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Dec 4, 2019:
The 2019 annual meeting will be held on Feb 7, 2019.
Oct 17, 2018:
Sapporo Section received recognition for “2018 Outstanding Section Membership Recruitment Performance”.
Sapporo Section received “2018 R10 Best Membership Retention Small Section Award”.
Sep 7, 2018:
The panel discussion on Sep 7 is CANCELED due to Hokkaido Earthquake.
Aug 24, 2018:
On Oct 27, 2018 Hokkaido-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers will be held at Hokkaido University. All prospective participants are invited to attend this joint conversion to make lectures and discussions. It will be highly appreciated if you would submit papers and make the joint convention a place for lively discussion. It should be noted that researchers who belong other sections than Hokkaido or Sapporo can submit their papers. We look forward to seeing many participats. 2018 IEEE Sapporo Section Student Paper Contest will be opened in conjunction with this joint convention. For the details, please refer to the page of 2018 Hokkaido-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers but in Japanese.
July 12, 2017:
On Oct 28 and 29, 2017 Hokkaido-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers will be held at Future University Hakodate. All prospective participants are invited to attend this joint conversion to make lectures and discussions. It will be highly appreciated if you would submit papers and make the joint convention a place for lively discussion. It should be noted that researchers who belong other sections than Hokkaido or Sapporo can submit their papers. We look forward to seeing many participats. 2017 IEEE Sapporo Section Student Paper Contest will be opened in conjunction with this joint convention. For the details, please refer to the page of 2017 Hokkaido-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers but in Japanese.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:15-11:45, 13:30-15:00, 15:45-17:15
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 10:15-11:45, 13:30-15:00, 15:45-17:15
Lecture 1 – Thu Dec 20, 2018, 10:15-11:45 –
Research into Internet of Things at UTS
by Dr. Eryk Dutkiewicz
Professor
School Head of Electrical and Data Engineering
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Lecture 2 – Thu Dec 20, 2018, 13:30-15:00 –
Big Data and Internet of Things for Swarm Flying Robots
by Prof. Elmer Dadios
Professor
De La Salle University, Philippines
IEEE Region 10 ExCom member
Lecture 3 – Thu Dec 20, 2018, 15:45-17:15 –
IoT and Blockchain: Technologies, Challenges, and Applications
by Prof. Ren Ping Liu
Professor
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Lecture 4 – Fri Dec 21, 2018, 10:15-11:45 –
Towards Terabit Wireless Communications
by Prof. Xiaojing Huang
Professor
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Lecture 5 – Fri Dec 21, 2018, 13:30-15:00 –
Video Analytics for Surveillance IoT Applications
by Supavadee Aramvith
Professor
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
IEEE EAB PECC Chair, IEICE Bangkok Section Chair
Lecture 6 – Fri Dec 21, 2018, 15:45-17:15 –
Coping with Cyber Security Threats using Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence: Recent Advances and Challenges
by Dr. Diep Nguyen
Lecturer
School Head of Electrical and Data Engineering
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/183651
Research into Internet of Things at UTS
Dr. Eryk Dutkiewicz
Professor
School Head of Electrical and Data Engineering
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to enable many new applications and bring economic benefits. In this presentation we discuss research into IoT technologies at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) into several application spaces. We present applications in the areas of smart buildings, renewable energy and storage systems and mission critical target recognition. For smart building applications the Engineering and IT Building at UTS in Sydney is used as an example. It consists of a large number of embedded sensors that provide near real-time data for data analytics of the building. The second example are microgrids for renewable energy systems that enable local electric power generation such as a roof-top solar photovoltaic system with a battery bank. This configuration not only provides users a flexible scheme of electricity generation and consumption but users can also participate in electricity sharing and trading as prosumers. A microgrid is an enabling technology to achieve such a goal. Several ongoing microgrid projects at UTS including a cotton farm microgrid in a remote community setting will also be presented. Mission critical target recognition in difficult outdoor environments is our third example. This application can be considered to belong to the area of Internet of Mission Critical Things. We describe our research in this area, including experimental work on human target recognition using machine learning approaches.
Professor Eryk Dutkiewicz obtained his Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1988, his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1992 and his PhD (Telecommunications) from the University of Wollongong, Australia in 1996. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at Motorola Laboratories in Sydney where he managed a wireless research laboratory. During that time he was also deeply involved in the development of the popular WiFi technology. Since returning to academia in 2004 he has worked closely with industry partners including Motorola, Freescale, Intel and Nokia. He is currently the Head of School of Electrical and Data Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He is an author of over 290 research papers and several book chapters. His professional activities in recent years included participation on various International Steering Committees. He was the General Chair of IEEE VTC 2017-Spring in Sydney.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/183652
Big Data and Internet of Things for Swarm Flying Robots
Prof. Elmer Dadios
Professor
De La Salle University, Philippines
IEEE Region 10 ExCom member
Big Data and Internet of Things play very critical role on developing multiple mobile robots that cooperates and behave like a swarm. Swarm robotics is an approach for the coordination of large numbers of relatively simple robots. In this kind of robotic system, a single robot’s capability is limited in terms of sensing, computation, and communication but its behavior can be designed in such a way that a global behavior emerges from the local interactions among robots and between the robot and its environment. Swarm flying robots is an interesting research nowadays. When multiple robots are flying in the environment, communication and information sharing is very important for the robots to do specific task and avoid dynamic and static obstacles. This research presents the development of swarm algorithms for unmanned aerial vehicles addressing the challenging issues of big data and internet of things. The actual robots SWARM behaviors are implemented and tested through computer simulations and in real physical environment.
Dr. Elmer P. Dadios, or “Elmer” to colleagues and friends, is a consultant on software and hardware development in the area of robotics and intelligent systems application. His research interests include: artificial intelligence, evolutionary systems, fuzzy logic, manufacturing processes, neural networks, robotics, software engineering, automation and intelligent systems. He holds the highest faculty rank (Full Prof 10) of the De La Salle University (DLSU). In May 2008, Elmer was conferred the title of University Fellow, the highest award and recognition given by DLSU to faculty members who exhibit consistent scholarly pursuit through research and publication, effective teaching performance, and exemplary modeling of the Lasallian core values.
A multi-awarded educator and scholar, Elmer has earned over 20 recognitions and distinctions from various national scientific award-giving bodies and professional organizations. Among the more recent major awards he garnered include: 2018 D. M. CONSUNJI AWARD for Engineering Research from Philippines Association of Science and Technology (PhilAST). Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP). Outstanding Scientific Paper Award for his “Analysis of Colonic Histopathological Images Using Pixel Intensities and Hough Transform” from the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). 50 Men and Women of Science and Technology and Scholar Achievers Award from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). Elmer has been very visible in both the local and international milieu, not only by attending conferences but also in sharing his expertise with colleagues and other institutions. Currently, he serves as editor of the Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics (JACIII) published by the Fuji Technology Press, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan); editor in chief of the Journal of Computational Innovations and Engineering Application (JCIEA) published by DLSU Publishing House, editorial board member of the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, InTech Open Access Publisher; He is very active in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) profesional organization. He is currently a member of the IEEE Asia and Pacific (R10) Executive Committee. He is the chair of the IEEE R10 Awards and Recognition Committee; He is the chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Philippines Chapter; At the national level, Elmer is the president of NEURONEMEK Corporation; Founder and past president of the Mechatronics and Robotics Society of the Philippines.
Elmer earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Mindanao State University in Marawi City, Philippines; and his Master of Science in Computer Science from De La Salle University. He holds a PhD from the Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/183653
IoT and Blockchain: Technologies, Challenges, and Applications
Prof. Ren Ping Liu
Professor
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to transform our lives and unleash enormous economic benefit. In this talk, we discuss a wide range of IoT technologies and their applications, as well as the security and trust implications. We argue that the current security issues in IoT can be attributed to the centralized network architecture. Blockchain, a distributed ledger, was initially designed as a financial transaction tool. Remarkably, its cryptographic security benefits, such as user anonymity, decentralization, fault tolerance, transaction integrity and authentication, can be used to resolve security and privacy issues of IoT.
In UTS, we are working with industry to develop next generation Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain technologies to achieve real time tracking and monitoring from production plants through export supply chains to overseas markets. A Blockchain enabled data platform has been developed to secure IoT data records, enable transparent and trusted data sharing. Smart contracts are developed to manage and automate commercial transactions following the commodity flows.
In this talk, we will discuss the benefits, limitations, and challenges of IoT and Blockchain. I will present some of our latest results in IoT and Blockchain applications.
Ren Ping Liu is a Professor and Head of Discipline of Network and Cybersecurity in the School of Electrical and Data Engineering at University of Technology Sydney. He is an Adjunct Professor in Hokkaido University. He is also the co-founder and CTO of Ultimo Digital Technologies, developing IoT and Blockchain. Prior to that he was a Principal Scientist and Research Leader at CSIRO, where he led wireless networking research activities. Professor Liu was the winner of Australian Engineering Innovation Award and CSIRO Chairman’s medal. He specialises in protocol design and modelling and has delivered networking solutions to a number of government agencies and industry customers. His research interests include 5G, VANET, IoT, cybersecurity, and Blockchain. He has over 150 research publications and has supervised over 30 PhD students.
Professor Liu was the founding chair of IEEE NSW VTS Chapter and a Senior Member of IEEE. He served as Technical Program Committee chairs, Organising Committee chairs, and delivered keynote speeches in a number of IEEE Conferences. Ren Ping Liu received his B.E.(Hon) and M.E. degrees from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/183654
Towards Terabit Wireless Communications
Prof. Xiaojing Huang
Professor
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
With the ever increasing demand for wireless connectivity, mobile data traffic continues to grow following the “omnify” principle, i.e., the data rate is observed to have an order of magnitude increase every five years, making wireless communication one of the most dramatic game-changing technologies. At this “omnify” pace, data rate for wireless transmission is expected to increase by a hundred time from current 10 Gbps within the next decade, achieving terabits per second. As the 5G mobile system emerges, ground based networks become more and more mature. However, there are still significant technological challenges to extend wireless coverage through the integration of space and terrestrial networks and to replace the last mile wired network with terabit wireless links. In this presentation, the evolution of wireless communication technologies is firstly reviewed, and the importance of millimetre wave radio frequency backbones in the integrated space and terrestrial networks is then addressed. An overview of the applications and technical challenges of the emerging terahertz wireless communications is given afterwards. Finally, some enabling techniques for improving spectral efficiency and power efficiency for millimetre wave and terahertz communications are discussed.
Xiaojing Huang received the B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1989, respectively. He is currently a professor of information and communications technology with the School of Electrical and Data Engineering and the program leader of Mobile Sensing and Communications with the Global Big Data Technologies Centre, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia. He was with the Motorola Australian Research Centre as a Senior and then Principal Research Engineer from 1998 to 2003. He had been an Associate Professor with the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, from 2004 to 2008. He had been a Principal Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia, and the project leader of CSIRO’s microwave and millimetre wave backhaul projects from 2009 to 2014. He was a recipient of the CSIRO Chairman’s Medal and the Australian Engineering Innovation Award in 2012 for exceptional research achievements in multigigabit wireless communications. With 30 years of combined industrial, academic, and scientific research experience, he has authored over 300 book chapters, refereed journal and conference papers, major commercial research reports, and has filed 31 patents.
Professor Huang served as Technical Program Committee Chairs and/or Co-Chairs for a number of international conferences such as ISCIT (2007, 2010, 2012-2014, and 2016), ICUWB2013, WPMC2014, and VTC2017-Spring.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/183655
Video Analytics for Surveillance IoT Applications
Supavadee Aramvith
Professor
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
IEEE EAB PECC Chair, IEICE Bangkok Section Chair
In this talk, we will present and discuss video analytics researches conducted at video technology research group, Chulalongkorn University. As surveillance cameras have been widely installed worldwide, although the main purpose of those cameras is for monitoring, but the most important task is to be able to analyze video contents and extract useful information. Several past and on-going researches such as automatic video segmentation, image super resolution, human action classification, real-time multiple face recognition system, and several implementations of embedded video analytic system on FPGA and Single Board Computers will be discussed.
Supavadee Aramvith (IEEE S’95-M’01-SM’06, IEICE M’04) received the B.S. (first class honors) degree in Computer Science from Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1993. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. She joined Chulalongkorn University in June 2001. Currently, she is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Currently, she is an Associate Professor and Head of Digital Signal Processing Laboratory at Department of Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She was Associate Head in International Affairs (2007-2016) and Head, Communication Engineering Division (2013-2016).
Her research specialization is in the areas of video coding and processing, specifically error resilience for wireless video transmission, video analytics for surveillance applications, and embedded computer vision system. She has successfully advised 6 Ph.D., 26 Master’s, and 32 Bachelor’s degree graduates. A prolific researcher, she published over 120 papers in international conference proceedings and journals along with four chapters in internationally published books. She has also a rich experience in project management, having served as project leader and former technical committee chair to the NBTC and the former MICT of Thailand. In addition, she is very active in the international arena with leadership positions in international networks such as the JICA Project for AUN/SEED-Net, and professional organizations such as IEEE, IEICE, APSIPA, and ITU. At present, she is a member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) and chair of the IEEE EAB Pre-University Education Coordination Committee. She is also Thailand Chapter Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society and Region 10 representative of its chapters committee. She is IEICE Bangkok Section Chair. She led the Educational Activities and Women in Engineering committees for IEEE Asia Pacific (Region 10) from 2011-2016. She also serves as General Co-Chair (ISMAC 2009-2015, MMM 2018, IEEE ICCE-Asia 2019), Technical Program Co-Chairs (IWAIT 2008, IEEE ISCIT 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017, APSIPA 2016-2017), International Steering Committee (IEEE ISPACS), APSIPA Board of Governors member (2017) and Organizing Committee of many well known conferences such VCIP and ICME.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/183656
Coping with Cyber Security Threats using Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence: Recent Advances and Challenges
Dr. Diep Nguyen
Lecturer
School Head of Electrical and Data Engineering
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
This talk first gives an overview of various potential attacks on a cyber system, ranging from the physical to the application layer. We then discuss recent advances using game theory and artificial intelligence to detect and combat radio jammers, eavesdroppers, and intruders. Specifically, we will discuss different jamming strategies, its reliable detection, and countermeasures using stochastic Markov games. Latest friendly jamming techniques are then presented as effective anti-eavesdropping solutions for power- and computing-limited devices. The talk concludes with our recent results and challenges in using different deep learning architectures to detect potential cyber attacks (e.g., in mobile cloud, traffic classification, intrusion detection).
Diep N. Nguyen is a faculty member of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He has 15 years of working as an engineer and educator in the areas of IT and engineering with more than 70 publications (including 2 US patents filed, 7 technical reports, and more than 60 refereed IEEE/ACM journal and conference papers, e.g., IEEE JSAC, INFOCOM, TWC, …). He got his ME and PhD from the University of California, San Diego and The University of Arizona in 2008 and 2013. Before joining UTS, he was a DECRA Research Fellow at Macquarie University, a member of technical staff at Broadcom (California), ARCON Corporation (Boston), consulting the Federal Administration of Aviation on turning detection of UAVs and aircraft, US Air Force Research Lab on anti-jamming. He has received several awards from LG Electronics, University of California, San Diego, The University of Arizona, US National Science Foundation, Australian Research Council, including nominations for the outstanding RA (2013) awards, the best paper award at the WiOpt conference (2014), Discovery Early Career Researcher award (DECRA, 2015). His work has been generously sponsored by NSF, ARC Australia, Intel, Huawei …. He has co-organized few IEEE international conferences (e.g., IEEE VTC, ISMICT, ISCIT) as TPC chairs, co-chairs, track chairs. He has served in the TPC committees of various IEEE and international annual flagship conferences, e.g., ICC, Globecom, WCNC. He is also an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/175435
This panel discussion is CANCELED due to Hokkaido Earthquake.
This panel discussion will be conducted in Japanese.
About the Current Issues on Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration
Mr. Toshifumi Murata (Murata Office, Sapporo)
Fri Sep. 7, 2018, 15:00-17:00
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
In the field of Electronics, Information, Communication Engineering, the innovation based on industry-academia-government collaboration has been discussed for a long time and it has been recognized as large necessity. In particular, our current era is going to be global and international. The collaboration becomes much more important over the world. On the other hands, the large and the global collaboration in Hokkaido area may be sometime considered weak rather than the other areas although there are many collaboration started in Hokkaido. In this panel session, we will get some good suggestions and comments from the panelists who are working for the global collaboration.
15:00-15:30 Entrepreneur training plan in Hokkaido by Mr. Murata
15:30-16:00 Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration and Innovation by Panelists
16:00-17:00 Panel Discussion
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at).ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/175434
Convergence ICT and Medical Technologies for Smart Disease Diagnosis
Director Myung Hoon Sunwoo, IEEE Fellow
Ultra-small-sized Diagnostic and Smart Devices (uDSD) Research Center
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Ajou University, Suwon Korea
Tue August 28, 2018, 10:00-12:00
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Recently, convergence technologies change the paradigm of health care and disease diagnosis and these trends are becoming popular and proliferating. This talk introduces Information & Communication Technology Research Center (ITRC), called the Ultra-small-sized Diagnostic Smart Devices (uDSD) center. The center consists of universities, hospitals and companies to cover emerging interdisciplinary technical areas covering chip design, sensors, deep learning/artificial intelligence (DL/AI), big data, and medical imaging. In practice, uDSD focuses on ultra-small/low-power smart SoC designs, mobile platformbased intelligent diagnosis, real-time diagnostic models using big data analysis. Currently, the center conducts joint development with companies to realize jaundice diagnosis using smart phones, smart capsule endoscopes, mobile molecular device platforms, DL-based mammography, etc. The center can promote and contribute mobile platform-based telemedicine that will become widespread in the near future.
Myung Hoon Sunwoo received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Sogang University, the M.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He worked for the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Korea and for the Digital Signal Processor Operations, Motorola, in Austin, Texas, U.S.A. Since 1992, he has been with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University in Suwon, Korea, where he is currently a Professor.
He served on the General Chair of International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2012, Seoul Korea, the successful event held in Korea and will serve on the General Co-chair of ISCAS 2021, Daegu Korea. He has been involved in various technical activities over two decades including a member of CASS BoG (Board of Governors) from 2011 to 2016 and a Technical Committee member for numerous conferences. He initiated a new CASS chapter in Daegu, Korea, which succeeded ISCAS 2021 bidding. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CASS from 2009 to 2010.
Currently, he is the Director of the micro Diagnostic Smart Devices (uDSD) Information and Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) sponsored by Korean Government. uDSD consists of universities, hospitals and companies to cover emerging interdisciplinary technical areas, such as chip design, sensors, deep learning, big data, pattern recognition, medical imaging, etc. His research interests include low power algorithms and architectures, medical devices, deep learning, AI, and application-specific SoC design.
He was the President of the IEIE (Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers) Semiconductor Society in Korea from 2012 to 2013. He was an honorary ambassador of Korean Tourism Organization. He is currently IEEE CASS VP-Conferences and he has been a chair of IEEE CASS, Seoul Chapter since 2004 and an IEEE Fellow.
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/174523
Research into 5G and IoT Technologies at UTS: From Spectrum Sharing to Blockchain for Security and Trust
Dr. Eryk Dutkiewicz
Professor
School Head of Electrical and Data Engineering
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Wed July 25, 2018, 10:00-12:00
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
5G and Internet of Things technologies have the potential to enable many new applications and bring economic benefits. There are, however, many challenges that need to be overcome to make them useful. In this presentation we focus on research conducted at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) addressing two such challenges: spectrum sharing and security and trust. Spectrum sharing is regarded as an essential approach to regaining access to otherwise unused spectrum and it is considered an essential component in the development of IoT and 5G networks. Efficient decisions regarding the use of spectrum sharing require accurate knowledge of the spatial and temporal spectrum use. This knowledge can be represented in Radio Environment Maps which need to be generated efficiently and accurately. Radio Environment Maps can also be used for policing and enforcement of spectrum use for security purposes. Security and trust are also essential elements associated with Internet of Things networks and applications. In this presentation we discuss Internet of Things technologies and applications as well as their security and trust aspects. Subsequently we describe the concept of the blockchain which was originally designed for secure financial transactions. Its cryptographic security benefits, including user anonymity, fault tolerance, transaction integrity and authentication, can be used to enable security and privacy in Internet of Things. We discuss the benefits, limitations and challenges of using blockchain with Internet of Things. We also describe our IoT-blockchain testbed and overview several of our current IoT-blockchain projects for supply chain tracking.
Professor Eryk Dutkiewicz obtained his Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1988, his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1992 and his PhD (Telecommunications) from the University of Wollongong, Australia in 1996. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at Motorola Laboratories in Sydney where he managed a wireless research laboratory. During that time he was also deeply involved in the development of the popular WiFi technology. Since returning to academia in 2004 he has worked closely with industry partners including Motorola, Freescale, Intel and Nokia. He is currently the Head of School of Electrical and Data Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He is an author of over 290 research papers and several book chapters. His professional activities in recent years included participation on various International Steering Committees. He was the General Chair of IEEE VTC 2017-Spring in Sydney.
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/173901
My Computer Animation from 1970 to 1998
Prof. Nelson Max, the University of California-Davis
July 4 (Wed), 2018, 15:00-17:00
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Nelson Max will show (as time permits) segments of his historical computer animation from the mathematics films “Space Filling Curves”, “Turning a Sphere Inside Out”, and “Homage to Hilbert” from the realistic computer animation videos “Light Beams”, “Sun and Shade”, and “Carla’s Island”, scientific visualization of molecules and climate simulation, and biochemistry visualization from the Osaka Expo ’90 film “Echoes of the Sun”.
Professor Max received a PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1967. His research interests are in the areas of mathematics and scientific visualization, computer animation, realistic computer graphics rendering, and multi-view stereo reconstruction. In visualization he works on molecular graphics, and volume and flow visualization, particularly on irregular finite element meshes. He has rendered realistic lighting effects in clouds, trees, and water waves, and has produced numerous computer animations, shown at the annual ACM SIGGRAPH conferences, and in OMNIMAX at the Fujitsu Pavilions at Expo ’85 in Tsukuba Japan, and Expo ’90 in Osaka Japan.
Yoshinori Dobashi
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
doba(at)ime.ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/171179
Mobile Game Scene in Oulu, Finland
Apr. 3 (Tue), 2018, 15:30-17:00
A22, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Game Capital Oulu, Finland
Lecturer: Takako Uchida (Business Oulu)
Introduction of Game Development in FingerSoft and RoundZero
Lecturer: Daniel Rantala (FingerSoft/RoundZero)
Discussions
フィンランド・オウル市は北欧のIT産業の集積地として有名で，通信機器メーカーのノキア社が開発拠点を置いていることでも知られています．オウル市は産学官連携のモデル地域として世界的に有名で，道内大学とオウル大学，オウル応用科学大学との交流も活発です．
近年，オウル市ではモバイルゲームの開発を産学官連携で行うプロジェクトが進められており，連携拠点Oulu Game Labがオウル市内に設立されています．今回，フィンランド発のスタートアップイベントであるSLUSHの東京版SLUSH TOKYOへの出展のためにBusiness Ouluの内田貴子様，FingerSoft/RoundZerのDaniel Rantala様が来日され，北大を訪問されることになり．フィンランドのIT産業分野の状況とモバイルゲーム産業の動向などについて，学生さん向けにお話しいただけることになりました．今回は特に海外への留学やインターンなどに関心のある若い学生さん向けにお話しいただけます．
This lecture will be conducted in Japanese. Check the details on IEEE Sapporo Section WIE.
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 15:20-16:00
Hokkaido University Conference Hall
https://www.hokudai.ac.jp/bureau/property/s01/access/
Education and Research Center for Mathematical and Data Science, Hokkaido University
IEEE Sapporo Section WIE
These lectures will be conducted in Japanese. Check the details on IEEE Sapporo Section WIE and here. Also, note that registration is recommended.
Thu Jan. 18, 2018, 14:30-16:30
Seminar Room B (04-214), 4F
Creative Research Institution
Hokkaido University
(North 21 West 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan 001-0021)
http://www.cris.hokudai.ac.jp/cris/en/location-access/
Research Development Section, Hokkaido University
IEEE Sapporo Section WIE
Shingo Ebata
Senior Research Manager
Research Development Section
Office for Enhancing Institutional Capacity, Hokkaido University
What is “Research Capacity”? -Creating Institutional Setting for Research at Kyoto University-
Tetsuya Shirai
University Research Administrator
Kyoto University Research Administration Office
“Japan’s declining research capacity” is a common phrase that appears in official statements or media recently. Japanese universities and research institutions started hiring research administrators, or so-called URAs, as a way to develop research capacity. Yet, the meaning of “research capacity” still remains ambiguous today. Do URAs really contribute to the development of “research capacity” to begin with? This presentation introduces practices of URAs to improve institutional setting for research at Kyoto University, and provides an opportunity to rethink what research capacity actually means.
Integrated Initiatives for Research Capability Enhancement and Institutional Research (IR) at Hiroshima University
Yasuhiro Isobe
University Research Administrator
Research Planning Office, Hiroshima University
In this presentation, I explain how Hiroshima University has attempted to identify its strengths/weaknesses and has set its Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in its efforts to become one of the top 100 universities in the world. Furthermore, I describe how these initiatives have been integrated under “The program for promoting enhancement of research universities” at Hiroshima University.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160691
Is Seeing Believing?
Dr. Alex C. Kot
Professor, IEEE Fellow
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 10:00-12:00
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
With the fast proliferation of digital cameras and other image acquisition devices due to the advancement in digital photography technology, photos from the public may have good news values for making journalist reports. However, one big challenge is how to authenticate the photo contents from the public, which may come from unreliable sources. A large variety of forensics works have been proposed to address various forensic challenges based on different types of tell-tale signs. This talk introduces several techniques for: (1) Accurate detection of image demosaicing regularity as a general type of image forensics features. (2) Identification of various common image source models including digital still cameras, RAW conversion tools and the low-end mobile cameras; (3) Universal detection of a wide range of common image tampering. (4) Tampering detection for blur images. (5) EXIF file tampering or content manipulations, (6) Tempering detection with blur images, and (7) Prevention of the image recapturing threat in spoofing, especially in face spoofing. These techniques help expose common image forgeries, especially those easy-to-make forgeries, which can be hardly seen directly by human eyes. The common theme behind these forensics techniques is through statistical detection of some intrinsic image regularity or tampering anomalies.
Prof. Alex C. Kot has been with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore since 1991. He headed the Division of Information Engineering at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering for eight years and served as Associate Chair/Research and Vice Dean Research for the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and was the Associate Dean for College of Engineering. He is currently Professor and Director of the Rapid-Rich Object SEarch (ROSE) Laband Director of NTU-PKU Joint Research Institute. He has published extensively in the areas of signal processing for communication, biometrics, data-hiding, image forensics, information security and object recognition and retrieval.
Dr. Kot served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I as well as Part II. He also served as Guest Editor for the Special Issues for the IEEE Transactions on CSVT and EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He is currently Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Advanced in Signal Processing.
Dr. Kot has served the IEEE SP Society in various capacities such as the General Co-chair for the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) and Chair of the worldwide SPS Chapter Chairs and the Distinguished Lecturer program. He was a member in the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee and served as the Vice-President for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He received the Best Teacher of the Year Award and was a coauthor for several Best Paper Awards including ICPR, IEEE WIFS, ICEC, and IWDW. He was an IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of Academy of Engineering, Singapore.
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/155923
This lecture will be conducted in Japanese. Check the details on IEEE Sapporo Section WIE.
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 17:15-18:30
HIT Plaza 2F, Hokkaido University of Science
IEEE Sapporo Section WIE, IEEE Sapporo Section
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160690
This lecture will be conducted in Japanese.
State-of-the-Art on Projection Mapping Research
Dr. Daisuke Iwai,
Associate Professor
Osaka University
Mon May 15, 2017, 16:00-17:30
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Projection mapping technologies have been applied in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) systems. We have been investigating several research issues to realize “ubiquitous projection” environment where any surfaces in our daily space become a seamless cyber-physical interface for AR and VR applications. In this talk, I introduce our recent research activities in this research field.
Daisuke Iwai received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University, Japan, in 2003, 2005, and 2007, respectively. He was a visiting scientist at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany, from 2007 to 2008, and a visiting Associate Professor at ETH, Switzerland, in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University. His research interests include spatial augmented reality and projector-camera systems. He is a member of the IEEE.
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshinori Dobashi
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
doba(at)ime.ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160689
Human Motion Understanding
Dr. Hubert P. H. Shum,
Associate Professor
Northumbria University (UK)
Wed Apr 26th, 2017, 16:30-18:00
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Due to the recent advancement in motion capture hardware and motion-based applications, human motion analysis has become an increasingly popular research area. Its core problem is to model human motion in a meaningful way, such that we can generalize knowledge to recognize, analyze and synthesize movement. Motion related applications nowadays such as motion-based gaming, 3D character animation, autonomous surveillance and smart robots are the results of the area. The problem of human motion analysis is important as it connects different research fields. Taking an example of motion gaming with the Microsoft Kinect, the system first applies computer vision techniques to identify human body parts. Then, artificial intelligence is introduced to understand the meaning of the movement and perform human-computer interaction. Virtual reality techniques based on movement are sometimes used to enhance gaming immersiveness. Character animation and graphical rendering algorithms are implemented to render the controlled virtual character. In this talk, I will discuss the importance of human motion analysis in computer science. With the support of my research projects, I will demonstrate how motion analysis can connect different research fields, including computer graphics, games and vision. I will show how my projects achieve impact in research and the society, and conclude my presentation with future opportunities and potential directions.
I am an Associate Professor (Reader) in Computer Science and the Programme Leader of BSc (Hons) Computer Animation and Visual Effects at Northumbria University. I lead research team focusing on computer graphics and computer vision, utilizing and managing the Motion Capture and Virtual Reality Laboratory. The team consists of three faculty members, 2 post-docs and 8 PhDs. Before this, I worked as a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, a Lecturer at the University of Worcester, a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN Japan, and a research assistant at the City University of Hong Kong. I received my PhD degree from the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, as well as my Master and Bachelor degrees from the City University of Hong Kong. I have received £124,000 from EPSRC for a project on human motion analysis and £12,000 from the Royal Society. I have also been a funding officer of a €3.03 million Erasmus Mundus project. On top of these, I have received more than £210,000 from Northumbria University to hire PhD students and purchase research equipment. I have research collaborations with academics around the world such as Waseda University, the University of Edinburgh, INRIA France.
Yoshinori Dobashi
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
doba(at)ime.ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160688
Customized Mobile Networking in 5G
Prof. Tarik Taleb
School of Electrical Engineering,
Aalto University, Finland
(Research Group: http://mosaic-lab.org/)
Mon Apr 17, 2017, 10:40-11:40
Future University Hakodate, Room: R791
The telecom industry keeps reinventing itself. Soon, the world will be experiencing the 5th generation mobile networks (5G). These 5G mobile systems are expected to meet different strict requirements beyond the traditional operator use cases. Major obstacles to overcome in 5G systems are principally the highly-centralized architecture of mobile networks along with the static provisioning and configuration of network nodes built on dedicated hardware components. This has resulted in lack of elasticity and flexibility in deployment of mobile networks; rendering their run-time management costly, cumbersome and time-consuming.
On the other hand, mobile networks are nowadays architected to serve all mobile users; ensuring some degree of service-level differentiation, by making decisions on different user profiles, but with no specific tailoring of the functioning to the specific user needs. However, statistics demonstrate that users do not behave all in the same way. Furthermore, a single mobile network usually ensures the communication for all service types, regardless of the suitability of its available functionality to deliver these services with acceptable Quality of Experience and network efficiency. It becomes then apparent that having the same mobile network architecture serving all mobile users, let alone all mobile applications, despite the diversity they exhibit in their attitudinal response to mobile services, have to be rethought.
5G systems need to accommodate elasticity, flexibility, dynamicity, scalability, manageability, agility and customization along with different levels of service delivery parameters according with the service requirements. For this purpose, different requirements have to be met and numerous associated challenges have to be subsequently tackled. This talk will touch upon the recent trends the mobile telecommunications market is experiencing and discuss the challenges these trends are representing to mobile network operators. To cope with these trends, the talk will then showcase the feasibility of on-demand creation of cloud-based elastic mobile networks, along with their lifecycle management. The talk will introduce a set of technologies and key architectural elements to realize such vision, turning end-to-end mobile networking into software engineering. The talk will particularly showcase the need for the deep customization of mobile networks at different granularity levels: per network, per application, per group of users, per individual users and even per data of users. The talk will also assess the potential of Network Function Virtualization, Software Defined Networking and Network Slicing to provide the appropriate customization and highlights the technology challenges. The talk will also elaborate on a high level architectural solution addressing a massive multi-slice environment.
Prof. Tarik Taleb is an IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer and a senior member of IEEE. He is currently Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. He is the director of the MOSA!C Lab (http://mosaic-lab.org/). Prior to his current academic position, he was working as Senior Researcher and 3GPP Standards Expert at NEC Europe Ltd, Heidelberg, Germany. He was then leading the NEC Europe Labs Team working on R&D projects on carrier cloud platforms, an important vision of 5G systems. Before joining NEC and till Mar. 2009, he worked as assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan, in a lab fully funded by KDDI. From Oct. 2005 till Mar. 2006, he worked as research fellow at the Intelligent Cosmos Research Institute, Sendai, Japan. He received his B. E degree in Information Engineering with distinction, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Sciences from Tohoku Univ., in 2001, 2003, and 2005, respectively.
Prof. Taleb’s research interests lie in the field of architectural enhancements to mobile core networks (particularly 3GPP’s), mobile cloud networking, network slicing, network function virtualization, software defined networking, mobile multimedia streaming, inter-vehicular communications, and social media networking. Prof. Taleb has been also directly engaged in the development and standardization of the Evolved Packet System as a member of 3GPP’s System Architecture working group. Prof. Taleb is a member of the IEEE Communications Society Standardization Program Development Board. As an attempt to bridge the gap between academia and industry, Prof. Taleb founded the “IEEE Workshop on Telecommunications Standards: from Research to Standards”, a successful event that got awarded “best workshop award” by IEEE Communication Society (ComSoC). Based on the success of this workshop, Prof. Taleb has also founded and has been the steering committee chair of the IEEE Conf. on Standards for Communications and Networking (http://www.ieee-cscn.org/).
Prof. Taleb is the general chair of the 2019 edition of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’19) to be held in Marrakech, Morocco. He is/was on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Journal on Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and a number of Wiley journals. Till Dec. 2016, he served as chair of the Wireless Communications Technical Committee, the largest in IEEE ComSoC. He also served as Vice Chair of the Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee of IEEE ComSoc (2006-2010). He has been on the technical program committee of different IEEE conferences, including Globecom, ICC, and WCNC, and chaired some of their symposia.
Prof. Taleb is the recipient of the 2009 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher award (Jun. 2009), the 2008 TELECOM System Technology Award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (Mar. 2008), the 2007 Funai Foundation Science Promotion Award (Apr. 2007), the 2006 IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter Young Author Award (Dec. 2006), the Niwa Yasujirou Memorial Award (Feb. 2005), and the Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award from the Japan chapter of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) (Oct. 2003). Some of Prof. Taleb’s research work have been also awarded best paper awards at prestigious conferences.
Xiaohong Jiang, Professor
Future University Hakodate
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 10:30-12:00, 13:00-14:30, 14:45-16:15
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Eryk Dutkiewicz, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Ren Ping Liu, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Xiaojing Huang, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160606
Research into Radio Environment Maps for Emerging 5G and IoT Networks
Eryk Dutkiewicz, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
The high demand for wireless Internet including emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications is putting extreme pressure on better utilisation of the available radio spectrum. The expected spectrum “crunch” requires highly efficient radio resource management schemes with low complexity and high responsiveness to the changing network conditions. Spectrum sharing is regarded as an essential approach to regaining access to otherwise unused spectrum and it is considered an essential component in the development of IoT and 5G networks. Spectrum sharing can be conducted at different time scales. As the time scale of the operation of spectrum sharing decreases, the possibility for utilising more available spectrum holes increases. However, the shorter time scale brings with it challenges. Efficient decisions regarding the use of spectrum sharing require accurate knowledge of the spatial and temporal spectrum use in a geographical area of interest. This knowledge can be represented in Radio Environment Maps which need to be generated efficiently and accurately. In this presentation we give an overview of the spectrum sharing concept and its emergence in standards activities for IoT and 5G networks. We also present our research on spectrum sharing including theoretical methods for efficient and accurate generation of Radio Environmental Maps and radio spectrum measurements campaigns on UTS campus in Sydney to enable Smart Building and Smart City IoT applications.
Professor Eryk Dutkiewicz obtained his PhD (Telecommunications) from the University of Wollongong, Australia in 1996. From 1999 to 2004 he worked at Motorola Laboratories in Sydney where he managed a wireless research laboratory. During that time he was also deeply involved in the development of the popular WiFi technology. He is currently the Head of School of Computing and Communications at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He has held visiting professorial appointments at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, City University of Hong Kong and Coventry University in the UK. He is an author of over 200 research papers and several book chapters. His professional activities in recent years included participation on various International Steering Committees. He is the General Chair of IEEE VTC 2017-Spring in Sydney.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160607
Markov Modelling: from Wi-Fi to 5G and Beyond
Ren Ping Liu, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Markov chain is the main analytical tool for IEEE 802.11 modelling and analysis. However, existing 2-dimensional (2-D) Markov chain models of Wi-Fi systems are unable to capture the complete QoS performance and queueing behaviour due to the lack of an adequate finite buffer model. We propose a 3-dimensional (3-D) Markov chain that integrates the 802.11 system contention resolution and queueing processes into one model. The 3rd dimension, that models the queue length, allows us to accurately capture important QoS measures, delay and loss, plus throughput and queue length, for realistic 802.11 systems with finite buffer under finite load.
The Markov theory has since been extended and applied in other areas, leading to many research outcomes, including vehicular networks (VANET), WiFi localization, energy efficient design in the Internet of Things (IoT), and recently coexistence design and analysis of LTE in unlicensed spectrum under the LAA/5G framework.
Ren Ping Liu is a Professor at the School of Computing and Communications in University of Technology Sydney, where he leads Network Security Lab in the Global Big Data Technologies Centre. Prior to that he was a Principal Scientist at CSIRO, where he led wireless networking research. He specialises in network design and modelling, and has delivered networking solutions to a number of government agencies and industry customers. Professor Liu was the winner of Australian Engineering Innovation Award and CSIRO Chairman’s medal. Professor Liu has over 100 research publications, and has supervised over 30 PhD students. His research interests include 5G spectrum sharing, resource management, IoT energy efficient design, and network security.
Professor Liu is the founding chair of IEEE NSW VTS Chapter and a Senior Member of IEEE. He served as TPC chair for BodyNets2015, ISCIT2015, WPMC2014, as OC co-chair for VTC2017-Spring, BodyNets2014, ICUWB2013, ISCIT2012, SenSys2007, and in Technical Program Committee in a number of IEEE Conferences. Ren Ping Liu received his B.E.(Hon) and M.E. degrees from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160608
Achieving High-Speed Aerial Backbone Transmission for Air-Space-Ground Integrated Information Networks
Xiaojing Huang, Dr., Professor
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Air-space-ground integrated communication and networking is one of the most important targets of global research and development efforts. High-speed aerial backbones are the key components of such space information networks since they interconnect the spaceborne, airborne and ground based transmission platforms to form a seamless communications system. Currently, there have been some significant advances in spaceborne based communications networks. As the 5G mobile system emerges, ground based networks are also becoming more and more mature. However, there are still significant challenges in achieving high-speed aerial backbone links for the airborne based communications networks. This presentation gives a brief overview of current state-of-the-art in airborne based backbone technologies, and discusses how to realize high-speed transmission for air-to-air links and air-to-ground links from a high-altitude aerial platform using millimetre wave, multiple input multiple output, and full-duplex technologies. Research directions for achieving low cost and high flexibility aerial backbones using unmanned aerial vehicles are also suggested.
Xiaojing Huang received the B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1983, 1986, and 1989, respectively. He is currently a Professor of information and communications technology with the School of Computing and Communications and the Program Leader of Mobile Sensing and Communications with the Global Big Data Technologies Center, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia.
He was a Principal Research Engineer with the Motorola Australian Research Center from 1998 to 2003, and an Associate Professor with the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, from 2004 to 2008. He has been a Principal Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia, and the Project Leader of the CSIRO Microwave and mmWave Backhaul projects since 2009. He was a recipient of the CSIRO Chairman’s Medal and the Australian Engineering Innovation Award in 2012 for exceptional research achievements in multigigabit wireless communications. With over 28 years of combined industrial, academic, and scientific research experience, he has authored over 250 book chapters, refereed journal and conference papers, major commercial research reports, and has filed 29 patents.
Professor Xiaojing Huang has served as Technical Program Committee Chairs and/or Co-Chairs for a number of international conferences such as ISCIT (2007,2010, 2012-2014, and 2016), ICUWB2013, WPMC2014, and VTC2017-Spring.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160604
Spectrum sharing on 5G communication networks
Ying He, Dr., Lecturer
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 13:00-14:30
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
The wireless communication systems have dramatically changed the world by connecting people and devices in recent years. We are currently standing at the 4th generation (4G) in the evolution and drawing the picture for the next generation (5G) wireless communication systems. For which, we are aiming at 1000x increase of the capacity. Despite all efforts on the coding and modulation techniques, the growth of capacity is physically restricted by the limited spectrum resource. Therefore, spectrum sharing has been proposed to break this constraint. Our work on the current spectrum sharing frameworks includes two main spectrum sharing frameworks: Spectrum Access System (SAS) in U.S and Licensed Shared Access (LSA) in Europe. We address the common and differing factors then propose access and interference mitigation methods for SAS and LSA. SAS is a hierarchical access model with three tiers of users – incumbents, Priority Access Licensees (PAL) and General Authorised Access (GAA) users. We propose a PAL-GAA co-channel interference mitigation technique that does not expose base station locations. The distribution of the aggregated interference is derived using Probability Density Function and Characteristic Function. The optimal exclusion zone size is found through an approximation of a convex problem and our approach reduces the exclusion zone size substantially. We also propose the access and coexistence methods between different tiers in LSA and SAS.
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160605
Sensitive Ambient RF Energy harvesting Using Rectenna
Negin Shariati Moghadam, Dr., Lecturer
School of Computing and Communications
University of Technology Sydney
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 13:00-14:30
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
Radio Frequency (RF) energy harvesting has experienced a rapid development in recent years due to the increasing number of RF transmitter sources producing an abundant ambient microwave energy waste. Furthermore, the development of wireless power transmission (WPT) technologies has triggered impetus for RF energy harvesting. Hence, RF energy scavenging is a promising solution as it has the potential to provide a sustainable energy source to meet upcoming demands. Efficient ambient RF energy scavenging is a very challenging issue, as it deals with the low RF power levels available in the environment. The scavengeable power levels are generally unknown and can vary unpredictably; therefore sparking research interest to develop highly sensitive RF energy scavengers to capture ambient RF signals over a range of low input power levels. Her research focuses on a real life RF energy scavenging approach to generate electrical power in urban environments. During my PhD, I developed highly sensitive and efficient ambient RF energy scavenging system and method to harvest a broad range of very low level ambient RF power.
IEEE Sapporo Section, IEICE Hokkaido Section
Yoshikazu Miyanaga, Professor
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
Hokkaido University
miya(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/147408
This lecture will be conducted in Japanese. Check the details on IEEE Sapporo Section WIE.
Tue Jan 19, 2017, 15:00-16:30
Room 3-21,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
IEEE Sapporo Section WIE, IEEE Sapporo Section
2018 Hokkaido-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers
Oct 27, 2018, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan (共催)
The 21st Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU 2018)
Aug 5-8, 2018, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan (協賛)
2017 Hokkaido-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers
Oct 28-29, 2017, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan (共催)
2018 Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA)
August 28-31, 2018, Hakodate, Japan
Conference #: 45292
2018 International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI)
Apr 13-17, 2018, Chiba, Japan
Conference #: 43659
2017 International Conference on Applied System Innovation (ICASI)
May 13-17, 2017, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference #: 40775
2017 IEEE HISTory of ELectrotechnolgy CONference (HISTELCON)
Aug 7-8, 2017, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Conference #: 40292
2017 10th Biomedical Engineering International Conference (BMEiCON)
Aug 31-Sep 2, 2017, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference #: 42032
2017 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)
Sep 18-21, 2017, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference #: 41048
2017 Eighth International Workshop on Signal Design and Its Applications in Communications (IWSDA)
Sep 24-28, 2017, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Conference #: 41376
Thursday, February 7, 2019 (17:00-18:00)
Room 5-08,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
2019 Annual Meeting will be jointly held with 1st Executive Committee Meeting. In the Annual Meeting, 2018 Sapporo Section Student Awards Ceremony will be also taken place. After the meetings and ceremony, we are planing to have a party for celebrating the award winners and new officers.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160602
Thursday, February 9, 2018 (16:00-17:30)
Academic Lounge 3,
School of Engineering,
Hokkaido University
https://www.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/english/location/facilities.php
2017 Sapporo section student awards ceremony party will be held concurrently with the annual meeting party.
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160600
Thursday, February 9, 2018 (15:00-15:45)
Academic Lounge 3,
School of Engineering,
Hokkaido University
https://www.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/english/location/facilities.php
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160610
Thursday, February 16, 2017 (16:00-16:30)
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160592
Thursday, February 16, 2017 (16:30-17:15)
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160595
Thursday, February 16, 2017 (17:15-17:50)
Room 11-17,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Building,
Hokkaido University
https://www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/eng/access/
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/160599
Saturday, October 28, 2017 (12:00-13:00)
5F Meeting Room, Future University Hakodate
Teerawat Kumrai, Muroran Institute of Technology
Teerawat Kumrai, Kaoru Ota, Mianxiong Dong, Jay Kishigami, and Dan Keun Sung, “Multiobjective Optimization in Cloud Brokering Systems for Connected Internet of Things,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2017.
Zheng Zhong, Muroran Institute of Technology
Z. Zhong, Z. Zhang, Y. Tsuji, and M. Eguchi, “Study on Crosstalk-free Polarization Splitter Based on Square Lattice Single Polarization Photonic Crystal Fibers,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 52, no. 5, 7000107, May 2016.
Akito Iguchi, Muroran Institute of Technology
A. Iguchi, Y. Tsuji, T. Yasui, and K. Hirayama, “Topology Optimization of Optical Waveguide Devices Based on Beam Propagation Method with Sensitivity Analysis,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 34, no. 18, pp. 4214- 4220, Sept. 2016.
Naoki Saito, Hokkaido University
N. Saito, T. Ogawa, S. Asamizu and M. Haseyama, “A Tourism Category Classification Method Based on Estimation of Reliable Decision,” 2016 IEEE 5th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE), pp. 52-53, 2016.
Keisuke Maeda, Hokkaido University
Keisuke Maeda, Sho Takahashi, Takahiro Ogawa, and Miki Haseyama, “Distress Classification of Road Structures via Decision Level Fusion,” IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), pp. 589-593, 2016.
Kazuki Kanazawa, Hokkaido University of Science
Development of Tourism Support System for Realization of PDCA Cycle
Naoya Hatamoto, Muroran Institute of Technology
A Proposal of Snapping Selection Method Emphasizing Connectivity of Geometric Curves in FSCI
Yuta Goto, Hokkaido University
Measurement of Three-dimensional Reflectance in Frog Blood Cell by Single-shot Optical Tomography Using Virtual Phase Conjugation
Jun Murakami, Future University Hakodate
An Automatic Generation System of Farm Work Diary Using Image and Environment Data of the Farming Field
Yui Matsumoto, Hokkaido University
A Note on Music Video Recommendation Based on Network Analysis Using Relevance among Heterogeneous Features –Performance Improvement through Feature Transformation Based on Users’ Preference–
Tappei Yamamoto, Hokkaido University
Analysis of Electron Energy Gain by Single Electron Motion around RF-resonant Magnetic Field in Inductively Coupled Plasma under Confronting Divergent Magnetic Fields
Shimpei Shimizu, Hokkaido University
Application of Volume Holographic Spatial Mode Demultiplexer to WDM-MDM Transmission System
Hideaki Kamiyama, Hokkaido University of Science
Optical Transillumination Imaging of Arteriovenous Fistula for Clinical Application –Study on Miniaturization of Measurement System–
Taishi Watanabe, Hokkaido University
A Design of High-Throughput LDPC Min-Sum Decoder Using Parallelization
Shuntaro Makino, Hokkaido University
Enhancement of optical nonlinearity in coupled resonator optical waveguide based on slotted 1-D photonic crystal cavity, IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 7, no. 6, Dec. 2015.
Jia Liu, Future University Hakodate
End-to-End Delay Modeling in Buffer-Limited MANETs: A General Theoretical Framework, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.15, no. 1, pp.498-511, 2016.
Kazuki Ichikawa, Muroran Institute of Technology
A single-polarization holey fiber with anisotropic lattice of circular air holes, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol.33, No.18, pp.3866-3871, Sep. 2015.
Ryosuke Harakawa, Hokkaido University
Extraction of hierarchical structure of Web communities including salient keyword estimation for Web video retrieval, in Proc. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp.1021-1025, 2015.
渡邊 天, Muroran Institute of Technology
手書き図形認識のための多重仮説ファジィモデル生成法
橘 友和, Tomokazu Tachibana, Hokkaido University
EAS機器による植込み型医療機器EMI試験のための近傍磁界分布評価
Magnetic Near-Field Distribution Estimation of Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) Systems for Active Implantable Medical Device EMI Assessment
藤山 はるか, Haruka Fujiyama, Hokkaido University
水素エネルギーを含む最適電源構成のモデル化
Modeling of the Best Power Generation Mix including Hydrogen Energy
佐藤 潤一, Junichi Sato, Otaru University of Commerce
クロスワードパズル生成問題の新しい定式化
A New Formulation of the Crossword Puzzle Generation Problem
原川 良介, Ryosuke Harakawa, Hokkaido University
Signedネットワーク解析に基づくWeb映像集合の階層構造抽出に関する一検討
A Note on Extracting Hierarchical Structure of Web Video Groups Based on Signed Network Analysis
仲俣 涼平, Ryohei Nakamata, Hokkaido University
側面励起型X点プラズマ装置におけるイオン輸送特性解析
Analysis of ion transport in X-point plasmas excited by a side-surrounding RF antenna
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Hokkaido University
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