Research position in Intelligent reading systems for conditional text spotting and recognition (R1) (temporary contract)

Reference: 20241605_DI

The Computer Vision Center

The Computer Vision Center (CVC) is a non-profit research center established in 1995 by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Its mission is to carry out cutting-edge research that has the highest international impact in the field of computer vision. It also promotes the transference of knowledge to industry and society.

Computer vision is an exciting research area and an omnipresent technology, essentially empowering machines with the sense of vision. The CVC is a successful marriage between knowledge and innovation. In addition to our cutting-edge scientific achievements, we have established lasting ties with industrial partners and created several spin-off companies.

Research area or group:

Document Analysis Group (DAG)

Context and Mission

The DAG group seeks applications to fill a position in Intelligent reading systems for conditional text spotting and recognition. We look for a junior researcher (R1) – especially in the last year of their PhD - to collaborate in the project, performing training of vision and language models, and in particular regular expression conditioned text recognition applied to scene text.

Please, note that the duration of this contract will be one-month.

This contract will be funded by AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) in the framework of Doctorats Industrials 2020 Call (Exp. 58).

Requirements:

- Ongoing PhD thesis in the area of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence in the framework of scene text understanding.

- Experience with the PyTorch deep learning framework

- Experience with Transformer and RNN models. Prior experience on document analysis, scene text detection, and caracter recognition will be positively evaluated

- The candidate must be an effective communicator, multitask, and work well on collaborative and interdisciplinary designs.

- Ability to think creatively, work independently and make decisions.

- Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work under set deadlines and pressure.

Contract Conditions

● The position will be located at Computer Vision Center (Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

● We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week) temporary contract, a good environment, flexible working hours

● Duration: 1 month

● Salary in accordance with qualifications and experience of the candidate and to CVCs salary regulations.

● Starting date: 1 June 2024.

Applications procedure and process

All application must include a full CV in English including contact details and must be sent by e-mail to rrhh@cvc.uab.cat

Deadline: 26/05/2024

OTM-R principles for selection processes

The CVC is committed to Open Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment (OTM-R) for any potential candidate in all our processes. In 2015 we received the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) award. Through an extensive and continuous process, we improve the conditions and opportunities at CVC. With these actions, the CVC is committed to the principles of the European Charter for Researchers, as well as the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.

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_{In reference to Article 121 (Personnel Regulations) of the Public Sector Procedures Law 40/2015, dated 1 October 2015, candidates from the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, as entities of the consortium, will have preference.}

_{En referència a l’Artícle 121 de la Llei 40/2015, d'1 d'octubre, de Règim Jurídic del Sector Públic, de règim de personal, tindran preferència les candidatures provinents de l'administració de la Generalitat de Catalunya i de la UAB com a entitats consorciades.}