Italy : Research Grant in Video Surveillance

A 1-year Research grant in Novel algorithms and methodologies for fusing heterogeneous data from object tracking for understanding interactions between moving subjects within a guarded environment will be available Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE), University of Genova, Italy starting from January 2012.

The project
The main objective of the research activity will be to study and develop methodologies and algorithms inspired by human reasoning being able to analyze contextual data from multiple heterogeneous sensors. A tool will be developed able to acquire multiple trajectories of heterogeneous objects within an external environment and produce a) a structured information about monitored situations indicating anomalous events and b) information about possible decisions that should be able to revert the system to a normal working condition.

Qualifications
The successful candidate must hold a Master degree or equivalent qualifications (Laurea Vecchio Ordinamento or Laurea Specialistica degree for Italian applicants) in one of the following fields :

• Telecommunication Engineering

• Electronic Engineering

• Information Engineering

• Computer Science (or Laurea degree in Informatica)

The candidate must have basic knowledge in the following topics:

• Signal Processing

• Pattern Recognition

• C/C++ programming

Fluency in spoken and written English is also a requirement.

The selection process
The interested applicants please contact Prof. Carlo Regazzoni not later than September 12, 2011.
The application is divided into two phases.
In the first phase the interested applicants should send their complete CV and two recommendation letters to Prof. Carlo Regazzoni, e-mail: carlo@dibe.unige.it

An evaluation committee will be appointed to evaluate the applications. Applicants will be notified of the composition of the committee and will receive the part of the evaluation that concerns her/him. The final selection of a successful candidate will be made by Prof. Carlo Regazzoni, based on the recommendations of the evaluation committee. The successful candidate will then be requested to formally apply for enrollment for Research Grant call at Genoa University - deadline October 17th, 2011.

Success in the first phase does not give any right for the following phase and the final admission.

Candidates will have to take admission oral examination with a inter/university commission in dates to be communicated (between 3.11.2011 and 16.11.2011) to obtain the Research Grant position.

Terms of employment
The successful candidate will be offered one-year research grant.
The research grant consists of about 17,000 Euro/year.

For further information, please contact Prof. Carlo Regazzoni at email: carlo[ at ]dibe.unige.it, or Dr. Lucio Marcenaro at email mlucio[ at ]dibe.unige.it. General information on the Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Genova and Isip40 group can be found at http://dibe.unige.it and http://www.isip40.it respectively.

How to apply:
Applicants are requested to submit their application by sending a complete CV and two recommendation letters to Prof. Carlo Regazzoni (carlo[ at ]dibe.unige.it) and Dr. Lucio Marcenaro ( mlucio[ at ]dibe.unige.it). Please include in the email subject field “your name - RG-Carige”.

Applications must include (i) motivation for the application, (ii) curriculum vitae including list of publications, (iii) a copy (and a transcript) of M.Sc. diploma or equivalent, (iv) a short abstract of the M.Sc. thesis or equivalent.

The deadline for first phase applications is Monday 12 September 2011.

Applications received after the deadline, or with insufficient documentation or otherwise not complying with the above requirements, will not be considered.

The vIdeo and SIgnal Processing For Telecommunications (ISIP40) research team was founded in 1991 by Prof. Carlo Regazzoni starting from the expertise acquired in the Signal Processing and Telecommunications Group of Prof. Gianni Vernazza.
Leader of the group is still Prof. Regazzoni, Full Professor at the University of Genova, and he can rely on the help of 1 Assistant Professor, 3 PhD students, 2 research grant co-operators and a number of external collaborators. Teaching activities allow to involve B.Sc. and M.Sc. students in the research activities of the team.
Thanks to co-operations with industries and other university groups, two new joint laboratories has been created: Ambient Awareness Laboratory (A2Lab) and Cognitive Radio Laboratory, whose reaserch activities are focused on Cognitive Surveillance and Video Surveillance and on Cognitive Radio and Wideband Communications.
The research group has a number of active projects with national and international industries and academic partners.
Ambient Intelligence area is oriented to provide increased personalized services to the user.
This tasks is obtained by developing systems composed by heterogeneous sensors able to extract high-level features.
Subsequently analysis, decision and personalized communications are the main steps in order to satisfy the users query depending to the context.

Cognitive Surveillance research area is involved in developing automatic systems able to recognize events of interests.
Mainly, the research is oriented to realize automatic systems able to detect and track objects and to recognize particular situations as panic events in area of interest. Using this information, bio-inspired techniques are designed to provide the system with the capability of learning from the experience the interactions with the external world. Then, adaptive decision strategies exploit this skill to act (through actuators) directly on the environment and change its current state for security, in case preventive, tasks.

For more information, please refer to the university’s announcement (http://www.isip40.it/).

Further Information

Application Deadline : 12 September 2011

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Contact Adress: Prof. Carlo Regazzoni

Contact Email: carlo@dibe.unige.it

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