[AllUsers-ISR] 2 Research Grants for VISUAL-ID and FACING2 project

[nunogon at deec.uc.pt]

PhD: https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77142
Master: https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77119
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ONE (1) POST-DOC AND (1) MASTER RESEARCH GRANTS IN THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECTS VISUAL-ID AND FACING2

APPLICATION opens from 27th of FEBRUARY  till 24th of MARCH/2023

Ref.ª VISUALID_FACING-1 and -2: BI-BOLSA

Number of grants: 2 (1 POST-DOC + 1 MASTER)

The Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (ISR) – Universidade de Coimbra opens call for 1 (one) research grants (BI) for PhD holders and 1 (one) research Grant for MD holders. 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).

Scientific Area: Electrical and Computers Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Informatics Engineering and affine areas.
Application profile: 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.
NOTE: 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).
Project: These grants are supported by the VISUAL-ID and FACING2 projects.


Work plan: 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 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. 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.


Application submission: The applications shall be sent by email to nunogon at deec.uc.pt<mailto:nunogon at deec.uc.pt>, specifying in the subject: VISUALID_FACING-1. 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.
Submission of applications: The application process is open from 27th of FEBRUARY to 24th of MARCH of 2023.


More information in the following links:
PhD: https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77142
Master: https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/77119


Cumprimentos,
Nuno Gonçalves.
Tenured Assistant Professor and Research Associate
Department of Electrical and Computers Engineering
Institute of Systems and Robotics - Universidade de Coimbra
http://home.deec.uc.pt/~nunogon

[cid64*image001.jpg at 01D7D17C.72970A10]  [ISRlogo]

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.isr.uc.pt/archive/allusers/attachments/20230227/c3b48189/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 3539 bytes
Desc: image001.jpg
URL: <http://lists.isr.uc.pt/archive/allusers/attachments/20230227/c3b48189/attachment-0002.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 4140 bytes
Desc: image002.jpg
URL: <http://lists.isr.uc.pt/archive/allusers/attachments/20230227/c3b48189/attachment-0003.jpg>