STI Research is looking for creative and enthusiastic researchers and developers who are interested in working in an innovative environment on exciting new products and services in the areas of mobile, multimedia, services and semantics.

We are interested in Bachelor, Masters and PhD theses on suitable topics (see below) with a clear aim to go beyond present research, as well as short development projects with concrete results in the form of software or services. Student theses can be done in your existing academic institution with support from STI Research (co-supervision with the existing institution, related development work as a STI Research project) or hosted at STI Research (in co-operation with our academic partner University of Innsbruck). In both cases, students will have access to STI Research facilities as well as expert supervision from a member of our senior researcher team. Work contracts can be given for student theses (Master, Bachelor) and development projects. We may also have openings to hire PhDs as junior researchers.

Contact us if you are interested!

Topics for research and development should:

1. Make use of semantic technology and approaches (Linked Data, RDF(a), OWL, SPARQL, reasoning, concept extraction, concept matching etc.)
2. Apply semantic technology and approaches to enabling a new or improving significantly an application or service for mobile or fixed access to data in different modalities
3. Bridging heterogeneous data, media types and services from different sources, which leads to discovering new facts, seamlessly processing multimedia and generating new workflows in an (semi-)automated fashion.

Concrete proposals for research and development.

We seek interested people to carry out the following projects with us. These proposals may also give an idea of how the topics sketched above can be realised in a real research and development project.

1. Research in application of concept distance approaches to media annotations combined with Linked Data, so that the conceptual similarity between two media items can be measured through the Linked Data concepts in the media annotation and how those concepts are represented in the media itself (as described in the annotation).
2. Research in the specification and exchangeable description of presentation templates which can capture the constraints of a device or user’s context, and on that basis combine a set of media objects in different modalities into a single synchronized multimedia presentation.
3. Development of a Web browser-based video annotation tool using HTML5. This tool allows to load a video, mark spatial and temporal segments, and attach Linked Data concepts to those segments. The resulting annotation must be able to be saved in an open Web format.
4. Development of a smartphone/tablet-based video player using HTML5. This player consumes a video file with its associated annotation, and highlights in the video the spatial and temporal segments which have been annotated with concept(s). When those segments are selected, content related to the annotated concepts will be displayed.

If you have an idea for research or development in line with the above topics, contact us!