Takuma Nitta, Shinpei Hagimoto, and Airi Yanase, second-year students of the Department of Data Science, Faculty of Data Science, Musashino University, have joined the IEEE / IIAI AIT 2, the world's largest specialized organization in the electrical and electronic fields, sponsored by the IEEE. Published a paper.Received the "Best Paper Award" awarded to the top two.
"IEEE / II AI AIT 2020" is an IEEE-sponsored international conference that will celebrate its third time in 2020.It was held online in 3 to prevent new coronavirus infectious diseases.
At Musashino University, a small-group seminar-style class "Future Creation Project" was established in the Faculty of Data Science in the 1st to 3rd grades.Under the guidance of each faculty member, we are tackling real-world problems across disciplines through group learning and joint research with companies and government agencies.
The paper by Mr. Nitta and others, who won the "Best Paper Award", is also a summary of the research results of this "Future Creation Project".In the dissertation, we focus on finger characters, which express characters with fingers, even in Japanese sign language.We showed how to realize a system that recognizes what characters are represented from a video showing finger characters.It is a great achievement to receive the "Best Paper Award" at the presentation of the international conference where many graduate students and researchers participate.
One of the members, Mr. Nitta, said, "I am honored to receive the prestigious Best Paper Award for the achievements of our research in the academic world.The research we worked on this time aimed to realize finger characters, which is a type of sign language, with a low-cost system.I think that incorporating not only the solution of social issues but also the perspective of solving academic issues and building environmentally friendly algorithms led to the evaluation. "
This is the second time that a data science student has received the "Best Paper Award" at an international conference.Associate Professor Takafumi Nakanishi, Dean of the Department of Data Science, said, "This is a research paper on the realization of finger character recognition methods that Mr. Nitta, Mr. Hagimoto, and Mr. Yanase have been working on in the future creation project since their first year. It is a great achievement to receive the Best Paper Award while making a presentation at the first international conference in the second grade and making wonderful presentations by graduate students and researchers.This is the result of the division of roles and the collective efforts of each of the activities of the Future Creation Project.I hope that you will deepen your research and take the next step in the future. "
