[Jobinfo] Fwd: Job: Attentive Vision for Robots

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>Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:35:43 GMT
>From: Bob Fisher <rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk>
>To: wp@cg.tuwien.ac.at
>Subject: Job: Attentive Vision for Robots
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>Please contact mertsching@upb.de if you are interested in this job.
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>Job: Attentive Vision for Robots
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>
>   University of Paderborn
>   GET Lab
>   One Doctoral/ Post-Doctoral Research Post - Computer Graphics and
>                                                     Computer Vision
>
>
>Applications are invited for one doctoral/ post-doctoral researcher to
>work at GET Lab on a DFG funded project entitled "Attentive Vision for
>Robotic Assistance Machines (AVRAM) --- early clustering approach towards
>artificial visual attention for increasing performance of active vision
>systems".
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>Project goal: Despite its short history modeling visual attention has
>found many useful applications in different areas such as visual search,
>perceptual grouping, object and gesture recognition, object tracking,
>image and video compression and scene rendering in 3D graphics. We
>intend to broaden the scope to areas such as driver assistance systems,
>rescue robotics, aid systems for the elderly or handicapped, and other
>areas where machine vision could play a helping role for people. In this
>project, we aim to demonstrate attention behaviors on real-time active
>vision systems integrated in mobile robots working in natural 3D
>environments with live sensor data so that this work may become a
>milestone towards the long-term target of biologically inspired human
>assistance machines. For this purpose, we are extending the modalities
>of our existing attention model by adding the necessary feature channels
>of motion and depth, and reformulating the rest of the attention model
>in accordance with the new changes. Moreover we plan to introduce a
>spatial memory infrastructure into the model to store locations and
>features of the learned objects and to allow the vision system to
>operate autonomously for long time spans. In order to quantitatively
>measure the performance of this project in particular and evaluate the
>output of attention models in general, we intend to build a sharable
>resource for performance assessment and benchmarking of visual
>attention models. The tool for attention evaluation will be developed
>in close interaction with leading experts in the field and made
>available for the research community in this area.
>
>The main activities of the researcher at Paderborn will be to
>investigate how to evaluate different attention models. This research
>will involve generation of 3D testing scenarios, further development of
>our robot simulator, visualization of multimodal attention clues,
>development of metrics for the evaluation of attention models and the
>development of a web based system for the evaluation of different
>attention models.
>
>Applicants for the post must have completed a master program in an
>appropriate area such as computer science, electrical engineering, or
>physics and should have experience with computer graphics, computer
>vision as well as the C, C++, and Matlab/Simulink programming languages.
>As the project is about 3D data simulation, we will be looking for
>applicants with experience with OpenSceneGraph, OpenGL and ODE.
>
>The position is initially for two years with the possibility of
>extension. It is paid according to the German Public Service Scale
>(TV-L 13). The closing date for applications is November 28, 2008.
>
>The University of Paderborn is an equal opportunity employer:
>Handicapped individuals are strongly encouraged to apply, and so are
>women in areas in which they are underrepresented.
>
>Further particulars are available from, and electronic applications are
>sent to: Prof. Dr.-Ing. B?rbel Mertsching,  GET Lab, Fakult?t EIM-E,
>University of Paderborn, Pohlweg 47-49, 33098 Paderborn, Germany,
>Tel +49 5251 605293, Fax +49 5251 603238, mertsching@upb.de,
>http://getwww.upb.de. A meaningful application should include a cover
>letter, a CV, a brief summary of research interests, a statement of
>interest in the position offered, and contact information for two
>references.
>
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