Job Description

The partners of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) PeRceptually Optimised VIdeo CompresSION (PROVISION) are offering different Early Stage Researcher (ESR) and Experienced Researcher (ER) positions all over Europe. The various vacancies are located at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin, the University of Bristol, the British Broadcasting Corporation in London, the RTWH Aachen and the University of Nantes with secondments in the different institutions and internships at renowned associated partners all over the world.
A total of 15 positions are available, 12 at ESR level and 3 at ER level. The eligibility criteria for these posts and the detailed description of each project area are provided in the link below. The salaries for these posts depend on the country where the post is hosted but are in the region of 46 T€/yr for ESRs and 67 T€/yr for ERs.
www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/provision

As an Early Stage Researcher you will work with the Video Coding project team in BBC R&D where you will be responsible for researching new compression tools based on perceptual properties of the human visual system and rate-quality optimisation process for efficient video encoding.

As an Experienced Researcher you will work with the Video Coding project team in BBC R&D and you will be responsible for the research of new compression technologies. You will be involved in the characterisation of requirements and constraints, as well as participating in standardisation and compression-related recommendations activities. Your work will involve performance measurement, benchmarking and evaluation terminology.

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