Postdoctoral Researcher in Audio-Visual Technologies (Remote, International)

Job summary

This position is a 3-year postdoctoral role focused on developing context-aware audio technologies for smart glasses as part of an EU-funded research project. The role involves collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to advance hearing solutions that enhance communication for individuals with hearing impairments.

Qualifications

• PhD degree (or equivalent) in computer science, AI, engineering, cognitive hearing science, or related fields.
• Strong track record in real-time audio-visual signal processing, communication science, computer vision, or audio machine learning.
• Practical experience with first-person video, real-time algorithms, AI audio-video applications, and human communication experiments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct human communication experiments and create a large-scale audio-visual communication dataset.
• Implement real-time closed-loop wearable systems and evaluate technology with human users.
• Collaborate with the project team on developing AI models for audio beamforming and spatial sound field reconstruction.
• Engage in hands-on laboratory work involving multi-sensor experiments and complex data curation.

Skills

• Experience in closed-loop hearing technologies or cognitive audio solutions is advantageous.
• Proficient in real-time audio-visual signal processing and large data collection.
• Strong collaborative skills in an international research environment.

Education

• A PhD in a relevant field is required.

Tools

• Familiarity with audio-visual AI, spatial audio technology, and real-time signal processing tools is beneficial.