Engineer / Post-Doc at ENSTA-ParisTech
"Embedded vision on parallel computing platform"
The Electronics and Computer Science Laboratory of ENSTA-ParisTech (http://www.ensta.fr), carrying out academic and industrial research in Robotics and Vision, offers an Engineer / Post-Doctoral position to develop, characterize and optimize Vision applications on off-the-shelf parallel computing platform.
Instances of such platform range from GPU (e.g. NVIDIA Fermi) to low power multimedia circuit embedded in cell phones (e.g. TI OMAP). They use dedicated development environments and operating systems, that will need specific learning efforts, possibly including some hardware aspects.
Applications will be related to mobile robotics or video surveillance. More specifically, object characterization and recognition, or visual cartography and navigation for autonomous vehicle will be considered. Parallel computing will naturally be used to accelerate the most intensive tasks, such as feature extraction (e.g. salient points), or the implementation of machine learning techniques. A key issue will be to manage irregularity in data processing.
Algorithmic choices, in particular those dealing with the target application or the adequation with the chosen architecture, will be made in collaboration with one or more faculty members, and the resulting works are vowed to be published.
The preferred profile of the applicant is a post-doctoral researcher with particular interest in the actual realization of his ideas. He can also be an engineer without a PhD, but motivated by the search and analysis of optimal solutions to a problem.
Knowledge and skills:
- Comfortable in programming, including C and C++
- Good culture in Hard/Soft-ware, Operating systems, Parallel Computing
- Image processing and/or Machine learning techniques (appreciated)
Human qualities:
- Motivation, tenacity, willingness
- Curiosity, open-mindness
- Good listening
- Easy relationship, good communication
Duration: 6 months starting march/april 2010, renewable for 6 to 9 months
Net salary: approximately 2000 euros per month
Contact persons: Thierry.Bernard@ensta.fr, Antoine.Manzanera@ensta.fr
