received the B.E., the M.E. and the Dr.E. in electrical engineering all from the University of Tokyo in 1983, 1985, 1988 respectively.
He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Frontier Informatics of the University of Tokyo. He was a visiting assistant professor at University of Illinois from 1990 to 1992.
His current research interests are in image processing and multimedia applications. Especially he is currently interested in Life Log, and 3D video technology.
He received the 1987 Young Engineer Award and the 1990, 1998 Best Paper Award, the 1991 Achievement Award, 1999 Electronics Society Award from the IEICE Japan, and the 1998 Fujio Frontier Award the 2002 Best Paper Award from ITE Japan. He received IBM Japan Science Prize 2002.
He serves as Editor-in-Chief of ITE Journal and serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Image Processing and is on the Editorial Board of ACM TOMCCAP (Trans. Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications) and the Journal of Visual Communications. He also served as Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology and IEEE Trans. Multimedia. He has served for many national and international conferences including IEEE ICIP, ACM Multimedia: he was the General Chair of SPIE VCIP99, MMM2008. He is a member of IEICE, ITE, IEEE, ACM.
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