CVC-CERCA Programme is offering a fellowship focused on developing AI solutions for Cultural Heritage or Environmental Sustainability. Projects in this track involve AI-enhanced document understanding, colour restoration for digital heritage, and Earth observation techniques for environmental management. Ideal candidates will have a background in AI with interests in sustainability or heritage preservation.
Key Responsibilities*:
- Develop models for digital image restoration and enhancement in heritage contexts.
- Apply AI techniques to improve Earth observation systems for sustainable resource management.
Qualifications:
- PhD in Environmental Science, Cultural Heritage Preservation, AI, or related fields.
- Experience with deep learning, image processing, and multimodal data integration.
- Strong collaborative skills and an interest in sustainability and preservation applications.
Possible Principal Investigators:
- Josep Lladós leads research on intelligent access to multimodal document collections.
Email: josep@cvc.uab.cat
Web: https://www.cvc.uab.es/research-lines/document-analysis/
Keywords: Document Analysis; Symbol Recognition; Graphics Recognition; OCR (Optical Character Recognition); Fingerprint Recognition.
- Javier Vázquez Corral leads research on colour image restoration and enhancement for digital heritage, as well as colour blindness-based image enhancement.
Email: jvazquez@cvc.uab.cat
Web: https://jvazquezcorral.github.io/
Keywords: Colour Image Restoration; Image Enhancement; Digital Heritage Restoration; Explainable Models; Colour Blindness; Colour Perception.
Available Infrastructures: GPU Cluster.
Possible Secondments: Different universities abroad.
- Dani Ponsa leads research on Earth observation for environmental and natural resources management.
Email: daniel.ponsa@cvc.uab.cat
Web: https://www.cvc.uab.es/research-lines/multispectral/
Keywords: Super-Resolution; Fusion; Precision Agriculture; Earth Observation.
*Candidates are not expected to address all these items simultaneously; these represent the broader research directions of the role.
