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

[Contact Details]

Address: 4-101 Minami, Koyama-cho, Tottori-shi, Tottori 680-8550, Japan
Room: 7651, K 6F, Faculty of Engineering
E-mail: nishiyama ( @tottori-u.ac.jp )
Pattern Recognition System Laboratory
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[Profile]

• October, 2022 -
  Professor
  Faculty of Engineering
  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Tottori University
• April, 2015 - September, 2022
  Associate Professor
  Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University
• April, 2002 - March, 2015
  Research Scientist
  Corporate Research & Development Center, Toshiba Corporation
• March, 2011
  Doctor of Interdisciplinary Information Studies
  Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo
• March, 2002
  Master of Engineering
  Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University
• March, 2000
  Bachelor of Engineering
  Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University

[Research]

Publications

		Conversation activity recognition using interaction video sequences in pedestrian groups
		Automatic position correction using center estimation for cereal images
		Calf Fatigue Recognition in Heel-lift Exercise Using Video Sequences of Body Sway
		Gaze distribution of an observer while imagining wearing clothing portrayed in an advertisement and predicting the impression on others
		Canonical Plane Segmentation without Annotating Pixel-level Object Regions for Image Registration
		Heatmap overlay using neutral body model for visualizing the measured gaze distributions of observers
		Video Generation using Motion Magnification for Visualization of High-frequency Components in Body Sway
		Counting Pear Flower Buds Using Worm's-Eye View Images
		Investigation of temporal changes of gaze locations during characteristic evaluation when viewing whole-body photos
		Joint Object Recognition and Pose Estimation using Multiple-anchor Triplet Learning of Canonical Plane
		Gender recognition using a gaze-guided self-attention mechanism robust against background bias in training samples
		Feature Extraction using Downsampling for Person Re-identification with Low-Resolution Images
		Phase Lag Index Histogram Features for Identifying Epileptic Seizure EEG Signals
		Extracting features of body sway for baggage weight classification
		Gender Classification Using Video Sequences of Body Sway Recorded by Overhead Camera
		Estimation of beef marbling standard for live cattle using multi-input convolutional neural network with ultrasound images
		Body-part Attention Probability for Measuring Gaze During Impression Word Evaluation
		Comparing the Recognition Accuracy of Humans and Deep Learning on a Simple Visual Inspection Task
		Protecting Personal Information using Homomorphic Encryption for Person Re-identification
		Identifying People Using Body Sway in Case of Self-Occlusion
		Gender Classification using the Gaze Distributions of Observers on Privacy-Protected Training Images
		Directing a Target Person among Multiple Users using the Motion Effects of an Image-Based Avatar
		Visual Effects of Turning Point and Travel Direction for Outdoor Navigation using Head-Mounted Display
		Geo-localization using Ridgeline Features Extracted from 360-degree Images of Sand Dunes
		Inferring State Transition from Bystander to Participant in Free-style Conversational Interaction
		Weakly Supervised Triplet Learning of Canonical Plane Transformation for Joint Object Recognition and Pose Estimation
		Weighted Random Forest using Gaze Distributions Measured from Observers for Gender Classification
		Temporal and spatial analysis of local body sway movements for the identification of people
		Extracting Discriminative Features using Task-oriented Gaze Maps Measured from Observers for Personal Attribute Classification
		Evaluating Effects of Hand Pointing by an Image-based Avatar of a Navigation System
		Embedding the Awareness State and Response State in an Image-based Avatar to Start Natural User Interaction
		Person Re-identification using Co-occurrence Attributes of Physical and Adhered Human Characteristics
		Synthesizing Realistic Image-based Avatars by Body Sway Analysis
		Correlation Histogram to Improve Classification of Acute Encephalopathy in Infants Using EEG
		Virtual Fitting by Single-shot Body Shape Estimation
		Attention-Focusing User Interface using Region-based Edge Features
		Audio source separation for various video contents
		Aesthetic Quality Classification of Photographs Based on Color Harmony
		Sensation-based Photo Cropping
		Facial Deblur Inference using Subspace Analysis for Recognition of Blurred Faces
		Recognizing Faces of Moving People by Hierarchical Image-Set Matching
		Face Recognition using Classified Appearance-based Quotient Image
		Face Recognition using Multiple Constrained Mutual Subspace Method
		Virtual Photometric Environment using Projector

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[Awards]

• 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
• 3rd Prize, IEEE GCCE 2018 Student Paper Award,
  IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics,
  Protecting Personal Information using Homomorphic Encryption for Person Re-identification
• Best Paper Award,
  IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics,
  Recognizing Faces of Moving People by Hierarchical Image-Set Matching
• Including Japanese

[Ph.D thesis]

• Aesthetic Quality Classification of Photographs, University of Tokyo, 2011.

Pattern Recognition System Laboratory