Postdoc MAPSTYLE
Working condition
The recruited person will be involved in the MAPSTYLE project (ANR French
founding agency program CONTINT). This project is led by
<https://sites.google.com/site/sidoniechristophe/home> Sidonie Christophe
from COGIT lab of the national institute for geographical and forest
information (IGN). The project joins researchers in computer graphics and
researchers in geographical information science, cartography in particular.
The focus of the project is maps stylization and automation of stylized maps
creations. Apart IGN, three research labs participate to the project:
* INRIA Rhône-Alpes/Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, with
<http://maverick.inria.fr/%7EJoelle.Thollot/> Joëlle Thollot
* université Paris 5/LIPADE, with
<http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/%7Ehurtut/> Thomas Hurtut
* université Paul Sabatier/IRIT, with David Vanderhaeghe
One of the objective is to define formally what is a map's legend, and how
to control it to allow user to give their own style to a map. This work will
be done at IRIT in direct interaction with David Vanderhaeghe and with a
strong link with the other partners (regular meetings are planned along the
project).
Job description
The recruited person will be in interaction with cartographers, the
researchers in geographic science of the IGN and also with computer graphics
researchers. The first step is to evaluate existing legend models and
improve them for semi-automatic legend creation. The focus of the second
step is automatic information extraction to define legends from examples.
These examples could be maps or other images and feature extraction could be
extract a color palette or some drawing's features from artistic pieces,
comics or photographs. It is a research work which will be validated by
scientific publications. This research work is linked with the
implementation of demos to allow the evaluation by final user. The demos
will be implemented with the free software GeOxygene from the IGN.
Profile
Ph. D in computer science in the field of computer graphics or GIS with
computer science.
Desired Skills
Java, 2D computer graphics, expressive rendering, cartography, GIS.
Other Informations
We can also adapt the offer to an engineer's work depending on candidate
profile.
Contact David Vanderhaeghe (vdh(a)irit.fr) for further details.
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