The Sony EyeToy was launched onto the video games market three years ago. Since then, it has found its way into over 8 million homes worldwide. Using a small video camera plugged into a PlayStation, it tracks the player's motion, allowing them to play games by moving their bodies rather than using a controller.
 
A DTI funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) has been awarded to Sony Entertainment Europe and Oxford Brookes University (http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/PhilipTorr/
) . A candidate is therefore sought to fill a research associate positions for a 2 year duration. The starting date would ideally be between May and August 2007. The research program is aimed at transferring recent results in the academic community into gaming experience for camera based games.
 
Required skills:
 
- Strong academic and commercial knowledge of computer vision
- Ability to research and develop new computer vision algorithms
- Good C++
- Strong mathematics
- A passion for computer games
 
The successful candidate will be self motivated, organised and good at communicating. They should be able to create novel computer vision algorithms and turn these into production quality systems. They should be able to take direction and also contribute to the overall strategy and goals of the group.
 
Informal inquiries to:
philiptorr@brookes.ac.uk,
Professor Phil Torr,
Department of Computing,
Oxford Brookes University,
Wheatley,
Oxford
OX33 1HX.
http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/staff/PhilipTorr/