Duration

• 12 weeks starting May or June

The Position

Imaging System Analysts Pipeline team is part of da Vinci robotic surgical system multi-port organization. It is responsible for delivering the surgical robot’s vision sub-system image processing algorithm, vision pipeline design and image quality (IQ) optimization. As a Camera Image Processing Algorithm Intern, you’ll benchmark, develop and optimize new imaging algorithms to enhance vision pipeline perceptual IQ, for real-time surgical decision-making tasks.  You’ll develop an understanding of surgical robot vision sub-system design, its imaging challenges and root causes. You will gain hands-on experience in practical image processing algorithm design, implementation and IQ optimization.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and benchmark existing imaging processing algorithms and pipeline performance. Identify root cause of IQ issues and solution space constraints.

• Design, implement and optimize new algorithms with vision pipeline simulator.

• Algorithm and pipeline calibration, IQ validation lab work and documentation.

• Obtain surgical feedback from clinical development team and iterate into algorithm designs and optimization.

Requirements

• Knowledgeable and significant hands-on experience in designing and implementing digital image and video signal processing algorithms.

• Good knowledge about color science, human perception and image quality metrics.

• Solid imaging-related physics knowledge and mathematical modeling foundation.

• Proficient in Matlab, Python and C/C++ algorithm prototyping.

• Good machine learning knowledge and hands-on experience applying deep learning-based methods to image or video processing problems

• Current enrolment in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Imaging Science or related degree-seeking program at the Master’s, or Doctorate level.

Nice To Haves

• High dynamic range imaging knowledge and experience, especially tone-mapping algorithms.

• Experience with PyTorch (preferred) or similar deep learning frameworks for image enhancement or computer vision applications

• GPU programming experience with CUDA

• Familiar with CMOS image sensor, camera optics, and its signal processing pipeline.

Company

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.