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Outline of Research Groups |
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Information Sensing Research Committee |
Chairman: Jun Ohta (NAIST) |
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Covers technologies related to the inputting of graphic images and related space information. |
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- Graphic image input and related materials/Engineering processes
- Imaging devices (CCD, CMOS, etc.)and component technologies
- Invisible/high-speed image technologies
- Sensor types (object recognition, fingerprint authentication, etc.)
- Electronic beam applications/special tubes
- Imaging methods
- Image input devices (TV cameras, digital cameras, fax machines, scanners, etc.)
- Image-related graphics processing
- 3-D graphics input/long-distance range finders
- Visual/sensory devices
- Intelligent sensors
- Multimedia graphics input
- Color information processing
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Information Display Research Committee |
Chairman: Tetsuya Miyashita (Tohoku U.) |
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Covers materials, devices, and systems linked to information display electronics, and peripheral-area problems |
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- Display-related materials/properties
- Display devices (CRT, liquid-crystal, PDP, EL, etc.)
- Display equipment (wide-screen, high-resolution displays, etc.)
- Display-related graphics processing
- Graphics display methods/systems
- 3-D displays
- Related electrophotographics, etc.
- Display image evaluation
- Related component technologies
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Multimedia Storage Research Committee |
Chairman: Naoto Hayashi(NHK) |
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Covers methods, media, recording/playback elements, encryption technology, signal processing technology, servo and machine technology, and recording equipment/systems for graphics and related (e.g. voice, signal) information. |
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- Magnetic recording technologies (VTR, magnetic disks, etc.)
- Optical recording technologies (optical disks, etc.)
- Film recording technologies (including holography)
- Imaging technologies (hardcopy, electrography, etc.)
- Information compression technologies for recording
- Technologies for recording information using semiconductors
- Storage systems
- Other recording technologies
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Consumer Electronics Research Committee |
Chairman: Takayoshi Yamaguchi (Sharp) |
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Covers commercial-use imaging equipment and related circuits/devices, and commercial-use control/communication systems in related areas. |
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- Commercial-use audio-visual equipment
- TV receivers
- Commercial-use displays
- Commercial-use VTRs
- Commercial-use TV cameras
- Commercial-use electronic still cameras
- Commercial-use disk peripherals
- Commercial-use hardcopy equipment
- AV equipment software (HAVi, etc.)
- Commercial-use audio-visual peripheral devices
- Home audio-visual networks (1394, etc.)
- Optics technology applications
- Commercial-use multimedia
- High-vision receivers
- Mobile communication equipment (cell phones, GPS, etc.)
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Broadcast Technology Research Committee (Broadcast Methods Sub-committee) |
Chairman: Masayuki Takada (NHK) |
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Covers TV broadcasting, audio broadcasting, and data broadcasting methods and related transmission/processing technologies. |
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- Ground and satellite broadcasting systems
- Digital broadcasting
- ISDB
- Data broadcasting
- Electronic program guides
- Software downloading
- Interactive broadcasting
- Fee-charging methods
- Video encoding
- Audio encoding
- Transmission-line encoding
- Digital material transmission
- Method conversion
- 3-D television
- HDTV
- High-vision TV
- Picture/sound quality evaluation
- Broadcasting to mobile terminals
- One- and three-segment broadcasting
- IP-TV
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Broadcast Operations Subcommittee |
Chairman: Hiroo Yoshino (TV asahi) |
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Covers all equipment related to broadcast operations and operating technologies. |
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- Program creation technologies
- Program operation technologies
- Lighting technologies
- Voice technologies
- Editing/special-effects technologies
- TV cameras/operations
- Image recording equipment/operations
- Studio image/voice equipment
- Image/voice broadcast equipment
- CG/virtual broadcast equipment
- Data broadcasting/Internet contents creation technologies
- Telecine
- Transmission systems
- Digital broadcasting
- Internet/program information systems
- Digital processing technology applications
- Archives
- Digital cinema
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Wireless/Optical Transmission Subcommittee |
Chairman: Makoto Itami (Tokyo U. of Science) |
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Covers sending/receiving technologies for wireless/optical image and voice data transmission, related devices, circuits and equipment, and peripheral technologies. |
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- Technologies for effective frequency utilization
- Wireless transmission theory and equipment
- Devices/equipment for ground/satellite broadcasting
- Household-use receiving equipment
- Devices/equipment for wireless image transmission
- Modulation/demodulation technologies
- Antenna/radio wave propagation
- Radio noise and electromagnetic compatibility
- Electromagnetic field analysis/simulation technology
- Optical fibers/optical circuit components
- Optical transmission systems
- CATV systems
- Satellite transmission systems
- Mobile transmission/reception technologies
- Wireless/optical transmission boundary areas
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Human Information Research Committee |
Chairman: Eiji Uchikawa (Tokyo Tech) |
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Covers technologies applicable to audio/visual engineering for clarifying audio-visual sensory characteristics. |
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- Audio-visual sensory psychology/physiology
- Information theory/chromatics
- Stereovision/stereo images
- Image/character/voice evaluation technologies
- Human interface
- Pattern recognition/neural networks
- Cognitive science
- ME/sensory substitution
- Mutual influence of sight/hearing/touch senses
- Psychophysics of high-realism sensatory systems (ultrawide-vision, ultrafine displays by CAVE, etc.)
- Knowledge/reception of multimedia
- Social welfare aspects
- Psychological/physiological influences of multimedia
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Media Engineering Research Committee |
Chairman: Toshihiko Yoshida (Fukui U.) |
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Covers hardware/software for information processing, communication, and systems related to media engineering, including applied image information technologies in such areas as industry, education and medicine, image communication services and systems utilizing networks, and information processing for character/drawing/graphic/image/ voice media. |
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Group A:
- Digital processing of character, drawing, image, graphic, voice, music, and acoustic data
- Computer/robot vision
- Image generation processing
- Voice synthesis/recognition
- Agents
- 3-D image/sound field processing
- Virtual reality
- Multi-modal interfaces
- Emotion information processing
- Multimedia application systems
Group B:
- Image transmission methods
- 3D/stereo image/CG transmission
- Multimedia transmission
- Mobile image transmission
- Image/voice encoding
- Image/voice structuring
- Media conversion
- Network structure media searching
- Information security
- Videophones/videoconferencing
- Video on demand, video servers
- LAN-based image systems
- CATV applications
- Internet-related technologies
- Network/casting technologies
- Mediaspace/cyberspace
- Related human interfacing
Group C:
- Industrial-use graphic information systems
- Education technology-related graphic information systems
- edical image information systems
- Support systems for disabled persons
- Map information systems
- Image monitoring systems
- Image databases
- Image information search technologies
- CAD
- CAE
- Multimedia information terminal technologies
- Related human interfacing, etc.
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Image Expression and Computer Graphics Research Committee |
Chairman: Mikio Shinya (Toho U.) |
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Covers the latest new directions and possibilities in image creation through the use of electronic and optical technologies (e.g. HDTV, computers) in the field of image expression, including television and cinema. |
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- Image creation
- Image reproduction
- Image cognizance
- Post-production technology
- Film technology/image storing/display methods
- CG, CV technology applications
- Animation technology
- Electronic imaging technology
- HDTV applications
- Holography applications, etc.
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Entrepreneur Engineering Research Group |
Chairman: Mitsuhiro Kurashige (Matsushita Electric) |
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Studies business-related topics from seeds to processes used in business, whether technical or not, focusing on the technology areas of concern to ITE. Typical of such topics are the following: |
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- Entrepreneurship
- Start-up/second start-up, industrial promotion
- Value creation, innovation, knowledge management
- New market creation
- Matching technology and business strategies
- New product development management
- R&D management
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3-D Image Technology Research Group |
Chairman: Yasuhiro Takaki
(Tokyo Univ. of Agri. and Tech.) |
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The group aims to further improve present-day methods, and to strategically stimulate and promote R&D in new technologies for achieving higher-quality 3-D images. To accelerate development of 3-D systems, it extensively covers related technologies and techniques, among them displays, human factors, input methods, content creation, image processing, and application systems. |
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- 3-D display technologies
- 3-D input technologies
- 3-D content creation technologies
- 3-D image processing technologies
- 3-D image application systems
- 3-D image transmission/recording/encoding technologies
- Other related 3-D technologies
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