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<td>[Members] [General] Fraunhofer IGD - ESR 3 year PhD
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Fraunhofer IGD - ESR 3
year PhD position in image processing and 3D reconstruction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Job Vacancy to be found
under Ref. No. 33936585 under <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/">http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For enquiries:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pedro.santos@igd.fraunhofer.de">pedro.santos@igd.fraunhofer.de</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Full Time Marie Curie
Early Stage Researcher Positions in the fields of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Computer Science to work
on image processing and 3D reconstruction of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">cultural heritage
artifacts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Applications are invited
from candidates who possess the necessary qualifications in
order to fill one (1) full time Marie Curie Early Stage
Researcher (ESR) Fellow Position within the Competence
Center for Cultural Heritage Digitization at Fraunhofer
Institute for Computer Graphics Research in Darmstadt,
Germany. The selected Marie Curie ESR will work for 36
months within the ITN-Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.itn-dch.eu">www.itn-dch.eu</a>) Marie Curie ITN Programme which, is the only
EU funded programme bringing together fourteen (14) leading
European Institutions as full partners and nine (9) other as
associated partners in a transnational network, aiming at
implementing a multidisciplinary and intersectorial research
and training programme between the academic and the
industrial partners.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Description:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cultural Heritage (CH)
is an integral element of Europe and vital for the creation
of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets
for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job
creation. However, the current research training activities
in Cultural Heritage are fragmented and mostly design to be
of a single-discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle
of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) research, which is by
nature a multi- disciplinary and intersectorial research
agenda. ITN-DCH aims for the first time worldwide that top
universities, research centers, industries and CH
stakeholders, end-users and standardized bodies will
collaborate to train the next generation of researchers in
DCH. The project aims to analyze, design, research, develop
and validate an innovative multi-disciplinary and
intersectorial research training framework that covers the
whole lifecycle of digital CH research for a cost–effective
preservation, documentation, protection and presentation of
CH. ITN-DCH targets innovations that covers all aspects of
CH ranging from tangible (books, newspapers, images,
drawings, manuscripts, uniforms, maps, artifacts,
archaeological sites, monuments) to intangible content
(e.g., music, performing arts, folklore, theatrical
performances) and their inter-relationships. The project
aims to boost the added value of CH assets by re-using them
in real application environments (protection of CH,
education, tourism industry, advertising, fashion, films,
music, publishing, video games and TV) through research on
(i) new personalized, interactive, mixed and augmented
reality enabled e-services, (ii) new recommendations in data
acquisition, (iii) new forms of representations (3D/4D) of
both tangible /intangible assets and (iv) interoperable
metadata forms that allow easy data exchange and archiving.
One ESR will be recruited by the host organization at the
Competence Center for Cultural Heritage Digitization at
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research in
Darmstadt, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Position ESR7:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">One ESR to be recruited
by the host organization of the Competence Center for
Cultural Heritage Digitization at Fraunhofer Institute for
Computer Graphics Research in Darmstadt, Germany for the
duration of 36 months under full employment contract. The
selected candidate's contract can be extended up to 60
months when desired and if performing well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The fellow will perform
research along the following lines:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are looking for a
motivated early stage researcher to join our group and help
us achieve fast and economic mass digitization of 3D
cultural heritage artifacts by automation and parallel
processing technologies from images or videos. This
objective implies the sub-goals of optimizing performance
and parallelism, accuracy, robustness and scalability of 3D
reconstruction algorithms. The position will be tightly
linked with research challenges in the computer vision
domain, especially optical flow and feature recognition
techniques, as well as development of parallel, multi-core
and GPU-based technologies to speed up 3D photogrammetric
reconstruction techniques. Drawing from a data pool of
highly unstructured videos and still images, one of the
challenges will be making the algorithms robust to changes
in background, various lighting situations and optical
degradation of input data, thus experience in automated data
selection and filtering methodologies is vital.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The required competence
and experience is as follows: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Knowledge in the field
of computer vision and image processing is recommended,
including the tasks of background extraction, robust
separation of dynamic and static content, drawing from
methods of optical flow and 2D features, as well as feature-
and marker-based tracking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">3D reconstruction will
be based on photogrammetric approaches, and thus, knowledge
and experience in 3D/4D-reconstruction techniques based on
videos and images, using Photometric Stereo and Multi-view
Stereo, e.g., and other photogrammetric methods is
recommended.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We also want to process
image streams to do 3D reconstruction of dynamic content, so
experience in video streaming and stream decomposition into
frames is useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Furthermore, knowledge
of parallelization techniques is welcome, such as
methodologies for multi-threading, multi-core and multi-GPU
computation, as well as out-of-core computation, as handling
of large amounts of data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The position will be
tightly coupled with active research and practical
implementation within a large software framework, which is
why we require experience in scientific work and
publication. From the implementation side, excellent
programming skills in C++ and optional Java, and GLSL or
OpenCL, as well as experience with cross-platform build
systems such as cmake are an absolute requirement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Since we will be working
intensely in a team, excellent proficiency in the English
language is mandatory, and knowledge of the German language
is encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Professional experience
in the industry and/or with previous EU projects is welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The ESR is expected to
present his/her research results on project meetings,
international conferences and in scientific publications and
to contribute to patents applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Research Fields<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Computer Science,
Computer Vision, Photogrammetry, Computer Graphics, Parallel
CPU/GPU Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Career Stage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Early stage researcher
or 0-4 years of experience (Post graduate) – According to
the FP7-PEOPLE (Marie Curie Actions) Regulations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Eligibility rules for
the Marie Curie fellows can be found at the FP7-PEOPLE 2013
Work programme: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/itn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/itn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Research Profile<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Recognized Researcher
(R2) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Benefits<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">•
Competitive salary to cover living and, mobility costs,
social and health insurance (according to the FP7-PEOPLE
Marie Curie Actions Programme regulations).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• In the
context of a personal Career Development Plan, opportunities
for international collaboration and exchanges to world-class
academic and industrial partners will take place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">•
Possibility for a PhD fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Training
in a range of state-of-the-art scientific skills,
intellectual property and project management skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Secondment
placements within the network’s partners (max. duration 2
months).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For more details on
salary and other benefits please refer to the FP7-PEOPLE
Marie Curie actions website at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/careers_en.htm">http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/careers_en.htm</a>
and <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the FP7-PEOPLE ITN2013
work programme:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/itn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/itn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Applicants are requested
to submit the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">1. Detailed
Curriculum Vitae with all the certified copies of their
awards translated in English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">2. Motivation
Letter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">3. Official
transcripts of grades from all academic institutions of
higher education listed in his/her application, certified
copies of degrees, or/and certifications of fulfillment of
the required obligations for entering a graduate PhD
programme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">4. Official
certified copies of titles and documents in English <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">5. Names of
three referees who, upon request, can provide recommendation
letters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">6. Copies of
any related research papers or other significant work by the
applicant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Applications must be
submitted in a closed express courier envelope marked as
“Application for Marie Curie ITN-DCH Research Fellow
Position” – Pedro Santos, Head of Competence Center <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cultural Heritage
Digitization, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Research IGD, Fraunhoferstrasse 5 - 64283 Darmstadt –
Germany. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Otherwise it must be
sent via regular registered post with a clearly visible post
office stamp of a date not later than 30th of June 2014,
24:00 that is the deadline for the submission of the
applications. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Applicants are also
requested to send their applications electronically to these
email addresses <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pedro.santos@igd.fraunhofer.de">pedro.santos@igd.fraunhofer.de</a> and
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marinos.ioannides@cut.ac.cy">marinos.ioannides@cut.ac.cy</a> before the deadline of 30th of
June 2014, 24:00, however, please note that the electronic
submission alone will not be considered as a formal
application unless the printed application is received as
requested in the previous paragraph.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For enquiries:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pedro.santos@igd.fraunhofer.de">pedro.santos@igd.fraunhofer.de</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Start of the fellowship:
1st of August 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Comment/web site for
additional job details<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Applicant should
have:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Master of
Science Degree from a recognized university in Computer
Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics, Optics,
Archaeology, Geography, Geodesy or any other course
providing the candidate with a background in image
processing and/or 3D reconstruction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">• Excellent
knowledge of the English language at a proficiency level
(spoken and written) is required, Knowledge of German is
encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">More information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">•
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de">http://www.igd.fraunhofer.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">•
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cultlab3d.de">http://www.cultlab3d.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Requirements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- The ESR
candidate, at the time of recruitment, must not have resided
(or carried out his/her main activity e.g. work, studies,
etc.) in Belgium (host country), for more than 12 months in
the last 3 years immediately prior to the reference
recruitment date!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(See also:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/itn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/documents/about-mca/actions/itn/marie-curie-actions-fellowships-people-wp-201301_en.pdf</a>)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- The EST
must not have PhD yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">- Required
Education Level<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Degree
Scientific Master Degree or equivalent, as described above<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Degree Field
Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Physics,
Optics, Archaeology, Geography, Geodesy, Image processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Required Languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Language
ENGLISH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Language
Level Excellent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Additional Languages
(optional)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Language
German, French<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Language Level Good<o:p></o:p></p>
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