VOL.64, NO.1, JANUARY

Interview with CEOs
Interview with Director of WIDE (Widely Integrated Distributed Environments Project) Jun Murai
Interviewer Kiyoharu Aizawa

Special Issue of The 60th Anniversary：Vision for the Future of Visual Information Media
1. The Visual Information Media for the Future; ITE task group report
Hiroshi Harashima (2) 2

2. Media and the Technology; towards more impressive, more convenient, and social network media
Kazumasa Enami, Taiichiro Kurita, Takao Shimizu, Kazuko Takahashi and Nobuyuki Yagi (5) 5

3. Media, Society and Human
3-1 Media Technology and Information Based Society; research and development of information circulation mechanism and mediaware
Noboru Sonehara (13) 13

3-2 Media and Human
Kiyoharu Aizawa (17) 17

3-3 Media and Arts;technology innovation expands art and culture field
Hideichi Tamegaya (19) 19

3-4 Media and Network/Internet
Hiroshi Esaki (21) 21

3-5 The Internationalization of the Media
Taiji Nishizawa (24) 24

4. Future of Visual Information Media from the Point of Views of Young Researchers
4-1 Interaction Between Humans and Image Media Pursuing Enthusiasm and Contentment
Tomoko Kajiyama (27) 27

4-2 High-dimensional World Comes True in Thirty Years
Yoko Yamakata (29) 29

4-3 Image Information Media and Public Sphere in Post-digitization Era; can "television" support mainstreaming ?
Tetsuro Kobayashi (31) 31

4-4 The Butterfly Dream; creativity around the bionomical visual media
Han Long Dominique Chen (33) 33

4-5 Future Prospects of Multimedia Information from the View Point of "Sharing"
Go Irie (36) 36

4-6 The Future of Display Media; for creating new contact Points between the real world and information
Yasuaki Kakehi (37) 37

4-7 Image Information Media for Creating the New Culture in the Next Generation
Mayumi Kawana (39) 39

4-8 Ambient Network Society Led by Image Information and Media Technologies
Hiroshi Sankoh (40) 40

4-9 Image Contents that are Comfortable to View but not too Comfortable; image presentation designed with individual characteristics and visual environments in mind
Takashi Shibata (42) 42

4-10 Future Prospect of Image Information Media and the Role of Future Broadcasting
Tsuyoshi Nakatogawa (43) 43

4-11 The Media of Future and Technology; BCI and lifelog network
Naoyuki Matsuzaki (45) 45

4-12 Media and Hardware
Toshihiko Yamasaki (47) 47

5. Future of Visual Information Media from the Point of Views of the Technical Groups
5-1 The Future of Information Sensing Technologies
Jun Ohta (49) 49

5-2 Electronic Display System
Tetsuya Miyashita (49) 49

5-3 A Perspective of Digital Service by the Progress of Storage Technologies
Naoto Hayashi (49) 49

5-4 The Future of Consumer Electronics
Takayoshi Yamaguchi (50) 50

5-5 Ubiquitous World with High Speed Mobile Multimedia Wireless Network and Broadcasting
Masayuki Takada (50) 50

5-6 Significance and Value of Image Information Media are Determined by Human Beings
Kieji Uchikawa (50) 50

5-7 Expansion of Interactive Image Media
Mikio Shinya (51) 51

5-8 Future of the Media Engineering Research
Toshiyuki Yoshida (51) 51

5-9 Challenge Destructive Innovation through Paranoia like Persistence
Mitsuhiro Kurashige (51) 51

5-10 Display Revolution by 3D Image
Yasuhiro Takaki (52) 52

5-11 Expectation of Image Sensing Technologies
Norifumi Egami (52) 52

5-12 Come on Stage: Receivers of Signals from Unconscious Inside of Human and Care Devices to Remove Uneasiness Suffer from Stress
Makoto Miyahara (52) 52

Topics
Web Database of Noteworthy Japanese Contributions to Electrical Technologies; its development and release
Yasuharu Suematsu, Hideo Yamamoto and Haruo Okuda (53) 53

Technical Guide
Recent and Technologies in Multimedia Retrieval
(1) The State-of-the-Art of Multimedia Retrieval
Noboru Babaguchi (58) 58

Keywords you should know
(48) Chatterbot
Ryota Tomisaka and Takafumi Suzuki (64) 64

My Recommendations on Research and Development Tools
(30) ITE/ARIB Hi-vision Test Chart Version 2; production notes and its instruction manual (part I)
Hidehiko Ikegawa (67) 67

Writing State-of-the-Art Image/Video Processing Algorithms within 100 Lines
Environmental Setup and Samples
Toshihiko Yamasaki (71) 71

University of Ventures
Morpho, Inc.; a growing company that licenses embedded imaging technology, presents its products from image stabilization to image classification
Masaki Hiraga (76) 76

News (81) 81

Papers Contents (Papers･Short Papers) (83) 83

Information (128) 128

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