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		   Graduate Assistantship(s) available in

			Document Image Understanding
			      Video Processing
		      Multimedia Information Extraction
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The Language and Media Processing Laboratory is seeking several qualified CS
and EE graduate students (MS or PhD) to work on projects relating to 
multimedia information extraction.


Video Indexing and Retrieval
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Description: The development of methods related to the segmentation,
characterization, indexing and retrieval of video and multimedia information
sources.  Specific tasks may include for example, extraction of text from
video frames, integrating speech and closed caption signals for indexing and
retrieval, developing temporal scene representations by analysis of
key-frames and classification of video by type.

Contact:  Dr. Daniel DeMenthon (daniel@cfar.umd.edu)
          Dr. David Doermann (doermann@cfar.umd.edu)



Document Image Processing and Retrieval
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Description: The development of algorithms for indexing large heterogeneous
collections of document images.  Specific objectives include the
segmentation, enhancement and characterization of degraded binary, gray-scale
and color document images, classification of documents at the zone and page
levels, techniques for indexing based on image features and integrating
linguistic keys for indexing.


Contact:  Dr. Tapas Kanungo (kanungo@cfar.umd.edu)
          Dr David Doermann (doermann@cfar.umd.edu)



OCR and Document Page Analysis
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Description: The development of algorithms for the enhancement, logical page
decomposition and recognition of highly degraded document images.


Contact:  Dr. Tapas Kanungo (kanungo@cfar.umd.edu)
          Dr David Doermann (doermann@cfar.umd.edu)



Qualifications: Strong background in mathematics or computer
science. Extensive experience with C or C++ and Unix platforms
preferred.  Document Understanding, Image processing, Pattern
Recognition, or Statistics experience are a plus.


NOTE: Other positions are available for Java Programmers, HCI
researchers and Multi-lingual IR.

If you are interested in either of these areas send a comprehensive vita by
email appropriate contacts.