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Job Description THE ORGANIZATION The Alliance of Bioversity International (www.bioversityinternational.org) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (www.ciat.cgiar.org) delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives. Alliance solutions address the global crises of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. With novel partnerships, the Alliance generates evidence and mainstreams innovations to transform food systems and landscapes so that they sustain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish people in a climate crisis. The Alliance is part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. 1. Background: The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT seeks a senior Android developer for a 3-month consultancy. The goal is to capture a whole-plot image inside the Ona app, so breeders no longer switch to the phone’s native camera. Ona is a mobile and web digital phenotyping tool for on-station breeding teams in Sub-Saharan Africa. It runs at Alliance sites and with national partners such as TARI in Tanzania, Uganda and [...]
REQUIREMENTS
- The solution must meet these
REQUIREMENTS
- : No app switching.
- The full capture happens inside Ona and is linked to the active plot automatically.
- Whole plot.
- The output covers the full ~4 m plot row at a resolution the plant-stand model can use.
- Speed.
- Capture plus review takes no longer than today’s panorama step, with a target of under 20 s per plot.
- Devices.
- Works on the mid- and low-range Android phones used by Ona teams.
- Offline first.
- Capture works with no network.
REQUIREMENTS
- 6.
- Deliverables and timeline The consultancy runs 3 months (about 60 working days), in three phases with a go/no-go point at the end of month 1.
- # Deliverable Due # Deliverable Due D1 Inception note: review of the current flow and earlier attempts, test plan, device list Week 2 D2 Options report with working prototypes, test results and a recommended approach, agreed with the Ona team Week 4 D3 Beta build in the Ona app, with any server component, ready for field testing Week 9 D4 Field validation report: capture time, success rate, image quality for plant-stand counting Week 11 D5 Final release merged into the Ona codebase, technical documentation, tests and a handover session Week 12–13 Fees are paid in three instalments, each on acceptance of the linked deliverables: Payment Linked deliverables Share of fee 1 D1 + D2 30% 2 D3 35% 3 D4 + D5 35% If no option meets the
REQUIREMENTS
- at D2, the Alliance and the consultant will agree a revised plan or close the consultancy after D2.
- 7.
QUALIFICATIONS
- and experience The consultant must show shipped Android camera and image-processing work, not only general app development.
- Required 5+ years of native Android development (Kotlin; Java a plus).
- Shipped at least one app with a custom camera feature using CameraX or Camera2.
- Hands-on image stitching, panorama or computer-vision work (e.g.
- OpenCV, feature matching, homography, image registration).
- Use of phone sensors (gyroscope, accelerometer) for capture guidance or motion tracking.
- Performance tuning on low- and mid-range Android phones (memory, battery, heat).
- Offline-first apps and background sync.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Desirable Server-side image processing (Python, OpenCV, cloud [...]
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