Research fellow positions: Robotics Perception for Intelligent Vehicles

1. Context and job description

Based on its long-time experience in the field of intelligent vehicles, the Heudiasyc laboratory (UMR CNRS 7253)

located at the université de technologie de Compiègne (UTC) is part of several projects on autonomous vehicles

navigation. Among them, the joint laboratory with Renault SIVALab focuses on high integrity navigation systems for

autonomous vehicles, and the ANR ANNAPOLIS project targets the detection and identification of electric personal

mobility devices (PMDs) in urban environments.

In that context, the goal of these research fellow positions, within one of these projects, is to advance the state-of-

the-art by contributing to the design, development and testing of innovative algorithms in the field of perception for

safe navigation. More specifically, the challenges on which the applicant will focus are the following:

- Perception sensors (RGB cameras, event cameras, 3D lidars), localization and map technologies,

- Multi-sensors data fusion for perception enhancement,

- Machine vision and deep learning for dynamic scene understanding.

Moreover, the candidate will have the opportunity to implement and evaluate the proposed algorithms and schemes

on autonomous vehicles facilities. They include two autonomous vehicles based on Renault Zoé cars embedding

various sensors and GPU computers, and a private test track of 300m length called SEVILLE.

The postdoc will work in close collaboration with PhD students and researchers involved in the projects.

2. Candidates' profile

Prospective candidates must have a solid background, witnessed by published peer-reviewed work and

participated research projects, in one or several of the following research fields: Robotics, estimation,

artificial vision and deep learning with application to autonomous systems and Intelligent Transportation

Systems (ITS).

Furthermore, they must possess:

- The ability to manage their own academic research, associated activities and students,

- The ability to contribute ideas for new research projects,

- Excellent communication skills in English, including the ability to write for publication, present research

proposals and results, and represent the research group at meetings.- The candidate should have knowledge of a common programming language

- An experience with ROS middleware is a plus.

Scientific curiosity, large autonomy and ability to work independently are also expected. A PhD degree in

computer science, computer vision, applied mathematics (or related fields) is required.

3. Conditions

Place: Laboratoire Heudiasyc UMR CNRS 7253

Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Compiègne, France

Web sites: www.hds.utc.fr,

https://www.hds.utc.fr/partenariats/laboratoire-commun-sivalab

https://project.inria.fr/annapolis/

Employer : CNRS

Duration of first position : 1 year renewable

Duration of second position : 18 months

Starting date : early 2024

Salary: ~2500 €/month (after taxes) depending on the experience

Application: CV with publications record and motivation letter. Please, provide a link to the documents to

download rather than attach them to your application email. The application email must be sent to the

contacts provided below.

First contacts

Véronique Cherfaoui, email: [email protected]

Julien Moreau, email: [email protected]

Philippe Bonnifait, email: [email protected]