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Student Assistant (HiWi) Human-like perception for autonomous vehicles

The Augmented Vision Department of DFKI led by Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker is offering a Student
Assistant position for curious and passionate students, who want to explore the field of explainable
autonomous driving and human-like perception (More guidance and specifics about the topic will be discussed in
the initial interview)

Main Tasks:
• Work with the driving simulator at DFKI and assist in data collection.
• Design driving scenarios for driving according to specific use cases.
• Write scripts in Python to process and extract sensor data from a simulated vehicle.
• Develop machine learning models to simulate human-like perception in autonomous vehicles.

Requirements
• Good knowledge of concepts in Computer Vision, Deep Learning and LLMs.
• High-level experience in Python and PyTorch/TensorFlow
• Basic driving experience (optional but preferred).
• Interest in hands-on work with driving simulator and wearable sensors.

References
• Marcu, A.-M. LingoQA: Visual Question Answering for Autonomous Driving (arXiv:2312.14115). arXiv.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.14115
• Kotseruba, I., & Tsotsos, J. K. (2024). SCOUT+: Towards Practical Task-Driven Drivers’ Gaze Prediction
(arXiv:2404.08756). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08756
• Alletto, S., Palazzi, A., Solera, F., Calderara, S., & Cucchiara, R. (2016). DR(eye)VE: A Dataset for Attention-Based Tasks
with Applications to Autonomous and Assisted Driving. 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Workshops (CVPRW), 54–60. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2016.14

• Apply latest by: 07.11.2024

Contact:
Shreedhar Govil, Researcher
Augmented Vision, DFKI
Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern
Email: shreedhar.govil@dfki.de

 

Looking for HIWI

The Augmented Vision Department of DFKI, led by Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker, is looking for a research assistant (Hiwi) interested in developing and creating an annotation tool by the use of SAM or other
recent foundation models

Your Task

  • support the development of anannotation tool integrating the Segment Anything Model (SAM)
  • train, test and integrate state-of-the-art detectionand segmentation models
  • conduct literature research to address upcoming challenges
  • contribute your own ideas and solutions
  • work upto 40 hours per month

Your Qualifications

  • basic knowledge in Computer Vision and Deep Learning
  • strong programming skills in Python
  • advanced Bachelor or Master student
  • reliable and conscientious working style
  • good communication in English or German

Your Benefits

  • enhance your skills in the field of Computer Vision and Deep Learning
  • collaborate in an industry-related project focused in plastic waste sorting and recycling (ReVise-UP)
  • enjoy flexible working times for better compatibility with studies

Application Process

  • send me your motivation why you are the right person for the job
  • attach your CV and latest transcript
  • application in German is possible
  • application only via mail

Apply latest by: 15.09.2024

Contact:
Pelle Thielmann
Email: pelle.thielmann@dfki.de

Master Thesis in Deep Learning for Model-Based 6DoF Object Pose Estimation

 

The Augmented Vision Department of DFKI led by Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker is offering a Master Thesis topic for curious and passionate students, who want to develop themselves in advanced Deep Learning and 3D Computer Vision. (More guidance and specifics about the thesis will be discussed in the initial interview)

Main Tasks:

  • In-depth literature review of recent 6DoF Object Pose Estimation approaches and review of various datasets [2] used in evaluating these methods
  • Developing a novel approach to Object Pose Estimation [1] using recent Deep Learning models such as Transformers [3]
  • Extensive experimentation and ablation studies on various Object Pose Datasets and comparison to state-of-the-art approaches
  • Potentially submitting a concise paper to a Computer Vision conference

Requirements

  • Good knowledge of concepts in 3D Computer Vision and Deep Learning
  • High-level experience in Python and PyTorch/TensorFlow
  • Previous experience in image rendering / dataset creation software like Blender is beneficial

References (Please go through papers [1] and [2] before the interview)

  1. Chen, K., Dou, Q.: Sgpa: Structure-guided prior adaptation for category-level 6d object pose estimation.  ICCV 2021
  2. Sundermeyer, M., Hodan, T., Labbé, Y., Wang, G., Brachmann, E., Drost, B., Rother, C., & Matas, J.E.: BOP Challenge 2022 on Detection, Segmentation and Pose Estimation of Specific Rigid Objects. CVPRW 2023
  3. Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N.M., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A.N., Kaiser, L., & Polosukhin, I.: Attention is All you Need. NeurIPS 2017

 

Apply latest by: 31.08.2024

Contact:

Sandeep Inuganti, PhD Student

Augmented Vision, DFKI

Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern

Email: sain01@dfki.de

Student Research Assistent (Hiwi) Position

Creation of Synthetic Datasets using the Unreal Engine

The Augmented Vision (AV) department at DFKI Kaiserslautern is looking
for a research assistant (Hiwi) for creating a synthetic dataset of
spherical stereo images using the Unreal Engine for the task of human
body pose estimation.

Your Task

  • Searching and selecting maps, models and animations
  • Placing avatars in maps and applying animations to them
  • Placing virtual cameras and recording video sequences
  • Recording data on the positions of the cameras and body joints
  • Write new and modify existing code for character placement, animation selection and recording
  • Help recording a small real-world dataset

What We Expect

  • Experience with the Unreal Engine
  • Good programming skills in Python and C++
  • Reliability and a conscientious way of working
  • Good communication skills in English or German

Please send your application (including CV and transcripts) in
electronic form to: Stephan.Krauss@dfki.de

Looking for HIWI

The Augmented Vision Department of DFKI led by Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker, offers a student assistant job (part-time) for curious and passionate students, who want to develop themselves in Advanced Computer Vision.

Your Task

  • Researching and developing techniques for vision-language models.
  • Data preprocessing and visualization.

Your Qualifications

  • Good knowledge of Python.
  • Interest in Computer Vision and LLM.
  • Master or Bachelor.

Your Benefits

  • Acquire skills in the domains of vision-language models.
  • Opportunity to produce novel research work in the domain.
  • Practical experience in modern Deep Learning techniques

Apply latest by: 31.04.2024

Hours: Min: 10h/week Max: 20h/week

Please attach your cv in the email.

chun-peng.chang@dfki.de

Looking for HIWI

The Augmented Vision Department of DFKI led by Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker, offers a student assistant job (part-time) for curious and passionate students, who want to develop themselves in Advanced Computer Vision.

Your Task

  • Researching and developing techniques for hand pose estimation.
  • Researching and developing techniques for hand-object interaction.
  • Implementing state-of-the-art methods to solve real-world problems such as gesture recognition and hand mesh reconstruction for AR/VR use-cases.

Your Qualifications

  • Good knowledge of Python and Pytorch
  • Interest in Deep Learning and Computer Vision
  • Master or high semester Bachelor

Your Benefits

  • Acquire skills in the domains of hand pose estimation, hand mesh reconstruction and hand-object interaction.
  • Opportunity to produce novel research work in the domain of hand-object interaction.
  • Opportunity to start your thesis with us.
  • Practical experience in modern Deep Learning techniques

Application Process:

  • Solve the tasks specified in the doc and email me the solution.
  • An interview will be scheduled to discuss the solution.
  • If everything goes well, the Hiwi contract starts 1 month (usually) after the confirmation of the job offer.

Apply latest by: 15.09.2024

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding this position:

Christen.Millerdurai@dfki.de

Room 1.21, DFKI-Kaiserslautern

Looking for HIWI

Augmented Vision Department of DFKI led by Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker, offers a student assistant job (part-time) for the curious and passionate students, who want to develop themselves in Advanced Computer Vision.

Your Task

  • Utilize data augmentation techniques to create synthetic datasets
  • Apply state-of-the-art domain adaptation algorithms to analyze datasets for better adaption/generalization

Your Qualifications

  • Good knowledge of Python and Pytorch
  • Interest in Deep Learning and Computer Vision
  • Master or high semester Bachelor

Your Benefits

  • Skills in the methods of Domain Adaptation
  • Working in industry-oriented project with latest hardware
  • Practical experience in modern Deep Learning techniques
  • Flexible working times for better compatibility with studies

Apply latest by: 15.04.2024

Hours: by arrangement, 10h/week (30-40h/month)

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding this position:

yu.zhou@dfki.de

Room 2.03, DFKI-Kaiserslautern


Apply here.