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Job Description

Project: With the emergence of consumer grade devices providing 3D geometry information, such as Microsoft Kinect sensors, Lytro light field cameras, Leap Motion sensors and new camera phones, the way visual data is captured and transmitted is changing. Most often, these new devices provide additional geometry information about the visual scene besides the usual 2D texture information, by means of the clever use of optics, sensors (e.g. infrared), illumination (e.g. reflected light) and signal processing techniques. Thus, efficient techniques to represent this geometry information are urgently needed and 3D geometry coding techniques have recently received renewed interest. A 3D point cloud represents the real world surfaces as a set of 3D point locations and may provide interesting additional benefits such as viewpoint independent representation, more compact storage, improved fidelity, progressive transmission, and enhanced image analysis (e.g. object detection and recognition). This project targets the development of a novel simplified point cloud representation model and efficient methods to code this type of promising 3D representation data.

Research grant: The research grant is associated to a yearly renewable contract that includes an experimental period of 6 months. The research grant consists of a tax-free stipend of 980€ per month for PhD positions. The candidates must fulfill the following conditions:
* Background on the relevant technical areas. Preference will be given to candidates that better understand visual compression, computer vision and information retrieval fields.
* Strong motivation to perform research and to participate in a rich and stimulating project as well as to advance state-of-the-art through the publication of results in international conferences and peer reviewed journals.
* Fluent in English and with good skills in technical writing and presenting.
* Good programming skills (C/C++, Matlab, etc.) are required.

The following researchers will supervise the selected candidate: Prof. João Ascenso, Dr. Catarina Brites and Prof. Fernando Pereira (see http://www.img.lx.it.pt/Staff.html for details). The candidate will join a team of staff and PhD students where intense research and development activities in the image processing and coding fields are carried out.

To apply for the research grant, please submit your application at https://itlisbon.recruiterbox.com/jobs/11034 with the following documents:
1. Detailed curriculum vitae with transcripts
2. A motivation letter (research statement) explaining your interest in the position
3. Recommendation letter(s)

Applications shall be received until suitable candidates for the two positions are found but before 29/02/2016. Selected candidates will be interviewed. For any clarifications, please contact Prof. João Ascenso at joao.ascenso@lx.it.pt.

Job Information

Contact
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Related URL
http://www.img.lx.it.pt/PhD...
Institution
Instituto de Telecomunicac?o?es, Instituto Superior Te?cnico
Topic Category
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Closing Date
Feb. 29, 2016