Working Student Designing and integrating a novel approach for ear tracking

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do every day.

Your Responsibilities:

• Support on literature studies for new trends connected to in-cabin experience.
  • Feasibility evaluation for the automotive domain
• Support at planning, design, and testing of new features
  • Child presence detection
  • Alcohol intoxication
  • Various drug abuse
• Support on product evaluation activities
  • General testing activities
  • Test report generation
• Evaluation of digital testing methods for DMS and OMS systems
  • Synthetic data
  • Digital scenario generation

Your skills / qualifications:

• Motivated candidates, proactive mindset
• Preference for major in automotive engineering, robotics, computer science or related fields
• Profound analytical and mathematical skills
• Basic knowledge and strong interests in one of the following fields: ADAS/AD, systems engineering and simulation
• Basic knowledge of MS Office
• Fluent in English, self-organized

Nice to have:

• Background in computer vision

Your Tasks:

• Evaluate model based approach for ear estimation from current landmark model
• Integrate said model and set up inter-process communication
• Test approach on different dummies (mannequins) and human test subjects
• Set up audio tuning filters according to head / ear position
• Evaluate possible audio tuning solutions for intermediate ear positions (interpolation, etc.)
• Possible future task extensions
  • Evaluate effort to integrate proper image-based ear tracking (can we add the ears to our current landmark set)
    • What are drawbacks, but what are advantages (considering the whole product -> maybe there is an advantage for driver monitoring; increase robustness of face tracking
  • Integrate previously mentioned approach on occupant monitoring camera (larger FOV)
    • Possibility to extend approach on all occupants

Skills:

• student with major in automotive engineering, robotics, or related fields
• profound analytical and mathematical skills
• basic knowledge and strong interests in one of the following fields: ADAS/AD, systems engineering and simulation
• experience with either ROS/C++ environment or Matlab/Simulink environment
• basic knowledge of MS Office
• fluent in English, self-organized and highly motivated

Nice to have:

• background in computer vision
• prior experience with IPG CarMaker, ROS, CARLA 

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.