The high-performance computing laboratory for Sustainable Intelligent Transportation Systems (SITS-Lab) in the Department Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering is looking for hourly research assistants to help a research project on using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to monitor traffic flow dynamics. The hourly research assistants will work with a Ph.D. student on using a semi-automatic traffic annotation tool, iATTS (Interactive Annotation Tool for Transportation Surveillance), developed at SITS-Lab to identify and annotate individual vehicle trajectories in UAV videos. The work will be conducted in our research laboratory, Dow 842. The hourly pay rate will be $12/hour and it is expected that you would be able to work 10-20 hours per week.
To qualify for this position, you should be familiar with the following computer operations:
1. Google Earth (Google Maps) software
2. Windows Paint
3. Familiar with video play software such as windows media player
4. Quick learning ability to operate a Windows GUI – iATTS
The successful candidates must be able to show excellent communication skills, demonstrated attention to detail, and a good work ethic. You need to pass a training test in order to do this work.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Dr. Kuilin Zhang (klzhang@mtu.edu) and his Ph.D. student, Violet Hung (yhung@mtu.edu)