Research Associate in Multimodal Video Understanding

3 weeks ago


Bristol, United Kingdom University of Bristol Full time

**The role**:
A strong and vibrant research team with steady-stream publications in high-calibre venues is looking for a postdoctoral researcher (26-months fixed-term) to develop novel approaches to **multi-modal video understanding**. The position is funded by two projects: EPSRC Program Grant Visual AI (PI: Andrew Zisserman) and EPSRC Fellowship grant Umpire (PI: Dima Damen). The applicant will thus be based in Bristol and collaborating with VGG in Oxford. The project will focus on integrating various input modalities (audio, video, depth) and output modalities (language, user feedback) to achieve better video understanding models

Prior expertise in video analytics and deep learning methods with a strong publication track record is expected, including first-author publications in CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/BMVC/PAMI/IJCV/NeurIPS/ICLR.

**What will you be doing?**:
Over the period of 26 months, you will be:

- Conducting novel research in **multimodal video understanding **- contributing novel research on designing, training (with mínimal data or self-supervision) and evaluating video understanding models. This will include hands-on research using the latest deep learning approaches.
- **Presenting your work** in regular meetings, taking feedback and integrating the goals of the program grant into your individual research directions.
- **Publishing** in top-tier venues (conferences and journals). Communicating your work to the best possible audience.
- **Collaborating **with other researchers (postdocs and faculty) in the Visual AI project.
- **Co-advising **junior PGR students
- PhD in Video Understanding, preferably with expertise in video understanding or multimodal visual models.
- Prior degree in computer science, engineering or mathematics
- Detailed knowledge of video understanding state-of-the-art, approaches, datasets and problems, preferably with expertise in egocentric datasets and familiarity with EPIC-KITCHENS and/or Ego4D datasets.
- Experience in handling video data, for learning and inference
- Experience in modelling deep learning approaches for Video Understanding
- Experience and evidence of publishing at high-calibre conferences and journals (at least one first-author paper in a major venue - CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/BMVC/NeurIPs/PAMI/IJCV/Neurips/ICLR in the past 3 years).
- Excellent programming skills (Python)
- Proficiency in deep learning frameworks (PyTorch)

**Additional information**:
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**Available documents**:

- ACAD106719 Job Description.pdf

JOB NUMBER***

**ACAD106719**:
CONTRACT TYPE/WORK PATTERN***

**Open ended / Full time**:
CLOSING DATE***

**17 Apr 2023**:
FACULTY/DIVISION***

**Faculty of Engineering**:
SALARY***

**£36,333 - £40,745**:


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