Awards Received

Awards at International Conferences

Papers where “GI-CoRE” is stated as an affiliated institution of a Japanese or overseas researcher, or those mentioning “Hokkaido University” in the acknowledgements, are marked with a “ * (asterisk)” and the applicable author name is underlined.
*i) Papers where “GI-CoRE” is stated as an affiliated institution
*ii) Papers which mention “Hokkaido University” in the acknowledgements.

Journals in English published by Japanese publishers are listed as “International Journals”.
[JP] Japanese Publishers
[OV] Overseas Publishers
[Proc] International Conference Proceedings

Collaborative papers between HU and overseas GI-CoRE members are marked with “@GI-CoRE”.

2020 – 2019201820172016
2020-2019
  1. Matteo Convertino, Hult Prize Hokudai Campus challenge (second place and invitation to the Tokyo regional competition); Team SEA2SEE with students Galbraith E. (IST), Li J. (IST), Garcon EJ (Agric.), & Chebbi N (Chem Eng), December 2020, https://sea2seejapan.wixsite.com/main
  2. Matteo Convertino, Reviewer Award for MDPI Journals Sustainability, Symmetry, and Climate, Jan 2020
  3. Rintaro Yanagi, Ren Togo, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama: Outstanding Prize IEEE GCCE 2019 Excelent Demo! Award,”Voice-input multimedia information retrieval system based on text-to-image GAN”2019 IEEE 8th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2019), pp.967-968(2019)
  4. Megumi Kotera, Ren Togo, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama: Silver Prize IEEE GCCE 2019 Excelent Poster Award, “Aesthetic style transfer through text-to-image synthesis and image-to-image translation 2019”IEEE 8th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2019), pp.492-493(2019)
  5. Yusuke Akamatsu, Ryosuke Harakawa, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama: Silver Prize IEEE GCCE 2019 Excelent Paper Award, “Estimating viewed image categories from fMRI activity via multi-view bayesian generative model”2019 IEEE 8th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2019), pp.129-130(2019)
  6. Yuya Moroto, Keisuke Maeda, Takahiro Ogawa and Miki Haseyama: 2nd Prize IEEE Lifetech 2019 Excellent Paper Award, “Estimation of Visual Attention via Canonical Correlation between Visual and Gaze-based Features”, 2019 IEEE 1st Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech 2019), pp.229-230 (2019)
  7. Keisuke Maeda, Sho Takahashi, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama: The 2018 IEEE Sapporo Section Encouragement Award, “Automatic Estimation of Deterioration Level on Transmission Towers via Deep Extreme Learning Machine Based on Local Receptive Field”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2017), pp.2379-2383 (2019)
  8. Akira Toyoda, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama, The 2018 IEEE Sapporo Section Encouragement Award, “MvLFDA-based Video Preference Estimation Using Complementary Properties of Features”, The 2018 IEEE Sapporo Section Encouragement Award (2019)
  9. Naoki Saito, Takahiro Ogawa, Satoshi Asamizu, Miki Haseyama: Best Paper Award, “Classification of Tourism Categories Based on Heterogeneous Features Considering Existence of Reliable Results”, The 2019 joint International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology & International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia (2019)
  10. Masanori Sugimoto, Best Paper Award in IEEE KST 2019 (January 23-26, 2019, Phuket, Thailand) “Detecting Text in Manga using Stroke Width Transform”
  11. Yoshihiro Hirose, “Outstanding Poster Award 1st Prize”, Data Science Statistics & Visualisation (DSSV2019), Kyoto. (2019 August)
  12. Takashi Hikage, Distinguished Contributions Award, IEICE Communication Society (2019.9.11)
  13. Takashi Hikage, The Best Poster Presentation Award, PJWWRAT2019 (2019.12.5)
2018
  1. Tomoki Haruyama, Sho Takahashi, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama, 1st Prize IEEE GCCE 2018 Excellent Poster Award, “Estimation of Important Scenes in Soccer Videos Based on Collaborative Use of Audio-Visual CNN Features”, 2018 IEEE 7th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2018), pp.675-676 (2018)
  2. Yuya Moroto, Keisuke Maeda, Takahiro Ogawa and Miki Haseyama: IEEE GCCE 2018 Outstanding Paper Award, “User-centric Visual Attention Estimation Based on Relationship Between Image and Eye Gaze Data”, 2018 IEEE 7th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2018), pp.44-45 (2018)
  3. Keisuke Maeda, Sho Takahashi, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama: “Distress Classification of Road Structures via Decision Level Fusion”, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), pp.589-593 (2018)
2017
  1. Yui Matsumoto, Ryosuke Harakawa, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama: IEEE GCCE2017 Outstanding Poster Award, “Construction of Network Using Heterogeneous Social Metadata for Music Video Recommendation”, 2017 IEEE 6th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE2017), pp.316-317 (2017)
  2. Ryosuke Harakawa, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama: The 2016 IEEE Sapporo Section Encouragement Award, “Extraction of hierarchical structure of Web communities including salient keyword estimation for Web video retrieval” (2017)
  3. Akira Toyoda, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama: Best Paper Award, “Favorite Image Estimation: EEG-based Extraction of Visual Features Reflecting Individual Preference”, 2017 International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT), pp.2A-3 (2017)
  4. Kunimasa Saitoh, “IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturers Award”, 2017
2016
  1. Naoki Saito, Takahiro Ogawa, Satoshi Asamizu, Miki Haseyama: 1st Prize IEEE GCCE 2016 Excellent Poster Award, “A Tourism Category Classification Method Based on Estimation of Reliable Decision”, 2016 IEEE 5th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE2016), pp.52-53 (2016)
  2. Reona Minoda, Yuzuru Tanaka, and Shin-ichi Minato: Best paper award, “Verifying Scenarios of Proximity-based Federations among Smart Objects through Model Checking,” In Proc. of the Tenth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2016), pp. 65-71, Oct. 2016.