Internship: Visual object classification for autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vessels

Are you interested in an 6 month internship in Unmanned vehicles?

Over Demcon

DEMCON Unmanned Systems develops unmanned surface vessels (USVs) with increasing levels of autonomy. An important step in autonomous navigation is the detection and classification of other vessels and other objects in the water, in order to respond accordingly. The USV is equipped with four cameras for 360-degree coverage that can provide input for any classification algorithm.

Wat ga je doen?

The goal of the internship is to find and implement a suitable object classifier for maritime application, using the best tools available. The internship would include the following activities: researching and evaluating available classification networks/algorithms (e.g. YOLO, R-CNN, Xception, ...), finding and/or assembling a dataset if needed (e.g. COCO, ImageNet, VAIS, SeaShips, …), implementing the selected network or algorithm and evaluating classification performance on an unmanned surface vessel.

Wat breng je mee?

• Master student in the area of artificial intelligence, computer science or related
• Experience with artificial intelligence
• Experience with programming

Wat bieden we jou?

DEMCON offers a dynamic, growing and innovative organization. With our complex projects and multidisciplinary teams we offer a good climate for this internship. Thanks to enthusiastic and dedicated colleagues, our working atmosphere is good, open and informal. You will be supervised (daily) by a colleague from our department. We welcome own initiative and give you the space to express this. Furthermore, we offer you a graduation allowance and a lot of flexibility.

Heb je nog vragen over deze functie?

Please reach out to Hessel Edelijn (Hessel.edelijn@demcon.com) if you have any questions