Von: Kevin Austin
Betreff: Job opening at Ircam: Large-Scale Audio Indexing
Datum: 31. Oktober 2012 13:20:19 MEZ
Job Openings: Large-Scale Audio Indexing Researchers/Engineers: 2 W/M positions at IRCAM
Starting : January, 2013
Duration : 18 months
Position description A
The hired Researcher will be in charge of the research and the development of scalable technologies for supervised learning (i.e. scaling GMM, PCA or SVM algorithms) to be applicable to millions of annotated data.
He/she will then be in charge of the application of the developed technologies for the training of large-scale music genre and music mood models and their application to large-scale music catalogues.
Required profile for A:
– High skill in audio indexing and data mining
– Previous experience into scalable machine-learning models
– High-skill in Matlab programming, skills in C/C++ programming
– Skill in audio signal processing (spectral analysis, audio-feature extraction, parameter estimation)
– Good knowledge of Linux, Windows, MacOS environments
– High productivity, methodical works, excellent programming style.
Position description B
The hired Engineer/Researcher will be in charge of the development of the framework for scalable storage, management and access of distributed data (audio and meta-data). He/she will be also in charge of the development of scalable search algorithms.
Required profile for B:
– High skill in database management systems
– High skill in indexing technologies (hash-table, m-trees, …)
– Good knowledge of Linux, Windows, MacOS environments
– High productivity, methodical works, excellent programming style.
The hired Engineers/Researchers A and B will also collaborate with the development team and participate in the project activities (evaluation of technologies, meetings, specifications, reports).
Introduction to IRCAM
IRCAM is a leading non-profit organization associated to Centre Pompidou, dedicated to music production, R&D and education in sound and music technologies. It hosts composers, researchers and students from many countries cooperating in contemporary music production, scientific and applied research. The main topics addressed in its R&D department include acoustics, audio signal processing, computer music, interaction technologies, musicology. Ircam is located in the centre of Paris near the Centre Pompidou, at 1, Place Igor Stravinsky 75004 Paris.
Salary
According to background and experience
Applications
Please send an application letter together with your resume and any suitable information addressing the above issues preferably by email to: peeters_a_t_ircam dot fr with cc to vinet_a_t_ircam dot fr, roebel_at_ircam_dot_fr
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