The Department Augmented Vision at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern works in Image Processing and Computer Vision, Image Understanding, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and 3D Reconstruction. In the context of new national and European research projects, DFKI is looking for highly motivated researchers to work on visual perception for interactive 3D worlds, focusing on learning rich representations of humans, activities, and complex 3D environments using modern vision architectures, multimodal foundation models, world models, and end-to-end transformer-based approaches. The position is intended for candidates who wish to pursue a PhD (at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau) and contribute to high-quality scientific publications and research demonstrators.
Tasks:
- Research and develop novel methods for visual perception and representation learning in interactive 3D environments.
- Investigate multimodal perception, dynamic scene understanding, human activity understanding, world models, and vision-language reasoning.
- Design and conduct rigorous experimental evaluations and contribute to scientific publications.
- Implement research prototypes using modern vision architectures, transformer-based models, and GPU-based computing.
- Contribute research components to demonstrators in Extended Reality, digital twins, human-AI interaction, and embodied AI.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Strong background in Computer Vision and machine learning.
- Very good programming skills in Python and experience with research frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Experience in areas such as vision transformers, multimodal foundation models, world models, vision-language models, 3D Computer Vision, video understanding, or generative models.
- Strong motivation to conduct scientific research and pursue a PhD; excellent communication skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively.
Benefits: excellent working conditions with challenging research topics in an interdisciplinary and international team at an internationally renowned non-profit research institute. DFKI encourages applications from people with disabilities and from women.
Apply by 31/10/26
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply via the DFKI vacancy page: https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/researcher-m-f-d-x-in-visual-perception-for-interactive-3d-world-618922.html