TECNIOSpring - Post Doc - Immersive Media Processing

TECNIOspring PLUS: https://bit.ly/3rjGXkK

TECNIOspring PLUS, ACCIÓ's fellowship programme, provides financial support to individual mobility proposals presented by experienced researchers in liaison with a host entity. Fellows are offered 2-year employment contracts in order to develop applied research projects at the host entity of their choice.

DEPARTMENT & PROJECT REVIEW:

Since the last decade, the video research community and industry are strongly focusing on immersive technologies. Relevant examples include Virtual/Augmented/eXtended Reality (VR/AR/XR) scenarios, volumetric/holographic conferencing, and interactive shared experiences. These technologies typically involve advanced capturing systems and representation formats, such as Free Viewpoint and Multiview Video, Light-field, and Volumetric Video, which are all becoming increasingly relevant. In the context of distributed and interactive eXtended Reality (XR), Signal Processing techniques become essential to improve the performance and quality along many different processes and requirements of the end-to-end systems, including: Computer Vision, Content Fusion, Content Encoding, and Content Rendering.

i2CAT (Barcelona, Spain) is opening a postdoctoral position to advance the research field in immersive technologies. The research will be focused on the design, development and evaluation of immersive media processing techniques for interactive VR/AR/XR scenario, potentially supporting a variety of media formats :Free Viewpoint and Multiview Video, Light-field, and Volumetric Video, like Meshes and Point Clouds. The ideal candidate masters one, or more, of the following research fields:

• Point Cloud Video Compression
• Computer Graphics.
• Multi-sensor video capturing, fusion and reconstruction
• Light-field image acquisition and processing
• Light-field image/video compression
• Multiview Video compression

It is expected that the work to be carried out will result in high-quality prototypes, scientific publications and even potentially standard-compliant contributions. The candidate will be integrated with an experienced cross-disciplinary team, and will closely interact with relevant industry and academic partners under the umbrella of national and european projects.

Candidates should prove an experienced track record of publications, and ideally participation in research and industry projects.

Why You’ll Love Working in i2CAT:

• We have a fun loving and friendly international work environment.
• High skilled team: Knowledge sharing and learning from your colleagues is strongly encouraged and lived.
• Be in contact and work with cutting-edge technology
• Work in challenging Research Projects
• Fix salary according to fellowship conditions
• Option of flexible retribution (restaurant card, transport card, medical insurance, kindergarten)
• Flexible working schedule - We know you have a life outside of work and we will work with you to make sure it's kept that way
• Fridays afternoon off
• Intensive work schedule in July & August
• Open space office in Barcelona.
• Free fruits once a week
• Discounted Gym-access
• Telework option
• 25 vacation days per year
• Casual dress code
• You will have the opportunity to attend tech conferences and events

The TECNIOSpring call conditions:

We are looking for a candidate to accompany on her/his Tecniospring scholarship.

Researchers must comply with the conditions detailed in the following link https://bit.ly/31wLmGJ

In addition, the following minimum requirements must be achieved:

• The researcher must not have resided or carried out her/his main activity (work, studies) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the deadline for the submission of applications.
• Hold a doctoral degree and two additional years of full-time research experience after obtaining it; or have at least six years of full-time equivalent research experience, including the period of research training, after obtaining the degree which would formally entitle them to embark on a doctorate. Tecniospring INDUSTRY also welcomes experienced researchers who come after a career break. It is considered that researchers have had a career break when they were not active in research for a continuous period of at least twelve months within the eighteen months immediately prior to the deadline for submission of proposals.

How to apply:

1. Send us a cover letter (in English) stating your motivation and suitability with the offered position.
2. Attach your full CV (including email address, contact details, etc.)
3. Attach your academic track record (in case it isn't in your CV)

Schedule:

• Publication Terms of Reference: 23 June 2020
• Call opening: 1 April 2021
  
• Call deadline: 15 June 2021
• Evaluation process: until October 2021
  
• Official resolution: October 2021
• Start of fellowships: from October to April 2022