AUSSCHREIBUNG - job position at IRCAM in Paris, France
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Ircam recruits a Developer W/M under limited-term contract of 18 months and full-time
From March 1st, 2010
Introduction to IRCAM
IRCAM is a leading non-profit organization associated to Centre
Pompidou, dedicated to music production, R&D
and education in acoustics and music. 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.
Introduction to Quaero project
Quaero is a 200 M€ collaborative research and development program
focusing on the areas of automatic
extraction of information, analysis, classification and usage of
digital multimedia content for professionals and
consumers. The research work shall concentrate on managing virtually
unlimited quantities of multimedia and
multilingual information, including text, speech, music, image and
video. Five main application areas have been
identified by the partners:
1. multimedia internet search
2. enhanced access services to audiovisual content on portals
3. personalized video selection and distribution
4. professional audiovisual asset management
5. digitalization and enrichment of library content, audiovisual
cultural heritage and scientific information.
The Quaero consortium was created to meet new multimedia content
analysis requirements for consumers and
professionals, faced with the explosion of accessible digital
information and the proliferation of access means
(PC, TV, handheld devices). More information can be found at
www.quaero.org
Role of Ircam in Quaero Project
In the Quaero project, Ircam is in charge of the coordination of audio/
music indexing research and of development
of music-audio indexing technology: music content-description (tempo,
rhythm, key, chord, singing-voice, and
instrumentation description), automatic indexing (music genre/style,
mood), music similarity, music audio
summary, chorus detection and audio identification. A specificity of
the project is the creation of a large-music-
audio corpus in order to train and validate all the algorithms
developed during the project.
Position description
The Developer will be in charge of the development and maintenance in C
++ of the technologies related to audio
indexing for Linux, Mac OS-X and Windows platform starting from Matlab
code, including performance
optimizations (memory, computation time, file access). The Developer
will also collaborate with companies
involved in Quaero Use Cases.
Required profile
• Very high skill in C++ development (including template-based meta-
programming)
• Very good knowledge of Linux, Mac OSX and Windows development
environment (gcc, Intel and MSVC,
svn)
• Good knowledge of Matlab programming
• Good Knowledge of Digital Signal Processing algorithms (spectral
analysis, partial tracking, audio
coding, audio-feature extraction, parameter estimation)
• Good knowledge of Pattern Matching algorithms (statistical modelling)
• Good knowledge of indexing structure algorithms (LSH, Mtree, …)
• High productivity, methodical work, excellent programming style.
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,
rod_a_t_ircam_dot_fr, roebel_at_ircam_dot_fr
