THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Visual & Computational Neuroscience Research Group
EPSRC PHD RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP 2004–2007
Coding of surface colour in natural scenes
Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship, funded by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, to work on a project
to investigate visual perception of surface colour in natural scenes.
The project will concentrate on computer-based modelling of how the eye
and brain neurally code the light reflected from scenes into a form that
does not depend on the colour of the illumination and other accidental
conditions of viewing. The work will take place in well-equipped
laboratories, with a range of computing facilities. The studentship is
part of a larger EPSRC-funded experimental project on perception and
memory for surface-colour in natural scenes, and involves collaboration
with colleagues in the Department of Physics, Minho University, Portugal.
The studentship is open to those with or about to receive the equivalent
of a good U.K. Bachelor’s degree (first or upper-second class honours)
in physics, statistics, mathematics, engineering, computing science,
systems neuroscience, or other relevant discipline.
The studentship, tenable from 1 October 2004, will include maintenance
at the standard level (£10,500 p.a. rising to £12,600 p.a.) and
University tuition fees for an EU student (£8,610 over three years).
For further details, contact Professor David H. Foster, Visual &
Computational Neuroscience Group, Faculty of Life Sciences, University
of Manchester M60 1QD; tel: +44 (0)161 306 3888/3889; fax: +44 (0)161
306 3887; email: [log in to unmask]; web:
http://www.op.umist.ac.uk/dhf.html).
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D. H. Foster, DSc FInstP
Professor of Computational Neuroscience
Department of Optometry & Neuroscience
UMIST
Manchester M60 1QD, UK.
email: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44 (0)161 306 3888 or 3889 (secretary)
fax: +44 (0)161 306 3887
web: http://www.op.umist.ac.uk/dhf.html
or http://personalpages.umist.ac.uk/staff/david.foster
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