The PhD candidate will work within the framework of the industrial research project Enigma. The general goal of the project is to enable situational awareness for officers (actors) during indoor inspection operations. Actors will be equipped with visual and other sensors providing the data for on-the-fly analysis of the surroundings. The analysis should provide actors sufficient information for forming a local and global situational awareness. The project undergoes specific governmental constraints, therefore only EU citizens can apply for this PhD position.
The goal of the PhD candidate is to research and develop methods to process the data from the on-body visual sensors and to reconstruct the map (either 2D or 3D) of the surroundings on the fly. At the same time, the location and orientation of the moving actor should be instantly computed. Another goal is the analysis and detection of areas of interest, which are specific for each type of inspection. Scientific challenge here is that the actors carrying the sensors can move fast and in unpredictable way.
Video Coding & Architectures
The PhD student will be working in the Video Coding Architecture research group (
vca.ele.tue.nl ) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at TU/e. The Department of Electrical Engineering is one of the nine departments of the Eindhoven University of Technology and provides BSc and MSc programs in Electrical Engineering. The department has nine large research groups and has research collaborations with other departments at the Eindhoven University of Technology as well as with a large number of other universities and companies, both within The Netherlands and internationally. The Electrical Engineering faculty has approximately 300 employees and over 1000 students.