[Jobinfo] Fwd: [Members] [General] Post doc position available at IRIT Toulouse, France

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Subject: 	[Members] [General] Post doc position available at IRIT 
Toulouse, France
Date: 	Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:19:27 +0100
From: 	Stefanie Behnke <s.behnke@eg.org>
To: 	<general@eg.org>



  Postdoc MAPSTYLE


  Working condition

The recruited person will be involved in the MAPSTYLE project (ANR 
French founding agency program CONTINT). This project is led by Sidonie 
Christophe <https://sites.google.com/site/sidoniechristophe/home>from 
COGIT lab of the national institute for geographical and forest 
information (IGN). The project joins researchers in computer graphics 
and researchers in geographical information science, cartography in 
particular. The focus of the project is maps stylization and automation 
of stylized maps creations. Apart IGN, three research labs participate 
to the project:

  * INRIA Rhône-Alpes/Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, with Joëlle Thollot
    <http://maverick.inria.fr/%7EJoelle.Thollot/>
  * université Paris 5/LIPADE, with Thomas Hurtut
    <http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/%7Ehurtut/>
  * université Paul Sabatier/IRIT, with David Vanderhaeghe


One of the objective is to define formally what is a map's legend, and 
how to control it to allow user to give their own style to a map. This 
work will be done at IRIT in direct interaction with David Vanderhaeghe 
and with a strong link with the other partners (regular meetings are 
planned along the project).


    Job description

The recruited person will be in interaction with cartographers, the 
researchers in geographic science of the IGN and also with computer 
graphics researchers. The first step is to evaluate existing legend 
models and improve them for semi-automatic legend creation. The focus of 
the second step is automatic information extraction to define legends 
from examples. These examples could be maps or other images and feature 
extraction could be extract a color palette or some drawing's features 
from artistic pieces, comics or photographs. It is a research work which 
will be validated by scientific publications. This research work is 
linked with the implementation of demos to allow the evaluation by final 
user. The demos will be implemented with the free software GeOxygene 
from the IGN.


    Profile

Ph. D in computer science in the field of computer graphics or GIS with 
computer science.


    Desired Skills

Java, 2D computer graphics, expressive rendering, cartography, GIS.


    Other Informations

We can also adapt the offer to an engineer's work depending on candidate 
profile.
Contact David Vanderhaeghe (vdh@irit.fr <mailto:vdh@irit.fr>) for 
further details.



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