Job Description

Early Stage Researcher (ESR) in FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Initial Training Network DREAMS (Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech)

The DREAMS Initial Training Network will investigate the problem of modeling, controlling, removing, and synthesizing acoustic reverberation with the aim of enhancing the quality and intelligibility of audio, music, and speech signals. The ITN will host 12 Early Stage Researchers and 4 Experienced Researchers, each performing an individual research project around one of four themes that reflect the most challenging open problems in the area of (de-)reverberation. The research training will be organized and supervised by an international consortium of 12 leading institutions from academia and industry.

This job opening covers a 3-year research position in the frame of a 3-year doctoral program (resulting in a PhD degree awarded by Aalborg University). The main part of the research work will be carried out at Bang & Olufsen, Denmark (Supervisor: Dr. Søren Bech), and will include two 5-month research secondments at Aalborg University, Denmark (Co-supervisor: Prof. Søren Holdt Jensen) and KU Leuven, Belgium (Co-supervisor: Dr. Toon van Waterschoot).

The objective of this research project is to develop room acoustics models and scalable, robust multi-channel algorithms for controlling reverberation in domestic and automotive environments. The perceptually relevant components of the reverberant sound field in domestic and automotive environments will be characterized and modeled, auditory threshold levels for these components will be established and used in the development of novel adaptive multi-channel dereverberation algorithms, and the established algorithms will be validated using objective quality measures and subjective listening tests.

Required Degree: Master Degree in Engineering (or equivalent).

Required Languages: English (Excellent)

Marie Curie ITN Eligibility Conditions:
1) Early-Stage Researchers must, at the time of recruitment by the host organization, be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and have not yet been awarded a doctoral degree.
2) At the time of recruitment by the host organization, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of their host organization for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date.

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