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Thursday, January 10, 2013 by Chris Wellekens

6-19 (2012-10-20) Large-Scale Audio Indexing Researchers/Engineers: 2 W/M positions at IRCAM-Paris
  

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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