Research Associate in 4D Video Understanding

The role

A strong and vibrant research team with steady-stream publications in high-calibre venues is looking for a postdoctoral researcher (30-months fixed-term) to develop novel approaches to dynamic 3D (i.e. 4D) video understanding. Topics related to 4D tracking, hand and body pose estimation and long-term tracking of objects in world coordinates will be explored. The project will focus on rethinking video understanding in the new era of 4D understanding. Check Dima’s research interests and projects at: http://dimadamen.github.io/

What will you be doing?

• Conducting novel research in 4D video understanding – contributing novel research on designing, training (with minimal data or self-supervision) and evaluating video understanding models. This will include hands-on research using the latest deep learning approaches. 
• Presenting your work in regular meetings, taking feedback and integrating the goals of the project into your individual research directions.
• Publishing in top-tier venues (conferences and journals). Communicating your work to the best possible audience.
• Collaborating with other researchers, including collaborators at VGG Oxford
• Co-advising junior PGR students

You should apply if

• PhD (completed or working towards) in Video Understanding, preferably with expertise in video understanding or 3D Vision.
• Prior degree in computer science, engineering or mathematics.
• Detailed knowledge of video understanding state-of-the-art, approaches, datasets and problems.
• Experience in handling video data, for learning and inference.
• Experience in modelling deep learning approaches for Video Understanding.
• Experience and evidence of publishing at high-calibre conferences and journals (at least one first-author paper in a major venue – CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/BMVC/NeurIPs/PAMI/IJCV/Neurips/ICLR in the past 3 years).
• Excellent programming skills (Python).
• Proficiency in deep learning frameworks (PyTorch).

Additional information

For informal queries please contact:

Prof Dima Damen: +44 117 9545633, Dima.Damen@bristol.ac.uk

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https://engineering.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/category/engineering-includes-me/

Contract type: Open ended with fixed funding until 26/5/2028

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on 16/07/2025

Interviews are anticipated to take place on 29/07/25

Our strategy and mission

Available documents

• ACAD108160 - Research Associate in 4D Video Understanding - JD.pdf
• Faculty of Science & Engineering Further Particulars 2024-25.pdf

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