Research Associate

Fixed-term, Full time

Available for 27 months

1 post available

The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites international applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associates in the area of computer vision and machine learning to join our EPSRC funded project.

The Opportunity:

The successful candidate will be supervised by Dr. Hakan Bilen. There will be opportunities to collaborate with international groups and research groups in the School of Informatics.

The post is available immediately for a fixed term of 27 months with a possibility for extension.

To apply please include:

• A brief statement of research interests (describing how past experience and future plans fit with the advertised position)
• A complete CV, including list of publications
• The names and email addresses of two references

 Project Description

A limitation of state-of-the-art computer vision systems is lacking understanding of their scope of knowledge. Detecting when a previously unseen object instance lies outside their knowledge is challenging. This project will focus on developing computer vision models that “know what they do not know” by using multiple cues like texture, 3D geometry, and motion.

Successful candidates will be responsible for carrying out fundamental research in computer vision and machine learning, proposing novel algorithms and neural network designs, developing software to implement them, benchmarking their performance in various benchmarks, writing project reports and presenting the research in various group meetings and international conferences.

 Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

The following criteria are considered essential to the post:

• PhD degree (or near completion) in computer vision, machine learning.
• Strong publication record at top computer vision and/or machine learning conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) and journals (PAMI, IJCV),
• Research expertise in dense computer vision tasks such as depth estimation, segmentation, or related tasks.
• Excellent programming skills in Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow.
• Ability to work independently and manage own academic research and associated activities.
• Excellence in written and oral communication, analytical, and time management skills.

The following desirable criteria will be evaluated by the level of proficiency. Recruitment will aim at selecting those candidates with the best possible performance in these criteria.

Desirable knowledge, skills and experience are:

• Experience in 3D understanding.

 Further enquiries may be addressed to: Dr. Hakan Bilen (h.bilen@ed.ac.uk)

Feedback is only provided to interviewed candidates.

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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