[visionlist] R&D Engineer position in digital cinema

[Chaker Larabi]

R&D Engineer announcement at ICONES (SIC, University of Poitiers)
DeadLine: 31/03/2007
larabi at sic.univ-poitiers.fr

ICONES team is a Computer Vision research team based at the SIC
laboratory of the University of Poitiers. We announce an available
position for a R&D Engineer within the framework of the IST EDCine
project.

EDCine will optimize and improve the DCI specification when it comes to
quality, robustness to transmission errors, content security,
stereoscopic imaging, live events and transcoding for digital archiving
and interactive access for various devices. All optimisation will be
validated through strong subjective and objective evaluation.


The R&D engineer will have to install a developing platform common to
the team working on the project starting from existing tools. The R&D
engineer will participate to the install of quality assessment protocols
and the management of assessment campaign. The redaction of technical
reports is also an important task.

Candidates should have a Master of Science or an Engineering diploma,
strong programming skills in C or C++.

Experience in one or more of the following fields will be particularly
appreciated:
- Image processing
- Image compression formats,
- Human visual system modelling
- Stereovision
- Objective and subjective quality assessment.

Good skills in English or French.

The engineer position is awarded for a one-year period (renewable),
starting as soon as possible.