Job Description

Based in the Visual Information Laboratory in the Faculty of Engineering, this Marie Curie ITN project will create a new content-driven framework for video compression, paying specific attention to perceptual coding for emerging immersive technologies. Our aim is to shift the video coding paradigm from rate-distortion optimisation to rate-quality modelling, where region-based parameters are combined with perceptual quality metrics to inform and drive the coding and synthesis processes. Research is needed to fully exploit the method's potential and to yield stable and efficient solutions.

Three posts are available in this area; one for an Experienced Researcher (ER) of 2 years duration, and two for Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), each lasting 3 years. Both ER and ESRs will be required to formulate new research ideas and directions relevant to the grant and topic and present and demonstrate results locally and internationally to industry, conferences and standards bodies. You will be responsible for the timely delivery and reporting in association with specific research areas. All posts will involve secondments to other European partner organisations.

ER: As well as conducting independent research, the ER will play a major role in coordinating the research programme, advising PhD students, and in developing a stable validation and reference platform. You will have a PhD related to video compression, with experienced in video quality assessment, and video analysis and synthesis together with excellent software engineering skills in Matlab and C++. Knowledge and experience of HEVC is also desirable.

ESRs: Two ESR research posts are available in the areas of Rate Quality Optimisation, and Content Analysis and Synthesis. You will be in possession of a high ranking degree from a good university in the field of electronics, computer science, mathematics or a related discipline. You will have an interest in and preferably some experience related to image processing or video compression and will be competent in Matlab and C++. Subject to certain conditions, ESR postholders will be able to register for a PhD at the University of Bristol..

Marie Curie ITN eligibility criteria apply to all of these positions. Details are provided in the further particulars.

All posts are full-time fixed-term contracts starting in early 2014. It is anticipated that interviews will be held on 17 December 2013. For further information please contact:

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor David Bull at Dave.Bull@bristol.ac.uk

Experienced Researcher €78,624 per annum
Early Stage Researcher €51,072 per annum
(plus mobility allowance at both levels)

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