The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is home to internationally recognised researchers in educational multimedia, collaboration technologies, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and human-computer interaction. KMi offers students an intellectually challenging environment with exceptional research and computer facilities.

KMi sees PhD students as critical to its mission, and awards Studentships (£12,000/year for 2005/06), with no additional fees, compulsory examinations or teaching required.  We are currently seeking applications for full-time, 3-year research studentships on the following PhD projects.We strongly recommend that you contact the lead researcher directly to discuss your interest prior to writing your Proposal.

(1).Learning user preferences from collective user behaviour in content-based image search

(2).Content-based visual search engines

(3).Visual annotation in content-based search 
  
For details see
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/studentships/examples.cfm