Hokkokai (北工会) Sports Day 2014

We took part in the annual Sports Day as members of Division of Media and Network Technologies Course. Mr. Imai who participated in the 80-meter dash finished first place and won a prize. He made a substantial contribution to bring our division to 7th place from the 17 competing divisions.

The 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2014)

Second Year Doctor student Federico Ang gave a poster presentation at the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2014) held in Melbourne, Australia on June 1-5. ISCAS is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (IEEE CASS).

Federico Ang, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Rowena Cristina Guevara, Rhandley Cajote, Michael Gringo Bayona, “Open Domain Continuous Filipino Speech Recognition with Code-Switching,” Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 2301-2304, 1-5 June, 2014.

: Conference venue

: Registration desk

: A wombat during welcome reception

: Banquet and awards ceremony

: Mr. Ang with his poster

: State Library of Victoria

: Victorian Architecture

: Melbourne General Post Office

6th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP 2014)

Prof. Miyanaga presented the following paper at the 6th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP 2014) held in Athens, Greece on May 21-23.

Hiroki Iwaizumi, Masahiro Sugitani, Baiko Sai, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Video Wireless Communication Based on High Speed 8×8 MIMO-OFDM System,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), pp. 627-630, 21-23 May. 2014.

Welcome party

We held welcome party for new students of our laboratory.
Thank you so much for coming to this party!

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.