Postdoctoral Research Position in EURECOM: Speech recognition / Semantic Web / Video Accessibility

Description

Title: Automatic speech recognition and collaborative annotation for improving accessibility on video sharing websites by the visually and hearing impaired.

Department: Multimedia Communications

Start Date: January 2010
Duration: 18 months up to 24 months

Description:
Eurecom’s Multimedia Communications Department invites applications for a full-time post-doctoral researcher to work on the ACAV (Annotation Collaborative pour l'Accessibilité Vidéo) project funded as part of the "Web Innovant" call. The project aims to improve the accessibility of video on popular content sharing websites by the visually and hearing impaired. The first part of the project involves the development of an automatic speech recognition system (preferably using freely available, open-source software), to transcribe web-based video data. The second part of the work entails the design and implementation of a system to improve the accessibility of the content to the visually and hearing impaired, based on semantic web and collaborative annotations technologies. The position requires significant experience in speech recognition research. Training on semantic web technologies and ontology modelling will be provided. The project consortium is composed of Dailymotion, LIRIS - University of Lyon 1 and EURECOM.

Original URL

http://www.eurecom.fr/resources/documents//0_Institut/Open_Positions/MM/MM_Post_doc_nov2009_english.pdf

http://www.eurecom.fr/resources/documents//0_Institut/Open_Positions/MM/MM_Post_doc_nov2009_english.pdf