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always" lang="en-US" align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif,
serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Post-doctoral
position</b> (1 year): P</font></font><font face="FreeSerif,
serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><font
face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"></font></font>erception for interaction and
social navigation<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%; page-break-before:
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Research Engineer</b> (1
year): Social Human-Robot Interactions</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Laboratory</b>: LITIS,
INSA Rouen Normandy, France</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Project</b>: INCA (Natural
Interactions with Artificial Companions)</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Summary</b>:</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">The emergence of interactive
robots and connected objects has lead to the appearance of
symbiotic systems made up of human users, virtual agents and
robots in social interactions. However, two major scientific
difficulties are unsolved yet: on the one hand, the
recognition of human activity remains inaccurate, both at the
operational level (location, mapping and identification of
objects and users) and cognitive (recognition and tracking of
users’ intentions) and, on the other hand, interaction
involves different modalities that must be adapted according
to the context, the user and the situation. The INCA project
aims at developing artificial companions (interactive robots
and virtual agents) with a particular focus on social
interactions. Our goal is to develop new models and algorithms
for intelligent companions capable of (1) perceiving and
representing an environment (real, virtual or mixed)
consisting of objects, robots and users; (2) interacting with
users in a natural way to assess their needs, preferences, and
engagement; (3) learning models of user behavior and (4)
generating semantically adequate and socially appropriate
responses.</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Post-doctoral position in
perception for interaction and social navigation (1
position)<br>
</b></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"><font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">The candidate will work to
ensure that a robot can recognize the physical content of the
scene surrounding him, recognize himself, static and dynamic
objects (users and other robots) and finally predict the
movement of dynamic elements. The integration of data from
different sensors should allow the mapping of an unknown
environment and estimate the position of the robot. First,
VSLAM techniques (Visual Simultaneous Localization And
Mapping) (Saputra 2018) will be used to map the scene. The
regions (or points) of interest detected could<br>
then be used to detect obstacles. In order to distinguish
between static and dynamic objects, methods of separating the
background from the foregound of the scene (Kajo et al, 2018)
will be used. Finally, some recent techniques of the Flownet
2.0 type (Eddy et al, 2017), for the prediction of the motion
on a video sequence should make it possible to predict the
next movement of an object dynamic object and the to apprehend
its behavior.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"><font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Profile: t</font></font></font></font><font
face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><font
face="FreeSerif, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">he candidate must have strong skills in mobile
robotics and navigation techniques (VSLAM, OrbSlam,
Optical Flow, stereovision...) and a high programming
capacities under ROS or any other programming language
compatible with robotics. Machine learning and Deep
learning skills will be highly appreciated.</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"><font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Research Engineer in
Social Human-Robot Interactions (1 position)</b> <br>
</font></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"><font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"></font></font>The hired
research engineer will work closely with the INCA research
staff (permanent, PhD and post-doctoral members) and other
project partners. This will mainly involve administering the
project's Pepper robots, developing the necessary tools,
integrating the algorithms developed with the AgentSlang
platform (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://agentslang.github.io/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://agentslang.github.io/</a>)
and join the team created to participate in the Robocup 2020
in Bordeaux, @Home league.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Profile: Computer Sciences /
Robotics Engineer</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Good level in programming
(ROS, Python, possibly Java)</font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Strong knowledge in
robotics</font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Experiences in some of
the following areas would be a plus (non-exhaustive list):
machine learning, human-machine social interactions, scene
perception, spatio-temporal and semantic representation,
natural language dialogue.</font></font></p>
</li>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Duration and remuneration</b>:
1 year, 2480euros/month (gross salary)</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US"
align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Application should be sent
to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:alexandre.pauchet@insa-rouen.fr"
moz-do-not-send="true">alexandre.pauchet@insa-rouen.fr</a></font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Cover letter</font></font></p>
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align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Recommendation letters</font></font></p>
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align="justify"> <font face="FreeSerif, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Recently graduated
students: transcripts</font></font></p>
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Alexandre Pauchet
Associate Professor HDR
INSA Rouen Normandie - ASI Department - LITIS Lab
Phone: +33(0)2 32 95 98 58
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://asi.insa-rouen.fr/enseignants/~apauchet/" moz-do-not-send="true">http://asi.insa-rouen.fr/enseignants/~apauchet/</a></pre>
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