Dear Face-researchers,

[Sorry for cross-posting]

If you know any junior research who could be interested, please pass on this job opening:

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Research & Development Assistant
(Automatic Expression Recognition Research) – VicarVision, Amsterdam, NL

VicarVision (Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a private R&D company developing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence solutions. VicarVision is the developer of FaceReader® - world's first tool capable of automatically analyzing facial expressions, providing users with an objective assessment of a person’s emotion.

Job Description
You will aid a team of experienced software developers in the development of the new FaceReader system. This includes tasks such as the collection and annotation of training material (images and videos displaying various emotions), experimenting with different training parameters to improve new models for automatic emotion classification, and evaluating the performance of such models using statistical tests.

Ideal candidate:

- Graduate (or Master-level student) in Social & Behavioral Sciences or similar field
- Training in experimental psychology
- Skill in Facial Action Coding System (FACS) (or willingness to learn)
- Technical skills: databases, statistics, some programming
- Knowledge about facial expressions and emotion theories
- Willingness to meticulously perform annotation tasks
- Creativity in developing alternatives to tedious tasks, by tools or crowdsourcing
- Good ability to work independently
- Excellent Dutch or English

We offer:
- R&D assistant position for 6 months with possibility of extension
- Fulltime or part-time employment possible (full-time salary ~ €2000 gross per month)
- Training in use of advanced scientific software
- Work experience in the innovative field of computer vision

Relevant links:
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Deadline: October 27, 2013.

The incoming applications will be assessed on continuous basis. An interview using Skype is a possibility.

Starting date: November 1st , 2013

If you are interested, please send your CV and a cover letter to:
Tim den Uyl
Machine Vision Engineer
tim@vicarvision.nl