VOL.64, NO.4, April


Focus
Culture Power and Military Power
Katsushi Ikeuchi

Special EditionF The Art of Face Recognition
1. Research Trends in Face Recognition
Kazuhiro Hotta (7) 459
2. Computer Vision Techniques for Tracking Human Faces and Heads
Yoshinori Kobayashi (11) 463
3. Face Recognition Technology and Its Application
Hitoshi Imaoka (16) 468
4. Combined 2D/3D Face Recognition Using Passive Stereo Vision
Hiroshi Nakajima, Sei Nagashima and Takafumi Aoki (20) 472
5. Applications of Face Recognition Technologies in Consumer Electronics Products
Kohtaro Sabe (25) 477

Technical Survey
Digital Audio Taperecorder
Kentaro Odaka and Yoshizumi Inazawa (30) 482
A Survey on Low-Power Media Processors for Mobile Applications
Kenichi Iwata (36) 488

Technical Guide
Recent and Technologies in Multimedia Retrieval
(4) Sports Video Retrieval
Naoko Nitta (43) 495

Keywords you should know
(51) Haptic Interface
Yasutoshi Makino and Takashi Maeno (50) 502

Activity Notes on Standardization
(1) AVC|H.264
Kohtaro Asai (53) 505

Production Notes on Broadcast Program
(1) Making of NHK Drama Special "Jiro Shirasu";
progressive scanning, original gamma curve, color management
Kazuhiko Ishikawa (58) 510

Journey into Media Arts
(1) Journey to Seek Horizon of Media
Yasuto Nakanishi (63) 515

University of Ventures
AsukaLab: reconstruction of the cultural heritage using mixed reality
Tetsuya Kakuta, Takeshi Oishi and Katsushi Ikeuchi (68) 520

My Recommendations on Research and Development Tools
(33) Android Application Development Tools
Ryoichi Yagi (72) 524

Writing State-of-the-Art Image/Video Processing Algorithms within 100 Lines
(4) Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) and Bag of Features (BoF)
Toshihiko Yamasaki (78) 530

Report
2009 ITE Winter Annual Convention
Wataru Kameyama (86) 538
IDW2009
Makoto Omodani (89) 541
IWAIT2010
Nao Nakajima (91) 543

News (93) 545

Papers Contents (Papers„Short Papers) (95) 547
Special Issue; Three Dimensional Image Information Media

Information (177) 629

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