Oppo last Friday pledged no less than 30 million yuan (US$4.2 million) in funding over the next five years to deepen collaborative efforts with PolyU on AI imaging technology, as well as for expanding the scale of co-training for PhD and postdoctoral researchers.
“The research centre’s primary goal is to [nurture] talent,” Zhang Lei, chair professor of computer vision and image analysis at PolyU’s department of computing, recently told the South China Morning Post.
The new centre – scaling up from a joint innovation lab set up two years ago – is expected to be operating by January next year. It aims to recruit around 25 doctoral researchers and several postdoctoral candidates over a five-year period.
GenAI refers to algorithms, such as ChatGPT, that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations and videos.
