Outline

A concourse for the attribution of 1 (one) Research Scholarship is opened under the project UIDB/04111/2020, financed by national funds through the FCT/MCTES.

Reference:

FCT/COPELABS/BOLSA/ESTUDANTE3/2023

What is funded

Research Scholarship

Duration

The grant has duration of 3 months, with possible extension up to 6 months, starting on April 1, 2023.

Eligibility

The following may apply to this Call for Proposals: National citizens or citizens of other Member States of the European Union; Citizens of third countries; Stateless persons; Citizens benefiting from political refugee status.

Scientific Area: Computer Graphics;

Specific scientific area: Artificial Intelligence

Admission requirements: a) to be enrolled in a higher professional technical course, a bachelor’s degree, an integrated master's degree or a master's degree, or be licensed and be enrolled in a non-awarding course of academic degree integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, developed in association or cooperation with one or more units of R&D; b) not to exceed, with the conclusion of the scholarship contract in question, including possible renewals, an accumulated period of one year of having this type of scholarship, continuous or intermittent; c) not have already been a beneficiary of any other research grant directly or indirectly financed by FCT.

Work plan: Looking at today's games, we can observe a clear advance in realism with the use of new technologies such as Ray-Tracing. Despite being a technology that provides a very high level of realism, it also has a considerable computational cost. In this project we propose the creation of a small rendering engine to test, in a 3D environment, the image quality and rendering time between two existing systems (SSR & Ray Tracing), and a hybrid system that joins both techniques in order to try to maximize performance and minimize problems in each one. This technique involves the creation of an initial Screen-Space rendering, from which we extract information about its limitations, applying the Ray-Tracing technique to suppress them. Finally, we intend to perform a performance and image quality analysis of these 3 techniques in order to determine if the proposed hybrid technique is viable for use in game engines.

Applicable legislation and regulations: Statute of the Research Fellow (EBI), approved by Law n.º 40/2004 of August 18, in the current wording published by Decree-Law n.º 123/2019 of August 28 Regulation of Research Grants, n.º Order No. 950/2019 of 12-16-2019, from the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. – in effect.

Rules for Granting and Management of Scholarships in the context of R&D Projects, including projects of infrastructure, the multiannual funding program for R&D units and other FCT Version 2023 funding instruments are available at:

https://www.fct.pt/financiamento/programas-de-financiamento/bolsas/

https://dre.pt/dre/legislacao-consolidada/lei/2004-58216179

https://files.dre.pt/2s/2019/12/241000000/0009100105.pdf

https://www.fct.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Tabela-de-Valores-SMM_202…

Workplace: The work will be developed at COPELABS, under the scientific supervision of Profs. Nuno Fachada and Diogo de Andrade.

Scholarship duration: The grant has duration of 3 months, with possible extension up to 6 months, starting on April 1, 2023.

Monthly maintenance allowance amount: The scholarship amount corresponds to € 541.12, according to the table of values of scholarships awarded directly by FCT, IP in Portugal (https://www.fct.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Tabela-de-Valores-SMM_202…). The scholarship will be paid monthly on the last working day of each month by bank transfer.

Selection methods: The selection methods to be used will be the following: - Curriculum Vitae [40%]; - Level of knowledge in the field of Telecommunications, with an emphasis on the work in the planed area [30%].; interview [30%]..  The Selection Jury composition: 1. Nuno Fachada, Assistant Prof., Lusófona University 2. Prof. João Pedro Carvalho, Assistant Prof., Lusófona University 3. Slavisa Tomic, Assistant Prof., Lusófona University.

Form of announcement/notification of results: The final results of the evaluation will be published in an alphabetically ordered list, posted in a visible and public place at COPELABS, and the scholarship winner will be notified by email. Application deadline and form of submission of applications: The tender is opened from 06-03-2023 until 17:00 on 20-03-2023. Applications must be formalized, mandatorily, by sending an application letter accompanied with the following documents: Curriculum Vitae, Motivation Letter, Certificate of Qualifications, copy of identification document and other documents that verify to what is reported in the candidate’s CV. Applications must be delivered to COPELABS or submitted by email to rebeka.tomic@ulusofona.pt, subject FCT/COPELABS/BOLSA/ESTUDANTE3/2023.