[Cmul_merc] Light fields analysis: Projecto interessante para algum de vós ?

[fp]

  Caro alunos

  Como algum de vós poderá estar interessado em desenvolver actividade 
de investigação durante cerca de 1 ano (após o fim do Mestrado) no 
contexto de um projecto na área da análise de imagens de campos de luz, 
envio aqui informação sobre esse projecto que decorrerá no Instituto de 
Telecomunicações, Lisboa.

  Os campos de luz ou light fields são uma forma muito mais rica de 
'tirar fotografias' que permitem várias novas funcionalidades 
interessantes e também melhorar o desempenho de tarefas como detecção e 
reconhecimento facial , detecção de eventos ou reconhecimento de 
objectos. O projecto terá também uma forte componente de redes.

  Se algum de vós estiver interessado, pode usar os contactos abaixo 
indicados.

  Cumprimentos
Fernando Pereira


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Work Objectives:*

The SeLF-ICN project aims to develop new visual analysis tools to 
extract and identify semantic elements in light field images, e.g., the 
faces of persons captured by a security camera. Light field images are 
acquired by a new generation of cameras which provide richer 
representations of the visual world. These tools will be after 
integrated with a new networking mechanism for referencing the extracted 
image elements by a name that is routable directly in the network layer, 
instead of using a server address to locate a video file therein, as in 
current IP.

This research position targets the exploitation of the richer 
information that is captured by the emerging light field cameras. The 
resulting scene representation allows, for instance, to extract objects 
at multiple focus planes independently of the focus used when taking the 
picture, to analyse the image from different viewpoints, exploiting the 
available directional information. It also allows to extract richer 
feature sets for various analysis purposes.

It is desirable that images captured by online cameras, or identified 
regions of interest within the images, are enhanced with information 
allowing them to be coded and stored in the network in a distributed way 
and requested by name (or features) by users and applications (e.g., for 
comparison against a database), via the network layer itself. While many 
application scenarios can be considered, to focus the work, the project 
will consider a specific type of application scenario highly impacted by 
face detection, namely video-surveillance.

The objectives of the work include.

- To develop new light field imaging pre-processing algorithms, such as 
denoising, and new feature extraction techniques exploiting the richer 
information captured by the light field cameras;

- To develop new face detection and recognition algorithms for light 
field images, including the computation of a set of soft biometrics, 
such as gender or age group, taking surveillance as the reference.

*Place of work:*

The work will be developed at the Instituto de Telecomunicações based at 
the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, under the 
supervision of Professors Paulo Correia and Fernando Pereira.

*Duration:*

18 months (subject to a performance assessment after the initial 6 months).

Start date: 15^th September 2016 (or soon thereafter).

*Monthly salary:*

Value for monthly allowance: 980 € (net), according to table values of 
the scholarships awarded directly by the FCT, in the country 
(www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores). The payment will be made by bank 
transfer.

*Selection criteria:*

Selection of the candidates will be performed by evaluation of the 
submitted documents according to the following two criteria: (i) 
Curriculum vitae/Academic evaluation (measured on a scale of 1 to 20) – 
40%; Suitability of the candidates’ profile to the project based on the 
relevant work experience in the tasks described in the work plan 
(measured on a scale of 1 to 20) – 60%;

An interview will be done to the top listed candidates by the selection 
jury, if necessary.

Note: If the jury considers that none of the applications has the 
required qualifications, the jury has the right to not admit any of the 
applicants.

*Jury:* Professors Paulo Correia, Fernando Pereira and João Ascenso.

*Communication of the results:*

Results will be published at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon. 
The selected candidate will be notified by email.

*Deadlines and Documents:*

Motivation letter explaining the interest in the position, Detailed 
Curriculum Vitae with transcripts, Recommendation Letter(s); the 
application documents shall be sent by email to paulo.correia at lx.it.pt 
and fp at lx.it.pt. Deadline for applications: 9 September 2016.

*Closing Date:* 09-09-2016

*Email:* paulo.correia at lx.it.pt and fp at lx.it.pt

-- 
Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, Ph.D.
IEEE, EURASIP, IET Fellow, IEEE SPS BoG, EURASIP BoD, JPEG Reqs Chair
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto de Telecomunicações
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Phone:  + 351 21 8418460           Fax:    + 351 21 8418472
E-mail: fp at lx.it.pt WWW: http://www.img.lx.it.pt/~fp/

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