<div dir="ltr">Post Details:<br><br>Fixed Term Contract: expected dates: 01 August 2016 to 30 September 2018.<br><br>Closing date: midnight on 26 June 2015.<br><br>The UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded project “Towards visually-driven speech enhancement for cognitively-inspired multi-modal hearing-aid devices (AV-COGHEAR)”, aims to develop a new generation of hearing aid technology that extracts speech from noise by using a camera to see what the talker is saying. Our proposed approach is consistent with normal hearing. Listeners naturally combine information from both their ears and eyes: we use our eyes to help us hear. When listening to speech, eyes follow the movements of the face and mouth and a sophisticated, multi-stage process uses this information to separate speech from the noise and fill in any gaps. Our proposed cognitively-inspired multi-modal approach will act much the same way by exploiting visual information from a camera, and develop novel causal algorithms, for intelligently combining audio and visual Big Data information, in order to improve speech quality and intelligibility in real-world noisy environments. The postdoctoral research fellow will be part of a multi-institute team, led by Stirling University, based at the Cognitive Big Data Informatics (CogBID) Research Lab (headed by Prof. Amir Hussain), comprising speech researchers, psychologists, and industry partners, and will focus heavily on cognitively-inspired signal and image processing. Specifically, the postdoc will research and develop a next-generation audiovisual speech enhancement system, in close collaboration with project partners at the University of Sheffield (UK), clinical researchers at the Institute of Hearing Research (Scottish Section), and the industrial partner: Phonak. <br><div><br></div><div>For further information, including essential criteria and details on how to apply, please see: <a href="http://www.stir.ac.uk/jobs">www.stir.ac.uk/jobs</a><br><br>For informal enquiries, contact the project Principal Investigator (PI): Prof. Amir Hussain, E-mail: <a href="mailto:ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk">ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk</a>, <a href="http://cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu/">http://cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu/</a></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div></div>
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