadline: June 7, 2012
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
MOBILITY 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
Mobile architectures, mechanisms, protocols
Mobility and wireless; Mobility enabling protocols; Mobile software; Service composition in mobile environments; Knowledge and service discovery in mobile environments; On-demand mobility; User presence in mobile environments; Replication in mobile environments; Middleware for mobile environments; Internet and mobility; Software architecture for mobile applications
Mobile networking and management
Fundamentals of mobile networks; Mobile-Fixed interworking; Heterogenous networks; Beyond IMT-A; Mobile network virtualization; Femtocells and relays; Mobile cells; Mobile network sharing and network access; Self-management of mobile networks; Mobility management; Access control in mobile environments; Advanced roaming concepts; Mobile network edge-based service delivery platforms; Mobile content delivery networks; Mobile peer-to-peer systems; Mobile VPNs; Quality of experience in mobile networks
Mobile devices and services
Smart mobile devices; Embedded mobile; Sensors and mobiles; Mobile media, mobile content; Mobile applications (mobile learning, mobile healthcare, etc.); Mobile games; Mobile business; Mobile Web applications; Apps versus Web; Novel software concepts for mobile services; Mobile- and micro payment; mCommerce
Mobile prosumers and interfaces
User interaction and mobility; Mobile communities; Mobile Web interfaces and interaction techniques; Implementations and experimental mobile systems; Mobile Web; Mobile search and advertising
Mobile Internet of Things
Future mobile Internet; Internet of Things; Machine to Machine, People, Business (M2x); Online; Smart Homes; Smart Cities
Vehicular mobile technology
Architectures and platforms; Vehicular ad hoc networks; Vehicular routing metrics and supporting protocols; Mobility management and topology control; Standardization of vehicular networks; User aspects; Business enablers
Challenges in mobile environments
Security and privacy environments; Protection and safety of distributed mobile data; Context-aware mobility and privacy; Mobile emergency communication and public safety; Location-based services; Micro-payments; Accuracy and preciseness in localizing mobile entities
In the Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDS) Group of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science of Delft University of Technology (TUD), there is a job opening for a
PhD Student in COMPUTER SCIENCE
in the area of Application-Oriented Resource Management and Scheduling in Clouds
in the project Infrastructure Virtualization for e-Science (IV-e) as part of the Dutch national COMMIT program.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RESEARCH
The objective of this research is to study how to develop support for specific application types and application areas in schedulers for large-scale systems such as grids and clouds. Different application types, both old (e.g., workflows) and new (e.g., data-mining at unprecedented scales), may want to take advantage of the capabilities of evolving large-scale computing infrastructures, such as (inter-operating, federated) grids and clouds with their heterogeneous hardware (processor types) and high-speed networks. No single scheduler can incorporate support for all imaginable types of applications for all types of computing infrastructures. Therefore, there is a need to design and build application-support modules in schedulers of large-scale distributed systems.
More specifically, the goal is to develop support in the KOALA scheduler for specific application types and for applications in specific application areas (e.g., medicine) that are studied in other projects in COMMIT. For this purpose, the current KOALA scheduler has to be extended with application-support modules for these application types and application areas in such a way that users do not have to deal with all kinds of details of the underlying systems, but can concentrate on application design, and that applications can run (energy-)efficiently. This research will be carried out in collaboration with other COMMIT projects.
RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
In the PDS group in Delft, currently two staff members and three PhD students are active in the area of resource management and scheduling in grids and clouds, with the research centering around the KOALA grid scheduler, which was developed in the PDS group in Delft. The research in the PDS group is
experimental in nature, with a strong emphasis on designing, implementing, deploying, and analyzing prototypes in real systems.
Over the last decade, the PDS group has built up a very strong portfolio of research in resource management and scheduling in grids and clouds, with four completed PhD theses and a large set of papers in the top conferences and journals publishing in this field. TUD participates in the DAS4 project, and with the DAS4 has an excellent grid and cloud experimental facility.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Applicants must have a Master's degree in computer science with an emphasis on computer systems and performance analysis, and preferably on experimental computer science.
EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS
This is a position for four years, with a salary according to the standard guidelines of Dutch universities.
FURTHER INFORMATION and APPLICATION
Further information can be obtained from, and an application (including a CV, transcripts of BSc and MSc results, and a copy of an MSc thesis) can be sent to:
- prof.dr.ir. D.H.J. Epema
Parallel and Distributed Systems Group (PDS)
Delft University of Technology
Delft, the Netherlands
e-mail: d.h.j.epema(at)tudelft.nl
tel.: +31.15.2783853
RELATED WEB SITES:
www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl
www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/~epema
www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/koala
www.cs.vu.nl/das4
The Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University (Netherlands) invites applications for a PhD. position in Music Computing on Sensing Emotion in Music.
Sensing Emotion in Music is part of the national ICT research program COMMIT (http://www.commit-nl.nl/). Within COMMIT, the project Virtual Worlds for Wellbeing will develop technologies to register and elicit emotions in avatars, to enrich the experience in virtual worlds and to stimulate physical and emotional wellbeing. Sensing Emotion in Music will realize these aims within the domain of music.
Music has a big emotional impact on people. Sensing Emotion in Music will create computational models that deal with the musical aspects of semantic and emotional information in personal communication. Musical meaning emerges from the confrontation between complex patterns we perceive in acoustical input and a repository of such patterns that we have previously acquired through listening and training. For example, rhythmic, harmonic, and formal patterns are important sources of meaning in music. Musical audio has been analyzed mainly on the basis of low level features. By researching the role of high level patterns extracted from musical audio from both a music cognition and a computer science viewpoint, the PhD. student will provide essential knowledge for the creation of advanced music technology applications that can contribute to physical and emotional wellbeing.
The PhD. student will collaborate with the PhD. student of the parallel project Sensing Emotion in Video and contribute to the Crowd Simulation Demo that acts as an application scenario of COMMIT technology.
The PhD student will concentrate on designing and implementing novel methods of Music Information Retrieval. Specific tasks include:
o creating feature extraction methods
o modeling similarity of high-level musical patterns
o designing methods for emotion-based similarity matching
o creating methods for locating salient segments
The PhD student is expected to deliver a completed PhD thesis within 4 years.
Requirements
o Masters degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence,
Mathematics, Humanities Computing, or any other relevant discipline
o proven affection with and knowledge of music (notation, basic theory)
The candidate is offered a full-time position for 4 years. Salary starts at 2,042.- and increases to 2,612.- gross per month in the fourth year of the appointment. The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8,3% per year. In addition we offer: a pension scheme, a partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities.
More information about the vacancy can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Remco Veltkamp (R.C.Veltkamp(at)uu.nl; +31 30 253 4091) or Dr. Frans Wiering (F.Wiering(at)uu.nl; +31 30 253 6335).
Please send your application (including a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae and contact details of two referees) via the link Apply at the end of the official vacancy page (http://ssl1.peoplexs.com/Peoplexs22/CandidatesPortalNoLogin/Vacancy.cfm?PortalID=4124&VacatureID=190457&BedrijfID=0).
Application deadline is 23 January 2012. As part of the selection procedure, the candidate is expected to give a presentation about his/her Master thesis research and research plans for the PhD project.
The Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University (Netherlands) invites applications for a PhD position in Video Analysis for Sensing Emotion in a Group of People.
Sensing Emotion in Video is part of the national ICT research program COMMIT (http://www.commit-nl.nl/). Within COMMIT, the project Virtual Worlds for Wellbeing will develop technologies to register and elicit
emotions in avatars, to enrich the experience in virtual worlds and to stimulate physical and emotional wellbeing. Sensing Emotion in Video will realize these aims within the domain of video analysis.
The way that people interact in daily activities or in particular events carries rich semantic and emotional information, which encodes the social actualities at the time. Visual data is particularly important in depicting human interactions, and thus for tracing the emotions of the individuals in the scenes. We intend to visually analyse video sequences of groups of people including their interactions, behaviour, and
expressions, in order to extract relevant emotional information. The PhD. student will collaborate with the PhD. student of the parallel project Sensing Emotion in Music and contribute to the Crowd Simulation
Demo that acts as an application scenario of COMMIT technology.
The PhD student will concentrate on designing and implementing novel methods in video analysis of a group of people. Specific topics include:
o face based emotion feature localization and emotion recognition in groups of people
o body-part based emotion feature localization and identification in groups of people
o entire-body based emotion recognition of groups of people
o image or image-sequence retrieval based on emotion contents
Requirements
o Masters degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or any other relevant discipline
o Excellent mathematics and programming skills (C/C++, Matlab)
o Passionate about doing research
The candidate is offered a full-time position for 4 years. Salary starts at € 2,042.- and increases to € 2,612.- gross per month in the fourth year of the appointment. The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus
of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8,3% per year. In addition we offer: a pension scheme, a partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour Agreement
Dutch Universities.
More information about the vacancy can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Remco Veltkamp (R.C.Veltkamp(at)uu.nl; +31 30 253 4091) or Dr. Robby T. Tan (R.T.Tan(at)uu.nl; +31 30 253 3826).
Please send your application (including a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae and contact details of two referees) via the link Apply at the end of the official vacancy page (http://ssl1.peoplexs.com/Peoplexs22/CandidatesPortalNoLogin/Vacancy.cfm?PortalID=4124&VacatureID=190456&BedrijfID=0).
Application deadline is 23 January 2012. As part of the selection procedure, the candidate is expected to give a presentation about his/her Master thesis research and research plans for the PhD project.
Postdoc Biomedical Image Analysis
Recently TU/e established the Imaging Science and Technology Eindhoven Institute (IST/e), which aims to grow to a leading research institute on the crossroads of image acquisition, mathematical modeling, algorithmics, visualization and biomedical applications of complex images or image sequences on the basis of advanced acquisition techniques. This ambitious goal is feasible through synergy of perfectly complementary research groups in TU/e and their collaborative partners at Philips Healthcare and Philips Research and regional and academic medical centers.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology seeks a
Postdoc in the field of Cardiovascular Image Analysis.
Job description
Medical imaging has developed revolutionary, and has become the prime source of information for diagnosis and interventions. The need for sophisticated analysis and visualization algorithms is strongly increasing, not only due to the sheer complexity of the data, now encompassing many modalities and being more and more multi-valued (vector and tensor data, multi-scale, multi-orientation etc.), but also due to the advent of acquisition and visualization of many functional parameters (e.g. strain, diffusivity etc.), the need for image guided surgery and interventions, and the sheer volume of the data.
The Biomedical Image Analysis group, headed by prof. Bart M. ter Haar Romeny, and established in 2001, has developed a solid position in research and teaching in this field, and operates at world-class level. See: http://bmia.bmt.tue.nl. The scientific research in the group BMIA focuses on three closely intertwined areas:
• Design of advanced mathematical algorithms
• Visualization of multi-valued data
• Cardiovascular and neuro applications
The strength of the group is the close interaction between these areas. The group has set up a full line of teaching, and has continuously 15-20 (full last year) MSc projects active.
The Netherlands have traditionally a strong base in image analysis, and the group has established excellent research- and application collaborations with Philips Healthcare (Best), KCL (London), Utrecht University, Maastricht University and many others. BMIA participates in the ‘Institute for Diagnostic & Interventional Imaging’ (IDII), which was established under the Dutch grant application program ‘Innovative Medical Devices Initiative NL’ (2011-2016).
Requirements
Your research should deal with the long-term topics of BMIA in the fields of cardiovascular or neuro image analysis research and clinical applications. The candidate will strengthen and expand the current research program. She/he will lecture in the Bachelor (in Dutch) and Master (in English) BME programs.
The candidate we seek is an excellent researcher in one of the focus areas described above. She/he has published pioneering contributions in major research journals and top conference proceedings. The candidate holds a PhD degree in a relevant discipline (physics, computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering) and is an excellent teacher. The candidate should also fulfill the following requirements:
• The candidate is an enthusiastic team player with the ambition to strengthen, expand and focus the current research program. Experience in initiating and participating in collaborative projects with scientific and industrial partners and (international) research programs is advantageous.
• The candidate has a proven record of attracting substantial research funding.
• The candidate has a good scientific network, and has been invited for keynote lectures, reviews, editor activities and/or conference organization.
• The candidate will, preferably, have experience with different application domains and a keen eye for technical solutions.
• The candidate has good managerial capabilities.
• She/he has an excellent command of the English language.
Employment conditions
A challenging job at a dynamic and ambitious University of Technology:
We offer a salary with a minimum of € XX and a maximum of € XX gross per month (salary scale XX, CAO NU (Dutch Universities)) on a full-time basis and related to relevant experience and knowledge, and an attractive package of fringe benefits (including 13th month salary, 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% end of the year allowance, excellent work facilities, child care and sport facilities).
More information
For more information about the position, please contact prof. Bart M. ter Haar Romeny PhD, email B.M.terHaarRomeny(at)tue.nl, and for questions about the appointment please approach mrs. Yvonne Bloemers (Human Resources Dept.), email Y.Bloemers(at)tue.nl.
Applicants are requested to submit:
• a letter of application;
• a CV with resume and picture;
• a list of publications;
• contact details of three references;
• a statement of research, teaching and leadership.