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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">PhD:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77142" title="https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77142"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77142</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">Master:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77119" title="https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77119"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77119</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ONE (1) POST-DOC AND (1) MASTER RESEARCH GRANTS IN THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECTS VISUAL-ID AND FACING2<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">APPLICATION opens from 27th of FEBRUARY<sup>
</sup>till 24<sup>th</sup> of MARCH/2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Ref.ª VISUALID_FACING-1</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> and -2</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">: BI-BOLSA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Number of grants:
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">2 (1 POST-DOC + 1 MASTER)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">The Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (ISR) – Universidade de Coimbra opens call for 1 (one) research grants (BI) for PhD holders and 1 (one)
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">research Grant for MD holders</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">In the scope of the Scientific Research Projects – “VISUAL-ID” and “FACING2”, in cooperation with the Portuguese Mint and Official Printing Office (Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda SA).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Scientific Area:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Electrical and Computers Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical
Engineering, Informatics Engineering and affine areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT">Application profile:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT"> PhD in Electrical
and Computers Engineering, Informatics Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, Physics Engineering or similar. The chosen applications will integrate a multi-disciplinary team with the objective of creating an authentication system
of persons based on facial biometrics and the improvement of the authentication technology UniQode, using graphic codes, holograms and glitter inks, creating algorithms for security elements of printed and digital documents. The candidates must have skills
in programming in C/C++ or python and experience with the library OpenCV. Knowledge in image processing, machine learning and in written and spoken English are valued.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">NOTE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> Candidates with
foreign academic diplomas are obliged to present records of the equivalence/recognition of such diplomas and the conversion of the respective final notes to the Portuguese classification scale (whenever a final classification is attributed with the foreign
diploma), issued by the Directorate-General for Higher Education or by a Portuguese public higher education establishment (regulated by Decree-Law no. 341/2007, of 12 October) or, in alternative, present the document of equivalence/recognition of such foreign
qualifications to the corresponding Portuguese qualifications, issued by a Portuguese public higher education establishment (regulated by Decree-Law no. 283/83, of 21 June).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT">Project:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT">These grants are supported by the VISUAL-ID and FACING2 projects.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT">Work plan:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT"> The selected candidates
will develop tasks in the areas of image processing of faces (facial biometrics) and in the areas of facial recognition, liveness detection, verification of ICAO compliance of portraits, morphing attack detection, biometric template protection, among other
areas. The tasks can include the development of modules for face image manipulation or of specific objects, programming convolutional neural networks for face recognition and mobile apps for the demonstration of the results of the project. This project results
from the integration of the ISR-UC in the Innovation Network of the INCM and aims at manipulating of photos of faces for identity and travel security documents as the Citizen Card, Passports and others. The tasks include
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">creating and developing computational tools for generating, reading and decoding machine-readable codes, namely the UniQode code, recently developed in collaboration
with INCM, QRCode, DataMatrix, and other typically two-dimensional codes. It is intended to develop algorithms to standardize the creation, but especially with a focus on detection, rectification, reconstruction and decoding of them and oriented to mobile
reading systems, such as the ubiquitous smartphones and tablets. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT">The work plan will be adapted for the selected candidates in order to work in the development of high-end
technologic products using research methods and algorithms in the area of recognition and machine learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT">Application submission:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT">The applications shall be sent by email to
</span><a href="mailto:nunogon@deec.uc.pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT">nunogon@deec.uc.pt</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:PT">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:PT">
specifying in the subject: <b>VISUALID_</b><b>FACING-1.</b> The application must include the following documentation: CV, habilitation certificate including the final scores obtained in the undergraduate subjects and a motivation letter. Recommendation letters
are valued but not mandatory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Submission of applications:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">The application process is open from 27<sup>th</sup> of FEBRUARY<b> to 24<sup>th</sup> of MARCH of 2023.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">More information in the following links:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">PhD:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77142" title="https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77142"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77142</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">Master:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77119" title="https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77119"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77119</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cumprimentos,</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Nuno Gonçalves.</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tenured Assistant Professor and Research Associate</span></i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Department of Electrical and Computers Engineering</span></i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Institute of Systems and Robotics - Universidade de Coimbra</span></i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://home.deec.uc.pt/~nunogon" title="http://home.deec.uc.pt/~nunogon"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://home.deec.uc.pt/~nunogon</span></a></span></i><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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