Job Title:Research Fellow

THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Recruitment Role Profile Form

School/Department:School of Computer Science

Salary:£25,513 - £37,394 per annum (£28,695 with relevant PhD), depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Job Family and Level:R&T Level 4

Contract Status:Fixed Term

Hours of Work:Full Time

Location:School of Computer Science, Jubilee Campus

Reporting to:Dr Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Purpose of the New Role:The Research Fellow is responsible for conducting research in the area of visual and feature learning for face detection, alignment and tracking.

Main Responsibilities / % time per year
1. / Toundertakefundamental research, and devise and implementnovel computer vision and learning algorithms for face detection, alignment and tracking. / 70%
2. / To develop a track record of published research findings in internationally leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. To contribute documented software to the project. / 20%
3. / To help with the supervision of graduate students conducting related research. To assist with the pursuit of continuation funding. / 10%

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Essential / Desirable
Qualifications/ Education /

PhD (or close to completion) in Computer Vision.

Research experience inthe area of face analysis.
Research experience in any of the following areas: detection, tracking, alignment and recognition.

Skills/Training /

Background in Computer Vision: feature extraction/learning, mathematical optimization and machine learning.

Good programming skills (Matlab, C++)
Ability to design, conduct and project original research in the subject area.
Excellent writtencommunication, including the ability to write reports and research outputs.

Prior work on (facial) deformable models
Experience in the area of learning representations including deep learning.

Experience /

Published research articles in any of the following areas: feature learning, detection, tracking, alignment and recognition.

Published articles in the area of face analysis
Published articles in CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/BMVC/FG and IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TIP.

Statutory/Legal / Eligible to work in the UK.

Decision Making

i)taken independently by the role holder

•Conducting research according to agreed objectives
•Decision on technical issues arising as part of the research work

ii)taken in collaboration with others

•Exploration of research directions to support to overall research goals
•Decision on strategies to achieve the agreed research goals
•Decision of research papers to be written for dissemination

iii)referred to the appropriate line manager by the role holder

•Changes to the research directions, objectives or goals
•Approval of research papers for circulation and/or presentation outside the research team

Additional Information

The role holder will be part of the CVL research group in the School of Computer Science.
Head of School/Department
(or nominee): / Prof. Uwe Aickelin
Date completed:
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