Job Description

Early Stage Researcher (ESR) in FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie ITN 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 4-year doctoral program (resulting in a PhD degree awarded by University of Oldenburg). The main part of the research work will be carried out at Nuance, Germany (Supervisor: Dr. Tobias Wolff), and will include two 5-month research secondments at University of Oldenburg, Germany (Co-supervisor: Prof. Simon Doclo) and Aalborg University, Denmark (Co-supervisor: Prof. Søren Holdt Jensen).

The objective of this research project is to develop an efficient multi-channel joint dereverberation and acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) system for distant talking voice control applications. The outcome shall be adequate for real-time processing on state-of-the-art hardware platforms. The research methodology will focus on extracting additional room acoustics features from the AEC filter(s), while keeping the computational complexity at a minimum. In addition, synergies between residual echo suppression and dereverberation using spectral enhancement methods will be investigated, based on a profound understanding of acoustical phenomena.

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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