2019.03.25
Shu Sakamoto (presenter), a 2nd-year student in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Atsuya Kobayashi, a 3rd-year student in the same faculty, and Karin Matsushita and Risa Shimizu, both 2nd-year students in the same faculty, all from the Atsushi Aoyama Laboratory, received the IEEE LifeTech 2019 Student Paper Award (3rd Prize) at the 2019 IEEE 1st Global Conference on Life Sciences and Technologies (LifeTech 2019). This international conference was sponsored by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the world's largest professional association for electronic and electrical engineering.
The award was for their research on technology that decodes musical pitch from brainwaves when a person imagines a sound. Their paper, titled "Decoding Relative Pitch Imagery Using Functional Connectivity: An Electroencephalographic Study," was recognized for demonstrating the importance of neural networks related to relative pitch changes within a context for decoding pitch, rather than brain activity related to the absolute pitch of an imagined sound.
LifeTech 2019 is a venue where researchers in the life sciences field from various countries gather to report and share the latest research findings on systems, devices, technologies, processes, and applications. The conference was held from March 12 to 14 at the Senri Life Science Center in Osaka.
Comment from Shu Sakamoto
Although this was my first presentation at an international conference, I am very happy and honored to receive such a prestigious award. This achievement would not have been possible without the dedicated efforts of my co-presenters, including Professor Aoyama and Mr. Kobayashi, who worked on this research with me, and everyone involved who provided various forms of support. I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude. Through the presentation and peer review process, I received many suggestions and comments from diverse perspectives. I intend to further develop this research based on this feedback.
From: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office