Category Archives: Conference/Workshop

Smart Info-media Systems (SIS) Technical Committee Conference, 3-4 Dec. at Awara Onsen, Fukui

On Dec. 3 to 4, Mr. Iwata, Mr. Aoki, Mr. Imai, Mr. Uesaka, Mr.  Kokami presented our research achievement at Smart Info-media Systems (SIS) Technical Committee (TC) in held in Awara Onsen, Fukui.

  • Sukeyuki Iwata, Masahito Umehara, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation of High Quality Synchronization Method Based on Delayed and Symmetric Correlation in MIMO-OFDM “, IEICE Technical Report, Vol. 115, No. 348, pp. 73-76, SIS2015-29, 3-4 Dec. 2015 (in Japanese).
  • Hikaru Aoki, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation for Appropriate Camera Selection in 3D Reconstruction System Using Multiple Cameras”, IEICE Technical Report, Vol. 115, No. 348, pp. 53-56, SIS2015-29, 3-4 Dec. 2015 (in Japanese).
  • Seijiro Imai, Dabwitso Kasauka, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Okuhata, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Processing Time Reduction of Iterative Shrinkage Smoothing Using Parallel Processing”, IEICE Technical Report, Vol. 115, No. 348, pp. 57-60, SIS2015-29, 3-4 Dec. 2015 (in Japanese).
  • Hiroki Uesaka, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Accuracy Evaluation of Frame Interpolation Method Using High-Resolution Video and High-Frame Rate Video”, IEICE Technical Report, Vol. 115, No. 348, pp. 89-94, SIS2015-29, 3-4 Dec. 2015 (in Japanese).
  • Shingo Kokami, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Image Shrinking Based Computational Cost Reduction of Moving Area Extraction Using Global Motion Estimation with KLT Tracker and Background Subtraction”, IEICE Technical Report, Vol. 115, No. 348, pp. 95-98, SIS2015-29, 3-4 Dec. 2015 (in Japanese).

2015 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers

Mr. Iwata and Mr. Zhang attended 2015 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, which was held at Kitami Institute of Technology On Oct. 7-8. The following presentations were given at the conference.

  • Sukeyuki Iwata, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An evaluation of high quality synchronization method in MIMO-OFDM using measured value,” Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, Nov. 2015 (in Japanese).
  • Wenheng Zhang, Alia Asheralieva, Gengfa Fang, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “A Power Allocation Method in OFDMA System,” Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, Nov. 2015.

IEICE Hokkaido Section Special Workshop, Next Generation Video Wireless Communication Networks

On Oct. 16, IEICE Hokkaido Section Special Workshop was held at Lecture Hall, Frontier Research in Applied Sciences Building, Hokkaido University. The workshop topic is next generation video wireless communication networks, where the chair is Prof. Miyanaga. Associate Professor Tsutsui gave a lecture at this workshop as one of lecturer.

ISCIT 2015 (International Symposium on Communication and Information Technologies) @Nara, Japan

At the International Symposium on Communication and Information Technologies (ISCIT) 2015 held at Nara, Japan, on 7th to 9th, Sep., Prof. Rhandley Cajote and Prof. Supavadee Aramvith presented the following papers.

  • Rhandley Cajote, Watchara Ruangsang, Supavadee Aramvith, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Takao Onoye, Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, “Wireless Video Transmission Over MIMO-OFDM Using Background Modeling for Video Surveillance Applications,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), pp. 237-240, 7-9 Oct. 2015.
  • Htoo Maung Maung, Supavadee Aramvith, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Region-of-Interest Based Error Resilient Method for HEVC Video Transmission,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), pp. 241-244, 7-9 Oct. 2015.

2015 International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC 2015)

Dr. Imagawa and Mr. Moriyama presented our research achievement at 2015 International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC 2015) held in Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand. We also enjoyed the conference official sightseeing tour.

  • Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “A Feasibility Study of a Flexible OFDM Transmitter Towards an Adaptive Control of Communication Quality,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC), pp. 77-79, Sep. 2015.
  • Shinya Moriyama, Kosuke Morinaga, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Masaki Miura, Tohru Gotho, Junji Yamano, “Carrier and Sampling Frequency Offset Compensation in 8×8 MIMO-OFDM Systems and its Performance Evaluation Using Measured Data,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC), pp. 73-76, Sep. 2015.

IEICE Society Conference 2015 (8-11, Sep) at Tohoku University

Mr. Kokami, Mr. Imai, Mr. Uesaka and Mr. Aoki presented our research achievements at IEICE Society Conference 2015 held in Tohoku University. We also enjoyed a dinner party with the professors and students of the Processor Architecture and Systems Synthesis Laboratory at Kyoto University.

  • Hiroki Uesaka, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation of Motion Compensated Frame Interpolation from Multiple Resolution and Multiple Frame Rate Video Based on Global Motion,” IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2015 (in Japanese).
  • Hikaru Aoki, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation towards Highly Efficient 3D Reconstruction Using Multiple Cameras,” IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2015 (in Japanese).
  • 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, Sep. 2015 (in Japanese).
  • Shingo Kokami, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Image Shrinking Based Computational Cost Reduction of Moving Area Extraction with Global Motion Estimation and Background Subtraction,” IEICE Society Conference, Sep. 2015 (in Japanese).

Smart Info-media Systems (SIS) Technical Committee Conference, 3-4 Sep. at Kansai University

Mr. Moriyama presented our research achievements at Smart Info-media Systems (SIS) Technical Committee (TC) Conference held in Kansai University.

  • Shinya Moriyama, Kosuke Morinaga, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Masaki Miura, Tohru Gotoh, Junji Yamano, “Performance Evaluation of Carrier and Sampling Frequency Offset Compensation Using Measured Data in MIMO-OFDM Systems,” IEICE Technical Report, Vol. 115, No. 208, pp. 31-36, SIS2015-20, 3-4 Sep. 2015 (in Japanese). [URL]

2015 International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems in Asia (SISA 2015)

In 2015 International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems in Asia (SISA 2015) held at Narashino, Prof. Yoshikazu Miyanaga presented our research achievement.

  • Htoo Maung Maung, Supavadee Aramvith, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Improved LCU-Level Intra Refresh and Rate Control for HEVC Video Coding,” Proceedings of International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems in Asia (SISA), pp. 136-141, RS2-8, Aug. 2015.

28th Workshop on Circuits and Systems, Summer Research Trial for Elementary and Junior High School Students

At the 28th Workshop on Circuits and Systems, which was held in Aug. 3rd to 4th at Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center, Assoc. Prof. Tsutsui was in charge of a topic of Summer Research Trial for Elementary and Junior-High Students, with Dr. Yuki Arikawa (NTT) and Prof. Jaehoon Yu (Osaka University). The topic was “Calculator design using logic ICs – Let’s make your own calculator”. The topic and its content is same as the previous version, which was organized by Prof. Takeshi Matsumoto (Ishikawa National College of Technology) and Dr. Kohei Hosokawa (NEC).

2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2015)

Last July 21-24, students from the ICN laboratory presented their research works at the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing. Among the presenters from the ICN lab were Mr. Federico Ang and Mr. Takahiro Inatsuki, supervised by Prof. Hiroshi Tsutsui. The following papers were then included in the conference proceedings:

  • “An FPGA Implementation of Low-latency Video Transmission System Using Lossless and Near-lossless Line-based Compression”, by Takahiro INATSUKI, Masato MATSUURA, Kosuke MORINAGA, Hiroshi TSUTSUI and Yoshikazu MIYANAGA
  • “Time-Varying LP Cepstral Features for Improved Isolated Word Speech Recognition” by Federico ANG, Hiroshi TSUTSUI and Yoshikazu MIYANAGA
  • “Framework of Surveillance Video Analysis and Transmission System using Background Modeling and MIMO-OFDM”, by Rhandley CAJOTE, Watchara RUANGSANG, Supavadee ARAMVITH, Prasit PRAPINMONGKOLKARN, Yoshikazu MIYANAGA and Takao ONOYE