Monthly Archives: November 2025

Welcome Party for New Members 2025

On Tuesday, November 11, we held a welcome party for four third-year students who recently joined our laboratory: Nakamura, Ueki, Naijo, and Suzuki.

2025 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2025)

At the 2025 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2025), held in Bandung from November 4 to 7, Mr. Yamamura and Ms. Morikawa presented the following papers.

  • Naoya Yamamura, Chenyu Zhao, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Evaluation of Bit-Width Effects in Fixed-Point FPGA-Optimized MFCC Computation via Software Simulation for HMM-Based Phrase Speech Recognition,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), Nov. 2025.
  • Yuzuki Morikawa, Chenyu Zhao, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Accuracy Evaluation of a Streaming-Based Resource-Efficient Mel Filter Bank Architecture with Fixed-Point Based Design Approaches,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), Nov. 2025.

2025 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers

Mr. Shimizu, Mr. Iura, Mr. Yamamura, Mr. Hori, and Mr. Kawashima presented their works at 2025 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, which was held at Muroran Institute of Technology on Nov 2nd-3rd.

  • Kodai Shimizu, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, "An Evaluation of Parking Status Change Detection Using GMM-Based Analysis of Background-Subtraction Difference Distributions for Parking Lot Monitoring Systems in Snowy Conditions," Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, pp. 25-26, Nov. 2025 (in Japanese). [URL]
  • Taiyoh Kawashima, Yuito Ishisaki, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, "Experimental Evaluation of Energy Consumption for a LoRa-based Environmental Sensing System," Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, p. 217, Nov. 2025 (in Japanese). [URL]
  • Takayuki Iura, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, "Evaluation of the Effect of Loudspeaker Placement on Active Noise Control Performance for Indoor Reduction of Outdoor Noise," Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, p. 112, Nov. 2025 (in Japanese). [URL]
  • Taishin Hori, Chenyu Zhao, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, "An Evaluation of Parameters for Log-Mel Spectrum Calculation in Anomalous Sound Detection Using Spiking Neural Networks," Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, p. 113, Nov. 2025 (in Japanese). [URL]
  • Naoya Yamamura, Chenyu Zhao, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, "Evaluation of Bit-Width Effects in Fixed-Point FPGA-Optimized MFCC Computation via Software Simulation for HMM-Based Phrase Speech Recognition Using Delta Features," Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, p. 114, Nov. 2025 (in Japanese). [URL]

A student networking event was held during this convention. Students made presentations about their university, research activity, and student activity. From our laboratory, Ms. Morikawa, the treasurer of IEEE Hokkaido University Student Branch gave a presentation on the activities of the IEEE Student Branch and the benefits of establishing a branch.