On Tuesday, July 29, we held a farewell party for Mr. Yamanaka, who is graduating this semester, along with first semester end party.
We wish Mr. Yamanaka continued success in their future endeavors!
Jingisukan Party 2025
We held our annual Jingisukan (BBQ) party on June 17th!
“Campus Clean Day” 2025
We participated in the Campus Clean-up Day held at Hokkaido University on Wednesday, May 13.
2025 Farewell party
On Monday, March 24th, we held a farewell party for M2 students graduating this academic year (Tanaka, Saito, Hirai).
We wish everyone continued success in their future endeavors!
IEICE Hokkaido Section Student Council Internet Symposium 2025 Best Presentation Award
Ms. Sakaki won one of the best presentation awards at IEICE Hokkaido SAC Internet Symposium 2025 for the following presentation.
- Haruka Sakaki, Kenshiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Noise Robustness Improvement by Applying Multi-Condition Training to a VGG16-Based Skateboard Riding Sound Detection System,” Proceedings of IEICE Hokkaido Section Section Student Activity Committee Internet Symposium, Feb. 2025 (in Japanese).
The 50th PARTHENON Technical Society Conference @ Meiji University Ikuta Campus
On December 25, B4 student Yuzuki Morikawa presented the following paper at the 50th Parthenon Technical Society Conference held at Meiji University Ikuta Campus. We also participated in the Parthenon Workshop held on December 26.
- Yuzuki Morikawa, Chenyu Zhao, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Towards a Low-Cost Hardware Implementation of a Mel Filter Bank for Audio Signal Processing,” Proceedings of the 50th PARTHENON Technical Society Conference, pp. 32-33, Dec. 2024 (in Japanese).
2024 Lab Year-End Party
We held a year-end party after the midterm presentation of graduation and master’s theses on December 17!
2024 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2024)
At the 2024 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2024), held in Kaohsiung from December 10 to 13, Mr. Zhao presented the following paper.
- Chenyu Zhao, Naoya Yamamura, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Evaluation of Computational Cost and Result Accuracy in Design and Efficient Implementation of Log-Mel Spectrogram and MFCC Feature Extraction Using Fixed-Point Arithmetic on FPGA,” Proceedings of International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), Dec. 2024.
Welcome Party for New Members 2024
On Tuesday, November 19, we held a welcome party for three third-year students who recently joined our laboratory: Ando, Kawashima, and Matsumura.
2024 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers
Mr. Tanaka, and Mr. Saito presented their works at 2024 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, which was held at Hokkaido University on Nov 2nd-3rd.
- Yuki Saito, Yuito Ishisaki, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Evaluation of Energy Consumption in LoRa Modulation with Varying Payload Lengths,” Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, p. 65, Nov. 2024 (in Japanese).
- Kenshiro Tanaka, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “A Feasibility Study on Transfer Learning Using VGG16 for Skateboarder Detection System Based on Skateboard Rolling Sound Detection,” Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, p. 29, Nov. 2024 (in Japanese).
A student networking event was held during this convention. Students made presentations about their university, research activity, and student activity. From our laboratory, Mr. Saito, the Chair of IEEE Hokkaido University Student Branch, served as the MC, and Mr. Ishizaki, the Treasurer, gave a presentation on the activities of the IEEE Student Branch and the benefits of establishing a branch.
