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-=====Theses and Jobs=====+ 
 +=====Open researcher positions===== 
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 +=====Theses and Student Jobs=====
 If you are looking for a bachelor/master thesis or a job as a student research assistant, you may find some interesting opportunities on this page. If you are looking for a bachelor/master thesis or a job as a student research assistant, you may find some interesting opportunities on this page.
  
-== Web-based knowledge visualizations (BA/HiWi) == 
  
-{{ :research:knowledge-visualization.png?200}} 
  
-The knowledge base visualization allows to display semantic environment maps, +== Visualization support assistant (HiWi) == 
-objects, human poses, trajectories and similar information stored in the + 
-robot's knowledge base. Its [[http://www.ros.org/wiki/mod_vis|current version]] +Implementing a visualization web page for a project using a custom framework using python/javascript. Start date: Oct 2019
-is written in Java and has grown old over the years. Recently, there has been +
-much progress in creating [[http://www.ros.org/wiki/interactive_markers|interactive +
-3D visualizations]] for ROS that can also be accessed with a +
-[[http://www.ros.org/wiki/wviz|web browser]]. This project is about creating +
-a web-based version of the visualization using these techniques.+
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Good programming skills +  * Good python programming skills 
-  * Experience with JavaScript development +  * Familiar javascript 
-  * Knowledge of Web technologies (HTML, XML, OWL)+  * Experience web development is recommended 
 +  * Familiar with version-control systems (git) 
 +  * Able to work independently with minimal supervision
  
-Contact: [[team:moritz_tenorth|Moritz Tenorth]]+Contact: [[team:mareike_picklum|Mareike Picklum]]
  
  
-== Tools for knowledge acquisition from the Web (BA/MA/HiWi) ==+== Knowledge-enabled PID Controller for 3D Hand Movements in Virtual Environments (BA/MA Thesis) ==
  
-There are several options for doing a project related to the acquisition of +Implementing a force-, velocity- and impulse-based PID controller for precise and responsive hand movements in a virtual environment. The virtual environment used in Unreal Engine in combination with Virtual Reality devices. The movements 
-knowledge from Web sources like online shops, repositories of object models, +of the human user will be mapped to the virtual hands, and controlled via the implemented PID controllers. 
-recipe databases, etc.+The controller should be able to dynamically tune itself depending on the executed actions (opening/closing a drawer or lifting a heavy object) in combination with the physical limitations of the physics engine (dynamic update rates).
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Programing skills (Java) +  * Good C++ programming skills 
-  * Experience with Web languages and datamining techniques is helpful +  * Familiar with PID controllers and control theory 
-  * Depending on the focus of the project, experience with database technology, natural-language processing or computer vision may be helpful+  * Experience with simulators/game engines is recommended 
 +  * Experience with Unreal Engine 
 +  * Familiar with version-control systems (git) 
 +  * Able to work independently with minimal supervision
  
-Contact: [[team:moritz_tenorth|Moritz Tenorth]]+Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
  
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 +== Lisp / CRAM support assistant (HiWi) ==
  
-== GPU-based Parallelization of Numerical Optimization Techniques (BA/MA/HiWi)== +Technical support for the group for Lisp and the CRAM framework. \\ 
- +8+ hours per week for up to 1 year (paid).
-In the field of Machine Learning, numerical optimization techniques play a focal role. However, as models grow larger, traditional implementations on single-core CPUs suffer from sequential execution causing a severe slow-down. In this thesis, state-of-the-art GPU frameworks (e.g. CUDA) are to be investigated in order implement numerical optimizers that substantially profit from parallel execution.+
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Skills in numerical optimization algorithms +  * Good programming skills in Common Lisp 
-  * Good programming skills in Python and C/C+++  * Basic ROS knowledge
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]]+The student will be introduced to the CRAM framework at the beginning of the job, which is a robot programming framework written in Lisp. The student will then be responsible for assisting not familiar with the framework people, explaining them the parts they don't understand and pointing them to the relevant documentation sources.
  
-== Online Learning of Markov Logic Networks for Natural-Language Understanding (MA)==+Contact: [[team:gayane_kazhoyan|Gayane Kazhoyan]] 
 +--></html>
  
-Markov Logic Networks (MLNs) combine the expressive power of first-order logic and probabilistic graphical models. In the past, they have been successfully applied to the problem of semantically interpreting and completing natural-language instructions from the web. State-of-the-art learning techniques mostly operate in batch mode, i.e. all training instances need to be known in the beginning of the learning process. In context of this thesis, online learning methods for MLNs are to be investigated, which allow incremental learning, when new examples come in one-by-one.+<html><!-- 
 +== Mesh Editing / Mesh Segmentation/Cutting (Student Job / HiWi)== 
 + {{ :research:human_hand_cutting.png?150|}} 
 + 
 + Editing and cutting a human mesh into different parts in Blender / Maya (or other).
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Experience in Machine Learning. +  * Good knowledge in 3D Modeling 
-  * Experience with statistical relational learning (e.g. MLNs) is helpful. +  * Familiar with Blender / Maya (or other)
-  * Good programming skills in Python.+
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]]+Contact: [[team/mona_abdel-keream|Mona Abdel-Keream]] 
 +--></html>
  
 +<html><!--
 +== 3D Model / Material / Lightning Developer (Student Job / HiWi)==
 + {{ :research:kitchen_unreal.jpg?200|}} 
  
-==HiWi-Position: Knowledge Representation & Language Understanding for Intelligent Robots==+Developing and improving existing 3D models in Blender / Maya (or other). Importing the models in Unreal Engine, where the Materials and Lightning should be improved to be close as possible to realism. 
  
-In the context of the European research project RoboHow.Cog [1,2] we +Bonus: Working with state of the art 3D Scanners [[https://www.goscan3d.com/|Go!SCAN]] for creating new realistic models.
-are investigating methods for combining multimodal sources of knowledge (e.g. video, natural-language recipes or computer games), in order to enable mobile robots to autonomously acquire new high level skills like cooking meals or straightening up rooms.  +
  
-The Institute for Artificial Intelligence is hiring a student researcher for the +Requirements: 
-development and the integration of probabilistic methods in AI, which enable intelligent robots to understand, interpret and execute natural-language instructions from recipes from the World Wide Web.+  * Experience with Blender / Maya (or other) 
 +  * Knowledge of Unreal Engine material / lightning development 
 +  * Familiar with version-control systems (git) 
 +  * Able to work independently with minimal supervision 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] 
 +--></html>
  
-This HiWi-Position can serve as a starting point for future Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma Theses.+<html><!-- 
 +== Integrating PR2 in the Unreal Game Engine Framework (BA/MA/HiWi)== 
 + {{ :research:unreal_ros_pr2.png?100|}} 
  
-Tasks: +Integrating the [[https://www.willowgarage.com/pages/pr2/overview|PR2]] robot with [[http://www.ros.org/|ROS]] support in the [[https://www.unrealengine.com|Unreal Engine 4]] Framework.
-  * Implementation of an interface to the Robot Operating System (ROS). +
-  * Linkage of the knowledge base to the executive of the robot. +
-  * Support for the scientific staff in extending and integrating components onto the robot platform PR2.+
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Studies in Computer Science (Bachelor's, Master's or Diploma) +  * Good programming skills in C/C++ 
-  * Basic skills in Artificial Intelligence +  * Basic physics/rendering engine knowledge 
-  * Optional: basic skills in Probability Theory +  * Basic ROS knowledge 
-  * Optional: basic skills in Machine Learning +  * UE4 basic tutorials
-  * Good programming skills in Python and Java+
  
-Hours: 10-20 h/week+Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]]
  
-Contact: [[team:daniel_nyga|Daniel Nyga]] 
  
-[1] www.robohow.eu\\ +== Realistic Grasping using Unreal Engine (BA/MA/HiWi) ==
-[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eIryyzlRwA+
  
-== HiWi position: Segmentation and interpretation of 3D object models (HiWi/MA) ==+{{  :teaching:gsoc:topic2_unreal.png?nolink&150|}}
  
-{{ :research:cup2-segmented.png?170}}+The objective of the project is to implement var- 
 +ious human-like grasping approaches in a game developed using [[https://www.unrealengine.com/|Unreal Engine]]. 
  
-Competent object interaction requires knowledge about the structure and +The game consist of a household environment where a user has to execute various given tasks, such as cooking a dish, setting the table, cleaning the dishes etc. The interaction is done using various sensors to map the users hands onto the virtual hands in the game.
-composition of objects. In an ongoing research project, we are investigating +
-how part-based object models can automatically be extracted from CAD models +
-found on the Web, e.g. on the [[http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse|3D warehouse]].+
  
-We are looking for a student research assistant to push this topic forward. +In order to improve the ease of manipulating objects the user should 
-In close collaboration with the researchers of the Institute for Artificial +be able to switch during runtime the type of grasp (pinch, power 
-Intelligence, the student will work on extending the software for mesh +grasp, precision grip etc.) he/she would like to use. 
-segmentation, implement novel algorithms, improve the integration of the +   
-methods into the robot's knowledge base, and update the modules for visualizing +Requirements:  
-the segmentation results. Depending on the results, cooperation on joint  +  * Good programming skills in C++ 
-publications may be possible.+  * Good knowledge of the Unreal Engine API.  
 +  * Experience with skeletal control / animations / 3D models in Unreal Engine. 
 +  * Familiar with version-control systems (git) 
 +  * Able to work independently with minimal supervision 
 + 
 + 
 +Contact: [[team/andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] 
 +--></html> 
 + 
 +<html><!-- 
 +== Unreal Engine Editor Developer (Student Job / HiWi)== 
 + {{ :research:unreal_editor.png?150|}}  
 + 
 +Creating new user interfaces (panel customization) for various internal plugins using the Unreal C++ framework [[https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Slate/|SLATE]].
  
-This HiWi position can serve as a starting point for future Bachelor's, 
-Master's or Diploma Theses. Alternatively, we could extract a research 
-project that could be worked on as a Master's or Diploma Thesis. 
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Good Java programming skills +  * Good C++ programming skills 
-  * Basic knowledge of 3D geometry calculations +  * Familiar with the [[https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Slate/|SLATE]] framework 
-  * Experience with working with 3D models is helpful+  * Familiar with Unreal Engine API 
 +  * Familiar with version-control systems (git) 
 +  * Able to work independently with minimal supervision 
 + 
 +Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] 
  
-Contact: [[team:moritz_tenorth|Moritz Tenorth]] 
  
-== Depth-Adaptive Superpixels (BA/HiWi)==+== OpenEASE rendering in Unreal Engine (BA/MA Thesis, Student Job / HiWi)==
  
-We are currently investigating a new set of sensors (RGB-D-T), which is a combination of a kinect with a thermal image camera. Within this project we want to enhance the Depth-Adaptive Superpixels (DASP) to make use of the thermal sensor data. Depth-Adaptive Superpixels oversegment an image taking into account the depth value of each pixel. {{ :research:dt_dasp.png?200|}} 
  
-Since the current implementation of DASP is not very performant for high resolution images, there are several possibilities options for doing a project in this field like reimplementing DASP using the CUDA, investigating how thermal data can be integrated, ...+Implmenting the rendering of the [[https://data.open-ease.org/|OpenEASE]] knowledge base visualization in Unreal Engine. This will have to be packaged as a HTML5 executable and inserted into the website.
  
 Requirements: Requirements:
-  * Basic knowledge of image processing +  * Good C++ programming skills 
-  * Good programming skills in C/C++. +  * Familiar with Unreal Engine API 
-  * Experience with CUDA is helpful+  * Familiar with HTML5 and JavaScript 
 +  * Familiar with the [[https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Slate/|SLATE]] framework 
 +  * Familiar with basic ROS communication 
 +  * Familiar with version-control systems (git) 
 +  * Able to work independently with minimal supervision
  
-Contact: [[team:jan-hendrik_worch|Jan-Hendrik Worch]]+Contact: [[team:andrei_haidu|Andrei Haidu]] 
 +--></html>
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