Master Thesis AI-Based Keypoint Refinement for Autonomous Driving

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Responsibilities

During your thesis, you will research and develop advanced deep learning methods to improve keypoint matching accuracy for autonomous driving applications.; You will design a unified neural network architecture that jointly addresses correspondence refinement, outlier rejection, and uncertainty estimation, aiming to replace complex conventional post-processing chains.; Furthermore, you will investigate novel approaches to achieve sub-pixel precision and handle ambiguous image textures within the feature matching pipeline.; You will implement and train these models, focusing on efficiency and the potential for distilling the architecture into a fast, real-time capable solution.; Finally, you will benchmark your approach against current state-of-the-art matchers (e.g., in Visual Odometry scenarios) to demonstrate improvements in robustness and accuracy.

Requirements

Education: Master studies in the field of Computer Science, Robotics, Mathematics, Physics or comparable; Experience and Knowledge: strong background in Computer Vision and Deep Learning, proficiency in Python and PyTorch, specific knowledge of feature matching, multi-view geometry, or SLAM is highly desirable; Personality and Working Practice: you excel at taking ownership of your research topic with a self-driven, independent, and structured approach, developing your own creative ideas, and engaging in mature, professional technical discussions; Work Routine: your on-site presence is required; Enthusiasm: passionate about solving fundamental problems in geometric computer vision and AI; Languages: very good in English