Job Description
We are seeking a Research Scientist with expertise at the intersection of human and machine perception excited about pushing the boundaries of our understanding of vision to improve design of sensor-to-display control pipelines for augmented reality products. Unlike standard 2D displays designed for relatively static viewers and environments, AR displays must adapt dynamically to user behavior and their environments to ensure seamless blending of virtual and real world objects. Achieving such dynamic adaptation requires advancing definitions and implementation of models of human perception beyond sensory encoding limitations that have found success for more traditional displays. With this challenge in mind, we seek researchers with expertise in dimensionality reduction methods, modern DeepNet architectures and representation learning to develop and test novel computational perceptual spaces that serve to establish core requirements for automatic display control for AR glasses. Reality Labs (RL) brings together world-class, cross-disciplinary science and engineering teams with the shared goal of developing the next generation of AI for AR technologies. In this role, you will be embedded in a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers exploring innovative approaches to using data from egocentric cameras and motion detectors (IMU) and knowledge about human visual processes to model image encoding by the eye and applying those models to predict the AR display image quality. Projects take advantage of internal resources in mechanical, electrical, optical, and software engineering, allowing us to confront scientific and product engineering challenges which cannot necessarily be answered with existing products or prototypes.Research Scientist, Applied Perception Science (PhD) Responsibilities
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