Opening of 2 research positions at INESC Porto

[fabien gouyon <fgouyon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Dear colleagues,

At the Sound and Music Computing Group of INESC Porto
(http://smc.inescporto.pt), we are happy to announce two research
internships in the context of the research project "ShakeIt -
Mechanisms of Musical Groove and applications".

(1) A 1-year (renewable up to 2 years) Post-Doc research fellowship

(2) A 5-months (renewable up to 2 years) graduate research fellowship

Groove is the quality of music that makes people tap their feet, rock
their head, and get up and dance.
In the research project ShakeIt, funded by the FCT (Portuguese
Ministry of Science), we explore the properties of sound signals that
induceÂthe experience of groove in listeners, and follow 3 lines of
work:
   Â1.   ÂComputational Modeling of groove features fromÂaudio.
   Â2.   ÂEmpirical experiments with human participants to
validate/invalidate these features.
   Â3.   ÂImplementationÂof a software for real-time
generation/manipulation
of polyphonic rhythmic sequences conveying the groove ofÂa certain
style, or for gradually changing the groove feel of a rhythmic
sequence at run time.

The researchers will integrate into an international research team and
will have opportunity to collaborate on several funded research
projects, together with a number of international partners. (More
details on our research projects are available on
http://smc.inescporto.pt/research/)

Preferred start of contract: 14/03/2011
Location: Porto, Portugal
Working language: English





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(1) Post-doc research fellowship

The postdoctoral researcher will collaborate with Dr. Fabien Gouyon
and Dr. Carlos Guedes in all tasks of the ShakeIt project, involving:
- Scientific management of the project team
- Setting up and conducting experiments for computational description
of groove from audio
- Collaborating with Dr. Guy Madison at the Psychology Department of
University of Umea (Sweden) on groove perception experiments
- Working on a rhythm generation engine for real-time
generation/manipulation of polyphonic rhythmic sequences

Candidates should hold a PhD in Music Technology, Computer Science,
Electrical Engineering or similar area

. Application period: Starting now until the position is filled
. Duration of the grant: 1 year (renewable up to 2 years) from
14/03/2011 (preferred)
. Requirements: Knowledge of Signal Processing, objet-oriented
programming , Matlab, statistics, and some experience with machine
learning frameworks
. Optional properties that will be considered as a merit include:
Experience with statistical computing, experimental design, MARSYAS,
any scripting language, open-mindedness, and creativity.

For more information on the grant and modalities for application,
please contact me directly in answer to this email.



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(2) Graduate research fellowship

During the internship, the grantee will develop novel features for the
computational description of groove in musical audio signals, on top
of previous work done at INESC Porto (beat tracking, rhythm
classification, microtiming and groove estimation/transformation).
A careful work of systematic feature assessment and comparison with
state-of-the-art features will be carried out, with the help of large
collections of audio data.

Candidates should hold a diploma (minimum Bachelor) in Music
Technology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or similar area

. Application period: Starting now until the position is filled
. Duration of the grant: 5 months (renewable up to 2 years) from
14/03/2011 (preferred)
. Requirements: Knowledge of Signal Processing, Matlab, some
experience with machine learning frameworks
. Optional properties that will be considered as a merit include:
Knowledge of C++ (MARSYAS is a plus), any scripting language,
open-mindedness, and creativity.

For more information on the grant and modalities for application,
please contact me directly in answer to this email.



--
Fabien Gouyon, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, INESC Porto
Invited Assistant Professor, Engineering Faculty, University of Porto
http://www.inescporto.pt/~fgouyon
http://smc.inescporto.pt/