Post-doctoral Research Fellow

The “Perception and Interaction” group (P&I), part of the LITIS lab (150 researchers), University of Rouen Normandy (France), is involved in multidisciplinary research at the intersection of computer vision, computer science, mathematics, mechatronics and cognitive science. The group models and designs mainly intelligent wearable systems for visually impaired people with multimodal ICT technologies (vision, tactile, audio, AI). The group worked/works on fundamental research problems (models, algorithms and experimental evaluation) and their application to visually impaired persons (VIP) interaction with the space (mobility, art perception). Several international and national research projects ("Smart glasses", "HUmanPERception", ACCESSPACE, NAV-VIR, Museum Guide) have been or are implemented in collaboration with industrial and academic partners (CEA, Collège de France, CNRS, InsideVision, MIT, DoD, Panama University, Pavia University, Kaunas University, Technical University of Lodz, etc.). The group has received the USA PETA’s “Price for ethical technological research” (2012), and the CCAH’s “Applied research on deficiency” award (2017).

It is expected that the post-doc fellow will contribute to on going research projects (e.g. pagesperso.litislab.fr/~sgay/index.php?page=postdoc&lang=en, « Museum Guide » project, mystifying-austin-87a7b8.netlify.app/fr/, ACCESPACE accesspace.univ-rouen.fr/index.php), and significantly advance the state-of-the-art in all aspects of VIP’s interaction with the space via embedded perception and man-machine interactive wearable systems.

This includes the following sub-topics/subtasks to be addressed during the postdoc :

1. Indoor & outdoor multimodal autonomous mobility modelling (bio-inspired, VIO (Visual Inertial Odometry), GNSS, multi-sensor data fusion etc.) for VIP mobility assistance
2. Modelling of the VIP mobility assistive devices
3. Design of a wearable embedded multimodal assistances for VIP interaction with space (haptic device, a tactile belt, embedded vision system)
4. Images segmentation & their tactile representations
5. Experimental evaluations' preparation and their carring (protocol design, collected data processing/analysis) of the designed systems in simulated environments and in ecological settings with human participants (VIP, museums’ staff, etc.)
6. Publishing of the results and participation in dissemination activities.