January 2016 - Face-research-list - University of Stirling Mailing Lists

Social Robotics post at University of Glasgow
by Benedict Jones 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Social Robotics post at University of Glasgow Lecturer/Senior Lecturer University of Glasgow - Research Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AMV447/lecturer-senior-lecturer/ Salary: £41,255 to £55,389 per annum Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 21st January 2016 Closes: 6th March 2016 Job Ref: 012096 The University of Glasgow aims to develop a world-class research emphasis in social robotics, shared between the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology and the School of Computing Science. Within the Institute, we aim to appoint a new member of staff who will significantly develop our research presence in this area. The appointment can be at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level, dependent on the applicant’s credentials. Potential candidates should perform research in social neuroscience, computational neuroscience, social cognition, grounded cognition, or a related field that bears on social interaction and social robotics. Examples of relevant research areas include facial or bodily mirroring, theory of mind (intention attribution), the perception of agency, coordinated social action, etc. Primary qualifications for the position include research excellence, together with leadership potential for moving collaborative research on social robotics forward. Commitment to social robotics in previous and current research will be weighed positively. The candidate’s research program should align with the strategic objectives of the Centre for Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN), and should complement our existing expertise in social signal processing, interactive communication, and/or grounded cognition. The Centre has excellent research facilities, including 4-D face motion capture, whole body motion capture, a variety of eye-tracking facilities, together with state-of-the-art neuroimaging facilities for fMRI, MEG, EEG and TMS associated with the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi). As part of the University of Glasgow’s Social Robotics Initiative, the successful applicant will have excellent opportunities for collaborating with computer scientists and engineers in the College of Science and Engineering, with access to their robotic facilities and resources. Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN) http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/research/csc… Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/research/ccn… University of Glasgow’s Social Robotics Initiative http://glasor.inp.gla.ac.uk/ Apply online at: www.glasgow.ac.uk/jobs<http://www.glasgow.ac.uk/jobs> Closing date: 6 March 2016

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Research post in face recognition at Stirling
by Peter Hancock 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

I have a vacancy for a postdoc at Stirling to work on human face recognition. It's part of a 5 year EPSRC-funded project to improve the state of the art in computer face recognition, so we shall be working closely with computer scientists at the University of Surrey and Imperial College. This post is for an initial two years, with the possibility of extension. The research questions will include: * What are the effects of viewpoint, lighting and sensor noise on human familiar face recognition? * How much experience, what range of imagery, does it take to shift humans from unfamiliar face matching to familiar face recognition? * How useful to human observers are the image normalisation techniques developed for the computer recognition systems? * In general, therefore, how do human and computer abilities compare across the range of issues being tackled in this project? * How do humans achieve what they do? Further details here: http://www.stir.ac.uk/about/jobs/details/index.html?id=QUUFK026203F3VBQB7V7… Closing date is 22 Feb. There will be a second post on offer later this year. I shall also shortly be advertising a PhD studentship, aimed at modelling human face recognition. Feel free to contact me with queries. Peter Hancock Professor, Deputy Head of Psychology, School of Natural Sciences University of Stirling FK9 4LA, UK phone 01786 467675 fax 01786 467641 http://www.psychology.stir.ac.uk/staff/staff-profiles/academic-staff/peter-… Psychology at Stirling: 100% 4* Impact, REF2014

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Question for users
by Tom 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Dear all I am starting a project for my MSc in which I would like to create a new set of stimuli of facial expressions of emotion using exclusively adolescent actors for use in an emotional go/nogo task and psychology research more generally. Does anyone know if a set of stimuli using strictly adolescent actors already exists? Thanks Tom Chatwin UCL Institute of Education

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Funded PhD: How do humans recognise kin?
by Lisa Debruine 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Lisa DeBruine<http://facelab.org> is now taking applications for a funded PhD student on her ERC project, How do humans recognise kin<http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=70677&LID=559>? The PhD student, with guidance from the PI and two postdoctoral RAs, will be responsible for designing studies to test the effects of potential kinship cues on prosocial and sexual behavior, recruiting and testing participants, creating custom face stimuli, preparing saliva samples for MHC analysis, taking 3D face images, and processing 3D face images. The candidate should possess a 1st or 2.1 Honours degree in Psychology, Biology, Computer Science or equivalent. Having MSc or research experience in a related area is an advantage. The form states that applications are due by 15 January 2016, but I will be accepting applications until a suitable candidate can be found. http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=70677&LID=559 ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr Lisa M DeBruine Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology University of Glasgow 58 Hillhead Street G12 8QB lisa.debruine(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:lisa.debruine@glasgow.ac.uk> http://facelab.org 0141 330 5351 ----------------------------------------------------------

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CBAR 2016 CFP: 4th International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition @ IEEE CVPR 2016
by zakia hammal 10 Jan '16

10 Jan '16

************************************************************************************************************************** CBAR 2016: CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE CVPR2016, 4th International Workshop on CONTEXT BASED AFFECT RECOGNITION CBAR2016 http://cbar2016.blogspot.com/ Submission Deadline: March 2, 2016 ************************************************************************************************************************** The 4th International Workshop on Context Based Affect Recognition (CBAR 2016) will be held in conjunction with IEEE CVPR 2016 in June 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada – http://cvpr2016.thecvf.com/ For details concerning the workshop program, paper submission guidelines, etc. please visit our workshop website at: http://cbar2016.blogspot.com/ Best regards, Zakia Hammal Zakia Hammal, PhD The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ Human-Machine Interaction Facial Expression Recognition Visual Perception http://www.pitt.edu/~emotion/ZakiaHammal.html

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Research Fellow in Facial Speech Encoding
by Alan Johnston 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

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