If interested, please contact Dr. Zheng Yan-Tao yantaozheng@gmail.com
Hiring Organization: Lab for Media Search, National University of Singapore
Research project: Geographical Information Retrieval via Geo-tagging of Web Media Resources
Field of study: multimedia information retrieval, data mining, image content analysis
Responsibilities:
 To conduct research in geo-tagging of Web-based media entities such as images and videos to support mobile location search services.
 To build a geographical information retrieval system that searches web resources with geographical locality
 To develop an annotation scheme that can infer the spatial and geographical knowledge from media documents, by leveraging textual and visual cues
 To develop a model to disambiguate the geographical locality vagueness in queries and a retrieval approach that integrates geographical context and semantic contents of web resources
Requirements:
 Ph.D in computer science or related area
 Research experience in multimedia data mining, image content analysis and pattern recognition
 Proficient in C++, Java
 Priority will be given to Singaporean citizen or Singapore Permanent Residence (PR)
Salary: S$5k and above depending on qualification and expereince
