Author Archives: Hiroshi Tsutsui

IEICE Young Researcher’s Award (D1 Chenyu Zhao)

Mr. Chenyu Zhao, a first-year doctoral student (D1), received the IEICE Young Researcher’s Award for the following presentation at the IEICE Society Conference 2025

Chenyu Zhao, Yuzuki Morikawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Design of a Streaming-Based Resource-Efficient Mel Filter Bank Architecture for Real-Time Mel Spectrum Extraction on FPGA,” IEICE Society Conference, p. 118, A-14-15, Sep. 2025. [URL]

IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Activity Committee Internet Symposium 2026 (FY 2025) and Student Branch Advisors Award

Mr. Iura and Mr. Kawashima presented their works at IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Activity Committee Internet Symposium 2026 (FY 2025), which was held online from Feb. 20 to 27. Mr. Iura received the Hokkaido Section Student Branch Advisors Award

Takayuki Iura, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Evaluation of Spatial Noise Reduction Performance in Active Noise Control Using Multiple Secondary Loudspeakers for Snowplow Noise Reduction,” Proceedings of IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Activity Committee Internet Symposium, Feb. 2026 (in Japanese). [URL]
Taiyoh Kawashima, Yuito Ishisaki, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “An Evaluation of the Impact of Sleep Functions on Energy Consumption Based on Experimental Measurements in a LoRa-Based Environmental Sensing System,” Proceedings of IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Activity Committee Internet Symposium, Feb. 2026 (in Japanese). [URL]

Lab Tour for First-Year Undergraduate Students

In conjunction with the School and Department Introduction (February 2026) scheduled as follows, the Media and Network Technologies Course will offer opportunities to visit the laboratories.

On-demand: February 5 (Thu) – February 26 (Thu)
Live session: February 5 (Thu)

For details of the Media and Network Technologies Course lab tour, please refer to: https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/div/media/lab-tour/

Our laboratory will hold a lab tour as follows. We encourage you to participate.

Date and time: Tuesday, February 17, 11:00–12:00
Meeting place: Room 11-12, 11th Floor,
Graduate School / Faculty of Information Science and Technology Building
Registration form: https://forms.gle/bN5pEvfqFUjt4eJ47
You are also welcome to join without prior registration.

Hokkokai (北工会) Tug-of-War Tournament 2026

On January 19, Mr. Zhao, Mr. Hori, and Ms. Sakaki participated in the Hokkokai (北工会) Tug-of-War Tournament as members of the Course of Media and Network Technologies. Unfortunately, our team was defeated by the Course of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the first round.

Lab orientation/tour for 3rd-year undergraduate students, 2025

We will conduct a laboratory orientation for third-year undergraduate students as per the following schedule:

Location: 11-12, IST Building 11th floor
Date and Time: Oct 17 (Fri) at 13:00-, 14:00-
(Please try to join us at an earlier time if possible. We may not conduct the session after 14:00 if there are no participants.)

Visits (tours) to the lab are also possible. The available time slots are as follows:

Location: ICN Lab., IST Building 11th floor
Date and Time: Students will definitely be available during the following hours.
(Refrain from visiting before the end of the experiment; School of Engineering Timetable)
- Oct 16 (Thu) 16:30-, after the end of the experiment
- Oct 22 (Wed) 16:30-, after the end of the experiment
- Oct 23 (Thu) 16:30-, after the end of the experiment

If the above times are not suitable, please contact (or visit) us directly.

Temporary suspension of services due to planned power outage (Sep 13 – 16, 2025)

A planned power outage will be conducted at Hokkaido University’s Sapporo Campus on Sunday, September 14th, from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. As a result, all lab services will be suspended
from 1:00 PM on Saturday, September 13th, until 10:00 AM on Tuesday, September 16th.
The service suspension period may vary, and some services might be running slightly, or they might not be running at all.

“Campus Clean Day” 2025

We participated in the Campus Clean-up Day held at Hokkaido University on Wednesday, May 13.

IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Council Internet Symposium 2025 Best Presentation Award

Ms. Sakaki won one of the best presentation awards at IEICE Hokkaido SAC Internet Symposium 2025 for the following presentation.

Haruka Sakaki, Kenshiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Noise Robustness Improvement by Applying Multi-Condition Training to a VGG16-Based Skateboard Riding Sound Detection System,” Proceedings of IEICE Hokkaido Section Section Student Activity Committee Internet Symposium, Feb. 2025 (in Japanese).

The 50th PARTHENON Technical Society Conference @ Meiji University Ikuta Campus

On December 25, B4 student Yuzuki Morikawa presented the following paper at the 50th Parthenon Technical Society Conference held at Meiji University Ikuta Campus. We also participated in the Parthenon Workshop held on December 26.

Yuzuki Morikawa, Chenyu Zhao, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Towards a Low-Cost Hardware Implementation of a Mel Filter Bank for Audio Signal Processing,” Proceedings of the 50th PARTHENON Technical Society Conference, pp. 32-33, Dec. 2024 (in Japanese).