General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-24-0609
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
Software and hardware acceleration of Neural Fields in autonomous robotics
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Since 2020, Neural Radiance Fields, or NeRFs, have been the focus of intense interest in the scientific community for their ability to implicitly reconstruct 3D and synthesize new points of view of a scene from a limited set of images. Recent scientific advances have drastically improved initial performance (reduction in data requirements, memory needs and processing speed), paving the way for new uses of these networks, particularly in embedded applications, or for new purposes.
This thesis therefore focuses on the use of these networks for autonomous robotic navigation, with the embedded constraints involved: power consumption, limited computing and memorization hardware resources, etc. The navigation context will involve extending work already underway on incremental versions of these neural networks.
The student will be in charge of proposing and designing innovative algorithmic, software and hardware mechanisms enabling the execution of NeRFs in real time for autonomous robotic navigation.
University / doctoral school
Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (STIC)
MINES ParisTech
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2024
Person to be contacted by the applicant
DAROUICH Mehdi mehdi.darouich@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DSCIN/DSCIN/LIAE
CEA Saclay Nano-INNOV
Institut CARNOT CEA LIST
PC 172
91191 Gif sur Yvette cedex
0169086051
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
PALJIC Alexis alexis.paljic@mines-paristech.fr
MINES ParisTech
MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, Centre for Robotics
60 Boulevard Saint Michel 75006 Paris France
+33 (0)1 40 51 91 61
En savoir plus
https://list.cea.fr/fr/intelligence-artificielle/