Master Thesis "AI Artificial Intelligence Airborne Phenotyping

We are Austria’s largest research and technology organisation and an international player in applied research for innovative infrastructure solutions. This makes us a powerful development partner for industry and a top employer in the scientific community.

Our Center for Vision, Automation & Control in Vienna invites applications for a:

Master Thesis  "AI Artificial Intelligence Airborne Phenotyping

IMAGINE

• Our team’s expertise is the development and deployment of assistive and autonomous systems, particularly unmanned aircrafts und land-based mobile machines.
• Automated robotic systems perceive the environment and can classify, locate and track objects for various applications in domain-specific areas.
• We cooperate with national and international research organizations and companies.

ENGAGE

•  During this master's thesis project, you will apply artificial intelligence to process multispectral and thermal data to derive geometric and biophysical parameters for phenotyping applications.
• For this purpose, you will train and implement neural networks.
  Moreover, you will visualize and document the results in a geographic information system (GIS).
• Together with our team, you will analyse the results and will validate them based on real-world data.
• As a final step you will work on a proof-of-concept demonstration.

ACHIEVE

• You will gain insight into the applied research working environment, you will share views with our scientists and will get to know new processes and technological developments.
• You may publish your evaluated and documented concepts and test runs and Publication of the evaluated and documented concepts and present them at a conference or in a journal.

Your qualifications as an Ingenious Partner:

• Ongoing master’s studies in the field of natural sciences, geoinformatics, geography and computer engineering, robotics or similar
• Knowledge of fundamental Computer Vision and Machine Learning concepts (e.g. TensorFlow or PyTorch)
• Experience in software development e.g. Python
• Basic knowledge of geographical information systems (GIS) and database technologies
• Good knowledge of verbal and written English

What to expect:

EUR 890,-- gross per month for 20 hours/week based on the collective agreement. There will be additional company benefits. As a research institution, we are familiar with the supervision and execution of master theses and we are looking forward to supporting you accordingly!

TOMORROW TODAY - WITH YOU?

At AIT, the promotion of women is important to us - that's why we are especially looking forward to applications from ambitious female candidates.

Please submit your application documents including your CV, cover letter and certificates online: https://jobs.ait.ac.at/Job/202432