Author Archives: Hiroshi Tsutsui

Smart Info-media Systems (SIS) Technical Committee Conference, 9-11 July at Hokkaido University

Mr. Umehara presented our research achievements at Smart Info-media Systems (SIS) Technical Committee (TC) Conference held in Hokkaido University Centennial Hall on 10th July. This TC Conference was cosponsored by SIS-TC and TCs from System and Signal Processing Sub-Society (SSP) which includes Circuits and Systems (CAS), VLSI Design Technologies (VLD), Signal Processing (SIP), and Mathematical Systems Science and Its Applications (MSS). Assoc. Prof. Tsutsui served as one of local organizers.

Masahito Umehara, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Doppler-Resistant Channel Estimation Method Using RLS Algorithm for MIMO-OFDM Systems,” IEICE Technical Report, 9-11 Jul. 2014 (in Japanese). [URL]

Won a best paper award in ITC-CSCC 2013

The following paper presented in the last year’s ITC-CSCC (2013) won a best paper award.

Shinya Matsuda, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takashi Sato, Yukihiro Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ochi, “Architecture for Sealed Wafer-scale Mask ROM for Long-term Digital Data Preservation,” The 28th International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC), pp. 274-277, Jun. 2013.

Media Network Laboratory IB—Digital circuit design using FPGA board

The topic operated by our laboratyry for Media Network Laboratory IB changed to digital circuit design using FPGA board this year. 3rd-year undergraduate students tried to implement a calculator on Altera’s DE0 FPGA board.

Lecture by Prof. Yo-Sung Ho from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

A technical lecture related to 3D video was given by Prof. Yo-Sung Ho from GIST. M2 Matsuura, M1 Inatsuki, and M1 Dabwitso made presentation about their works.

Date: 14:30-, July 4, 2014
Room: 11-17, Grad School of IST Building, Hokkaido University
Title: MPEG Activities for 3D Video Coding
Lecturer: Professor Yo-Sung Ho (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)

Lectures by Profs. from Chulalongkorn University

We organized lectures by Profs. from Chulalongkorn University on 27 Mar.

Time: March 27, 10:30 – 16:15
Location: International Conference Room (11-17), Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

10:30 – 12:00
Title: Video over Wireless
Lecturer: Prof. Supavadee Aramvith
13:00 – 14:30
Title: Ad Hoc Networking : From Air to Ground, From Road to River
Lecturer: Prof. Chaiyachet Saivichi
14:45 – 16:15
Title: Multi-Media Systems
Lecturer: Prof. Thanarat Chalidabhongse

ICN Lab. Graduation Party 2014

On 25 Mar, we had a graduation party. The following students will leave our laboratory.

M2 Yuya Inoue
M2 Hiroki Iwaizumi
M2 Kosuke Shimazaki
M2 Masahiro Sugitani
M2 Yuki Hikiyama
B4 Tatsuya Higashi
B4 Yuki Maeda

Congratulations!

Degree Conferral Ceremony and Graduation Party

On 25 Mar., the degree conferral ceremony of Course/Division of Media Network Technologies was held. Graduation celebration party was also held.

2014 IEICE General Conference

At 2014 IEICE General Conference held at Niigata University, we presented some results of IDMA outdoor transmission experiment at session B-5 on 20th Mar.

Yuki Hikiyama, Hiroki Iwaizumi, Shingo Yoshizawa, Yasuyuki Hatakawa, Satoshi Konishi, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Characteristic Evaluation of IDMA in Outdoor Transmission Experiment,” IEICE General Conference, p.440, Mar. 2014 (in Japanese).
Yasuyuki Hatakawa, Satoshi Konishi, Shingo Yoshizawa, Hiroki Iwaizumi, Yuki Hikiyama, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Overview of Outdoor Transmission Experiment of IDMA,” IEICE General Conference, p.439, Mar. 2014 (in Japanese).
Shingo Yoshizawa, Yasuyuki Hatakawa, Satoshi Konishi, Yuki Hikiyama, Hiroki Iwaizumi, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Effect of Receiver Diversity in IDMA Outdoor Transmission Experiment,” IEICE General Conference, p.441, Mar. 2014 (in Japanese).

6th AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (RC-EEE)

At 6th AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (RC-EEE) held at University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) on 4-5 Mar, Prof. Miyanaga and Assoc. Prof. Tsutsui presented the following invited speeches.

Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Robust Speech Recognition and its Low Power Consumption LSI Design,” 6th AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (RC-EEE), Mar. 2014.
Hiroshi Tsutsui, “Design of Variational Based Realtime Retinex Image Enhancement IP Core,” 6th AUN/SEED-Net Regional Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (RC-EEE), Mar. 2014.