[4eyes] FW: Summer 2012 Internships in Compute Vision at NASA Ames

[Matthew Turk]

FYI

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Fong [mailto:terry.fong at nasa.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:46 PM
To: mturk at cs.ucsb.edu
Subject: Summer 2012 Internships in Compute Vision at NASA Ames

Hi Matthew,

Could you please distribute this internship announcement for me? Thanks so
much.

Cheers,

Terry

                  SUMMER 2012 INTERNSHIPS IN COMPUTER VISION

                      Intelligent Robotics Group (IRG)
                          http://irg.arc.nasa.gov
                         NASA Ames Research Center

Interested in helping NASA create high-performance computer vision
pipelines?
Want to build digital maps from satellite imagery? Looking to tackle fun and
challenging problems? If so, then the NASA Ames Intellient Robotics Group
(IRG) is the place for you this summer! We are currently looking for interns
for two projects:

CO-REGISTRATION OF IMAGE AND LIDAR. The focus of this project is to develop
fully automatic methods to co-register orbital data (image and lidar)
captured
by historic (Apollo) and recent (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) missions to
the
Moon. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in statistical data
modeling, image processing (visual feature extraction), optimization (Gauss
Newton, Levenberg-Marquardt, etc.).

RPC CAMERA MODEL TRIANGULATION. RPC (Rational Polynomial Coefficient) is a
common approximate camera model used with satellite imagery, such as
acquired
by Digital Globe's Quick Bird or World View. The focus of this project is to
implement RPC models into NASA's open-source "Ames Stereo Pipeline", which
is
a high-performance processing system used to create digital planetary maps.


TO APPLY
--------

US Citizenship is REQUIRED for these internships.

Applicants should be upper-level undergraduate (junior/senior) or graduate
student and be very comfortable with C++ development under Linux (using gcc,
svn/git, etc). Remote sensing and cartography experience is a plus, but not
required. Software developed during summer 2012 will be open-source
released.

Please send a detailed resume and description of your relevant experience
(including programming background) to:

   terry.fong at nasa.gov

Deadline:  March 16, 2012


ABOUT IRG
---------

Since 1989, IRG has been exploring extreme environments, remote locations,
and uncharted worlds. IRG conducts applied research in a wide range of
areas including field mobile robots, applied computer vision, geospatial
data systems, high-performance 3D visualization, and robot software
architecture. The NASA Ames Research Center is located in the heart of
Silicon Valley at historic Moffett Field, California.