Job Description

Experienced Researcher (ER) in FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Initial Training Network DREAMS (Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech, www.dreams-itn.eu)

This full-time position is available from 01.09.2015 or soon thereafter for 16 months, with an attractive salary according to the Marie Curie Initial Training Network conditions. The main part of the research work will be carried out at Aalborg University, Denmark (supervisors: Prof. Søren Holdt Jensen, Assoc. Prof. Jan Østergaard) and will include a 4-month research secondment at Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg, Germany (supervisors: Prof. Simon Doclo, Prof. Timo Gerkmann).
The DREAMS Initial Training Network started in 2013 and investigates 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 hosts 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 is organized and supervised by an international consortium of 12 leading institutions from academia and industry. The title of the envisaged research project is Interaction of (de)reverberation with other acoustic artefacts/algorithms. In the area of acoustic signal enhancement, artefacts such as reverberation, echo, feedback, and noise are usually dealt with as isolated problems. However, in a realistic acoustic environment, multiple artefacts appear concurrently. A mere concatenation of existing acoustic signal enhancement algorithms would be a simplistic and inefficient way of approaching more complex enhancement problems, since the interaction between different algorithms is non-negligible. The objective of this research is to develop a general signal model for acoustic signal enhancement under a combination of different acoustic artefacts and compression artefacts, and to propose a number of strategies for exploiting interactions between different algorithms. It will be crucial to investigate how the different artefacts depend on the characteristics of the enclosure and the sound signals of interests, and how the different artefacts influence each other.

We are seeking for candidates with a PhD degree (or at least 4 years of equivalent research experience) in electrical engineering, applied mathematics, or a related discipline, who have an excellent research and publication record in the field of speech and audio processing, signal and information processing. Preference will be given to applicants who have a strong interest in interdisciplinary and application-oriented work and familiarity with subjective listening experiments.
Moreover, good English language skills are required. Apart from independently conducting cuttingedge research leading to journal publications, the experienced researcher is expected to cooperate with the early stage researchers in the DREAMS ITN.
Please note that candidates are only eligible if they obtained their academic university degree (Master) less than 5 years prior to their recruitment and have lived/worked in Denmark for less than 1 year in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment.
You may obtain further professional information from Assoc. Professor Jan Østergaard, email: jo@es.aau.dk
To apply for this position send your application containing a letter of motivation, CV, list of publications, a copy of the university diplomas and transcripts, and contact information of 2-3 possible references to jo@es.aau.dk

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