The Multimedia Signal Processing Group at Instituto de Telecomunicações,
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, invites applications for
the MUVIS (MUlti-view distributed coding for VIsual Sensor networks)
project, financed by national funds through the Fundação para a Ciência
e a Tecnologia (FCT), that will address the following research topics:
i) distributed video coding and ii) multi-view video coding.
The research grant is associated to a yearly renewable contract, for a
maximum duration of 3 years. The project work plan can be found at
http://www.it.pt/project_detail_p.asp?ID=1570
The research grants are available in accordance with the FCT regulations
for advanced training and qualification of human resources, see
http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores.
The candidates must fulfill the following conditions:
- Background on the relevant technical areas. Preference will be given to candidates that better understand video compression principles, stereo/multi-view processing and computer vision, including view synthesis and depth estimation
- Strong motivation for research work on the video compression and processing fields and for the publication of results in international conferences and peer reviewed journals
- Fluent in English and with good skills in technical writing and presenting
- Good programming skills (C/C++, Matlab, etc.) are required
Candidates that would like to pursue a PhD degree are strongly encouraged to apply.
The selected candidate will be supervised by the following researchers:
Prof. João Ascenso, Dr. Catarina Brites and Prof. Fernando Pereira (see
http://www.img.lx.it.pt/Staff.html for details).
Please send your application by email tojoao.ascenso@lx.it.pt, including:
1. Detailed curriculum vitae
2. Motivation letter
3. Recommendation letter(s)
Applications shall be received no later than 2nd February 2012. Selected
candidates will be interviewed. For any clarifications, please contact
Prof. João Ascenso atjoao.ascenso@lx.it.pt.