Description

The Research Technologies Advanced Visualization Lab (UITS RT AVL) team is a group of highly skilled visualization professionals who work to support research, teaching, and educational outreach for UITS. Our team specializes in the digitization of objects through capture technologies such as automated photography systems, structured light scanning devices, Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), and volumetric data sets captured by medical scanners. We also design and install innovative advanced visual display systems such as multi-panel large-scale systems, projection mapping, and interactive kiosks. Our third area of expertise is in the segmentation and visualization of scientific, informational, and research data with High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications, providing new insights into data transformation. Our team combines these skills and experience into an innovative consulting model we effectively apply to all IU (Indiana University) campuses, faculty, researchers, and students.

Job Summary

Department Specific Responsibilities

• Assists in the creation of 3D objects through a variety of digitization workflows including:
  • Automated 360-degree photography systems + photogrammetry
  • Structured light scanning
  • Volumetric segmentation
  • 3D modeling
• Assists in the automated processing of image sets and 3D models for import into virtual environments.
  • Polygon cleaning, decimation, mesh optimization
  • Texture mapping enhancements
  • Archiving/storage/metadata management of data
• Assists in the deployment of 3D and other media resources into virtual environments.
  • Sketchfab model management, lighting, animation, annotation, tours, presentation of media
  • Polycam.com virtual environments creation of virtual spaces, curation of media, publishing to audience, integrate into IU curriculum
  • XR solutions
• Assists in the archiving of 3D data/content.
• Contributes to AVL team activities and projects, brainstorming sessions, and client meetings .

Qualifications

EDUCATION
Required

• Current enrolled as a student at Indiana University with an interest in scripted automation, object digitization, visualization of virtual environments, data and/or scientific visualization

Preferred

• Currently enrolled in a Media Arts, Informatics, or Engineering and Design program

SKILLS
Required

• Strong working knowledge of, or willingness to learn, digitization technologies and techniques, media editing, 3D modeling, and/or graphic/gaming design applications
• Strong verbal communication and listening skills
• Dependable, prompt, enthusiastic
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates time management skills and self-directed tasking
• Familiarity with, or willingness to learn, 3D modeling applications, Adobe Creative Suite, online virtual environment platforms
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism

Working Conditions / Demands

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

Additional Information

One of our current initiatives is to deploy an automated photo-capture system and data processing pipeline, called "Cook", originally developed by the Smithsonian Institute. Processing 3D models can be tedious. For tasks such as mesh decimation, creation of UV coordinates, map baking, and file conversion, dozens of tools are available. There is currently no "one size fits all solution. Often it takes a lot of expertise, time and patience to find a chain of tools which work nicely together.
Simplifies the processing of 3D model, mesh, and texture data by providing a simplified interface for about a dozen of the most widely used processing tools. Recipes define processing workflows, where a set of files is processed by multiple tools.
The Cook is implemented as a Node.js server and can be controlled via web API, a web user interface, or via command line tool.

Work Location

Bloomington, Indiana

Benefits Overview

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing the IU Benefit Programs Brochure .

Job Classification

Career Level: Part Time Employee
FLSA: Nonexempt
Job Function: Part Time Employee
Job Family: Part Time Student Employee
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