PhD Studentship in Computer Vision for location based services, sponsored by HPLabs Innovation Research Award, UK

Department of Computer Science
We are looking for a motivated, hard working and insightful student to research on methods that use Computer Vision and mobile sensors to enable location based services.

This is a research collaboration between the University of Bristol and Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories UK.

The project aims to develop novel methods for positioning a mobile device using a combination of image based location sensing, inertial sensors and external information such as GPS. The intended application is in enabling location services and virtual augmentations.

The successful candidate will join the Computer Vision Group at the Department of Computer Science, where we have developed a number of real-time visual location and mapping systems that we have applied to augmented reality and robotics. The University of Bristol is one of the very best universities in the UK and Computer Science one of its most successful departments. The selected student will also be eligible to apply for the regular HPLabs internships.

There are no restrictions on nationality as the scholarship can cover overseas university fees and includes a stipend for living expenses. Funding is provided by HP on a yearly basis subject to satisfactory performance for up to three years.

We are looking for the finest candidate from anywhere in the world to join our research team and invite interested students with a good MSc or undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or equivalent to apply. Applicants should have provable excellent C and/or
C++ programming ability (ideally in both Windows and Linux OS), as well as strong mathematical skills. Experience with Computer Vision or related methods is highly desirable and awareness of algorithm design in the context of mobile platforms would be a bonus.

The post will be filled when sufficient high quality applications are received. Therefore, applying as soon as possible is advisable.

Ideally we would like to start the project in October 2008 or earlier.

The project lead and supervisor will be Dr Walterio Mayol-Cuevas, in close collaboration with a team of experts at the Pervasive Computing Lab at HPLabs Bristol.

For further details on the project and application procedure please visit:
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~wmayol/HPaward/

Informal enquiries regarding this studentship can be made by contacting Dr Walterio Mayol-Cuevas viawmayol@cs.bris.ac.uk / wmayol@cs.bris.ac.uk with subject “HP Research award”.