2013.09.19
Itsuki Imai (4th year, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies) and Yoshiyuki Kato (4th year, same faculty), both members of Professor Shuichi Kurabayashi's lab at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, each received a Best Papers Award at ICIW 2013 (the 8th International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services), an international conference on web technologies held in Rome, Italy, from June 23. It is a remarkable achievement for undergraduate students to win an award at such a highly competitive conference with an acceptance rate of only 30%. Furthermore, students from the Kurabayashi Lab have now won this award for the second consecutive year.
Itsuki Imai
Paper Title: Chord-Cube: Multiple Aspects Visualization & Navigation System for Music by Detecting Changes of Emotional Content
He developed a music navigation system that visualizes the correlation between a user-selected song and a group of other songs as distances in a three-dimensional space. His work was recognized for its combination of a unique analysis method that calculates song features based on chord progressions and a visualization technique using multiple evaluation axes.
Yoshiyuki Kato
Paper Title: Cross-Media Retrieval for Music by Analyzing Changes of Mood with Delta Function for Detecting Impressive Behaviours
His research focused on a system for efficiently searching for songs that are unknown to the user or remembered only by a vague impression, using visual impressions. His approach was praised for developing a unique search method that converts changes in color to changes in musical elements, enabling the representation of impression changes along a song's timeline as a sequence of images.
Comments from Itsuki Imai and Yoshiyuki Kato
We are very happy to have received such a prestigious award, in addition to the invaluable experience of presenting at an international conference. Our research proposes a new way of searching for music that is significantly different from existing keyword searches. With our respective research questions in mind, we focused on the impressions that "dynamic media," including music, give us, and pursued our research centered on themes such as "visualization" and "personalization." We believe we were able to advance our research in this way because we had the opportunity to study at SFC, where we could engage in research and take on challenges like presenting at conferences, even as undergraduate students.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Kurabayashi for his guidance in this research, as well as everyone at SFC who cooperated with us. We look forward to your continued support.
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Source: General Affairs (Public Relations), Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office