The laboratory consists of about 40 researchers and advanced development engineers, systems support and administrative staff. In general, we do research that we expect to be relevant to Compaq's business, either now or in the future. This includes anticipating new areas in which Compaq will require competency in order to remain competitive. Each summer, CRL hires students to work on research projects with our staff for a period lasting approximately three months, with negotiable start and end dates. Students interested in an available opening apply by e-mail to the contact address given with the opening's description, as indicated below.
International students are eligible.
Successful applicants are usually graduate students in computer science doctorate programs who are interested in research areas related to one or more of the openings listed. Usually, many resumes are received for each opening, so the selection process is quite competitive. This project will explore techniques which take advantage of very large datasets for efficiently finding faces in images with cluttered backgrounds. The goal is to handle significant pose variations as well as in-plane rotations. This project will explore the use of learned models of human dynamics to generate computer graphics animations of human motion.