France : PhD position in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling in Strasbourg (Reconstruction and visualization of digitized 3D models from scans and photogr

A 3-year funded PhD position for an excellent student is available in the field of Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling at the University of Strasbourg (France), ICube Lab (http://icube.unistra.fr).

Title: Reconstruction and visualization of digitized 3D models from scans and photographs.

Host research team:
Computer Graphics and Geometry group (http://icube-igg.unistra.fr/en)

Advisors:
- Jean-Michel Dischler, Professor in Computer Science at the University of Strasbourg (dischler AT unistra.fr).
- Remi Allegre, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Strasbourg (allegre AT unistra.fr);

Starting date: September 2013.

Ending date: 3 years from the starting date.

Funding: The net salary will be about 1500 euros per month.

Location: Strasbourg area, France.

Application deadline: June 1, 2013

Description:
Current 3D acquisition technologies can deliver highly accurate data on the shape of real-world objects. Despite the recent advances in the field of geometry processing and 3D reconstruction, producing complete and defect-free multi-scale geometric models of objects that are as complex as pieces of artwork or buildings still cannot be achieved in a full automatic way, which hampers massive scanning campaigns. Standard 3d reconstruction techniques often require a large amount of user interaction to adjust parameters or to perform corrections, which essentially rely on some visual criteria. The recent advances of 2D/3D registration techniques open up new lines of research to bring solutions to the problem of automatically reconstructing complete and multi-scale accurate 3D models with few constraints on the acquisition process.
The goal of this thesis is to develop a technique that takes benefit from the information obtained from a set of photographs to evaluate and improve the reconstruction of 3D models from 3D scans. This technique will be based on a novel metric that allows to compare a calibrated set of photographs to a set of 3D scans. This technique will be studied in conjunction with a representation making it possible to visualize complex reconstructed models in real-time. The implementation will be achieved in C++ and it will be incorporated into the digitization software of the IGG group.

References:
[BWS07] A. Brunton, S. Wuhrer, C. Shu. Image-based Model Completion. In Proc. 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM), pages 305-311, 2007.
[CDG+12] M. Corsini, M. Dellepiane, F. Ganovelli, R. Gherardi, A. Fusiello, R. Scopigno. Fully Automatic Registration of Image Sets on Approximate Geometry. International Journal of Computer Vision, pages 1-21, August 10, 2012.
[DVS11] M. Dellepiane, A. Venturi, R. Scopigno. Image guided reconstruction of un-sampled data: A filling technique for cultural heritage models. International Journal of Computer Vision, 94(1):2-11, 2011.
[FP07] Y. Furukawa and J. Ponce. Accurate, Dense, and Robust Multi-View Stereopsis. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, July 2007.
[PGC11] R. Pintus, E. Gobbetti, R. Combet. Fast and robust semi-automatic registration of photographs to 3D geometry. In Proc. International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST), 2011.
[SSS06] N. Snavely, S. M. Seitz, R. Szeliski. Photo Tourism: Exploring Image Collections in 3D. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2006), 2006.
[SY09] N. Salman and M. Yvinec. Surface Reconstruction from Multi-View Stereo. In Proc. Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009.
[VLP+12] H.-H. Vu, P. Labatut, J.-P. Pons, R. Keriven. High Accuracy and Visibility-Consistent Dense Multiview Stereo. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 34(5):889-901, 2012.

Application process:
Candidates are invited to contact us as soon as possible via the two following email addresses: allegre AT unistra.fr and dischler AT unistra.fr. Please send us the following elements:
- a detailed CV;
- marks obtained during Licence and Master degree, or Engineering School degree;
- a one-page motivation letter;
- a recommendation letter from teachers.

Qualification:
- Master degree in Computer Science;
- Basic skills in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling;
- Good programming and communication skills;
- Good level of English is mandatory.

Application Deadline : 1 June 2013

France : PhD Position in Learning Environment for Interactive Proof in Geometry at LSIIT

French ministry of Higher Education and Research is funding doctoral position at University of Strasbourg, LSIIT in France. The funding is available for three years for PhD programme in the field of learning environment for interactive proof in geometry. Students must hold a master degree in computer science and logic, automated and/or interactive theorem proving skill is required. Good knowledge of English is required but French is not mandatory. Send complete application electronically.

Study Subject(s): The scholarship is provided to study in learning environment for interactive proof in geometry.
Course Level: This scholarship is available for pursuing PhD degree level.
Scholarship Provider : French ministry of Higher Education and Research
Scholarship can be taken at : France

Eligibility: -The candidate should hold a master degree in computer science.
-Skills in logic, automated and/or interactive theorem proving is desirable asset.
-Good working knowledge of the English language is necessary, but French is not a requisite.

Scholarship Open for Students of Following Countries: The students of France can apply for this scholarship.

Scholarship Description: In the proposal, they aim at developing a computer based learning environment for interactive proof in geometry based on technologies for interactive and automated theorem proving and dynamic geometry. Technological tools are widely used to teach mathematics in schools. Dynamic Geometry Software (D.G.S.) and Computer Algebra Software (C.A.S) are the two families of software that are well represented. On the one hand, these tools are widely used to explore, experiment, visualize, calculate, measure, find counter examples, conjecture.

Number of awards offered: Not Known

Duration of award(s): Grant is funded for three years.

Notification: Not Known

How to Apply: Applicants can apply electronically. Interested candidates are invited to send a Curriculum Vitae and name of references to Julien Narboux (narboux@unistra.fr) and Pascal Schreck (schreck@unistra.fr).

Scholarship Application Deadline: The application closing date is June 2013 but contact them as soon as possible, the PhD will start in September 2013.

France : ENS Cachan International Scholarship for Master and PhD

Each year, The Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan), France offers scholarships for international students. The scholarships are offered for master (for a period of 10 months) and doctoral studies (for a period of 6 to 12 months). The maximum amount of grants is 1000 euros/month. Applications will be accepted by email and post till 25th March 2013.

Study Subject(s): All ENS Cachan master programmes are concerned, except the design and the management master programmes. All ENS Cachan research laboratories are concerned.
Course Level : The scholarship is offered for pursuing master and PhD degree.
Scholarship Provider : The Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan)
Scholarship can be taken at : France

Eligibility:
-All candidates must justify of a high academic level, and must be ranked among the best students of their class during their studies at university.
-For admission in a second year of Research Master (RM2), candidates must justify of a 1st year of Master degree (M1 equivalent to 60 European ECTS credits, at Master level) or an equivalent diploma recognised by ENS Cachan.
-For admission at PhD level, candidates must justify of a Master degree or an equivalent diploma recognised by ENS Cachan or be registered as a PhD student in a higher education institution.
-A good knowledge of the teaching language (French or English) used in the chosen academic programme is required for students applying for a complete academic year in a Research Master level 2.

Scholarship Open for Students of Following Countries: This scholarship programme is open to students of all nationalities, except French nationality.

Scholarship Description: The International scholarship programme of the ENS Cachan is aimed at high level international students who are currently studying or have studied and obtained their most recent qualification outside of France.

Number of awards offered: Every year, the ENS Cachan welcomes between 15 and 30 foreign students at M2 level or PhD within the framework of this program.

Duration of award(s): The grants are awarded for a minimum period of 6 months and a maximum period of 12 months not renewable.
-Grants at the Master level: Grants are awarded for a period of 10 months to students applying for a whole academic year to carry out a Research Master (RM2).
-Grants at the PhD level: Grants are awarded for a period of 6 to 12 months to students applying for a whole academic year to carry out research in one of the ENS Cachan laboratories.

What does it cover? The grant amounts to 1000 euros/month.

Selection Criteria:
-Quality of the candidate’s academic career (honours, ranking, results, duration of career, etc.)
-Quality of the scientific project
-French and English language skills.

How to Apply: Candidates are required to send the complete application file both by email and by post.

Scholarship Application Deadline: Deadline for both paper and online applications is 25th March 2013.

France : Post-doc opportunity at Inria Saclay

The OAK project of Inria Saclay (https://team.inria.fr/oak/) and the database group of UCSD (http://db.ucsd.edu) have recently started a collaboration as an Inria Associate team (OAKSAD) on Expressive and Efficient Tools for Web Data Processing.

OAKSAD research topics include:
1. Expressive languages and models for annotating with Semantic Web data repositories of unstructured (text) and (semi-)structured data.
2. Efficient techniques for large-scale data sharing, in particular in contexts with very many views.
3. Automatic run-time monitoring and design-time verification/analysis of business processes, in particular for cloud-scale data repositories.

OAKSAD is currently seeking a post-doc candidate with a strong background in data management and in particular relevant to the above topcics.

The post-doc will be hired by Inria and may be based:
* In Inria Saclay OR
* In UCSD

The PhD research of the student must not have been carried in a team affiliated with Inria Saclay or Inria Rocquencourt.

The position is to start before the end of November 2013 and is for 12-16 months.

Candidates should have obtained their PhD *** in  2012 or 2013, that is, between January 1st, 2012 and Dec 31st, 2013. ***

To apply, send ASAP and before March 15, 2013, a brief CV w/publications list to:

Alin Deutsch (deutsch@cs.ucsd.edu)
Ioana Manolescu (ioana.manolescu@inria.fr)

Application Deadline : 15 March 2013

France : Eiffel Scholarships in France for International Students

Brief description:

The Eiffel France Scholarships are for international students wishing to study in France. The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs launched the Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Programme in January 1999 to support French centres of higher education in their international outreach initiatives, in a context of mounting competition among developed countries, to attract elite overseas students on master’s, engineering and  PhD courses.  It aims to attract outstanding international students identified by French institutions of higher education.

Host Institution(s):

French Universities and Academic Institutions

Field(s) of study:

The areas of study concerned by the Eiffel scholarships are:

• engineering sciences at Master level, sciences in a broader sense for PhD level (engineering sciences, exact sciences such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and life sciences, nano- and bio-technology, earth and environmental sciences and information and communication sciences and technology)

•  economics and management

•  law and political sciences

Target group:

The Eiffel France Scholarships are for excellent international students from any country.

Scholarship value/inclusions:

The Eiffel programme does not cover tuition fees, though the higher education centres concerned are invited to apply the best possible financial conditions to Eiffel scholarship-holders.  Enrolment fees at state-run higher education centres are waived for students on French government scholarship programmes such as this.

Eiffel scholarship-holders on Master’s courses receive an allowance of €1,181. In addition, the programme meets various expenses including return trip, health insurance and cultural activities. Scholarship-holders might also be eligible for additional accommodation allowance.

Eiffel scholarship-holders on PhD courses receive an allowance of €1,400. In addition, the programme meets various expenses including return travel (single return trip for law and political science students on multiple stays), health insurance and cultural activities. Scholarship-holders might also be eligible for additional accommodation allowance.

Eligibility:

French higher education establishments shortlist the best overseas students whom they wish to enrol in their courses for Eiffel scholarships.

You are eligible for a scholarship if you are enrolled in a course awarding a Master or in colleges awarding an engineering science diploma or a PhD course as part of a jointly tutored or jointly supervised thesis with a foreign higher education establishment partner.

Applicants for Master courses must be no more  than 30 years old at the deadline date for the selection committee of the 8th March 2013 (i.e. born after 08/ 03/1982) and no more than 35 years old for the PhD courses (i.e. born after 08/03/1977)

Application instructions:

Applications are not accepted from students themselves, or from non-French institutions. Applications for EIFFEL scholarships are submitted by French Higher Education Institutions. You must meet the requirements of the French Institution in order to be considered for the scholarship.

The next deadline for applications is 9 January 2013. Application deadline to participating French Institutions may be earlier than this.  

It is important to read the Eiffel Program Guide and visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply for this scholarship.  Application forms and guidelines can be downloaded from the official website.

Website:

Official Scholarship Website:  http://www.egide.asso.fr/jahia/Jahia/appels/eiffel

Related Scholarships: List of France Scholarships

Deadline: 9 Jan 2013 (annual)

Course starts AY 2013-2014

France : Post-doc position in data mining and remote sensing

Subject:  Exploiting multi-resolution remote sensing images for change detection and classification purposes.

LIRMM and TETIS ( in collaboration with Gloria Bordogna CNR IDPA - Italia) are seeking candidates for a Postdoctoral Fellowship position to work on a new research project, called GEOSUD, to exploit multi-resolution remote sensing images for land cover change detection and classification purposes.
More in detail the aim of the work is to improve the quality of dense time series of medium or low resolution images by means of rare high resolution time series.  The satellite images are acquired over well documented study sites concerned with land and vegetation management issues. The first site is located in Reunion Island (a French territory in the Indian Ocean) and is concerned by the sugarcane crop monitoring using multi-resolution “SPOT-Pleiades” combinations of images. The second one is situated in West Africa and is concerned by land use mapping using multi-resolution MODIS-SPOT combinations of images.

From a computer science point of view, we intend to apply soft computing techniques and fuzzy aggregation operators in order to flexibly fuse and propagate the high resolution information (as satellite images) in the low resolution one. The goal is to obtain a dense time series of better quality w.r.t. the original one. The final goal of the application of soft constraints aims to improve identification of particular types of crop, and monitoring the crop conditions.

Experiments will be performed at different levels (pixel, feature and decision) by associating different weights to the corresponding value to fuse in order to take into account the correlation between the two types of original images and the time interval of their acquisitions.

The ideal candidate:
- has recently completed a PhD in Remote Sensing, or Data Mining
- has demonstrated the ability to conduct both fundamental and applied work in these areas,
- Knowledge of techniques for automatic Geographical Information Representation and Management (GIS systems, satellite images processing and analysis)
- Java language, C++ language, Python, PostgreSQL and PostGIS

Location: LIRMM, Montpellier (south of France, on the mediterranean sea).
Net salary: 1850 euros / month.

The deadline for sending your application is 5 february 2013.
The indicative start date is March/April 2013, however other options may be considered (don't hesitate to tell us).
Interested candidates are requested to send an application by e-mail to Research Prof. Maguelonne Teisseire (maguelonne.teisseire@teledetection.fr) and Prof. Pascal
Poncelet (Pascal.Poncelet@lirmm.fr) with the subject field: 'GEOSUD Post Doctoral Position'.
The application should consist of a motivation letter and a curriculum vitae with a list of publications and description of any previous research you have held. Furthermore, names and contact information for three references are required.

Application Deadline : 5 February 2013

France : Emile Boutmy Scholarships for International Students at Sciences Po University

Brief description:

Sciences Po created the Emile Boutmy Scholarship after the founder of Sciences Po in order to attract the very best international students from outside of the European Union. The Emile Boutmy Scholarship is awarded to top international students applying and previously admitted to Sciences Po University.

Host Institution(s):

Sciences Po University, Paris, France

Field of study:

Political sciences, law, economics and finance, International affairs, European affairs, communication, journalism, urban strategies, human resources, public affairs.

The courses are in French or English. Please check the appropriate Sciences Po course description.

Number of Awards:

Not specified.

Target group:

The scholarship are targeted to Non-EU International Students  applying and previously admitted to Sciences Po’s undergraduate or graduate programmes

Scholarship value/inclusions:

Undergraduate Level

The Emily Boutmy Undergraduate Programme can take different forms ranging from €3,000 to €12,300  for 3 years of undergraduate study.  On an exceptional basis, a scholarship of €19,000 may be granted to cover the three years of College.

Masters Level

The Emily Boutmy Master’s Programme can take different forms ranging from €5,000 to €16,000  for 2 years of postgraduate study.  On an exceptional basis, a scholarship of €23,000 may be granted to cover 2 years of the Master’s Programme.

Eligibility:

Only students from outside of the European Union who have been offered a place to study at Sciences Po University are eligible for this scholarship.

This scholarship is awarded to students with excellent academic credentials and whose profile matches that of their chosen course. Students’ financial situations are also taken into account when assessing their applications.

Application instructions:

Only admitted students at Sciences Po University are considered for this scholarship. Therefore, you must apply for admissions to Sciences Po University and be accepted in order to be considered for this scholarship.

For the academic year 2013-2014, undergraduate applicants for the Emily Boutmy Scholarships must submit their application by 2 May 2013 at the very latest. Graduate applicants must submit their application by 4 April 2013. Applications received after these dates will not be processed.

It is important to visit the official website (link found below) to access the application form and for detailed information on how to apply for this scholarship.

Deadline: 4 Apr/2 May 2013

Course starts September 2013

France : 10 postdoctoral positions in Paris

10 positions for postdoctoral scientists are available at the Institute of Inflammatory Disease in Paris. Projects involve the study of molecular mechanisms in the development of various inflammatory diseases, withinINFLAMEX, a cluster of excellence in the field of inflammation.
Starting date: beginning of May 2013

Salary will be 2400 to 2900 €/month for 2 years
Applications should be sent to: inflamex@univ- paris-diderot. fr
Dead line application March 20th, 2013
Information on the individuals projects is available at: www.inflamex.com

Application Deadline : 20 February 2013