September 19, 2013
At ICIW 2013 (the Eighth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services), an international conference on web technologies held in Rome, Italy, from June 23, Tatsuki Imai (a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies) and Yoshiyuki Kato (also a fourth-year student in the same faculty), both from Professor Shuichi Kurabayashi's laboratory, each received a Best Papers Award. It is a remarkable achievement for undergraduate students to have their papers win an award at this highly competitive conference, which has an acceptance rate of 30%. Furthermore, students from Professor Kurabayashi's laboratory have now won this award for two consecutive years.
Tatsuki 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. The combination of his unique analysis method, which calculates the characteristic features of a song based on its chord progression, and his visualization method using multiple evaluation axes was highly praised.
Yoshiyuki Kato
Paper Title: Cross-Media Retrieval for Music by Analyzing Changes of Mood with Delta Function for Detecting Impressive Behaviours
His research focuses on a system for efficiently searching for songs that are unknown to the user or remembered only by a vague impression, using visual impressions. He developed a unique search method that converts changes in color into changes in musical elements, and his approach, which makes it possible to represent changes in impression along a song's timeline as a sequence of images, was highly praised.
Comments from Tatsuki 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 form of music search that is significantly different from existing keyword-based searches. With our respective research questions in mind, we focused on the impressions that "dynamic media," including music, give us, and have advanced 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 express our gratitude to Professor Kurabayashi for his guidance in advancing this research and to everyone at SFC who cooperated with us. We look forward to your continued support.
Source: General Affairs (Public Relations) Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office