PhD in Computer Vision

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About This Programme

A fully funded PhD in Computer Vision: advanced visual computing research over 3–4 years with a 32-credit thesis.

Course Highlights

Fully funded: 100% tuition, stipend, housing, health insurance and UAE visa.
Research in 3D reconstruction, detection, medical imaging, vision-language and diffusion models.
Access to nearly 1,000 NVIDIA GPUs.
Qualifying and Candidacy exams then a 32-credit thesis.

What You'll Study

A 3–4 year full-time doctoral programme on the Masdar City campus with advanced computer-vision cores, electives, research methods and an internship, a Qualifying Exam (Year 1) and Candidacy Exam (Year 2), then an original 32-credit thesis. Fully funded.

Core Courses

Advanced Computer Vision (CV801)4 credits
Advanced 3D Computer Vision (CV802) or Advanced Techniques in Visual Object Recognition and Detection (CV803)4 credits

Research & Thesis

Advanced Research Methods (RES899)2 credits
PhD Internship (INT899)2 credits
Computer Vision PhD Research Thesis (CV899)32 credits

Electives (16+ credits)

3D Geometry Processing (CV804)4 credits
Life-long Learning Agents for Vision (CV805)4 credits
Advanced Topics in Vision and Language (CV806)4 credits
Safe and Robust Computer Vision (CV807)4 credits
Advanced Topics in Large Multimodal Models (CV8503)2 credits

Entry Requirements

Academic: A bachelor's degree with CGPA 3.5/4.0 or a master's with CGPA 3.0/4.0 in a STEM field.

English: IELTS Academic 6.5, TOEFL iBT 90, or EmSAT English 1550 (waived if a prior degree was taught in English).

Three references and an independent research statement. Screening exam and technical interview.

Careers

Graduates become research scientists and faculty in computer vision across academia and industry.

Accreditation & Professional Recognition

Licensed by the UAE Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA) under the Ministry of Education.

Programme Details

Award

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Vision

Start Date

Annual Fall intake (August)

Typical Offer

Bachelor's CGPA 3.5 or master's 3.0 (STEM); IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL 90

Duration

4 years

Qualification

Doctorate

Subject Area

Computer Vision

Study Pattern

Full time

Delivery Format

In person

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Next intakes

Aug

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