Internship (or Master Thesis Project): Computer Vision & Multi-Person Tracking for Social Robotics (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Applications are considered on a rolling basis
- Stockholm
- On-site
Research Context
This internship is embedded within an active PhD research project aimed at benchmarking State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) solutions specifically for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
In HRI, maintaining a consistent identity for users is critical. Unlike autonomous driving or surveillance, Furhat observe the world from a stationary, eye-level perspective, which presents unique challenges. The core research investigates how different inputs (e.g., Face vs. Full-Body bounding boxes) and detection qualities impact the robot's ability to maintain a social interaction.
Internship Topic
The exact topic is not set in stone; we will define it together.
We are looking for a student to take ownership of a specific part of the pipeline. Depending on your interests and strengths, your internship could for example focus on one or a combination of the following:
- Benchmarking SOTA Trackers: You could focus on the evaluation side, running specific trackers (like ByteTrack, OC-SORT, Bot-SORT, …) on our custom dataset to measure their performance in HRI scenarios.
- Data Collection: You could design and execute new experiments to capture videos of natural Human-Robot Interaction, expanding the diversity of our dataset.
- Fine-Tuning & Annotation: You could help annotate data to create Ground Truths that allow us to fine-tune trackers for our needs.
Regardless of the specific direction, the internship will involve close collaboration with the PhD supervisor to ensure the work contributes to the wider research paper.
Skills & Requirements
- Education: Master student in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or related fields.
- Technical Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Python.
- Ideally experience with Annotation Software (e.g., CVAT)
- Basic understanding of Object Detection (e.g., YOLO) and Tracking concepts.
Please note that our internships are not fully paid. We invest in you by providing mentorship, learning opportunities, and hands-on experience in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. However, we do offer some support for living expenses, relocation, etc., based on individual circumstances.
Important: We can only accept candidates who are eligible to work in Sweden with an active residency.
Great Place to Work
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Flexible hours
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Competitive option package
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Paid vacation & parental leave
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Monthly workout grants
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Personal health insurance & life insurance
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Free beverages, snacks, team ginger shots
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Torsgatan 39, close to Sankt Eriksplan
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Breakfast
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Team building. Game nights, AWs, cook-offs etc.
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Easily accessible for commuters
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Work with a technology that will change the world
About the company
Furhat Robotics revolutionizes how people interact with information around them. We are a high-growth artificial intelligence and robotics startup from KTH in Sweden. Our vision is to create technology that is built fundamentally on principles of social intelligence and to empower people by designing computer interfaces that are socially aware. Our forerunner innovation is the Furhat robot, an award-winning and patented social human-like robot head. No one who’s seen Furhat is left untouched.
Furhat’s face is superior in that it is designed using computer animation with unique expressiveness and customizability, putting special focus on the personality and character of the robot. Furhat's “brain” is powered by a state-of-the-art conversational platform which is used to build highly sophisticated and socially-aware spoken interactions. Today, the robot is available as a development platform for developers, and early adopters. We see social robots to be a game changing interface to artificially intelligent agents. Join us and help to create a more social future, and to bring social robots to the world.
Kim Johansson | Contact Person
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