We offer a research-oriented internship focused on vision-based human motion and eye tracking, with emphasis on eyeball tracking and real-time communication of positional data to a surgical robotic system.
Responsibilities
What You Will Learn
Expected Background
Students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields, with experience in image processing and sensor implementation.
Environment
The internship will take place at IMEC-VUB-Brubotics, in a multidisciplinary research environment combining robotics, sensing, and medical technology.
Type of internship: Bachelor internship, Master internship, PhD internship
Required educational background: Biomedical engineering, Computer Science, Electromechanical engineering, Electrotechnics/Electrical Engineering
Supervising scientist(s): For further information or for application, please contact Amin Khorasani (< email deleted for security reasons >) and Bram Vanderborght (< email deleted for security reasons >)
The reference code for this position is 2026-INT-006. Mention this reference code in your application.
Applications should include the following information:
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Responsibilities
- Implement and evaluate vision and sensing techniques for human body and eye motion tracking
- Develop real-time pipelines to estimate and transmit position data to a robotic system
- Build simple experimental setups and prototypes
- Design and perform experiments to evaluate accuracy, latency, and robustness
- Analyze and document experimental results
What You Will Learn
- Vision-based tracking and real-time image processing
- Eye tracking and gaze estimation fundamentals
- Integration of perception systems with robotic platforms
- Experimental validation and performance evaluation
Expected Background
Students in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields, with experience in image processing and sensor implementation.
Environment
The internship will take place at IMEC-VUB-Brubotics, in a multidisciplinary research environment combining robotics, sensing, and medical technology.
Type of internship: Bachelor internship, Master internship, PhD internship
Required educational background: Biomedical engineering, Computer Science, Electromechanical engineering, Electrotechnics/Electrical Engineering
Supervising scientist(s): For further information or for application, please contact Amin Khorasani (< email deleted for security reasons >) and Bram Vanderborght (< email deleted for security reasons >)
The reference code for this position is 2026-INT-006. Mention this reference code in your application.
Applications should include the following information:
- resume
- motivation
- current study
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
