Dean of the Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering

Dr. Engineering

Computer Vision

[Research Activities]
He is engaged in Image Processing, Computer Vision, Prallel Processing Systems, and Multi-media Information Systems.

He received several awards such as Sakai-Prize of Information Processing Society of Japan, Niwa-Takayanagi Best Paper Prize of The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers.

[Educational Activities]
He has classes of Department of Advanced Information Technologies, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, and of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Engineering. In addtion, he had several part time classes at Fukuoka University, Kumamoto University, etc.

[Social Activities]
He has engaged in joint research with several private companies and municipal corporations.

Research Interests

• Computer Vision Application in Agriculture IT System
  keyword : Computer Vision, Agriculture application
  2010.05～2012.03.
• Real world information sharing based on "Clickable Real World"
  keyword : Real world tagging, Real world linking, Access via mobile terminal, Landmark recognition
  2008.10～2012.03.
• Wide area surveillance by distributed vision system
  keyword : Image processing, distributed vision, visual surveillance, sensor fusion
  2007.05.
• Social uses of sensing information
  keyword : Sensing technology, Scene analyss, Open system, Data sharing
  2007.05.
• Parallel computer vision
  keyword : Parallel computer vision, parallel processing, Cluster computing
  1990.04.
• Human action understanding by vision
  keyword : Computer vision, human motion sensing, human action understanding
  1996.04.
• Detection and tracking of objects in vision
  keyword : object detection, object tracking, image processing
  2006.04.
• Real-time Human Proxy
  keyword : Virtuarize of human action, communication tool, non-verbal information
  2001.06～2007.03.
• Real-time free viewpoint video system
  keyword : Free viewpoint system, reconstruction of object model, real-time processing
  2001.04～2007.03.
• Human activity support using mixed reality technology
  keyword : Mixed reality, Human activity support, action recognition
  2005.04～2010.03.

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Educational Activities