Subject: Open Ph.D. position: Philips Research/Technical University From: "M.F. McKinney" <mckinney(at)alum.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:29:59 +0200Ph.D. position in audio content analysis available at Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven What: A 3-year Ph.D. position for a postgraduate candidate with a background in electrical engineering, physics or computer science. This position is part of an Early Stage Training (EST) project: "Consumer-oriented access to media content", funded via the EC Marie Curie program. Three other fellows will participate in this project. Topic: This Ph.D. project focuses on automatic content analysis, a necessary component for new methods of content management. The focus is on the audio domain, with a strong emphasis on music. The first step in content evaluation is the development of features (low-level descriptors) of the audio signal. They form the core of all algorithms directed towards content selection and user-interface representation. Based on the state-of-the art in this area, the project will concentrate on the development or improvement of features that are specifically suited to characterize music content: timbral descriptors, pitch, key and tonal aspects of music, tempo, and rhythm features. Features describing these properties will be used for audio and music classification and description. What we offer: This project is placed within the perception cluster of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) research group at the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven and will be supervised by Dr. Martin McKinney and Prof. Dr. Armin Kohlrausch. The Ph.D. candidate will learn the fundamentals of human auditory perception, how algorithmic perception models can be used to extract music descriptors and how such extraction algorithms can be realized with low complexity, i.e. using as few operations as possible. Besides on-the-job research training within Philips Research, the candidate will follow complementary training on user-system interaction, experimentation and data analysis and technical writing at the J. Schouten School for User-System Interaction Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology (http://fp.tm.tue.nl/jfschouten/). Requirements: The candidate must have EC nationality (excluding the Netherlands) and be no more than 4 years removed from obtaining his/her previous university degree (masters, ir. etc.). How to apply: More information about this position and the way to apply can be found at the Philips Career WEB site: http://www.philips.com/about/careers >> career search by entering the JOB ID: 19447. Deadlines: Applications should be received by November 15. The position is available immediately. Information: Formal questions should be addressed to Mrs. Carla Schol (carla.schol(at)philips.com). Questions regarding the project can be addressed to: armin.kohlrausch(at)philips.com or martin.mckinney(at)philips.com