[visionlist] Job: Full time scientific software engineer (1 year) – INSERM U846, Bron, France

[Guillaume Gibert]

Job: Full time scientific software engineer (1 year) – INSERM U846, 
Bron, France

We are looking for a full time scientific software engineer to work on 
the development of our cutting-edge research platform ‘super-Wizard of 
Oz’ financed by the ANR ‘Retour Post-doctorants’ SWoOZ. The successful 
candidate will get to work on software development in different areas 
including computer vision, computer graphics and robotics.

Context and Job description
Our project aims at developing a real-time puppetry method to control 
avatars and robots. It will be then possible to mirror a person’s 
behaviours on an avatar and/or a robot in real-time. The system latency 
will be minimized using parallel programming. This platform will be used 
to investigate the ‘real’ limits of human-avatar and human-robot 
interaction. These findings will help to improve human computer 
interaction in general and virtual agents and humanoid robots in particular.
The scientific software engineer will develop software to track in 
real-time face, eye gaze and hand movements from dedicated devices 
(Kinect, eye tracker). He will be also in charge of developing software 
to control in real-time avatars and robots (iCub). In addition, he will 
setup and maintain a revision control system (SVN) and external and 
internal websites.

Skills and experience
The candidate should have the following skills and experience:
•    A Master/Engineer or Doctorate degree in computational science with 
focus on mathematical programming, computer vision or computer graphics;
•    A highly level of competence in C and C++ under Windows and Linux;
•    A strong grounding in a broad range of computer vision techniques 
and experience with OpenCV;
•    Up to date theoretical understanding and practical experience of 
feature based image matching (ASM, AAM, CLM…);
•    A strong grasp of linear mathematics and linear and non-linear 
optimisation;
•    A good level in parallel programming (OpenCL and/or CUDA).
•    Robotics programming experience;

The following skills and experience are not essential to us but would 
provide you with an advantage:
•    Java development;
•    Qt programming;
•    Computer graphics experience (OpenGL, Java3D, JOGL, PCL…);
•    SVN server, website setup and maintenance experience;
•    Human-Computer Interaction and/or Computer Facial Animation experience.

Duration: 1 year
Starting date: February-March 2011
Place: Bron (69) near Lyon, France
Salary: ~2319 euros (gross)/month adjusted according to experience and 
family situation

Please email your application (including CV, 2 referees’ name and 
contact details) to guillaume [dot] gibert [at] inserm [dot] fr before 
29th January 2012.

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Guillaume Gibert, PhD.
INSERM U846
Stem-Cell and Brain Research Institute
18 avenue Doyen Lépine
69675 Bron Cedex
FRANCE
Tel.: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 41
Fax: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 61
Web:http://ruedelametallurgie.free.fr/ggibert/