PhD - Neural 3D Scene Representations for the Automotive Cabin Location: Hildesheim, Lower Saxo[...]

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At Bosch Research, we are driving the next generation of Physical AI, intelligent systems capable of perceiving, reasoning about, and acting robustly in real-world environments. As vehicles become increasingly shared, automated, and software-defined, understanding what happens inside the cabin is becoming as important as understanding the road ahead. The ability to detect occupant position, posture, and movement is evolving into both a regulatory requirement and a key enabler of future safety and comfort functions. However, current perception systems largely treat the vehicle interior and exterior as separate domains, limiting their ability to form a coherent three-dimensional understanding of the cabin from the small number of cameras that can realistically be deployed in a vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Investigate neural 3D scene representations, including neural radiance fields, Gaussian splatting, and implicit occupancy models, and adapt them to the unique challenges of in-cabin perception.
• Leverage the asymmetry of the cabin environment by using the known cabin geometry as built-in supervision and by incorporating modern 3D-aware diffusion models as learned priors.
• Research the reliable reconstruction of occupants from as few as one to three fixed camera viewpoints, and create a unified representation of the vehicle interior and exterior to enable end-to-end ADAS systems that reason about passengers and surrounding traffic.
• Work at the forefront of AI innovation and contribute to real-world industrial applications within Bosch Research.
• Collaborate closely with leading experts from academia and industry to bring advances into future safety‑critical products.
• Combine fundamental research in 3D computer vision and generative modeling with the practical goal of making vehicles safer for everyone on board.

Qualifications

• Education: Excellent Master’s degree in Computer Science or a comparable field of study.
• Experience and Knowledge:
  • Experience in machine learning using PyTorch, ideally with vision-based models and neural scene representation.
  • Programming skills in Python and solid foundations in computer vision and 3D geometry, including camera models, projective geometry, and multi-view constraints.
  • Familiarity with 3D scene representations (e.g., NeRF, Gaussian splatting, implicit/occupancy networks) or depth/3D estimation methods is strongly preferred.
  • Prior exposure to differentiable rendering or articulated human pose estimation is a plus.
• Personality and Working Practice: Proactive and highly motivated mindset with the ability to confidently navigate complex technical environments.
• Languages: Good English skills, both written and spoken.

The final Ph.D. topic is subject to the supervising university.

Start: October 2026

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