VRACE is a €4M project funded through the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Network (ITN) programme.
It will establish a 48 months multidisciplinary training and research programme running focusing on the analysis, modelling and rendering of dynamic three-dimensional soundscapes for applications in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), delivered by nine cooperating European Universities and their industrial partners. A total of 15 Early Stage Researchers will be contracted for 36 months to conduct research at the various partner institutions.
QUB will lead one of the VRACE projects, entitled “Physics-Based Source Modelling with Time-Variant Parameters”, the research for which is conducted by the Systems & Sensors group within the School of Electronics Electrical Engineering. The ESR will be based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre and work towards the expected results of the project together with Dr Maarten van Walstijn and researchers of the University of Performing Arts Vienna. In addition to the individual scientific projects, the network pursues a dedicated training program for the ESRs in the various fields of expertise of the consortium partners, which includes active participation in workshops, conferences and outreach activities.
Website: http://vrace-etn.eu
ESR Job Application Page: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/400308
Academic Consortium Partners:
- University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna AT (Project Coordinators)
- Technische Universität Wien (TUW), Vienna, AT
- Hochschule füe Musik Detmold (HfM), Detmold, DE
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUe), Eindhoven, NL
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, FR
- Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB), Belfast, UK
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Leuven, BE
- Aalto University (AALTO), Helsinki, FI
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH), Hannover, DE
Industrial Consortium Partners:
- Mueller-BBM GmbH (BBM), Munich, DE
- Siemens Industry Soft-ware NV (SISW), Leuven, BE
- Sennheiser Electronic GmbH & Co. KG (SENN), Hannover, DE
- Facebook Reality Labs / Oculus VR, LLC (OCULUS), Seattle, US
- Centre d’etudes et d’expertise sur les risques l’environnement (CEREMA), Paris, FR
- SYOS, Paris, FR
- ARTIM, Gänserndorf, AT
- IESTA, Vienna, AT
