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Job Description

Experienced Researcher (ER) 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.

The title of the envisaged research project is Perceptual impact and objective measures of (de)reverberation (WP2-ER). Although relatively good perceptual models exist to predict the effect of reverberation on speech intelligibility in noisy environments, a general framework for the perceptual evaluation of reverberant and dereverberated speech signals is not yet available. Moreover, the available objective measures to evaluate dereverberation (and combined noise reduction and dereverberation) algorithms are not yet able to accurately predict speech intelligibility and quality. The objective of this research project is to develop and validate a general framework for the perceptual evaluation of reverberant and dereverberated speech signals. First, subjective listening experiments to investigate the relationship between the physical and perceptual attributes of reverberation, including other acoustic artefacts, will be designed and executed. Based on these listening experiments and psychoacoustical models, a general perceptual framework will be developed and validated.

We are seeking for candidates with a PhD degree (or at least 4 years of equivalent research experience) in auditory science, physics, electrical engineering or a related discipline, who have an excellent research and publication record in the field of auditory perception, (psycho)acoustics and/or speech and audio processing. A strong interest in interdisciplinary and application-oriented work, familiarity with subjective listening experiments, as well as good English language skills are required. Apart from independently conducting cutting-edge 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 Germany for less than 1 year in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment.

The Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg strives to increase the proportion of women in science, so we especially encourage female candidates to apply. Handicapped applicants will be given preference if equally qualified.

Job Information

Contact
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Related URL
http://www.dreams-itn.eu/up...
Institution
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg: The Signal Processing group (www.sigproc.uni-oldenburg.de) at the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics and the Centre of Excellence Hearing4All
Topic Category
Location
Oldenburg, Germany
Closing Date
April 15, 2014