Stillingstittel:
PhD researcher position in colour and appearance measurement

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

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Jobbnorge ID: 125140

A 100% 3 year PhD researcher position is available at the Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology (AIMT) at NTNU in Gjøvik. The position is hosted at the Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory (Colourlab), and financed under the FRINATEK Toppforsk project - Measuring and Understanding Visual Appearance (MUVApp). The position may be combined with a 25% laboratory engineer position announced separately and thus extended to a four year appointment at 75%.

The MUVApp project (http://www.colourlab.no/muvapp) aims at developing new knowledge on how humans perceive the visual appearance of materials, objects, and scenes, and to develop new methodologies for measuring and communicating visual appearance and appearance-related material and object properties. The project is funded over five years by the Research Council of Norway under the FRINATEK Toppforsk funding call of 2015/16. FRINATEK Toppforsk is a funding call to promote scientific quality at the forefront of international research. The project is led by Professor Jon Y. Hardeberg at The Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory, in collaboration with four international associate partners (CNAM in France, Chiba University in Japan, Yale University in the USA and Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen in Germany).

Research topic

BRDF measurement and gloss modellingMulti-angle instruments and BRDF measuring instruments have been developed to assess gloss and gonio-chromism, i.e. the dependency of perceived colour on the illumination and viewing geometry that is especially important for metallic and special effect coatings and dyed papers. A number of devices have been developed for specific applications, and the design of each of these devices is optimized for a specific appearance attribute (e.g. gloss), while restricting other features. As a result, two instruments can give significantly different measurements. The PhD candidate will work on reviewing and evaluating state of the art measurement methods and devices for BRDF and gloss techniques, and develop new ones. The exact research focus and plan will be developed by the candidate under supervision from Professor Phil Green, Associate Professor Peter Nussbaum, and in collaboration with Dr. Gaël Obein from CNAM.

Information about the research laboratory

The Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory (http://www.colourlab.no) is a research group within the Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Gjøvik. It was founded in spring 2001 to serve the rising needs for colour management solutions in the graphic arts industry. Since its foundation, the scope of interest has grown to cover colour science, colour imaging, image processing, and video processing in a broader sense, and our vision is to be one of the best research groups in this field. To achieve this vision the group employs a number of researchers with a broad competence basis in fields such as graphic arts, colour imaging science, media technology, computer science, signal processing, physics, image processing, and video processing. We also maintain an interactive open environment with strong national and international collaborators both in academia and industry. This has resulted in a wide range of fundamental and applied research projects which the group is actively involved in. Furthermore, the group has a large number of well-equipped laboratories and conference facilities.

Qualifications

All candidates must be able to secure

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Postboks 191 2802 GJØVIK

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Oppland

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år