| | Post-Doctoral Research Position (M/F) at EURECOM, France
Title: Speaker modeling, recognition and diarization
Department: Multimedia Communications
URL: http://www.eurecom.fr/mm.en.htm
Start date: January/February 2012
Duration: 18 months contract
Description:
EURECOM?s Multimedia Communications Department invites applications for a full-time,
18-month post-doctoral research position (M/F) to work in speaker modeling, recognition
and diarization within its Speech and Audio Processing Research Group. The group
participates in a growing number of national, European and direct, industrial research
projects.
The performance of text-independent speaker recognition and speaker diarization systems
typically degrades when only limited speaker-specific training data is available. Under
such circumstances speaker models can be biased or poorly normalized across phones.
Linguistic mismatch in test or clustering data leads to degraded speaker recognition and
diarization performance respectively. This work will investigate new normalisation and
marginalization approaches to improve speaker modeling and hence the robustness of
recognition and diarization systems to nuisance and linguistic variation.
The position is linked to the on-going Adaptable Ambient LIving ASsistant (ALIAS) project
which is funded through the joint-national/European Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
programme. The ALIAS project, which involves several European academic and industrial
partners, aims to develop a mobile robot system that interacts with elderly users,
monitors and provides cognitive assistance in daily life, and promotes social inclusion
by creating connections to people and events in the wider world. You will be required to
work on the research, development and integration of speaker diarization, localization
and recognition systems to identify and track different users in the context of an
adaptable speech interface. The candidate is expected to represent EURECOM at technical
project meetings and related international scientific events and conferences.
Requirements:
The successful candidate will have been awarded a PhD degree in a relevant field of
speech processing prior to their joining EURECOM. You will have a strong research track
record with significant publications at leading international conferences. Experience of
collaborative research projects at the European level is desirable. You will be highly
motivated to undertake challenging, applied research and have excellent English language
speaking and writing skills. French language skills are a bonus.
Applications:
Please send to the address below (i) a one page statement of research interests and
motivation, (ii) your CV and (iii) contact details for two referees (preferably one from
your PhD or most recent research supervisor). The screening of applications will begin
immediately and the search will continue until the position is filled.
As part of its policy of promoting gender diversity, especially in computer science and
scientific professions, EURECOM encourages women to apply for positions predominantly
held by men.
Contact: Dr Nicholas Evans
Postal address:
2229 Route des Crêtes BP 193, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis cedex, France
Email address: evans@eurecom.fr
Web address: http://www.eurecom.fr/main/institute/job.en.htm
Phone: +33/0 4 93 00 81 14
Fax: +33/0 4 93 00 82 00
EURECOM is a graduate school and a Research center in Communication Systems, located in
Sophia Antipolis technology park, in close proximity with a large number of research
units of leading multinational corporations in the telecommunications, semiconductor and
biotechnology sectors, as well as other outstanding research and teaching institutions.
EURECOM was founded in 1991 by TELECOM ParisTech (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications) and EPFL (Swiss federal institute of Lausanne) in a consortium form,
combining academic
and industrial partners.
EURECOM deploys its expertise around three major fields: Networking and security,
Multimedia Communications and Mobile Communications and has a strong international scope
and strategy. EURECOM is particularly active in research in its areas of excellence while
also training a large number of doctoral candidates. Its contractual research is
recognized across Europe and contributes largely to its budget.
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