Job Opportunity

[Martin Naef]

If somebody is interesting in working on a cool project and spend a year
in Glasgow, have a look at the advert below. Feel free to forward it to
people you know who might be interested.

Additional infos about the project:
http://research.navisto.ch/livingcanvas.html

Martin


Research Assistant
Living Canvas
Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art
Fixed Term 1 year
Salary Grade 6 (£28,839 - £33,432)

The Digital Design Studio has received funding from the UK Arts &
Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for the Living Canvas, a joint
initiative between the Glasgow School of Art and Cryptic. It aims to
explore the novel artistic possibilities of using the performer’s body
and clothes as a projection surface in the context of a stage
performance. A new projection system will enable a dynamic or even
improvised performance by detecting the posture and silhouette of the
performer and projecting imagery precisely to the selected parts of
body. This will enable the performer to “wear virtual costumes” that
adapt to the body, or even receive a different face. The dynamic nature
of the system will give full control to the performer who can freely
move around on the stage, with the projection always “following” the
performer.

Applications are now invited for a full time Research Assistant to
develop and implement the Living Canvas system in close collaboration
with the Principal Investigator. Responsibilities will include:
•	Design and implement real-time systems within the field of machine
vision and 3D reconstruction for pose estimation.
•	Design and implement real-time graphics systems to project video
streams onto a human performer on stage.
•	Design and implement interactive video control systems suitable for a
live video artist.

The applicant should be a skilled software developer with a solid
knowledge of C++ and math (linear algebra, geometry) and experience in
one or several of the following fields: real-time machine vision
(segmentation and 3D reconstruction), computer graphics, and
high-performance parallel processing (SIMD and multi-core).
The post holder should be of postdoctoral standing (have a PhD or be
able to demonstrate equivalent and relevant professional experience) in
a related field. Exceptional candidates with an MSc degree in computer
science will be considered.

This is a fixed term contract for 1 year and the successful applicant
will be expected to take up the post in January 2009 (negotiable).
The DDS is the largest research, commercial and postgraduate centre of
Glasgow School of Art. It currently has 19 members of staff, 40 MPhil
students and 4 PhD students. Its research activities revolve around
real-time visualisation, 3D modelling and animation, 3D sound, voice
recognition, haptics, gesture-based interaction and camera-based tracking.

For further information, please contact Dr. Martin Naef (m.naef at gsa.ac.uk).

Closing date is 12/12/2008

For an application pack please contact:-

HR Department
The Glasgow School of Art
167 Renfrew Street
Glasgow
G3 6RQ
T: 0141 353 4463
E: hr at gsa.ac.uk

or visit out website: www.gsa.ac.uk/jobs