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(Apologies for cross-posting) Introduction to SACEM: SACEM (Society of Authors,
Composers and
Publishers of Music) is a French professional association
collecting payments
of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original
songwriters,
composers, and music publishers. It is a non-profit non-trading
entity owned
and managed by its members according to the business model of a
cooperative. To
guarantee authors’ intellectual property rights over their
works, SACEM
collects and distributes royalties, thereby playing a crucial
economic role to
preserve musical creation.
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 and musicology. Ircam
is located in
the centre of Paris near the Centre Pompidou, at 1, Place Igor
Stravinsky 75004
Paris. Description of the PHD research: The goal of the PHD is to develop
innovative and
efficient algorithms for the identification of musical works
(ISWC code, not
the identification of recordings denoted by ISRC) at scale. The
PHD
student will rely on pre-existing works performed at IRCAM and
on the current
literature of the field. The final application targets the
identification
of musical content as hosted by online platforms from the audio
signal only
(without using external meta-data). For this, the PHD student
will study
methods based on the extraction of audio signature
representative of the
musical works and algorithms for comparison of those at-scale,
extraction of
dominant melody and algorithms for comparison of those at-scale,
audio to score
alignment at scale any innovative algorithms that allow
improving musical work
identification. Description of the PHD position: The PHD student will be hired by
SACEM as a
researcher for interdisciplinary project. He/she will be hired
as a 36 months
short-term contract. The scientific supervision of the PHD will
be done by
IRCAM. Required profile: - Student with at least a Master 2
degree - Very good knowledge in computer
science, audio
signal processing and machine learning - Good knowledge of big data
issues and solutions
(data scientist profiles are welcome) - Good knowledge of Linux,
Windows, Mac-OS
environments - Good knowledge of Matlab and/or
Python, Java Starting date: September the 1st, 2016 Application: Please send an application letter
with the
reference "Cifre/CR" together with your resume and any suitable
information addressing the above issues by email to
drh.recrutement@xxxxxxxx
with cc to geoffroy.peeters@xxxxxxxx. |