Author Archives: Hiroshi Tsutsui

Campus Open Day 2019, Laboratory Tour

On August 8th, laboratory tour for high school students was held as a part of “Open Campus” (Campus Open Day). After brief explanations of our research activities, we assisted the attendees to implement a simple adder circuit using discrete logic ICs.

Lab tour for 3rd-year undergraduate students, 2018

Lab tour is available for 3rd-year undergraduate students.

  • Venue: IST Building 11th floor 11-16
    (Laboratory of Information Communication Networks)
  • Schedule: In the following time slots, M1 students are available for introducing our laboratory. The representative of M1 students is Ms. Katagishi. We welcome your visit not limited to the following time slots.
    • Oct. 19 (Fri) 16:30-18:00
    • Oct. 22 (Mon) 16:30-18:00

IST Building 11F (the top floor)

Best Paper Award (ICEAST 2018)

Ei Ei Tun was awarded ICEAST 2018 Best Paper Award for the following paper.

  • Ei Ei Tun, Supavadee Aramvith, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Feature Reduction on Fuzzy SVM-Based Coding Unit Decision in HEVC,” Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering, Applied Sciences and Technology (ICEAST 2018), pp. 999-1002, Track 4 (Telecommunications, Computer Science, Instrumentation and Control, Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Jul. 2018.

Lecture about Macquarie University (Sydney), May 11

On 11th May, we invited Dr. Nikos Kopidakis, Ms. Yoko Kaitani (Both from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) for a lecture about Macquarie University focusing on their cotutelle and double degree programs.

2017 IEEE Sapporo Section Student Paper Contest, Encouraging Prize

Taishi Watanabe was awarded as 2017 IEEE Sapporo Section Student Paper Contest, Encouraging Prize the following paper.

  • Taishi Watanabe, Takahiro Ikeshita, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takashi Imagawa, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “A Design of High-Throughput LDPC Min-Sum Decoder Using Parallelization,” Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, pp. 102-103, Oct. 2017 (in Japanese).

Technical Meeting with Dr. Ying He and Dr. Negin Shariati Moghadam from University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Dr. Ying He and Dr. Negin Shariati Moghadam from University of Technology Sydney (UTS) are now visiting our university. On Feb. 27, we had a technical meeting with them. The following students made their presentations to introduce our research activities.

  • D2 Myat Hsu Aung
  • JICA Trainee Ei Ei Tun

Bachelor’s Thesis Presentations JFY 2017

On Feb. 19, four undergraduate students made presentations of the following bachelor’s theses.

  • Mariko Hirayama, An Evaluation of Symbol Synchronization with Measured Data Using Eye-pattern Based Offset Detection and Mueller-Muller Timing Recovery, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, Bachelor’s Thesis, Feb. 2018.
  • Yunako Katagishi, A Feasibility Study of Side Information Compression Approach for Adaptive Block Based Lossless Compression Method, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, Bachelor’s Thesis, Feb. 2018.
  • Riku Takanashi, A Design of Neural Network for Speech Emotion Recognition Using Phoneme Information and Fundamental Frequency, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, Bachelor’s Thesis, Feb. 2018.
  • Mayuka Gomi, Screen Area Detection from Presentation Video Sequences Acquired by Action Camcorders and Its Distortion Correction Using Affine Transformation, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hokkaido University, Bachelor’s Thesis, Feb. 2018.

Master’s Thesis Defense JFY 2017

On Feb. 6, the master’s thesis defense in Division of Media and Network Technologies was held. From our laboratory, the following master theses were presented.

  • Takahiro Ikeshita, Low Complexity Maximum Likelihood Estimation Detection Method in MIMO Detection for MIMO-OFDM Communication Hardware, Division of Media and Network Technologies, Hokkaido University, Master’s Thesis, Feb. 2018.
  • Kenta Sugiyama, Hardware Implementation of Haze Removal Method Using Variational Model Based Transmission Map Estimation, Division of Media and Network Technologies, Hokkaido University, Master’s Thesis, Feb. 2018.

An unbiased approach for sifting through big data

The following paper by Prof. Matteo Convertino is now available online.

  • Joseph L. Servadio, Matteo Convertino, “Optimal information networks: Application for data-driven integrated health in populations,” Science Advances, Vol. 4, No. 2, Feb. 2018.

For the defailts, see the following.