Master Thesis: Cognitive Automation Lab - Crowdsourcing parking availability i Stockholm

We welcome the opportunity to meet you!

Machine Intelligence and Automation is a research area at Ericsson Research. Our mission is to drive machine intelligence thought leadership to automate and transform Ericsson offerings and operations and to enable emerging business. This includes development of models, frameworks and infrastructure where we in our advancements push the technology frontiers. We engage in both academic and industry collaborations and drive the digitalization of Ericsson and the Industry by developing state of the art solutions that simplify and automate processes in our products and services and create new value through data insights.

The Cognitive Automation Lab group at Ericsson Research in Stockholm is a research group within the Machine Intelligence and Automation research area working on all aspects of artificial intelligence, such as knowledge representation, deduction, reasoning and problem solving, perception, natural language processing, automated planning and applied machine learning.

The goal of this thesis is to take advantage of ubiquitous cellular connectivity and sensor availability of contemporary road vehicles to propose a system for automatic detection of not occupied parking spots in surrounding the vehicle vicinity. The collected information is aggregated from all participating vehicles in a cloud service which provide assistance to the vehicles seeking available parking spots. The candidate will have the opportunity to get exposed to cutting edge technologies such as object detection and supervised learning while at the same time addressing the real issue of looking for parking in metropolitan areas.

The thesis would involve the following steps:

• Literature study and comparison of relevant technics for parking spot detection
• Compare accuracy, practical feasibility of different existing solutions and propose improvements
• Implementation of a prototype and evaluation of its performance
• Deliver a final reusable code, as well as a written report

   

We are looking for an open-minded student who seeks a challenging research work with the freedom to propose and develop his/her ideas. To be successful in this thesis work the candidate would need the following:

• MSc studies in Computer Science or similar area.
• Excellent programming skills
• Excellent skills in object detection and supervised learning
• Likes to build end to end prototypes and concepts

Be fluent in English.

This offer is located in Kista, Sweden.

Application

Please send your application in English no later than 28th of February 2018.

Why is Ericsson a great place to work?

Ericsson provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, national origin, ethnic background, age, disability, political opinion, social status, veteran status, union membership or genetics.

Ericsson complies with applicable country, state and all local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location across the world in which the company has facilities. In addition, Ericsson supports the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights and the United Nations Global Compact.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and development.

Ericsson expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, national origin, ethnic background, age, disability, political opinion, social status, veteran status, union membership or genetic information.

Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) || || Stockholm || 21094

Req ID: 217615