Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Research Fellow in Advanced Video Compression

Based in the Visual Information Laboratory in the Faculty of Engineering, this Marie Curie ITN project is a collaboration between the University of Bristol and some of the world’s leading research institutes. It will create a new content-driven framework for video compression, paying specific attention to perceptual coding for emerging immersive technologies. Our aim is to shift the video coding paradigm from rate-distortion optimisation to rate-quality modelling, where region-based parameters are combined with perceptual quality metrics to inform and drive the coding and synthesis processes. Research is needed to fully exploit the method's potential and to yield stable and efficient solutions.

The available post is for an Early Stage Researchers (ESR) for duration of 11 months or until 31 August 2017. You will be required to support the existing team in formulating new research ideas and directions relevant to the grant and present and demonstrate results locally and internationally to industry, conferences and standards bodies. You will be responsible for the timely delivery and reporting in association with specific research areas. This post will involve secondments to other European partner organisations. The focus of the work is on Content Analysis and Synthesis for video compression.

You should be in possession of a high ranking degree in the field of electronics, computer science, mathematics or a related discipline. You will have an interest in and preferably some experience related to image processing or video compression and will be competent in Matlab and C++.

Marie Curie ITN eligibility criteria apply to this position. Details are provided in the further particulars.

This post is being offered on a full time, fixed term contract for 11 months or until 31 August 2017.

For further information please contact: Professor Dave Bull, Professor of Signal Processing; Dave.Bull@bristol.ac.uk