Department Chair and Professor

Hiroki Imamura

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Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Information Systems Engineering

Graduate School of Science and Engineering Information Systems Science Major

Specialized Field	Image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision
Research theme	A question answering system using inference from information collected from the Web
Subjects in charge	Signal theory, Information engineering experiments, Multimedia exercises, Information systems overview, First-year projects, Project studies, Case studies I and II, Graduation research I and II, Exercises I and II Information science education method II (teaching subject)

Specialized Field	Image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision
Subjects in charge	Control Engineering I, Control Engineering II, Information Engineering Experiments, Multimedia Exercises, Computer Graphics Theory
Main career, work history, and academic background	Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1973 1997 Graduated from the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Soka University 1999: Master's degree in Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 2002 Visiting Researcher, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 2003: Completed doctoral program at the Graduate School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (PhD in Information Science) 2003: Assistant Department of Information Systems Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Nagasaki University 2007: Assistant Lecturer Department of Information Systems Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Nagasaki University 2009: Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Soka University
Affiliated academic societies and organizations	IEEE, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
Main Papers and Publications	Hiroki Imamura, Makoto Fujimura, Hideo Kuroda, "Clustering Method Based on Code Vector Considering Attraction and Repulsion", IEICE Transactions on Information and Communication Engineers, Vol. J91-A No. 11 pp. 1085-1092, 2008 Hiroki Imamura, Makoto Fujimura, Hideo Kuroda, "Noise-Robust Self-Organizing Map-Based Clustering Method Based on Maximum Distance of k-Nearest Neighbors," Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, Vol.62, No.10, pp.1618-1623, 2008 Hiroki Imamura, Makoto Fujimura, Hideo Kuroda, "Image Resolution Enhancement Method Based on Region Segmentation Using Histogram of Luminance Values," Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, Vol.62, No.6, pp.937-942, 2008 Hiroki Imamura, Makoto Fujimura and Hideo Kuroda, "A Clustering Method by Code Vectors Considering Attractive and Repulsive Force Based on Maximum Distance of k Neighbors", ICARCV 2008. Hiroki Imamura, Makoto Fujimura and Hideo Kuroda, "A Restoration Method for Images Including Lost Pixels based on A Similarity between A Local Region and A Neighbor Region of A Lost Pixel", ISCIT2008 2008. Hiroki Imamura, Makoto Fujimura and Hideo Kuroda, "A Clustering Method based on Self-Organizing Map Using the Maximum Distance of k Neighbors", SCIS&ISIS2008, FR-E4-1,pp.1139-1143,2008.

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