FACULTY

Faculty

Photograph of Professor Masashi Nishiyama
Masashi NISHIYAMA
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University
Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Information Studies)

Contact Details

Address: 4-101 Minami, Koyama-cho, Tottori-shi, Tottori 680-8550, Japan
Addressee: Masashi Nishiyama, Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University
Office: Room 1510, H Building, 1F, Faculty of Engineering
E-mail: nishiyama ( @tottori-u.ac.jp )

Profile

  • October 2022–present
    Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University
    April 2025–present: Vice President (Information)
  • April 2015–September 2022
    Associate Professor, Course of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Information and Electronics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University
  • April 2002–March 2015
    Research Scientist, Multimedia Laboratory / Interactive Media Laboratory, Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation
  • March 2011
    Completed the doctoral program, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo (while employed)
  • March 2002
    Completed the master’s program, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University
  • March 2000
    Graduated from the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University

Research

Our research is introduced here.
Recent Research Results

Awards

  1. Outstanding Prize Excellent Student Paper Awards GCCE2025,
    IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics,
    Tsubasa Kondo, Michiko Inoue, Shunsuke Yoneda, and Masashi Nishiyama, Reducing Computational Cost in Pedestrian Conversation Activity Recognition through Skeleton Spatiotemporal Graphs
    Student holding the certificate for the Outstanding Prize at GCCE2025
  2. ISCIT 2021 Best Student Paper Award,
    20th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies,
    Masaya Kojima, Masashi Nishiyama, Yoshio Iwai, Effect of Calf Muscle Fatigue on Person Identification Using Video Sequences of Body Sway
    Student holding the certificate for ISCIT 2021 Best Student Paper Award
  3. 3rd Prize, IEEE GCCE 2018 Student Paper Award,
    IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics,
    Kazunari Morita, Hiroki Yoshimura, Masashi Nishiyama, Yoshio Iwai, Protecting Personal Information using Homomorphic Encryption for Person Re-identification
    Student holding the certificate for IEEE GCCE 2018 Student Paper Award
  4. Best Paper Award,
    IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics,
    Masashi Nishiyama, Mayumi Yuasa, Tomoyuki Shibata, Tomokazu Wakasugi, Tomokazu Kawahara, and Osamu Yamaguchi, Recognizing Faces of Moving People by Hierarchical Image-Set Matching

Theses

  • Aesthetic Quality Classification of Photographs, Ph.D. thesis, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, 2011.