Microsoft Research Asia is recruiting interns for Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program
Position: Full-time Intern
Group: Visual Computing Group
Quantity: 2
Work Location: Beijing
Position 1:
Project Introduction
BRDF measurement using Optic Fibers … BRDF (bidirectional reflectance distribution function) is a function that defines how light is reflected at an opaque surface. It plays an important role in computer graphics to render photorealistic scenes. To obtain the BRDFs from real-world scenes, we need to measure the reflectance property of the scene points. We develop a new system that efficiently measures the BRDF. Unlike previous approaches, our method can achieve a dense measurement of BRDFs without any occlusions. The application of this device and result will be
1. Database of BRDFs
2. e-Heritage (photorealistic rendering of cultural heritages)
Role & Responsibilities
The major role is going to be experiment of the system. The system is yet to be built; therefore, it is possible that the intern will work on the hardware development part depending on his/her start date. Most of the work will be
1. Writing software for running the system.
2. Performing measurement (experiment)
Writing software tools for data management for the measured BRDFs.
Required Qualification
1. Good programming skill in C++/C#.
2. Basic knowledge of camera, projector (can control from a PC)
3. MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electronic Engineer or any related technical field and possess the following skills;
4. Good communication skills and excellent teamwork.
Good reading and written English.
Position 2:
Project Introduction
Hand-held 3-D camera … In this project, we develop a low-cost and practical 3-D modeling device for recovering surface shape and reflectance from a set of images. We develop a new camera by attaching a point light source to a hand-held video camera. In this way, we add a photometric constraint to the multi-view stereo problem to reliably estimate the 3-D geometry of the scene. We aim at deploying the system in real-world applications, especially for e-Heritage.
Role & Responsibilities
The prototype of the camera system is ready, but it is not quite ready for use because of two reasons:
1. Hardware … Now it uses IEEE 1394 camera with an LED that requires DC power source. We like to develop a fully handheld camera using a standard video camera + a portable point light source.
2. Software … Improvement of the computational efficiency.
The candidate should have a basic knowledge about camera systems and software development knowledge in C++, especially image processing aspect. It is preferred that the candidate has a computer vision background, but it is not required.
Required Qualification
1. Good programming skills.
2. This project is going to be mostly research development type of work. Therefore, it would be nice the candidate is motivated by not only publication purposes.
3. MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electronic Engineer or any related technical field and possess the following skills;
4. Good communication skills and excellent teamwork.
Good reading and written English.
Qualified applicants please fill in the application form and send it together with a full resume in both English and Chinese (PDF/Word/Txt/Html format) to: MSRAih@microsoft.com. Please note you are applying for MSRA VC group
Know more about Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program, please visit
http://www.msra.cn/intern
If any question, please email to msrastar@microsoft.com.
Link of the application form:
http://www.msra.cn/Downloads/DownloadItem.aspx?Guid=5a99cb19-ed7e-42f7-8bbd-958b67f7a986
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