"Research Fellow"

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The role

This post is part of a five-year project “SignGPT” which will build tools to allow spoken language to be automatically translated into photo-realistic sign language and video of sign language to be translated into spoken language. This project is a collaboration between the University of Surrey (Prof Bowden), the University of Oxford (Prof Zisserman) and UCL (Prof Cormier and Woll). This is a fixed term contract up to Sept 2026.

About you

The successful applicant should have a PhD in a related area with a strong track record of publishing high quality research. Previous experience of sign language recognition and translation would be advantageous would experience of supervising research. They should have good analytical and programming skills and experience of computer vision and machine learning. Previous experience of real time systems development in Python, OpenCV, PyTorch and deep learning are essential. Experience of C/C++/C#, TensorFlow would be beneficial. Applicants are expected to be proactive, to support other researchers and to be self-motivated.

How to apply

Please upload your CV and a covering letter on the University website. Informal enquiries related to the project to Professor Richard Bowden by e-mail: r.bowden@surrey.ac.uk.

The University of Surrey reserves the right to close this vacancy early/ extend based on Volume and Calibre of applications.

Further details

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