PhD Studentship in Computer Vision/Robotics

Supervisors: Dr Fabio Cuzzolin and Professor Phil Torr

Eligibility: The following full-time studentship which includes bursary and fees is
available for a maximum of 3 years.
Applicants require a good Honours degree (2.1 or equivalent) and Home,
EU and International students are eligible.

Start date: June  2011

Value p.a. £13,500 bursary & fees (International Students)
£14,500 bursary & fees (EU Students)

The School of Technology at Oxford Brookes University is funding a PhD studentship in Computer Vision and Robotics/Autonomous Navigation under the new Intelligent Transport Systems Doctoral Training Programme.

The Oxford Brookes Vision group is a world-level, internationally recognized group. Its founder Professor Torr has won the most important prize in Computer Vision, the Marr prize, in 1998. The group has won an astounding number of prizes at top vision and machine learning conferences, such as the best paper awards at ECCV 2010 and BMVC 2010, an honourable mention at NIPS 2008, and others.

Topic of research:

Autonomous navigation of intelligent vehicles requires solving a number of sophisticated vision problems, such as the recognition of static (signs, cars) and moving (people, animals, bicycles) obstacles along the vehicle’s path or in its vicinity, the localization and tracking of 3D points in dynamic scenes, object motion prediction and recognition.
Techniques derived from recent developments in manifold learning, graph optimization and spectral decomposition may be potentially useful in tackling such problems.

Informal enquiries:

Dr Fabio Cuzzolin (fabio.cuzzolin@brookes.ac.uk)
Professor Philip Torr (philiptorr@brookes.ac.uk)

Further information about the research:
http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/research/intelligent-transport-systems

Instructions for applicants can be found on our website:
http://tech.brookes.ac.uk/research/intelligent-transport-systems/studentships