Position at UPF (not related to me)

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PhD scholarship in Forgetting How to See Language

In this doctoral research, the candidate will investigate the underlying patterns of this forgetting in visual language discrimination. This interdisciplinary research is part of the ForHowSeeL project https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/projects/-/asset_publisher/eCFIkRR4PbC1/content/forgetting-how-to-see-language/maximized. By leveraging videos of British Sign Language (BSL) and Japanese Sign Language (JSL) and using computer vision and artificial intelligence methods, the goal is to identify the key visual features and discover low-level patterns in the visual data that infants in the early months of life are able to capture and use to discriminate between different sign languages. Both model-based and data-driven methods for visual data analysis and understanding will be exploited.

This position is co-funded by the PhD fellowship program of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (DTIC-UPF), and the María de Maeztu Strategic Research Programme at DTIC-UPF on Artificial and Natural Intelligence for ICT and beyond.

This position includes a teaching commitment load of 45 hours per academic year.

Starting date (planned)*:* September - October 2023

Application deadline: June 30th, 2023

Gross monthly salary: 1.680€.

Additional information and application https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/112976