Research Intern: Spatial Reasoning in Long Videos - Honda Research Institute USA

Research Intern: Spatial Reasoning in Long Videos

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Research Intern: Spatial Reasoning in Long Videos

Job Number: P25INT-70
​Honda Research Institute USA (HRI-US) is seeking a Research Intern in Spatial Reasoning for Long Videos to explore new approaches for enabling AI systems to build, maintain, and reason about spatial representations of the physical world from long-duration video. Modern vision-language models can reason effectively about individual images and short video clips, but understanding environments over extended periods requires additional capabilities: maintaining persistent spatial knowledge, efficiently representing evolving 3D environments, associating observations across time, and retrieving the right information when performing downstream reasoning. The intern will investigate methods at the intersection of video understanding, 3D vision, spatial reasoning, multimodal foundation models, and long-term memory systems.
San Jose, CA

 

Key Responsibilities

 
  • ​Conduct research on spatial reasoning and long-context video understanding.
  • Review and reproduce relevant state-of-the-art research.
  • Design and implement novel models, representations, or memory architectures.
  • Develop evaluation tasks and benchmarks for long-horizon spatial reasoning.
  • Train and evaluate models using large-scale video and multimodal datasets.
  • Analyze model behavior and identify limitations in spatial and temporal reasoning.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers to prototype and validate research ideas.
  • Communicate research findings through presentations, technical reports, and potentially research publications.

 

Minimum Qualifications

 
  • ​Currently pursuing or recently completed a PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or a related field.
  • Extensive research background in computer science, deep learning, and 3D Computer vision.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, with experience in machine learning libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or similar.

 

Years of Work Experience Required   0
Desired Start Date  1/11/2027
Internship Duration  3 Months
Position Keywords  Spatial AI, Spatial Reasoning, 3D Scene Understanding, Long Video Understanding 

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