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The Department of Digital Art and Design at Peking University seeks to hire full time faculty in Art and Design, Art and Media History, Computer Animation, Programming for Animation, Traditional Animation, Game Art and Design, Game Programming, Digital Motion Picture and Television and advanced technology research based art and design areas. The Department is also interested developing relationship with industry professionals, artists, and designers for possible visiting artist, short course and workshop experiences in the areas listed above and in research in new media technologies. More info, here

Title: Definition of symbolic and graphical invariants in old documents
Location: INRIA, Lorraine, in the LORIA lab (Nancy, France)
Project supervisor: Prof. Karl Tombre.
Description of subject: The scientific project of the QGAR team at INRIA Lorraine is focused on the usefulness of document image analysis in general, and of graphics recognition more specifically, to provide useful features for indexing and retrieval, when browsing large document databases. In this context, we work in a joint project with other French teams (ACI MADONNE) on computing efficient features for indexing old documents of historical values.
Such documents do not only contain text, but also a number of graphics components and symbols to enhance the presentation. To extract these elements, we need to use symbol recognition methods which are not dependent on a first segmentation step, as this is not always possible in the present case. We believe in the usefulness of defining invariants
which can be directly computed on the document image.
The post-doc proposed here will work on the definition of symbolic and graphical invariants which can be computed on scanned documents of historical value, and which allow us to provide additional features for easily indexing and browsing such documents databases.
Desired Profile for the Candidate: PhD in pattern recognition, document analysis or image processing
Nominal Duration of Fellowship : 12 months
Contact: Karl Tombre <Karl.Tombre@loria.fr>
Deadline for returning application: April 2, 2004
General info on INRIA postdoc fellowships: http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/postdoc.en.html
Specific info on the proposed postdoc:
http://www.loria.fr/prnb.php?lg=en&mn=form&ct=00167

The basic requirement is that he/she must be a Singaporean, or at least from ASEAN countries. Hopefully, he/she has graphics, visualization or image processing
background.
For more info, please contact
Dr Shuhong
VR group, SNC programme
Institute of High Performance Computing, Republic of Singapore
Phone: 64191452 (O) 98234017 (HP)
Email: xush@ihpc.a-star.edu.sg
URL: www.ihpc.a-star.edu.sg

The Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología) has proposed two calls for postdoctoral positions:
- Ramón y Cajal, for PhD with experience
- Juan de la Cierva, for recent PhD
Main features for Ramón y Cajal (the CVC has obtained 5 positions in the previous calls):
- 5 years contract
- 30.300 Euros for the first year gross (the Spanish cost of living is 85% EU average)
- Social Security included
- 12.000 additional Euros for the two first years for travel costs, computing, equipment, fellows, etc.
- CVC offers several positions
- Candidates must have obtained the PhD during the last 10 years
DEADLINE: March 5, 2004!!!!!
Candidates must send an e-mail expressing their interest in joining the CVC, to the address: cajal@cvc.uab.es
More information or FAQ's, at the web site of the Spanish Ministry: www.mcyt.es/cajal/default.htm, (only in Spanish, for the moment),
or by e-mail: ryc2004-2007@mcyt.es (questions can be made in English).
Main features for Juan de la Cierva (New type of call):
- 3 years contract
- 23.000 Euros the first year gross (the Spanish cost of living is 85% EU average)
- Social Security included
- CVC offers several positions
- Candidates must have obtained the PhD during the last 3 years
DEADLINE: March 22, 2004
Candidates must send an e-mail expressing their interest in joining the CVC, to the address: cierva@cvc.uab.es
More information at the web site of the Spanish Ministry: www.mcyt.es/delacierva/default.htm The call will be open on March 5, 2004.
More information about CVC at www.cvc.uab.es