Faculty of Science URSA PhD project: Multi-Modal Manipulation of Visual Contents based on Deep Learning

The College of Bathtub is inviting purposes for the next PhD mission commencing in September 2024 underneath the supervision of Dr Yongliang Yang within the Department of Computer Science.

It’s anticipated that the mission will likely be performed in collaboration with Lambda Inc (topic to contract), an organization which supplies deep studying {hardware}, software program and cloud companies to the world’s main firms and analysis establishments. 

Overview of the Analysis:

With the educational and illustration potential of deep studying fashions and the supply of large-scale labelled dataset, the hole between completely different information modalities (e.g., 1D texts, 2D photos, 3D shapes) have been largely diminished. That is witnessed by the latest improvement of enormous pre-trained cross-modality fashions resembling CLIP, DALL-E, in addition to differentiable rendering fashions as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). manipulate the generated visible contents resembling 2D photos and 3D shapes with a greater management, ideally cross completely different modalities, has attracted vital analysis consideration [1][2][3]. On this mission, we are going to additional discover this course primarily based on the state-of-the-art pre-trained fashions and studying representations. The purpose is to supply intuitive instruments for novices for straightforward visible content material creation.

Challenge key phrases: multi-modal, visible content material manipulation, deep studying.

Candidate Necessities:

Candidates ought to maintain, or anticipate to obtain, a First Class or good Higher Second Class UK Honours diploma (or the equal) in a related topic. A grasp’s degree qualification with a very good publication report could be extra advantageous. Candidates are anticipated to have nice programming abilities of python/C++, and good expertise of pc imaginative and prescient/pc graphics/machine studying.

Non-UK candidates should meet our English language entry requirement.

Enquiries and Purposes:

Casual enquiries are inspired and ought to be directed to Dr Yongliang Yang on e-mail handle [email protected].

Formal purposes ought to be submitted by way of the College of Bathtub’s online application form for a PhD in Computer Science previous to the appliance deadline of Sunday 3 March 2024.

NOTE: Purposes might shut sooner than the marketed deadline if an appropriate candidate is discovered; subsequently, we strongly suggest that you just contact Dr Yang previous to making use of and submit your formal utility as early as doable.

IMPORTANT:

When finishing the appliance kind:

1. Within the Funding your research part, choose ‘College of Bathtub URSA’ because the studentship for which you might be making use of.
2. Within the Your PhD mission part, quote the mission title of this mission and the identify of the lead supervisor within the acceptable bins. 

Failure to finish these two steps will trigger delays in processing your utility and should trigger you to overlook the deadline.

Extra details about making use of for a PhD at Bathtub could also be discovered on our website.

Funding Eligibility:

To be eligible for funding, you could qualify as a House scholar. The eligibility standards for House payment standing are detailed and too complicated to be summarised right here in full; nonetheless, as a common information, the next candidates will usually qualify topic to assembly residency necessities: UK and Irish nationals (dwelling within the UK or EEA/Switzerland), these with Indefinite Go away to Stay and EU nationals with pre-settled or settled standing within the UK underneath the EU Settlement Scheme. This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive checklist. Extra data could also be discovered on our fee status guidance webpage, on the GOV.UK website and on the UKCISA website.

Though not eligible for the studentship funding marketed right here, distinctive Abroad college students (e.g. with a UK Grasp’s Distinction or worldwide equal and related analysis expertise), ought to contact with the lead supervisor earlier than submitting an utility to investigate about potential different funding alternatives.

Equality, Variety and Inclusion:

We worth a various analysis setting and purpose to be an inclusive college, the place distinction is well known and revered. We welcome and encourage purposes from under-represented teams.

When you’ve got circumstances that you just really feel we should always concentrate on which have affected your academic attainment, then please be at liberty to inform us about it in your utility kind. One of the best ways to do this can be a quick paragraph on the finish of your private assertion.