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Four PhD positions at the MTG-UPF

19.10.2015

 

The MTG of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, offers four PhD positions to work within two new research projects, AudioCommons and TELMI, funded by the European Commission under the H2020 programme, with a starting date of February 2016. The candidates should have adequate academic and research backgrounds for the work to be done within the project. 
 
In the AudioCommons project (http://audiocommons.org) the MTG, in collaboration with a number of academic and industrial partners, will develop technologies and tools to facilitate the use of Creative Commons audio content by the creative industries, enabling creation, access, retrieval and reuse of audio material in innovative ways. In terms of research the two PhD students to join this project would work on topics related to the automatic description of large sound collections, mainly using freesound.org as use case. The research to be carried out should combine audio signal processing techniques for content analysis of the audio recordings with semantic web technologies for analyzing the contextual information related to the recordings. The candidates should be competent in fields such as audio signal processing, machine learning, and semantic technologies.
 
In the TELMI project (http://mtg.upf.edu/node/3367) the MTG in collaboration with a number of academic and industrial partners, will design and implement new multi-modal interaction paradigms for music learning and will develop assistive, self-learning, augmented-feedback, and social-aware prototypes complementary to traditional teaching. The two PhD students to join this project will work on topics related to machine learning, DSP, gesture capture and analysis, and computer interfaces for music learning. Candidates are expected to have strong experience in machine learning, DSP, and computer programming.
 
The exact research to be carried out by the PhD students will be decided considering the background and interests of the candidates. Interested people should send, a part from a CV and a motivation letter, a research proposal related to one of the two projects. 
 
In parallel to the acceptance by the MTG, the candidates will have to apply and be accepted to the PhD program of Department of Information and Information Technologies (http://portal.upf.edu/web/etic/doctorat). 
 
Send your applications, CV, research proposal and motivation letter, to mtg [at] upf [dot] edu (subject: PhD%20positions) .

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