Dear all,
A lecturer position is available at the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen (UK).
The detailed application procedure can be found here (deadline: November 13th): https://www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/lectureship-in-psychology-503167.html (see details below)
Best wishes,
Mauro
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Mauro Manassi
Lecturer
School of Psychology
William Guild Building, Room F11
University of Aberdeen, UK
https://www.mauromanassi.com/
Lectureship in Psychology
As part of the continued development of the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, applications are invited from candidates who have a track record of outstanding independent research, as evidenced by high quality publications in leading academic journals and have interests which extend the School’s existing research strengths.
Research in the School of Psychology falls broadly into three themes: (1) Perception & Attention, (2) Cognition, and (3) Social Cognition. Although each staff member is assigned to a single theme, there is extensive collaboration and overlap of interests within the School. The School houses state-of-the-art facilities to support world-leading research across these three themes, including extensive eye tracking facilities (both lab-based and mobile), EEG systems, TMS systems, psychophysics laboratories and motion tracking facilities.
We have a particular research expertise on the perceptual, cognitive and social dimensions of human behaviour, drawing on research across the three themes. We are looking to build upon our existing strengths in this domain, with a goal to model mechanisms of human interaction through the application of behavioural science, artificial intelligence and neuroscience techniques. We welcome applicants with expertise that can extend and enhance our research portfolio, including, but not limited to, the use of data science techniques such as machine learning, deep learning and computational modelling to advance psychological research.
Salaries will be at the appropriate point on the Grade 7 scale (£43,414 - £51,805 per annum), with placement according to qualifications and experience.
Should you wish to make an informal enquiry, please contact Professor Amelia Hunt (a.hunt(a)abdn.ac.uk), Chair of Search Committee. Please do not email applications to Professor Hunt and apply online for this position www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs.
Should you require a visa to undertake employment in the UK you will be required to fulfil the minimum points criteria to be granted a Certificate of Sponsorship under the requirements of the Skilled Worker visa. At the time an offer of appointment is made, you will be asked to demonstrate that you fulfil the criteria in respect of qualification and competency in English. For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. Please do not hesitate to contact Lauren Storey, HR Adviser (e-mail: lauren.storey(a)abdn.ac.uk) for further information.
Job Reference Number: PSY052A
The closing date for the receipt of applications is 13 November 2022.
During the week of 5 December 2022, successful candidates will be invited to give a presentation to the School and attend a formal interview.
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.
Dear colleagues
*excuse any cross-posting*
We are delighted to announce TWO FACULTY POSTS (FT permanent, Full Professor/Associate Prof/Asst Prof) available in the Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN) in the School of Neuroscience & Psychology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Deadline: 3 Jan 2023
We are particularly interested in internationally competitive interdisciplinary researchers using innovative approaches to the computational modelling of social perception, cognition, interaction, and/or communication, with a focus on dynamic signalling, dyadic interactions, and/or dialogue in human-human and/or human-agent interactions.
cSCAN members benefit from a wide variety of state-of-the-art techniques, technologies, and expertise within a lively and ambitious research-rich environment.
For more details, see our Twitter post<https://twitter.com/UofG_cSCAN/status/1580286382399836160?s=20&t=BCvNEo48dZ…> and job advert<https://t.co/SuoA6H22MU> or contact Prof Rachael Jack on rachael.jack(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:rachael.jack@glasgow.ac.uk>.
Forwarding to any interested parties would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D.
Professor of Computational Social Cognition
School of Psychology & Neuroscience
University of Glasgow
Scotland, G12 8QB
+44 (0) 141 330 5087
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We are organizing a workshop on “Artificial Intelligence for
Automated Human Health-care and Monitoring
<https://sites.google.com/view/ai4healthcarefg/home>” in conjunction with
the 17th IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Kindly
find the related call for papers below.
*Important dates*
Papers submission deadline: 1 October 2022 – 11:59 PM PDT
Decisions: 27 October 2022
Final camera-ready papers: 31 October 2022, 11:59 PM PDT
*Submission instructions* can be found at
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ffg2023.ieee-biometrics.org%2Fparti…>FG
2023 author guidelines
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ffg2023.ieee-biometrics.org%2Fparti…>
.
*For submission* log into *CMT Link
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcmt3.research.microsoft.com%2FAI…>*,
proceed to “create new submission”.
Accepted papers will be included in FG2023 proceedings and will appear in
the IEEE Xplore digital library,
Please feel free to contact us for any further details. Kindly disseminate
this email to others who might be interested.
We look forward to your contributions.
Best regards
Abhijit
CALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23
Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents
From expressive and context-aware multimodal generation of digital humans to understanding the social cognition of real humans
Submission (open July, 22 2022): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023
SIVA'23 workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/
FG 2023 conference: January 4-8 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/
OVERVIEW
Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality together with spectacular advances in artificial intelligence, the ultra-realistic generation and animation of digital humans with human-like behaviors is becoming a massive topic of interest. This complex endeavor requires modeling several elements of human behavior including the natural coordination of multimodal behaviors including text, speech, face, and body, plus the contextualization of behavior in response to interlocutors of different cultures and motivations. Thus, challenges in this topic are two folds—the generation and animation of coherent multimodal behaviors, and modeling the expressivity and contextualization of the virtual agent with respect to human behavior, plus understanding and modeling virtual agent behavior adaptation to increase human’s engagement. The aim of this workshop is to connect traditionally distinct communities (e.g., speech, vision, cognitive neurosciences, social psychology) to elaborate and discuss the future of human interaction with human-like virtual agents. We expect contributions from the fields of signal processing, speech and vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, perceptual studies, and cognitive and neuroscience. Topics will range from multimodal generative modeling of virtual agent behaviors, and speech-to-face and posture 2D and 3D animation, to original research topics including style, expressivity, and context-aware animation of virtual agents. Moreover, the availability of controllable real-time virtual agent models can be used as state-of-the-art experimental stimuli and confederates to design novel, groundbreaking experiments to advance understanding of social cognition in humans. Finally, these virtual humans can be used to create virtual environments for medical purposes including rehabilitation and training.
SCOPE
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
+ Analysis of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Analyzing and understanding of human multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Creating datasets for the study and modeling of human multimodal behavior
- Coordination and synchronization of human multimodal behavior
- Analysis of style and expressivity in human multimodal behavior
- Cultural variability of social multimodal behavior
+ Modeling and Generation of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Multimodal generation of human-like behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Face and gesture generation driven by text and speech
- Context-aware generation of multimodal human-like behavior
- Modeling of style and expressivity for the generation of multimodal behavior
- Modeling paralinguistic cues for multimodal behavior generation
- Few-shots or zero-shot transfer of style and expressivity
- Slightly-supervised adaptation of multimodal behavior to context
+ Psychology and Cognition of of Multimodal Human-like Behavior
- Cognition of deep fakes and ultra-realistic digital manipulation of human-like behavior
- Social agents/robots as tools for capturing, measuring and understanding multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face)
- Neuroscience and social cognition of real humans using virtual agents and physical robots
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline September, 12 2022
Notification of Acceptance: October, 15 2022
Camera-ready deadline: October, 31 2022
Workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023
VENUE
The SIVA workshop is organized as a satellite workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. The workshop will be collocated with the FG 2023 and WACV 2023 conferences at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submissions must be original and not published or submitted elsewhere. Short papers of 3 pages excluding references encourage submissions of early research in original emerging fields. Long paper of 6 to 8 pages excluding references promote the presentation of strongly original contributions, positional or survey papers. The manuscript should be formatted according to the Word or Latex template provided on the workshop website. All submissions will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. The reviewing process will be single-blinded. Authors will be asked to disclose possible conflict of interests, such as cooperation in the previous two years. Moreover, care will be taken to avoid reviewers from the same institution as the authors. Authors should submit their articles in a single pdf file in the submission website - no later than September, 12 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October, 15 2022, and the camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers comments should be submitted by October, 31 2022. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the FG'2023 conference. More information can be found on the SIVA website.
DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION
The format of this workshop will be hybrid online and onsite. This format proposes format of scientific exchanges in order to satisfy travel restrictions and COVID sanitary precautions, to promote inclusion in the research community (travel costs are high, online presentations will encourage research contributions from geographical regions which would normally be excluded), and to consider ecological issues (e.g., CO2 footprint). The organizing committee is committed to paying attention to equality, diversity, and inclusivity in consideration of invited speakers. This effort starts from the organizing committee and the invited speakers to the program committee.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
🌸 Nicolas Obin, STMS Lab (Ircam, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, ministère de la Culture)
🌸 Ryo Ishii, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories
🌸 Rachael E. Jack, University of Glasgow
🌸 Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University
🌸 Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Université
Prof. Rachael E. Jack, Ph.D.
Professor of Computational Social Cognition
School of Psychology & Neuroscience
University of Glasgow
Scotland, G12 8QB
+44 (0) 141 330 5087
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*Recent Advances in Detecting Manipulation Attacks on Biometric Systems
(ADMA-2022) IJCB 2022 - Special Session*
*Website:* https://sites.google.com/view/ijcb-ss-adma-2022/home
Manipulated attacks in biometrics via modified images/videos and other
material-based techniques such as presentation attacks and deep fakes have
become a tremendous threat to the security world owing to increasingly
realistic spoofing methods. Hence, such manipulations have triggered the
need for research attention towards robust and reliable methods for
detecting biometric manipulation attacks. The recent inclusion of
manipulation/generation methods such as auto-encoder and generative
adversarial network approaches combined with accurate localisation and
perceptual learning objectives added an extra challenge to such
manipulation detection tasks. Due to this, the performance of existing
state-of-the-art manipulation detection methods significantly degrades in
the unknown scenarios. Apart from this, real-time processing, manipulation
on low-quality medium, limited availability of data, and inclusion of these
manipulation detection techniques for forensic investigation are yet to be
widely explored. Hence, this special session aims to profile recent
developments and push the border of the digital manipulation detection
technique on biometric systems.
We invite practitioners, researchers and engineers from biometrics, signal
processing, material science, mathematics, computer vision and machine
learning to contribute their expertise to underpin the highlighted
challenges. Further, this special session promote cross-disciplinary
research by inviting the partitioner in the field of psychology where one
can perform the human observer (or super-recogniser) analysis to detect
attacks.
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
Deepfake manipulation and detection technique
Novel generalised PAD to unknown attacks
Image manipulation techniques datasets
Database in image and video manipulation, and attacks
Privacy preserving techniques in digital manipulation attack
detection
Image and video synthesis in PAD
Image and video manipulation generation and detection
Human observer analysis in detecting the manipulated
biometric images
Novel sensors for detecting manipulated attacks
Bias analyses and mitigation in attack detection algorithms
Submission Guidelines:
Submit your papers at:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCB2022 in a special session track.
Paper presented at ADMA-2022 will be published as part of the
IJCB2022 and should, therefore, follow the same guideline as the main
conference.
Page limit: A paper can be up to 8 pages including figures
and tables, plus additional pages for references only. If the 7th and 8th
pages contain any content other than references, they
will incur a cost of USD100 per page.
Papers will be double-blind peer reviewed by at least three
reviewers. Please remove author names, affiliations, email addresses, etc.
from the paper. Remove personal
acknowledgments.
Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission: July 27, 2022, 23:59:59 PDT
Acceptance Notice: August 17, 2022, 23:59:59 PDT
Camera-Ready Paper: August 24, 2022, 23:59:59 PDT
Organizing Committee:
Dr. Abhijit Das, BITS Pilani, India
Prof. Raghavendra Ramachandra, NTNU, Norway
Meiling Fang, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Dr. Naser Damer, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Prof. Hu Han, CAS, China
The NCC Lab is hiring a PhD student in face processing
PhD student (f/m/d)
- Limitation: the position is available immediately with an initial
appointment for 2 years and extensions beyond 2 years are possible
- Working period: 65 % (25,025 h/w)
- Tariff: salary according to TV-L
- Announcement published on 09.06.2022
- Vacancy from 01.09.2022
- Application deadline: 01.07.2022
At the University of Göttingen, a new Collaborative Research Center (CRC)
1528 “Cognition of Interaction” will be established with funding from the
German Research Foundation (DFG). In 22 projects, the CRC 1528 “Cognition
of Interaction” investigates how fundamental cognitive functions and their
neurobiological foundations contribute to human and nonhuman primate social
behavior and social interactions. The CRC is formed by a highly
interdisciplinary consortium formed by systems and computational
neuroscientists, data scientists, psychologists and behavioral and
cognitive biologists. Partner institutions are the University of Göttingen,
the University Medical Center, the German Primate Center, the Max Planck
Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, the University Hospital
Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
In the context of this CRC, the Neural Circuits and Cognition Lab of Caspar
Schwiedrzik at the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen is looking for
an outstanding PhD student interested in studying face perception and
predictive processing. The project investigates neural mechanisms of face
perception and predictive processing at the level of circuits and single
cells, utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in
combination with electrophysiology and pharmacology in non-human primates.
The Neural Circuits and Cognition Lab seeks to understand the cortical
basis and computational principles of visual perception and
experience-dependent plasticity in the macaque and human brain. To this
end, we use a multimodal approach including fMRI-guided
electrophysiological recordings in non-human primates and fMRI and iEEG in
humans. The PhD student will play a key role in our research efforts in
this area. The lab is located at the European Neuroscience Institute
Göttingen (https://www.eni-g.de) and the German Primate Center (
https://www.dpz.eu), which are interdisciplinary research centers with
international faculty and students pursuing cutting-edge research in
neuroscience. Further scientific exchange within the CRC and the Leibniz
ScienceCampus ‘Primate Cognition’ (https://www.primate-cognition.eu)
ensures a broad interdisciplinary framework for networking and cooperation.
The PhD student will have access to a dedicated imaging center with a
dedicated 3T research scanner, state-of-the-art electrophysiology, and
behavioral setups. For an overview of our work and representative
publications, please see our website
https://www.eni-g.de/groups/neural-circuits-and-cognition.
The position is available immediately with an initial appointment for 2
years and a salary according to 65% TV-L E13. Extensions beyond 2 years are
possible. The successful candidate will join one of the many excellent
graduate schools on the Göttingen Campus.
Candidates should have a degree (master, diploma or equivalent) in a
relevant field (e.g., neuroscience, psychology, biology), and ideally prior
experience with non-human primates, strong quantitative, programming, and
experimental skills, and share a passion for understanding the neural basis
of visual perception and its plasticity. A good command of English is a
requirement, but fluency in German is not essential.
Interested candidates should send their curriculum vitae, a description of
their scientific interests and the names and contact information of two
references who are able to comment on your academic background and who
agreed to be contacted to Caspar M. Schwiedrzik (cschwie3(a)gwdg.de)
The University Medical Center Göttingen is committed to professional
equality. We therefore seek to increase the proportion of under-represented
genders. Applicants with disabilities and equal qualifications will be
given preferential treatment.
We look forward to receiving your application by *01.07.2022*:
University Medical Center Göttingen
European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen
Dr. Caspar Schwiedrzik
Group Leader
Grisebachstr. 5
37077 Göttingen
Tel.: +49551/39-61371
E-Mail: cschwie3(a)gwdg.de
Web: http://www.eni-g.de/
Contact person: For questions about the position or project, please contact
Caspar M. Schwiedrzik (cschwie3(a)gwdg.de). For questions about the
application procedure, please contact Christiane Becker (c.becker(a)eni-g.de).
Please send your application via e-mail in PDF-format or via mail in copy
and not in folders.
Travel and application fees cannot be refunded or transferred.
https://www.umg.eu/karriere/stellenangebote/stellenanzeigen-detail/?jobId=4…
Dear Colleague,
We are organizing a special issue at EURASIP Journal on Image and Video
Processing Manipulation Detection in Digital Images
and Videos.
*The submission deadline is July 15, 2022.*
More details can be found at:
https://jivp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/manipulation-detection-in-dig…
Best regards
Abhijit
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*Dr. Abhijit Das*
Assistant Professor.
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems,
BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.
Contact no: +914066303744 (O)
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/dasabhijit2048/home
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