PhD Studentship: Cultural Heritage 3D Mass Digitization And Metadata
Application deadline: 1200 (noon) 13 August 2014; thereafter if no suitable candidate is found, open until filled.
SEAHA 4 Year PhD Studentship: Mass digitization and metadata enrichment of 3D cultural heritage artefacts by automatic and user-based
metadata acquisition
Applications are invited for a four year fully-funded PhD studentship within EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA – www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk) . The studentship comprises a one-year MRes based at UCL, London, followed by three years PhD study at the Unversity of Brighton, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (Darmstadt, Germany) and the Brighton Royal Pavilion and Museums. The project will look at the state-of-the-art ‘conveyor belt’ approach to high fidelity 3D digitization of complex cultural artefacts. Effective management and exploration of collections depends on the acquisition not just of the artefacts themselves, but also of semantic metadata, providing annotation of, and linkage between, acquired assets in the collection. This PhD project aims to explore the potential for the application of mass digitization technology in cultural heritage organisations, and to develop tools and techniques for the enrichment of collections with metadata by automatic and user-based acquisition.
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Lecturer In Visual Analytics, University Of Brighton
Application Deadline: 2nd September 2014
Proposed Salary: Starting From £32,590 To £38,907 Per Annum
A lecturer in areas related to visual analytics is being sought to join the school of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Brighton. This role is to be seconded in the first 12 months to join the EPSRC-funded research project “Automatic Semantic Analysis of 3D Content in Digital Repositories” working in the Cultural Informatics Research Group (CIRG) at the University of Brighton. The CIRG specialises in collaborating with institutions on developing viable, strategic and sustainable technologies in the documentation, digital preservation, analysis and communication of cultural heritage.
The research project aims to improve the organisation and discoverability of 3D content in large scale repositories by automating the analysis and enrichment of 3D content with its high level semantic meaning. The research will concentrate on 3D content from the Cultural Heritage domain in order to focus on a specific domain of expertise. The successful application will work alongside the Principal Investigator in designing and developing shape segmentation algorithms (e.g. skeletal representations) for ornamental shapes in the Regency Period. The successful applicant will also implement shape analysis methods to compare the 3D shape descriptors to predefined shape templates in a 3D dictionary. Our partner, the Regency Town House (RTH) will make available their architectural ornament collection for this purpose.
You would normally be expected to hold, or be close to completion of, a PhD in areas related to computer graphics, geometry processing or visual analytics. In addition, an interest to teach at undergraduate and postgraduate levels is desired.
If you are interested, please contact Dr Karina Rodriguez Echavarria on: [log in to unmask]