Applications are invited for one full-time PhD studentship
(with scholarship) for a period of 3 years, starting Nov 2014, at
“The Physical Structure of Perception and Computation” lab of the
Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and System
Engineering (DIBRIS), University of Genoa, Italy.
The proposed PhD research project will be focused on “Learning
compositional visual representation of 3D shapes in vergent
geometry”.
The goal is to derive a deep architecture for abstracting the
statistically relevant information present in the disparity patterns
obtained by binocular fixations. Starting from a neuromorphic early
representation of 2D binocular disparity, the resulting 3D visual
descriptors should be characterized by generalized perceptual
constancy.
The project will provide the opportunity to work on neural modeling,
visual psychophysics, computer vision, or a combination of them.
Experimental, modeling, and theoretical approaches might be pursued
with a different accent according to personal attitude.
Ongoing cooperation, at international level, with research groups of
different disciplines, will ensure a highly interdisciplinary and
stimulating environment.
Successful applicants will have at their disposal state-of-the-art
sw and hw, 3D VR-AR experimental set-ups, a high precision 3D laser
scanner, a large-scale CPU/GPU-based neuromorphic architecture for
joint stereo and motion cortical representation, and an iCub 6dof
binocular robot head.
Successful applicants would have a good honors degree in
bioengineering, computer science, physics or related disciplines,
strong interest in computational neuroscience, and an open mind for
interdisciplinary research.
On-line application will be soon opening (deadline: August 30th,
2014 at 12:00 noon (Italian time/CET))
DIBRIS is a unique inter-school department of the University of
Genoa, bridging together researchers from the former Science and
Engineering Faculties. It offers an excellent multidisciplinary,
interactive and collaborative research environment combining
expertise in computer vision, computational neuroscience,
neuromorphic computing, robotics and mechatronics.
PSPC-Lab (www.pspc.unige.it), has a
long-standing expertise in visual coding and multidimensional signal
representation, robot perception and computer vision. In the last
five years, the lab’s research activity focused on the analysis of
the structural mechanisms of visuo-spatial cognition, responsible
for orienting and interacting in the 3D space.
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Silvio P. SABATINI, PhD [PSPC Research Group]
Professor of Bioengineering
DIBRIS - University of Genova | e_mail: silvio.sabatini@unige.it
Via Opera Pia, 11A | phone: +39 010 3532092/3532794
I-16145 Genova (ITALY) | fax: +39 010 3532289/3536533
URL: http://pspc.unige.it
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