Research Scientist - 3D Reconstruction (SfM & SLAM)
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Role Summary
Join SpAItial as a Research Scientist to advance 3D reconstruction methods, contributing to innovative AI and computer vision projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Design camera pose estimators and 3D reconstructors.
- Build robust SfM and camera tracking pipelines for a variety of input imaging sensors.
- Develop bundle adjusters and nonlinear optimizers, including non-perspective camera formulations.
- Integrate and extend SOTA feed-forward reconstructors (VGGT, DA3, Pi3)
- Advance deep multi-view stereo, learned matching, and monocular depth methods for dense geometry.
- Build evaluation metrics for pose accuracy and reconstruction quality, and drive improvements against public & internal benchmarks.
- Scale reconstruction methods to large, diverse real-world datasets while keeping them reliable and efficient.
- Collaborate with researchers to bring reconstruction advances into production systems.
Minimum Requirements
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- PhD in computer vision with a research focus on 3D reconstruction; publications at top venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS).
- Deep understanding of multi-view geometry: camera models, epipolar geometry, triangulation, PnP, etc.
- Strong familiarity with SOTA deep reconstructors (VGGT, DA3, Pi3) and related areas such as deep MVS, learned matching, and monocular depth estimation.
- Hands-on experience with SfM/SLAM systems (COLMAP, ORB-SLAM) and nonlinear least-squares solvers (Ceres).
- Experience shipping production-grade 3D reconstruction systems is a strong plus.
- Strong Python and PyTorch skills.
- Comfortable debugging failure cases on challenging real-world data.
Eligibility Criteria
Candidates must have a PhD in computer vision with a focus on 3D reconstruction and must have the legal right to work in the UK.
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