The fusion of depth and monocular visual cues for building higher level scene descriptions

PhD thesis

The PERCEPTION group at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Montbonnot (near Grenoble) France, seeks a strong PhD candidate to work in the area of computer vision, more precisely she (he) will address the problems of fusing depth (a dense disparity map) and monocular cues (interest points which are invariant to color and illumination) and of building higher level scene descriptions through the use of graph theory, of probability theory, and of modern optimization methods.

The PhD researcher will have a 3-year contract with INRIA and will carry out her/his work within an European project which starts on January 1, 2006 for a duration of 3 years. The project is sponsored by the European Commission through the ``Cognitive systems’’ objective of the FP6/IST programme. Other project partners include the University of Sheffield, UK (the speech and hearing group), the University of Coimbra, Portugal (the active vision and robotics group), the University of Osnabruck, and the University of Hamburg, Germany (the neurophysiology group and the cognitive neuroscience group)

Eligibility: The candidate should hav a master of science or an equivalent degree with a strong background in computer vision, applied mathematics, statistics, and programming.

Start date: 1 January 2006

Contact person: Radu Patrice HORAUD

Deadline: 15 December 2005