UK: Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher in Speech Intelligibility in Reverberation, Noise and Nonlinear Distortion

Deadline: 28th Nov. 2012

Salary £37200 - £44700 per annum

South Kensington Campus

Priority consideration will be given to Imperial College staff at risk of redundancy

We have a vacancy for a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher which covers a three year research position within the frame of a three and a half year doctoral program (resulting in a PhD degree awarded by Imperial College London). The majority of the research work will be carried out at Imperial College London, and will include two, five  month research secondments at CEDAR Audio and Aalborg University, Denmark.

To date dereverberation has mostly been undertaken in idealised scenarios without noise or other distortions. In order to lever practical value, dereverberation processing will be studied and developed specifically for real-world scenarios including noise and nonlinear distortion. The objectives of this research project are to quantify the impact on speech intelligibility of various types of degradation such as codec distortions, clipping and additive noise, in combination with reverberation, and to propose and evaluate dereverberation processing, or combined dereverberation and noise reduction, optimized for a set of defined scenarios.

The DREAMS Initial Training Network (ITN) 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 four 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.

To apply you must possess a Masters degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science and have knowledge of digital signal processing.  Knowledge of speech processing is desirable. 

The eligibility requirements for this vacancy can be found at the following link ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/docs/rea-annex3-mc-itn-multi-v5_en.pdf   If you don’t fulfil these requirements, your application will not be considered.

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