USA: Postdoc Positions in Biomedical and Satellite Image Analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia

NIH-, NASA- and DoD-funded postdoctoral positions are available in the Dept. of Computer Science at the Univ. of Missouri-Columbia.

Multi-modal, multi-spectral, multi-view imaging is creating a new class of challenging research problems in image registration, rectification, localization, object extraction, 3D structure estimation, object classification, object tracking, and multi-dimensional visualization. These common computer vision, image analysis and visualization problems are shared across multiple disciplines. In our case three related projects use similar computational and visualization approaches. One project is to locate, classify and track cells in live-cell microscopy for biomedical applications (see below). Another project is to improve hurricane forecasting by assimilating satellite observations and visualizing numerical model results through realtime automatic deformable 2D/3D cloud tracking and flow visualization. The third project is to track vehicles and people in large format wide-area video and use this information for event and activity analysis and video summarization. Other common goals include realtime parallel processing (multicore GPU or Cell clusters) and 3D visualization.

Desirable/required skills include a doctoral degree in EECS or related field with a solid background in image analysis, computer vision, pattern recognition and computer graphics with excellent programming
experience (C++ and Matlab) including numerical PDE solvers, OpenGL, Qt GUI design, use of libraries like VTK, ITK, OpenCV, Boost, etc. Knowledge of level-sets, kernel classifiers and pyramid data handling techniques would be highly advantageous.

Please visit the announcement page for further information.

Contact:
Prof. K. Palaniappan
Dept. of Computer Science
329 Engineering Building West
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211-2060
PH (573) 884-9266, FAX (573) 882-8318

email: palaniappank[ at ]missouri.edu
website: http://meru.cs.missouri.edu