Researcher - Computer Vision

Date: ‎7 Jul ‎2023
Location: AE
Company: Technology Innovation Institute
Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a publicly funded research
institute, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is home to a diverse
community of leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and researchers
from across the globe, transforming problems and roadblocks into pioneering
research and technology prototypes that help move society ahead.

AI and Digital Science Research Centre

The Artificial Intelligence Cross-Center Unit is the machine learning
powerhouse of TII, working in close collaboration with our other research
centers to harness the full benefits of AI across our projects - and drive
innovation from new computing paradigms, designing and delivering new AI
methodologies, technologies, solutions, and systems that address challenging
issues across multiple sectors of the economy - from technology to healthcare,
cybersecurity, and government, among others.

We incorporate core elements of intelligence (perception, sensing, planning,
and language) in the ideation, design, and prototyping of next-generation
systems with human-like intelligence. We build advanced AI computing and
scalable AI-based software stacks and hardware systems to deliver significant
enhancements in systems infrastructure.Our AI researchers, scientists, and
engineers collaborate to ensure innovative outcomes, from AI theory to AI
technologies towards better intelligence.

Job Description

• The candidate will focus on creating, adapting, and improving algorithms for various use cases in the topic of computer vision, including the vision-language models


• Apply machine learning and deep learning techniques to improve accuracy of computer vision algorithms


• Solve computer vision challenges that can be applied large-scale use cases


• Conduct creative computer vision research in recognition and semantic understanding of ‎3-dimensional real-world scenes


• Building integrated solutions that apply our technology towards specific product verticals


• Developing and maintaining the software stack related to computer vision


• Acquiring and managing datasets from real world scenarios for training models


• Training model with large dataset as well as large model on multi-GPU, with a good understanding of data parallelism training and model parallelism training


• Write efficient and easy to read code, but also review the code from others


• Deploy a trained model to different platforms, such as a robot with ROS system


• Optimize model for real world application, with consideration of accuracy, robustness, and speed (*)


• Propose/build novel algorithms and publish/patent them

Skills Required

• In-depth understanding of image processing and NLP


• In depth understanding of Artificial Intelligence


• Proficiency with Python


• Proven experience with at least one of: TensorFlow/Keras/Pytorch


• Publications in top-ranking conferences/journals, such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NIPS, ICASSP, Interspeech, Pattern Recognition, to cite a few


• Experience in machine learning related competitions, such as Kaggle

Qualifications Required

• Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field

At TII, we help society to overcome its biggest hurdles through a rigorous
approach to scientific discovery and inquiry, using state-of-the-art
facilities and collaboration with leading international institutions. Our
rigorous discovery and inquiry-based approach helps to forge new and
disruptive breakthroughs in advanced materials, autonomous robotics,
cryptography, digital security, directed energy, quantum computing and secure
systems.