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<span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">I am looking for a highly motivated <a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CC6136R">Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics</a> to work on dynamic scene reconstruction for 6-DoF VR Video.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">This is a full-time, </span><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">fixed-term appointment until June 2021 (32 months from now). The starting salary will be £33,199–£39,609. The application deadline is Tuesday, 4 December 2018, with an anticipated interview date of Tuesday, 18 December 2018. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The successful candidate is expected to start as soon as possible.<span> </span></span></span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Project context:</b><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">To feel truly immersed in virtual reality, one needs to be able to freely look around within a virtual environment and see it from the viewpoints of one’s own eyes. Immersion requires ‘freedom of motion’ in six degrees-of-freedom (‘6-DoF’), so that viewers see the correct views of an environment. As viewers move their heads, the objects they see should move relative to each other, with different speeds depending on their distance to the viewer. This is called motion parallax and is a vital depth cue for the human visual system that is entirely missing from existing 360° VR video.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">To achieve 6-DoF VR video that enables photorealistic exploration of dynamic real environments in 360° virtual reality, this project will develop novel video-based capture, 3D reconstruction and rendering techniques. We first explore different approaches for capturing static and dynamic 360° environments, which are more challenging, including using 360° cameras and multi-camera rigs. We start with 6-DoF 360° VR photographs (i.e. static scenes) and then extend our approach to 6-DoF VR videos.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Our aim is to publish the resulting research and results in leading computer </span><span class="gmail-m_-2179715469304111984gmail-il" style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">vision</span><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> and computer graphics venues, specifically CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, IJCV and/or SIGGRAPH (Asia)/Transactions on Graphics.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Job description:</b><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">The main focus of this job is to translate research algorithms into plugins for industry-standard software like Foundry’s CaraVR/Nuke, for example for reconstructing the 3D geometry of the environments from the captured images and videos of 360° environments. Extending image-based rendering to 360° environments will then enable 6-DoF motion within a photorealistic 360° environment with high visual fidelity, and will result in detailed 360° environments covering all possible viewing directions. Another focus of this job is to oversee the software development within the project team (and potentially other additional CAMERA projects). This is to ensure best practices with respect to software design, implementation, testing, version control and documentation.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">You will join the vibrant Visual Computing group at Bath, which comprises around 30 doctoral students, 5 post-doctoral researchers and 8 academics, and presents many opportunities for collaborative work and shared publications.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">To find out more about this position, the application procedure, the project and/or our group, please contact Christian Richardt (</span><a href="mailto:c.richardt@bath.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small">c.richardt@bath.ac.uk</a><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">).</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Please forward this email to anyone who might be interested in these positions.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Many thanks,</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://richardt.name/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small">Dr Christian Richardt</a><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><i style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Assistant Professor<br>University of Bath<br>United Kingdom</i> <br></div></div></div></div></div>