Author Archives: Hiroshi Tsutsui

Degree Conferral Ceremony and Graduation Party 2016 (Fiscal Year 2015)

On 24 Mar., the degree conferral ceremony of Course/Division of Media Network Technologies was held. Graduation celebration party was also held at 11-17, IST Building. The following is the list of given degrees for each. All doctor and master students will leave our laboratory. I look forward to seeing you again in the future. Please accept my best wishes for your continued success.

  • Doctor, Federico Mendoza Ang
  • Master, Takahiro Inatsuki
  • Master, Sukeyuki Iwata
  • Master, Shinya Moriyama
  • Bachelor, Takahiro Ikeshita
  • Bachelor, Kenta Sugiyama
  • Bachelor, Shohei Kikuchi

Congratulations!

IEICE Young Researcher’s Award

Mr. Seijiro Imai won IEICE Young Researcher’s Award for the following presentation at IEICE Society Conference. The award ceremony was held on Mar. 17 during IEICE General Conference at Kyushu University Ito Campus.

  • Seijiro Imai, Dabwitso Kasauka, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Okuhata, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Computational Cost Reduction of Iterative Shrinkage Smoothing Based Image Enhancement,” IEICE Society Conference, p. 144, A-20-4, Sep. 2015 (in Japanese).

IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Council Internet Symposium 2016 Best Presentation Award

Mr. Aoki, a 2nd-year master student, won one of the best presentation awards at IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Council Internet Symposium 2016 for the following presentation.

  • Hikaru Aoki, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation of Data Traffic Reduction for 3D Reconstruction Using a Wireless Network Camera System,” Proceedings of IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Council Internet Symposium, Feb. 2016 (in Japanese).

Bachelor’s Thesis Presentations JFY 2015

On Feb. 24, four undergraduate students made presentation of the following bachelor’s theses.

  • Takahiro Ikeshita, A Basic Design of FPU-based Matrix Operation Circuit Architecture for MIMO-OFDM, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, Bachelor’s Thesis, Feb. 2016.
  • Ayumu Ozaki, A Study of Voice Activity Detection Method Based on Average Signal Power in a Robust Speech Recognition System, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, Bachelor’s Thesis, Feb. 2016.
  • Shohei Kikuchi, An Evaluation of Motion Compensated Frame Interpolation Method Using High-resolution Video and High-frame Rate Video Considering Local and Global Motion, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, Bachelor’s Thesis, Feb. 2016.
  • Kenta Sugiyama, An Evaluation of Haze Removal Methods Based on Simplified Transmission Map Estimation, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, Bachelor’s Thesis, Feb. 2016.

IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Council Internet Symposium 2016

Mr. Imai and Mr. Aoki, 2nd-year master students, made the following presentations on IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Council Internet Symposium 2016, which was held on Feb. 17 to 23.

  • Seijiro Imai, Dabwitso Kasauka, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Okuhata, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation of Frame-based Parallel Processing for Iterative Shrinkage Smoothing Using Multi-core Processor,” Proceedings of IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Council Internet Symposium, Feb. 2016 (in Japanese).
  • Hikaru Aoki, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation of Data Traffic Reduction for 3D Reconstruction Using a Wireless Network Camera System,” Proceedings of IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Council Internet Symposium, Feb. 2016 (in Japanese).

Master’s Thesis Defense JFY 2015

On Feb. 10, the master’s thesis defense in Division of Media and Network Technologies was held. From our laboratory, the following master theses were presented.

  • Takahiro Inatsuki, An FPGA Implementation of Low-latency Video Compression System Using Scalable Lossless and Near-lossless Line-based Algorithm, Division of Media and Network Technologies, Hokkaido University, Master’s Thesis, Feb. 2016.
  • Sukeyuki Iwata, Highly Accurate MIMO-OFDM Symbol Timing Synchronization Method Using Auto-correlation and Cross-correlation with Carrier Frequency Offset Compensation, Division of Media and Network Technologies, Hokkaido University, Master’s Thesis, Feb. 2016.
  • Shinya Moriyama, Carrier Frequency Offset Compensation Using Guard Interval in MIMO-OFDM Systems, Division of Media and Network Technologies, Hokkaido University, Master’s Thesis, Feb. 2016.

AUN/SEED-Net CRI Meeting, Feb. 2016

On Feb. 9, we held a meeting of AUN/SEED-Net CRI (Collaborative Research Program with Industry) with Prof. Supavadee Aramvith (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand), utilizing a group Hangout with Prof. Takao Onoye (Osaka University), Prof. Rhandley D. Cajote (University of the Philippines Diliman), Mr. Watchara Ruangsang (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand).

Lecture by Prof. Supavadee Aramvith, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Prof. Supavadee Aramvith, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, who is one of our cooperative overseas professors, made the following special lecture for us on Feb. 9.

  • Pecturer: Prof. Supavadee Aramvith, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  • Time: Feb. 9, 11:00-12:00
  • Location: International Conference Room (11-17), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
  • Title of Talk: Adaptive Error-Resilient Techniques for H.265/HEVC Video Transmission

PhD Defense (Mr. Federico Mendoza Ang)

On Jan 27, Mr. Federico Mendoza Ang made his PhD defenses presentation at IST Building Room 11-17. The title of his dissertation is the following.

  • Federico Ang, A Study of Noise-Robust Speech Recognition and Time-Varying Speech Features, 2016

Hokkokai (北工会) Tug-of-War Tournament 2016

Assoc. Prof. Tsutsui, Dr. Imagawa, and Mr Imai participated, as members of Division of Media and Network Technologies (MN), Hokkokai (北工会) Tug-of-War Tournament held on Jan 22 in front of the Engineering Building. Tug-of-war game has been carried out in snow. Unfortunately, our MN team was defeated in first round partially due to insufficient number of our MN team members.