Subject: Research Chair in Multimedia Informatics, Ryerson U, Toronto The School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto is seeking candidates for a new Canada Research Chair in Multimedia Informatics. Ryerson is starting a new graduate program in Photographic Preservation & Collections Management (partnered with George Eastman House,Rochester)and this position will play an important role in that program. Ideally,we are looking for someone who could link with existing research in Electrical & Computer Engineering (see http://www.ryerson.ca/ORS/showcase/ling_guan.htm)
For inquiries please contact: Robert Burley @ [email protected] CRC Chair in Multimedia Informatics The communications transformation ushered in a quarter of a century ago has changed forever how information is acquired and distributed. Since the creation and universal adoption of the Internet and the World Wide Web, digitized imagery and text data have expanded exponentially, comprising a vast labyrinth of information. The resulting explosion in multimedia forms stored on the web has forced practitioners, scholars, and researchers to re examine the very nature of images themselves. The School of Image Arts is positioned to lead in developing tools to provide original and effective access to large, heterogeneous, distributed, visual and multimedia databases. The School views this research area as broad in scope, encompassing a variety of areas of inquiry. The CRC Chair in Multimedia Informatics therefore will be expected to develop leading edge tools for intelligent retrieval of visual information, and to conduct advanced research in distributed information retrieval, information filtering, topic detection, multimedia indexing, and document image processing. Research of this nature is of great value to both the graduate and undergraduate programs associated with the school. The Chair also will have a deep interest in the application of multimedia information retrieval to research in the fields of culture and communications as well as to the digital preservation of our cultural heritage. The Chair will maintain a strong interest in the potential uses for image recognition and image retrieval methods in the production of artistic works. An interest in exploring the possibilities of applying computational intelligence to creative ends or in the creative application of measures of image similarity would be an asset. The Chair is expected to bring to the University an outstanding related research program and possess a Ph.D. in a suitable discipline for example, engineering, computer science, information science or communications systems/technology. Building upon that distinguished research record, the Chair will develop research linkages within and outside the University, attract research funding, and mentor other researchers. ��آ��y˫����+.n�+�����������Z���jw ~'�w���_�z�^ɩ�yۓ��칻 �&ޱ��i�Z�G�j)m�W����r�r��]��N6/�b�� �������'�栕��
