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	KAMEYAMA Laboratory Position Professor of GITI, Waseda University/ Doctor of Engineering (Waseda University) Activities ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 Maintenance Task Force Convenor The TV-Anytime Forum Vice Chairman and Secretary Research Area Multimedia Content Distribution System Multimedia Information Distribution Metadata Representation/Processing/Distribution Technologies Digital Rights Management System Technologies and Architecture for Telecommunication and Broadcasting Convergence Mobile Multimedia Communication Next-generation Communication Services Data Mining Information Sharing and Retrieving Multimedia Content Description Multimedia Document Processing Multimedia Content Management Project Multimedia Representation Research Research Interests and Some Personal Info. We are currently faced with the flood of multimedia information. And here comes a simple question: are we using and consuming such huge multimedia information effectively and efficiently? There are various methods to represent, code, transfer and store multimedia information. This fact makes the content circulation unsmoothly. And depending on some policies of content right holders and content providers, there are so many different closed systems and terminals only through that you can use, consume and enjoy multimedia information. This fact prevents you from the fair use of multimedia contents. Therefore, it can be said that the current multimedia information society is far from the ideal one. So, what is the ultimate multimedia information society? And, how can we realize such society? My major research interest is to investigate answers to these questions, in general, from the engineering point of view. I name the architecture to realize such society "Super Media Integration Architecture". And I'm investigating the way to realize efficient multimedia information circulation and consumption. In order to do that, a variety of knowledge on multimedia systems, codings, transfer protocols and representation languages is required. It's no so easy, but worthwhile to do. And once it's accomplished, it will and may provide you with perfect satisfaction. Here in GITS, I'm waiting for you who could work with me on this aggressive research field. I like singing classical vocal musics, and I am very interested in lives of past geological period, especially the lives in the Cambrian period. About 10 years ago, when I visited to the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., I was very excited with the notice attached to the fossil of Hallucigenia, saying "Relationship to the Current Creatures: Unknown". Project Summary It's meaningless if information is not utilized for further processing and is not circulated among many interested people. To summarize the research subjects in short words, it is to investigate the aforementioned two points. In order to utilize information efficiently, it shall be structured in a certain form, i.e. it is required to establish a method to represent multimedia components relationship in a presentation space at user side, in terms of synchronization, by a form of a certain structure. And in order to realize seamless information circulation, some new approaches and systems are required, which enables the circulation beyond over transmission media, distribution protocol, terminal architecture and so on, while maintaining the digital rights management. Besides that, an intelligent interactive environment is essentially needed to make information consumers get positively involved in the information processing and presentation. Realizing such a system as an ultimate goal, a variety of technical subjects related with those topics are to be investigated in this research project. In the research projects, collaborations with industries are highly encouraged, as well as that with standardization bodies. Publications 10 Books in Japanese with the topics of: MPEG, MHEG, Multimedia Protocol, Video Compression Technology, Digital Broadcasting, Internet Protocol, Information Compression Appointments and Professional Experience 1989-1992 Research Assistant at School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University 1990 Received Doctor of Engineering from Waseda University "A Study on Extension of Document Architecture and Extracting Logical Structure" 1992-1993 Researcher at GC Technology Corp. Involved in MPEG2 standardization activity 1993-1997 Senior Researcher at Graphics Communication Laboratories Corp. Involved in MPEG2, MHEG, DAVIC standardization activities 1994-1996 Secondment to France Telecom CCETT. Involved in MPEG2, MHEG, DAVIC standardization activities 1997-1998 Senior Researcher at ASCII Laboratories Inc. Involved in R&D of Multimedia Systems 1998-1999 Director at Media Glue Corp. Involved in R&D of Digital Broadcasting System 1999 Associate Professor at GITI, Waseda University 2002 Professor at GITS, Waseda University Papers "Rate Control Scheme for Low-delay MPEG-2 Video Transcoder", Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4067, Visual Communications and Image Processing 2000, pp.473-484, June 2000 "Animation Image Coding", World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI) 2001, Proc. Vol. XIII, pp.404-409, July 2001 "An Innovative Solution for Achieving Media Convergence Using RTP Streaming in ARIB Framework", The Proc. of The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, Vol. 56, No.2, pp.218-225, February 2002 "A novel decoder downloadable system for content-oriented coding", IEEE Globecom 2002, GEN-01-1, November 2002 (Recent refereed papers in English up to 2002)
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