Tag Archives: IEICE

2017 International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC 2017)

Mr. Miyazaki, Mr. Yamada, Mr. Tsuyuguchi, and Mr. Nakagoshi presented their research achievements at 2017 International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC 2017) held in Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand, from 23 to 25 Aug.

  • Yoshiyuki Miyazaki, Yasuhito Arakane, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Noise Robust Phrase Speech Recognition for Similar Words,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC), pp. 135-138, Aug. 2017.
  • Kentaro Yamada, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation of Foreground Extraction Using Background Subtraction and GrabCut,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC), pp. 27-30, Aug. 2017.
  • So Tsuyuguchi, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Low-Cost Adaptive Block-Based Lossless Compression Method for Memory Bandwidth Reduction,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC), pp. 97-100, Aug. 2017.
  • Tatsuya Nakagoshi, Xiaonan Jiang, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Robust Speech Recognition Using Low-pass Processing RSA in the Frequency Domain,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Multimedia and Communication Technology (ISMAC), pp. 139-142, Aug. 2017.

The 30th Workshop on Circuits and Systems

At the 30th Workshop on Circuits and Systems, which was held in May 10th to 11th at Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Mr. Kenta Sugiyama presented the following paper.

    • Kenta Sugiyama, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation of Atmospheric Light Estimation in Haze Removal Method Using Variational Model Based Transmission Map Estimation,” Proceedings of Workshop on Circuits and Systems, pp. 57-60, May. 2017 (in Japanese).

IEICE System and Signal Processing Subsociety Contribution Award (2017)

Assoc. Prof. Tsutsui received IEICE System and Signal Processing Subsociety Contribution Award for contribution as one of the Workshop on Circuits and Systems Directors. The ceremony was held at the banquet venue of the 30th Workshop on Circuits and Systems, which was held at RIHGA Royal Hotel Kokura, Kitakyushu.

IEICE Hokkaido Section & IEEE Sapporo Section Joint Technical Lectures | Dr. Ying He and Dr. Negin Shariati Moghadam from University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

Technical lectures by Dr. Ying He and Dr. Negin Shariati Moghadam from University of Technology Sydney (UTS) were held on Feb. 13 and 14. The detailes can be found on IEICE Hokkaido Section’s web page (Dr. Ying He’s lecture on Feb. 13 and Dr. Negin Shariati Moghadam’s lecture on Feb. 14). These lectures are jointly supported by IEICE Hokkaido Section and IEEE Sapporo Section. On Feb. 13 after the lecture by Dr. Ying He, the following students made their presentations to introduce our research activities.

  • D3 George Mufungulwa
  • D2 Dabwitso Kasauka
  • D1 Myat Hsu Aung
  • M2 Licheng Rao
  • M2 Seijiro Imai
  • M2 Shingo Kokami

IEICE Chugoku Section Special Workshop, Next Generation Video Wireless Communication Systems

On Nov. 11, IEICE Chugoku Section Special Workshop was held Tottori University Tottori Campus. The workshop topic is next generation video wireless communication systems, where Prof. Miyanaga and Associate Professor Tsutsui gave lectures.

2016 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers

Mr. Ikeshita presented his paper at 2016 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, which was held at Hokkai-Gakuen University on Nov. 5th-6th. In this paper, we reduced the amount of memory and operation of an FPU-based matrix inversion circuit for MIMO-OFDM demodulation. The circuit has the scalability in the target matrix size and the number of FPUs. This paper evaluated the circuit area and the processing cycle count.

  • Takahiro Ikeshita, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An FPU-based hardware implementation of Gauss-Jordan matrix inversion operation for
    MIMO-OFDM demodulation,” Joint Convention Record, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, Japan, Nov. 2016

A student exchange meeting was held during this workshop. Students of each university made presentations about their university, research activity, and student activity. Mr. Uesaka who is the chair of IEEE student branch at Hokkaido university introduced the activity of the student branch.

2016 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2016)

At 2016 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2016) held at Phuket, Thailand on Oct. 24-27, Prof. Alia and Mr. Imai presented the following papers.

  • Alia Asheralieva, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Multi-Agent Q-Learning for Autonomous D2D Communication,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), Oct. 2016.
  • Seijiro Imai, Dabwitso Kasauka, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroyuki Okuhata, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Processing Time Reduction of Tone Mapping Based on Iterative Shrinkage Smoothing Using Parallel Processing,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), Oct. 2016.

IEICE Society Conference 2016 (8-11, Sep) at Hokkaido University

Mr. George Mufungulwa and Mr. Kenta Sugiyama presented our research achievements at IEICE Society Conference 2016 held in Hokkaido University. Some students of our laboratory joined the conference as staffs.

  • George Mufungulwa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Alia Asheralieva, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Robust Speech Recognition using MFCC with Triangular Mel Filtered Time Varying LPC,” IEICE Society Conference, A-15-10, Sep. 2016.
  • Kenta Sugiyama, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Evaluation of Haze Removal Method Using Variational Model Based Transmission Map Estimation,” IEICE Society Conference, A-15-18, Sep. 2016 (in Japanese).

IEICE ESS Contribution Award (Society Steering) (2016)

Assoc. Prof. Tsutsui received IEICE ESS Contribution Award (Society Steering) for contribution as Director, Service Activities, IEICE-ESS. The ceremony was held at the IEICE Society Conference, which was held at Hokkaido University.

2016 International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems in Asia (SISA 2016)

In 2016 International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems in Asia (SISA 2016) held at Ayutthaya, Thailand, Prof. Yoshikazu Miyanaga and Mr. Hiroki Uesaka presented our research achievements.

  • Htoo Maung Maung, Supavadee Aramvith, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “Improved Region-of-Interest based Rate Control for Error Resilient HEVC Framework,” Proceedings of International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems in Asia (SISA), Sep. 2016.
  • Hiroki Uesaka, Takashi Imagawa, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Yoshikazu Miyanaga, “An Accuracy Evaluation of Motion-Compensated Frame Interpolation Using High-Resolution Video and High-Frame-Rate Video,” Proceedings of International Workshop on Smart Info-Media Systems in Asia (SISA), Sep. 2016.