The CVC/UAB in Barcelona is looking for PhD Candidates to work on Perception-based Autonomous Driving.

Grant: FPI (Formación Personal Investigador) Deadline for applying: October 29^th, 12:00 local time (Spain) The Computer Vision Center (CVC), at the Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), is looking for passionate and outstanding students to pursue a PhD in the field of perception-based autonomous driving, using deep learning techniques. Given the many open problems on autonomous driving, there are several specific topics that can be the PhD main focus, specially “generation of corner cases using augmented reality to train and test AI drivers” and “task-agnostic domain adaptation from virtual (training) to real (testing) worlds”. The PhD period is 3 years. The candidate will be in the group of Dr. Antonio M. Lopez, from where recent projects such SYNTHIA (www.synthia-dataset.net) and CARLA (carla.org) were born. The candidates should have a master degree in computer science or related engineering areas, previous experience in deep learning and strong programming skills (C++/python, pyTorch/TensorFlow). The interested candidates should send their application to <adas.phdgrants@cvc.uab.es> with subject “PhD Grant Application, 2018”. The application must include a CV, an official record of undergraduate and master marks, and 1-page research statement. Sending the information as above required is just an informative step for accelerating the selection process. However, since this is a grant from the Spanish “Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities”,   it is mandatory to apply to it in the terms specified in this link  (i.e. irrespectively of sending the information above required). In order to do this, you will need to identify the research project to which the grant is associated. The principal investigator of this project is Dr. Antonio M. López, the reference of the project is: TIN2017-88709-R, acronym: DANA (Development of Autonomous Navigation Agents // Desarrollo de Agentes para Navegación Autónoma).  ]]>