Imaging Sciences, Chiba University

News & Updates

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2025/03/25: NEW Journal The research paper entitled “Analysis of Physical Features Affecting Glossiness and Roughness Alteration in Image Reproduction and Image Features for Their Recovery” was published in the Journal of Imaging.
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2025/03/21: Announce The BAGIS Symposium 2025 was held at Chiba University/Online by the JSPS Core-to-Core Program(Asia Center Formation for Global Affective Imaging Science and Technology (BAGIS)) to conclude the three-year activities of BAGIS since FY2022.
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2025/03/17 -03/28: Announce The Asia Student Workshop on Image Science (ASW) D2D (Deaprtment-to-Deartment) exchange program was held at Chiba University, and nine students from Thailand and Korea participated.
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2025/03/06: Award N. Kikuchi (graduate of Imaizumi Lab.) received the EMM Study Group Student Research Award (Presentation title: Reversible information embedding method in compressible encryption domain for OpenEXR images). Congratulations!
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2025/02/04 -02/06: Int. Conf. The research paper entitled “Influence of Display Sub-pixel Arrays on Roughness Appearance” was published in the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology.
2025/01/16: Award Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi presented Chiba University with a plaque recognizing its outstanding contributions to student and staff collaboration (ASW, BAGIS). Program Coordinator Prof. Mizokami accepted the award on behalf of the university.
2025/01/15: Announce "Texture Science Handbook" has been released by the University of Tokyo Press. Professor Horiuchi and Professor Mizokami are co-authors.
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2025/01/05: Announce Professor Horiuchi appeared on NHK E-TV's “Science ZERO” and explained the theme of “black” in color science.
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2024/12/24: Journal The research paper entitled “Influence of Display Sub-pixel Arrays on Roughness Appearance” was published in the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology.
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2024/12/13: Journal The research paper entitled “Experimental Investigation of Depth Cues for Small-Field Light Sources in Darkness” was published in the Journal of Perceptual Imaging.
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2024/12/12: Award K. Yoshimoto (Bachelor's course student of Mizokami・Sato Lab.) received the Excellent Research Presenter Award at the Illuminating Engineering Society of Japan, Tokyo Branch Annual Conference. Congratulations!
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2024/12/05: Int. Conf. H. Sawada and M. Hirose (Master's course students of Imaizumi Lab.) have presented their work at the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC 2024).
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2024/12/04: Award W. Li (Doctor's course student of Horiuchi・Tanaka Lab.) presented his work at IDW in Sapporo and received the Best Student Paper Award. Congratulations!
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2024/12/04: Int. Conf. Prof. Y. Mizokami gave an invited lecture at the 31st International Display Workshops (IDW '24) held at Sapporo.
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2024/11/13 -11/15: Int. Conf. Y. Harada (Master's course student of Horiuchi・Tanaka Lab.) has presented her work. Y. Terai, K. Aketagawa, H. Ajiki, and Y. Ota have poster presented their work at ACA2024.
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2024/11/13: Int. Conf. A. Kudo, S. Kurosawa, and I. Miura (Master's course students of Mizokami・Sato Lab.) have presented their work at ACA2024.
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2024/11/13: Int. Conf. Prof. Y. Mizokami gave a keynote lecture at the 8th Asia Color Association Conference (ACA 2024) held at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.
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2024/11/05, 2024/11/12: Announce Professor Horiuchi appeared on “NANTE-BI-DA (What a Beauty!) by Eiji Kotoge" on TOKYO MX TV. The program was a two-week commentary on the theme of "color."
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2024/11/11: Journal A research entitled “Privacy-Preserving ConvMixer Without Any Accuracy Degradation Using Compressible Encrypted Images” was published in the Journal of Information.
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2024/10/31: Journal A paper entitled “Effects of ipRGC on color discrimination in peripheral vision.” was published in the Journal of the Color Society of Japan.
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2024/10/31: Journal A paper entitled “A factor in the effect of scene illumination in an image on the perception of gloss and hardness of object surfaces.” was published in the Journal of the Color Society of Japan.
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2024/10/24: Journal A paper entitled “Cross-cultural comparison of the influence of skin-color change on facial impressions.” was published in the i-Perception.
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2024/09/27: Int. Conf. Assoc. Prof. M. Tanaka has presented her work at the international conference, CCIW 2024, in Milan.
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2024/09/17: Int. Conf. Prof. T. Horiuchi published a paper at the international conference AIC 2024 Midterm Meeting in São Paulo.
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2024/09/08: Journal A paper entitled “Impact of Display Sub-Pixel Arrays on Perceived Gloss and Transparency.” was published in the Journal of Imaging.
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2024/08/30: Journal A research entitled “Layered Modeling of Affective, Perception, and Visual Properties: Optimizing Structure with Genetic Algorithm” was published in the Journal of IEEE Trans. Human-Machine Systems.
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2024/08/07: Announce It has been decided that the International Master's in Optical Imaging Informatics (IMLEX) program (2020-2024), for which Chiba University is a partner school, will continue as an Erasmus program from 2025-2030.
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2024/07/28: Journal Y. Manabe, S. Oishi, and R. Okamoto (Master's course students of Kubo Lab.) presented their work at ACM SIGGRAPH 2024. Additionally, R. Okamoto's paper was selected as an ACM Student Research Competition Semi-finalist.
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2024/07/22: Journal Y. Manabe (Master's course student of Kubo Lab.) has presented his work at ICCP2024. He also received the Student Travel Award. Congratulations!
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2024/07/10 -07/12: Int. Conf. Y. Suzuki (Master's course student of Mizokami・Sato Lab.) presented his work, and K. Sato(Master's course student) poster presented his work at the 16th Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV 2024) at the National University of Singapore.
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2024/07/06: Int. Conf. Specially appointed researcher Yuanyuan He poster presented her work at the 27th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS 2024) in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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2024/07/01 -07/02: Announce Imaging Sciences Workshop: Exchange program between College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University & Department of Imaging Sciences, Chiba University was held. Twenty-six undergraduate students from Zhejiang University participated in activities such as lectures, laboratory tours, and student exchanges.
2024/06/30: Award Y. Suzuki (Master's course student of Mizokami・Sato Lab.), researcher Y. He received the presentation award from the Color Science Association of Japan. Congratulations!
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2024/06/18 -06/19: Int. Conf. Prof. Y. Mizokami, Asst. Prof. H. Sato and researcher Y. He organized an international symposium on color vision and facial skin color, sponsored by the JSPS Core-to-Core Program(Asia Center Formation for Global Affective Imaging Science and Technology (BAGIS)) at Chiba University.
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2024/06/19: Int. Conf. Prof. Yoko Mizokami has presented an invited talk at the international symposium on color vision and facial skin color at Chiba University.
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2024/06/18: Int. Conf. S.Kurosawa(Master's course students of Mizokami・Sato Lab.), researcher Yuanyuan He have presented their work at Symposium on color vision and facial skin color.
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2024/06/17: Journal The paper entitled “Analysis of Gloss Unevenness and Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function in Specular Reflection” was published in the Journal of Imaging.
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2024/06/12: Int. Conf. International Symposium Satellite ICAI2024, sponsored by JSPS Core-to-Core Program(Asia Center Formation for Global Affective Imaging Science and Technology (BAGIS)), was held at Tokyo Institute of Technology Suzukakedai Campus.
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2024/06/12: Int. Conf. A. Kudo, S. Kurosawa, I. Miura, and H. Cai (Master's course students of Mizokami・Sato Lab.) have presented their work at Satellite ICAI (BAGIS Track) @Imaging Conference JAPAN 2024.
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2024/05/22: Journal "The paper entitled “Encryption Method for JPEG Bitstreams for Partially Disclosing Visual Information” was published in the Journal of Electronics. "
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2024/05/17: Award Assoc. Prof. S. Imaizumi and D. Nakatani (Graduate of Imaizumi Lab.) received the Photographic Society of Japan Best Paper Award. This article also appeared in Chiba Nippo. Congratulations!
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2024/04/15: Journal A research entitled “High Dynamic Range Image Reconstruction from Saturated Images of Metallic Objects” was published in Journal of Imaging.
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2024/03/25: Announce Assoc. Prof.H.Kubo's research infographic has been published on CHIBADAI NEXT.
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2024/03/25: Journal research entitled “An Extended Method for Reversible Color Tone Control Using Data Hiding” was published in the Journal of Electronics.
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2024/03/16: Announce Assoc. Prof.H.Kubo gave a lecture at Information Processing Society of Japan IPSJ-ONE.
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2024/03/07: Journal A research entitled “Reversible Data Hiding for OpenEXR Images in Compressible Encrypted Domain” was published in the Journal of Bulletin of the Society of Photography and Imaging of Japan.
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2024/02/28 -03/06: Announce An exchange program for the Asia Student & Young Researche Workshop on Information & Image Science was held In Chiba University. We also held a hybrid ASW/BAGIS symposium on March 5.
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2024/02/21: Journal A research entitled “Relationship between brightness perception and skin color influenced by experimental method was published in Color Research & Application.
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2024/02/17: Journal A research entitled “Automatic MTF Conversion between Different Characteristics Caused by Imaging Devices” was published in Journal of Imaging.
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2024/01/24: Int. Conf. T. Ando (Master's course student of Horiuchi Lab.) has presented his work at IS&T Electronic Imaging 2024 in San Francisco.
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2023/12/31: Announce The book "Digital Television Fundamentals'' edited by S. Mozar, K. Glasman (IET) co-authored by Prof. Yoko Mizokami was published.
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2023/12/24: Announce Prof. Horiuchi was appointed President of the Color Science Association of Japan.
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2023/12/06: Int. Conf. Prof. Yoko Mizokami has presented a invited talk at Colour and Vision Science and Imaging Forum (CVIF 2023) in Hangzhou.（Lecture title：Color and brightness perception of facial skin）
2023/12/01: Award R. Nakayama (Master's course students of Mizokami・Sato Lab.)received the Robert W G Hunt International Poster Award from the AIC2023.Congratulations!（Presentation title：Relationship Between the Observer Metamerism of Color Vision Diversity and the Spectral Bandwidth of Primary Color Spectrum）
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2023/12/01: Int. Conf. S. Kamekawa,T.Iwasaki (Master's course student of Mizokami・Sato Lab.) have presented their work at AIC2023 in Chiang Rai.And R. Nakayama,Y.He(Doctor's course students) have poster presented their work.
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2023/11/30: Int. Conf. K. Iwase,T.Oba,T.Baba (Master's course students of Horiuchi Lab.) have poster presented their work at AIC2023 in Chiang Rai.
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2023/11/29: Int. Conf. Prof.T.Horiuchi has presented a keynote speech at The 15th Congress of the International Colour Association in Chiang Rai.(Title:Physical and perceptual worlds of material appearance)
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2023/11/17: Announce Assoc. Prof.H.Kubo collaboration with Prof. Fujishiro have presented a invited talk at Information Processing Society of Japan PRMU workshop.
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2023/11/17: Award R.Okamoto (a 4th year undergraduate students of Kubo Lab.) received Excellent research presentation award from Information Processing Society of Japan PRMU workshop.Congratulations!
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2023/11/16: Award S.Oishi (a 4th year undergraduate students of Kubo Lab.) received Excellent research presentation award from Information Processing Society of Japan PRMU workshop.Congratulations!
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2023/11/16: Int. Conf. Prof. Yoko Mizokami has presented a invited talk at APPAMAT/IS&T 2023 International Workshop on Material Appearance in Paris.（Lecture title：Facial appearance assessment）
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2023/11/10: Award Assoc. Prof.H.Kubo received Hagura Award Excellence Award from State of the Art Technologies Expression Association.Congratulations!
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2023/11/01: Int. Conf. D. Nakatani (Master's course student of Imaizumi Lab.) has presented his work at the APSIPA ASC 2023.
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2023/10/29: Award K.Aketagawa (Bachelor's course students of Horiuchi Lab.) received Joint Research Presentation Encouragement Award.Congratulations!
2023/09/20: Award Y.Manabe (Master's course students of Kubo Lab.) received Corporate Award (FORUM8 Award) from Visual Computing2023.Congratulations!
2023/09/01: Announce The book "Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology (2nd ed.)" Edited by R. Shamey (Springer), co-edited and co-authored by Prof. Yoko Mizokami, was published.
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2023/08/18: Int. Conf. A.Kudo (Master's course student of Mizokami・Sato Lab.) has presented his work at ALC 2023 in The University of Tokyo.
2023/08/07: Award G.Hamano (Master's course students of Imaizumi Lab.) received Signal Processing Society Award from IEICE-EMM Group.Congratulations!
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2023/08/06: Int. Conf. S. Motegi, T.Watanabe (Master's course student of Kubo Lab.) has presented their work at ACM SIGGRAPH 2023. Additionally, both papers were selected as ACM Student Research Competition Semi-finalists.
2023/08/03: Journal A research entitled "A Method for Extracting Plausible Images From EM Leakage Measured at Low Sampling Rates" was published in journal of IEEE Letters on Electromagnetic Compatibility Practice and Applications.
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2023/07/28: Award Assoc. Prof. Kubo received Interactive Presentation Award from MIRU2023.Congratulations!
2023/07/04: Journal A research entitled "Reversible Data Hiding in Compressible Encrypted Images with Capacity Enhancement" was published in journal of APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.
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2023/06/29: Award S.Motegi (Master's course students of Kubo Lab.) received Student presentation award from IPSJ SIG on CGVI.Congratulations!
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2023/06/29: Int. Conf. T.Kitano (Master's course students of Mizokami・Sato Lab.) has presented his work at Satellite ICAI 2023.He Yuanyuan (Doctor's course students of Mizokami・Sato Lab.) has poster presented her work at Satellite ICAI 2023.
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2023/06/29: Announce The research exchange project "Formation of an Asian Center for Global Sensitivity Imaging Science and Technology" of Research Center Formation Project B.Satellite International Conference on Advanced Imaging 2023 (Satellite ICAI 2023) was cosponsored by the Imaging Society of Japan and held during the annual meeting of the Imaging Society of Japan.
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2023/06/29: Int. Conf. N. Kikuchi (Master's course student of Imaizumi Lab.) has presented his work at the Satellite International Conference on Advanced Imaging 2023.
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2023/05/20: Int. Conf. He Yuanyuan (Doctor's course students of Mizokami・Sato Lab.) has poster presented her work at VSS 2023 in St. Pete Beach.
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2023/04/11 -04/14: Announce A training school for the MANER (Material Appearance Network for Education and Research) project was held, and all faculty members gave lectures.