Masakazu Iwamura

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Awards and honors for myself

For paper, presentation and demonstration

1. The 8th Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2005) Best Interactive Session Paper Award
   • Masakazu Iwamura, Seiichi Uchida, Shinichiro Omachi, and Koichi Kise
   • Realization of 100% Recognition Rate with Supplementary Information ―For Seamless Man-Machine Communication―
2. The 9th Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2006) Best Demonstration Award
   • Tomohiro Nakai, Koichi Kise, and Masakazu Iwamura
   • Real-Time Document Image Retrieval using a Web Camera and Its Application to Augmented Reality
3. The 63rd (2006) IEICE Best Paper Award
   • Tomohiro Nakai, Koichi Kise, and Masakazu Iwamura
   • Fast Camera-Based Document Image Retrieval Using Local Arrangements of Feature Points
4. The 10th Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2007) Best Demonstration Award
   • Kazuto Noguchi, Takayuki Hondo, Masakazu Iwamura, and Koichi Kise
   • Real-Time Recognition of Objects by Cascading Approximate Nearest Neighbor Searchers
5. The 9th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2007) IAPR/ICDAR Best Paper Award
   • Seiichi Uchida, Megumi Sakai, Masakazu Iwamura, Shinichiro Omachi, and Koichi Kise
   • Extraction of Embedded Class Information from Universal Character Pattern
6. The First Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM2009) Best Interactive Presentation of DEIM2009
   • Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura, Tomohiro Nakai, and Kazuto Noguchi
   • Large-Scale Image Retrieval Based on Hashing of Local Features
7. The 9th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2010) IAPR Nakano Award (Best Paper Award)
   • Masakazu Iwamura, Tomohiko Tsuji, and Koichi Kise
   • Memory-Based Recognition of Camera-Captured Characters
8. The 12th IAPR International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2010) Best Paper Award
   • Kazumasa Iwata, Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura, Seiichi Uchida, and Shinichiro Omachi
   • Tracking and Retrieval of Pen Tip Positions for an Intelligent Camera Pen
9. The 15th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2017) Best Paper Award
   • Yuzuko Utsumi, Tomoya Mizuno, Masakazu Iwamura, and Koichi Kise
   • Fast Search Based on Generalized Similarity Measures
10. The 20th Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2017) Interactive Presentation Award
    • Yoshihiro Yamada, Masakazu Iwamura, and Koichi Kise
    • Deep Pyramidal Residual Networks with Stochastic Depth
11. Japanese Society of Agricultural Informatics 2018 Annual Meeting Young Researcher Innovation Award
    • Yuzuko Utsumi, Kesuke Miki, Ryosuke Ogata, Takumi Obayashi, Yuka Miwa, Masakazu Iwamura, and Koichi Kise
    • 画像を用いた果房の３次元構造推定に基づくブドウの摘粒支援
12. The 21st Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2018) MIRU Student Excellent Paper Award
    • Yoshihiro Yamada, Masakazu Iwamura, and Koichi Kise
    • ResNetsに対する新たな正則化手法ShakeDropの提案
13. The 78th (2021) IEICE Best Paper Award
    • Masakazu Iwamura, Naoki Hirabayashi, Zheng Cheng, Kazunori Minatani, and Koichi Kise
    • Photography for People with Visual Impairment by Photo-Taking with Omni-Directional Camera and Its Post-Production
14. The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS2023) Best Paper Award
    • Naoki Hirabayashi, Masakazu Iwamura, Zheng Cheng, Kazunori Minatani, and Koichi Kise
    • VisPhoto: Photography for People with Visual Impairments via Post-Production of Omnidirectional Camera Imaging
15. Japanese Society of Agricultural Informatics 2024 Annual Meeting Young Researcher Innovation Award
    • Arata Saimyo, Yuzuko Utsumi, Yuka Miwa, Masakazu Iwamura, Katsumi Ohyama, and Koichi Kise
    • 画像を用いた果房の３次元構造推定に基づくブドウの摘粒支援

For achievement

1. IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award
   at The 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2011)

For review and academic activity

1. 2015 IEICE Information and System Society Reviewer Award
2. The 18th Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2015) Outstanding Reviewer Award
3. The 19th Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2016) Outstanding Reviewer Award
4. IEICE Information and System Society Letter of appreciation for treatise editing activities
5. 2023 IEICE Information and Systems Society Distinguished Service Award"Contribution to Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding Research Committee and MIRU"

Osaka Prefecture University President Prize

1. 2006
2. 2007
3. 2008
4. 2009
5. 2011
6. 2012
7. 2016

Awards and honors for my students (Recipient is underlined)

For paper, presentation and demonstration

1. FIT2005 Young Researcher Award
   • Tomohiro Nakai, Koichi Kise and Masakazu Iwamura
   • Document Image Retrieval with Digital Cameras —Retrieval in 0.1 Second from 10,000 Pages—
2. 2007 IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award
   • Tomohiro Nakai, Koichi Kise and Masakazu Iwamura
   • Real-Time Document Image Retrieval Based on Local Arrangements of Feature Points and Its Application to Augmented Reality
3. IEICE Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) 2008 研究奨励賞
   • Kazuto Noguchi, Shinya Ujihara, Koichi Kise and Masakazu Iwamura
   • Large-Scale Image Recognition with a Camera Phone
4. IEICE Kansai Chapter 優秀論文発表賞
   • Kazuhiro Izuno, Masakazu Iwamura and Koichi Kise
   • 英文穴埋め問題のN-gram データを用いた解法
5. 電子情報通信学会九州支部長表彰　平成２１年度 連合大会講演奨励賞
   • Shuji Tajima, Seiichi Uchida, Masakazu Iwamura, Shinichiro Omachi and Koichi Kise
   • ペン先カメラ画像による手書きパターンの復元
6. 2nd China-Japan-Korea Joint Workshop on Pattern Recognition (CJKPR2010) Best Poster Award
   • Kazutaka Takeda, koichi Kise and Masakazu Iwamura
   • Multilingual Document Image Retrieval Based on a Large-Scale Database
7. IEICE Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) 2014 研究奨励賞
   • Masataka Konishi, Masakazu Iwamura and Koichi Kise
   • 特徴空間の次元数と部分空間数にスケーラブルな近似最近傍部分空間探索
8. IEICE Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) Best Presentation Award of February 2017
   • Yoshihiro Yamada, Masakazu Iwamura and Koichi Kise
   • PyramidNetにおける確率的な正則化の効果の検証
9. IEICE Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) 2016 研究奨励賞
   • Yoshihiro Yamada, Masakazu Iwamura and Koichi Kise
   • PyramidNetにおける確率的な正則化の効果の検証
10. IEICE Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) Best Presentation Award of May 2017
    • Kohei Miyamoto, Masakazu Iwamura and Koichi Kise
    • LLAH をノイズおよび距離変化に頑健にする手法の提案
11. IEICE Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) 2017 研究奨励賞
    • Yoshihiro Yamada, Masakazu Iwamura, Koichi Kise
    • PyramidNetに対する新たな確率的正則化手法ShakeDropの提案
12. 2017　AIP Challenge "Head of Lab" Award 2nd Place
    • Yoshihiro Yamada
    • 確率的な正則化を用いた高精度な物体認識
13. IEICE Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU) Best Presentation Award of March 2021
    • Mizuki Maruyama, Shuvozit Ghose, Katsufumi Inoue, Partha Prathim Roy, Masakazu Iwamura, and Michifumi Yoshioka
    • 局所領域に着目したMulti-stream Neural Networks による手話単語認識

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