Stillingstittel:
Postdoctoral researcher position in video quality assessment and enhancement

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

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Jobbnorge ID: 125157

A 100% postdoctoral 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 by the Research Council of Norway through the BIA-project "Meet easy" which is led by Kubicam AS in collaboration with SINTEF and NTNU. The duration of the appointment is 3 years.

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, 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. Further, the group has a large number of well-equipped laboratories and conference facilities.

The "Meet easy" project will develop an easy-to-use telepresence solution at an unmatched price point. A camera will be developed with a high-quality video and audio system, combined with smart image and audio processing allowing for an unprecedented user experience. This will enable enterprise quality collaboration to any endpoint, screen, workspace environment, and user.

The solution is designed for the 95% of the enterprise market where current solutions are either too expensive, insufficient or too complex for broad adoption.Supporting the overall goal of the project to enable an enhanced user experience, the postdoctoral fellow will focus more deeply and systematically on video quality, following and extending state-of-the art methodologies in the areas of image and video quality and quality of experience. This will not only enable to document and prove that the quality is actually improved as a result of the research in this project, but will also contribute to actual improved quality for instance through the use of relevant quality metrics in the design and optimization of video processing algorithms, and by incorporating knowledge about the human visual system. The overall methodology includes i) a systematic analysis of the elements of the workflow (including image capture, processing, transmission, display, and environmental conditions) that influence the resulting quality, ii) identification of potential areas of enhancement, iii) develop and implement enhancement algorithms, iv) define a large video dataset and apply algorithms, v) evaluate results using quality metrics and perceptual experiments involving human observers.

Qualifications

• PhD degree (or equivalent) within computer science, electrical engineering, image processing, or a closely related subject
• A high level of personal responsibility, initiative, motivation and ability to work in a project team as well as independently.
• Good organization and communication skills w
  
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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
  
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  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  
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