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Brief CV
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 was studying and supporting 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 in 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 to the Education and Research Center for Mathematical and Data Science, Hokkaido University as a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (for Education and Research on Doctoral program for Data-Related InnoVation Expert (D-DRIVE), Skill Set of Mathematical and Data Science, and Mathematical and Data Science of Computational Imaging Field). Since April 2022 to March 2023, he was joining in the Computational Imaging Lab as a Principal Investigator (for study on imaging and computer science). Since April 2023 to April 2024, he was joining to the Department of Economic Informatics, Faculty of Economic Informatics in Kanazawa Gakuin University as an Associate Professor (for the education and research on multimedia signal processing towards economic informatics). Since April 2024 to April 2024, he was joining to the Department of Information Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering in Kanazawa Gakuin University as an Associate Professor (for the education and research on computer engineering (signal processing)). Since May 2024 to present, he is joining in the Computational Imaging Lab as a Principal Investigator (for study on imaging and computer science). 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 and December 2023. 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, February 2019, and January 2024, and then, he also got a Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing of Elsevier Signal Processing in April 2018. He become a Councilor, Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery (JSCAS) in December 2023. 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 – March 2023
Education and Research Division of Mathematical and Data Science / Research Division of Computational Imaging / Industry-Academia Cooperative Research Division, Computational Imaging Lab
Principal Investigator - April 2023 – April 2024
Department of Economic Informatics, Faculty of Economic Informatics, Kanazawa Gakuin University
Associate Professor - April 2024 – April 2024
Department of Information Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Kanazawa Gakuin University
Associate Professor - May 2024 –
Education and Research Division of Mathematical and Data Science / Research Division of Computational Imaging / Industry-Academia Cooperative Research Division, 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 – March 2022
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Education and Research Center for Mathematical and Data Science, Hokkaido University - April 2022 – March 2023
Principal Investigator, Education and Research Division of Mathematical and Data Science / Research Division of Computational Imaging / Industry-Academia Cooperative Research Division, Computational Imaging Lab - April 2023 – April 2024
Associate Professor, Department of Economic Informatics, Faculty of Economic Informatics, Kanazawa Gakuin University - April 2024 – April 2024
Associate Professor, Department of Information Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Kanazawa Gakuin University - May 2024 –
Principal Investigator, Education and Research Division of Mathematical and Data Science / Research Division of Computational Imaging / Industry-Academia Cooperative Research Division, Computational Imaging Lab
Committee Experience
Review Experience
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) (since June 2017, by twenty six times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) (since September 2017, by thirty 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 three times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) (since January 2018, by twice)
- Reviewer, Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (JIST) (since February 2018, by fourteen times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I) (since February 2018, by four times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II) (since February 2018, by five times)
- Reviewer, Journal of Imaging (J. Imaging) (since June 2018, by twice)
- Reviewer, IEEE Access (since July 2018, by sixteen times)
- Reviewer, Applied Sciences (Applsci) (since July 2018, by nine times)
- Reviewer, Symmetry (SYMMAM) (since January 2019, by three times)
- Reviewer, Neurocomputing (NEUCOM) (since February 2019, by six times)
- Reviewer, Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) (since March 2019, by twenty times)
- Reviewer, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI-EMBS) (since July 2019, by nine 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 five times)
- Reviewer, Sensors (SENSC9) (since February 2020, by twice)
- 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 four times)
- Reviewer, IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering (since April 2021, by once)
- Reviewer, Optical Review (since May 2021, by three times)
- 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 six times)
- Reviewer, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences (since October 2021, by twice)
- 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)
- Reviewer, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (JPN Edition) (since June 2022, by once)
- Reviewer, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (since June 2022, by once)
- Reviewer, IEICE Transactions on Communications (JPN Edition) (since June 2022, by once)
- Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) (since July 2022, by once)
- Reviewer, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (DMP) (since November 2022, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE) (since December 2022, by once)
- Reviewer, Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, IEICE (since January 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, IET Image Processing (since February 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (since March 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (since June 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, Big Data and Cognitive Computing (BDCC) (since July 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) (since August 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, Computers in Biology and Medicine (since September 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (since September 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, Chinese Optics Letters (since October 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (since October 2023, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (TCI) (since January 2024, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (T-IFS) (since January 2024, by once)
- Reviewer, Electromagnetic Science (since April 2024, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (since May 2024, by once)
- Reviewer, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (since May 2024, 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.
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 2023,
January 5, 2024.
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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
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