Research Intern: Camera-Based Perception for Marine Robotics - Honda Research Institute USA

Research Intern: Camera-Based Perception for Marine Robotics

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Research Intern: Camera-Based Perception for Marine Robotics

Job Number: P26INT-30
Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a self-motivated research intern to join our Intelligence Marine Robotics team in advancing camera-based perception for marine robots. Depending on your interests and project needs, you will focus on one or more research areas: marine foundation models for open-world scene understanding (object detection, segmentation, and depth estimation), 3D reconstruction and mapping, or sim-to-real transfer using generative models.
San Jose, CA

 

Key Responsibilities

 
  • Use on-water datasets collected with our full-scale test vessel for training and evaluation.
  • Evaluate perception accuracy against reference sensors such as radar and GNSS/INS.
  • Integrate models into a ROS 2 pipeline for on-vessel testing.
  • Document results and contribute to publications.

 

Minimum Qualifications

 
  • M.S. candidate in robotics, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience training deep learning models for computer vision tasks such as segmentation, detection, or depth estimation.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or C++.
  • Hands-on experience working with real-world camera data.

 

Bonus Qualifications​

  • Ph.D. candidate in a related field.
  • Experience with self-supervised vision foundation models or transformer-based segmentation.
  • Experience with open-vocabulary or open-set detection/segmentation, or vision-language models.
  • Experience with monocular depth estimation or panoptic segmentation.
  • Experience with 3D reconstruction or mapping.
  • Experience with visual-inertial SLAM.
  • Experience with diffusion models or other generative models, or with sim-to-real transfer.
  • Experience with camera-radar or camera-LiDAR sensor fusion.
  • Experience with ROS 2 and deploying models on robotic platforms.
  • Experience working with GNSS and IMU data.
  • Experience with marine robotics or outdoor field robotics data.
  • Publication record in computer vision or robotics venues (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, ICRA, IROS).

 

Years of Work Experience Required   0
Desired Start Date  May 2027
Internship Duration  3 Months
Position Keywords  

​ Perception; Computer Vision; Marine Robotics; Foundation Models;

 Open-World Perception; Depth Estimation

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