[visionlist] PostDoc on Computer Vision on Cultural Heritage Technologies (CCHT at CàFoscari) - [ Postdoc ]

[Stuart James]

PostDoc on Computer Vision on Cultural Heritage Technologies (CCHT at CàFoscari)
- [ Postdoc ]
Workplace: Venezia, CCHT
Added on: 04/10/2018 - Expires on: 15/03/2019

The IIT center at Ca' Foscari University in Venice - Center for Cultural
Heritage Technology at CàFoscari (CCHT at CàFoscari) has the mission to
research and promote new technologies and to extend existing techniques for
preservation and analysis of the invaluable Cultural Heritage assets
managed by cities, galleries, libraries, archives and museums across
different fields of art. CCHT at CàFoscari is currently seeking to appoint a
Computer Vision Postdoc.

The selected candidate will join an interdisciplinary team of researchers,
contributing to the development of* next generation 3D digitization and
machine learning approaches *applied to the* Cultural Heritage (CH) and
Digital Humanities (DH) domain.*

Required qualifications:

   - A Ph.D. in computer science (with specialization in either computer
   vision or machine learning) or related field;
   - Proficiency with programming languages, in particular Python, C/C++
   and MATLAB;
   - Experience in the 3D computer vision field e.g. 3D reconstruction from
   RGBD data, photometric stereo, structure from motion, BRDF estimation,
   structured light systems.
   - Publications in major Computer Vision and/or Computer Graphics
   conferences/journals (e.g. CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH,  Eurographics, ToG,
   TPAMI, IJCV, IVC, CVIU).
   - Good communication skills and ability to cooperate;
   - Proficient in English language (written and oral).

Desirable skills:

   - Knowledge of OpenCV, PCL and Open3D libraries;
   - Practical experience on Deep Learning algorithms and relevant
   platforms for geometric learning (e.g. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Theano, Caffe);
   - Experience in Cultural Heritage 2D-3D digitization and analysis.

*The successful candidate will be offered a salary commensurate to
experience and skills.*

*The call will remain open until the position is filled but a first
deadline for evaluation of candidates will be March 15, 2019.* Please send
your application to ccht at iit.it quoting “CCHT Computer Vision Postdoc – BC
75117” in the e-mail subject. Your application shall contain *i)* a
detailed CV, *ii)* a one-page research statement and *iii) *contact
information of two referees.

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