PhD at University of Bonn

Post date: Apr 27, 2011 1:38:47 PM

The group "Intelligent Vision Systems (IVS)" at Bonn University,

Germany, is glad to announce the opening of a PhD position on

a DFG (German Research Foundation) funded project entitled

"vision@home: Situated Vision to Perceive Object Shape and Affordances".

Project:

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The project is a cooperation of four universities/research centers: TU

Vienna, RWTH Aachen, IDIAP Research Institute Martigny, and University

of Bonn. The objective of the project is to provide models and

methods to detect, recognize, and categorize the 3D shape of everyday

objects and their affordances in homes. These vision capabilities

shall be used by autonomous mobile robots that operate as assistants

in home environments.

The part of the project that will be tackled in Bonn is concerned with

visual scene exploration and visual search for objects based on

cognitive perception methods. The research is located mainly in the

fields of computer vision and robotics but has also relations to

neuroscience, psychophysics, and cognitive sciences.

Your profile:

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You should have obtained a master (or diploma) in an appropriate area such

as computer science, electrical engineering, physics, or mathematics

and should be familiar with image processing and computer vision

techniques. Experience in robotics or machine learning are welcome.

You should have good programming skills, preferably in C++. Knowledge

of matlab and of the image processing library OpenCV is helpful.

The project has a strong background in psychophysics and cognitive

sciences; knowledge in these areas

is helpful, otherwise a strong interest and motivation to acquire such

knowledge is expected. Good knowledge of English (spoken and written)

is essential, German language skills or the willingness to learn

German will help you to enjoy your stay better. If you are also

curious, motivated, and communicative, willing to continuously learn

and improve your skills, you are a perfect candidate to join our team.

Our offer:

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- 3 year full-time position (ideally, the position should start in autumn

2011)

- payment according to the German Public Service Scale TV-L 13

- the opportunity to work autonomously on interesting research topics

according to international standards together with experienced researchers

Location:

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Bonn is nicely located at the river Rhine in the center of

Germany. The city Cologne and the low mountain area "Siebengebirge" are

just around the corner. As student city and former capital, Bonn

offers many facilities, including sports, nature, culture, and nightlife.

The University of Bonn was founded almost 200 years ago and is

considered to be one of Germany's and indeed Europe's most important

institutes of higher education. As home of learning to over 27,000

students, it enjoys an outstanding reputation both at home and abroad.

It is one of the world's leading research based Universities and has

evolved into the position of a prominent international institution.

The University of Bonn is an equal opportunity employer and as such,

considers individuals for employment according to their skills,

abilities and experience. Preference will be given to suitably

qualified women, all other considerations being equal. The same applies

to handicapped people.

Please send your electronic application (including a detailed CV,

a certificate of your latest degree including grades, a pdf of your

master thesis, and if you have already published research articles: your

publication list and a pdf of your best article)

to Simone Frintrop: frintrop@iai.uni-bonn.de. The closing date for

applications is July 4th, 2011.

Best regards,

Simone Frintrop

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Dr. Simone Frintrop

Phone: +49 228 73 4357

Fax: +49 228 73 4382

Email: frintrop@iai.uni-bonn.de

http://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/~frintrop/

Institute of Computer Science III

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Römerstr. 164, 53117 Bonn

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