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Norifumi KAWABATA received the B.E., M.E. degrees in the Intellectual Information Engineering from University of Toyama, Japan, in 2011, and 2013, respectively. Since 2013, he entranced into Ph.D. course in the Information Platform Group, Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science in Nagoya University. He received the Ph.D. of Information Science from Nagoya University, Japan, in March 2017, respectively. Since April 2017 to March 2018, he was studying on Medical Engineering (for Medical Image Analysis) as a Research Fellow, Center for Frontier Medical Engineering (CFME), Chiba University. Since April 2018 to March 2019, he is studying on Transportation and Information System as an Assistant Technical Staff, the Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University. Since April 2019 to July 2021, he was joining as an Assistant Professor (for Computer Science such as Software Engineering, Computer Graphics, and Formal Method) in the Department of Information Sciences, Tokyo University of Science. Since August 2021 to September 2021, he was joining to the Medical IT Center, Nagoya University Hospital as an Assistant Technical Staff (for Medical Information System on Smart Hospital). Since October 2021 to March 2022, he was joining on education and research of mathematical and data science (for image processing) in the Education and Research Center for Mathematical and Data Science, Hokkaido University as a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor. Since April 2022 to present, he belongs to the Computational Imaging Lab as principal investigator by arriving for the next academic position. He got a prize of “IEICE Tokai Section Student Award 2014 (Doctor)” in June 2015. He has been selected “ITE International Conference Student Support Grant” for ITC-CSCC 2016 in July 2016. He also got a prize of “Forum on Information Technology Encouragement Award 2016” in September 2016. He has been selected “Traveling abroad Travel Expenses Assistance in the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation” in December 2017. He got a Certificate of Appreciation for serving as a reviewer for Journal of Electronic Imaging during the calendar year of 2017 and 2018 in February 2018 and February 2019, and then, he also got a Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing of Elsevier Signal Processing in April 2018. His main research interests are the multi-view 3D image media quality, 3DCG, visible digital watermarking, color image processing, human interface interaction, and medical engineering (Computer-Aided Diagnosis).
Academic Background and Career
- March 2007
Seiryo High School graduation - April 2007 – March 2011
Bachelor Course,
Faculty of Engineering, Department of Intellectual Information Engineering, University of Toyama
Bachelor of Engineering - April 2011 – March 2013
Master Course,
Department of Intellectual Information Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Engineering for Education, University of Toyama
Master of Engineering - April 2013 – March 2017
Doctor Course,
Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
Ph.D. of Information Science - April 2017 – March 2018
Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University
Research Fellow - April 2018 – March 2019
Research Division of Transportation and Information System, Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University
Assistant Technical Staff - April 2019 – July 2021
Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
Assistant Professor - August 2021 – September 2021
Medical IT Center, Nagoya University Hospital
Assistant Technical Staff - October 2021 – March 2022
Education and Research Center for Mathematical and Data Science, Hokkaido University
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor - April 2022 –
Computational Imaging Lab
Principal Investigator
Teaching and Research Experience
- October 2011 – March 2012,
Teaching Assistant (TA), University of Toyama,
“Liberal Principles of Exercise (C Language)" - April 2013 – September 2013,
Teaching Assistant (TA), Nagoya University,
“Fundamental Seminar A" - October 2013 – March 2014,
Research Assistant (RA), Nagoya University,
Outstanding Graduate COE support subsidy - April 2014 – September 2014,
Teaching Staff (TS), School of Culture-Information Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University,
Department of Culture-Information Studies, “Video and Animation Production" - October 2014 – March 2015,
Teaching Staff (TS), School of Culture-Information Studies, Sugiyama Jogakuen University,
Department of Culture-Information Studies / Department of Media-Information Studies, “Graphics Design" - April 2017 – March 2018
Research Fellow, Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University - April 2018 – March 2019
Assistant Technical Staff, Research Division of Transportation and Information System, Institutes of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University - April 2019 – July 2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science - August 2021 – September 2021
Assistant Technical Staff, Medical IT Center, Nagoya University Hospital - October 2021 –
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Education and Research Center for Mathematical and Data Science, Hokkaido University
Committee Experience
Review Experience
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) (since June 2017, by ten times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) (since September 2017, by twenty two times)
- Reviewer, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (JIVP) (since November 2017, by three times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) (since December 2017, by nineteen times)
- Reviewer, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI) (since December 2017, by once)
- Reviewer, Signal Processing (SigPro) (since January 2018, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) (since January 2018, by once)
- Reviewer, Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (JIST) (since February 2018, by seven times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I) (since February 2018, by twice)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II) (since February 2018, by four times)
- Reviewer, Journal of Imaging (J. Imaging) (since June 2018, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Access (since July 2018, by ten times)
- Reviewer, Applied Sciences (Applsci) (since July 2018, by eight times)
- Reviewer, Symmetry (SYMMAM) (since January 2019, by once)
- Reviewer, Neurocomputing (NEUCOM) (since February 2019, by four times)
- Reviewer, Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) (since March 2019, by four times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI-EMBS) (since July 2019, by three times)
- Reviewer, Electronics (ELECGJ) (since July 2019, by four times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (IEEE JETCAS) (since August 2019, by once)
- Reviewer, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (since September 2019, by once)
- Reviewer, Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan C (since October 2019, by once)
- Reviewer, Sensors (SENSC9) (since February 2020, by once)
- Reviewer, Journal of the Society for Information Display (J. SID) (since June 2020, by once)
- Reviewer, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (since April 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP) (since April 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering (since April 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, Optical Review (since May 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL) (since May 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) (since June 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, Multimedia Systems (MMSJ) (since September 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, Tomography (since October 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, IEICE Electronics Express (since December 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (since February 2022, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (since February 2022, by once)
Research Fund, Grant, and Scholarship
- Outstanding Graduate COE support subsidy (FY2013)
- Research Grant for Ph.D. Student (FY2014)
- Research Grant for Ph.D. Student (FY2015)
- Scholarship for Ph.D. student because of having the academic excellent result and submitting the doctor thesis (The first term: Exemption all, The second term: Exemption Half) (FY2016)
- ITE (The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers) International Conference Support Grant for Student (FY2016)
- Traveling abroad Travel Expenses Assistance in the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (FY2017)
- H31 / R1 Education and Research Fund for Faculty Member, Tokyo University of Science (FY2019)
- R2 Education and Research Fund for Faculty Member, Tokyo University of Science (FY2020)
- R3 Education and Research Fund for Faculty Member, Tokyo University of Science (FY2021)
Awards
- “IEICE Tokai Section Student Award 2014,"
“Award with regard to A Study of the 3D CG Image Quality Metrics with 8 Viewpoints Parallax Barrier Method,"
in Castle Plaza, Nagoya, June 3, 2015.
Link1 Photo1 Link2 Photo2 - “The 15th Forum on Information Technology FIT Encouragement Award 2016,"
“Award with regard to The Comparison for 3D CG Image Quality Assessment between Multi-view 3D and 5K Images Including S-CIELAB Color Space,"
in Gofuku Campus, University of Toyama, September 7, 2016 (Presentation), September 9, 2016 (Award).
Link Photo - “The international society for optics and photonics, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, Certificate of Appreciation,"
for serving as a reviewer for Journal of Electronic Imaging during the calendar year of 2017,
February 17, 2018.
Photo - “Elsevier Signal Processing Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing,"
in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal,
April 2018.
Photo - “The international society for optics and photonics, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, Certificate of Appreciation,"
for serving as a reviewer for Journal of Electronic Imaging during the calendar year of 2018,
February 6, 2019.
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Qualification
- Mental calculation Grade 1
- Calculation on the Abacus Test Semi-first Step Grade
- Calligraphy First Step Grade
- The EIKEN Test in Practical English Proficiency Grade 2
- Car Driver License for Standard Vehicle
- High School Specialized Teacher’s Certificate
- TOEIC 620
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
- C / Visual C++ / Visual C#
- Java
- LISP
- OCaml
- Assembly
- Hot Soup Processor
- PHP
- Python
- JavaScript, JQuery
- HTML5 / CSS3
- Git / GitHub
Tools
- MATLAB
- Scilab
- OpenCV
- Autodesk Maya
- Blender, Unity
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Premiere
- Adobe After Effects
- JM
- High Efficiency Video Coding Software
Contact
Education and Research Center for Mathematical and Data Science, Hokkaido University, Chuo Campus Sougo Research Bldg. No.2, Kita 12, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo-city, Hokkaido 060–0812 Japan
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