Keiichi Chono
Visiting Scholar, 2007-2008
Keiichi Chono was born in Ehime, Japan, in 1976. He received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronics engineering from the Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. In 2001, he joined the Signal Processing Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Japan. Since then he has been engaged in research and development of video data compression techniques, particularly for digital broadcasting. He is now with Common Software Platform Research Laboratories of NEC. His research interests are in visual signal processing and compression. He is a member of the IEICE of Japan and the IEEE.
Takayuki Nakachi
Visiting Scholar, 2006-2007
Takayuki Nakachi is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering (SCIEN) at Stanford University. He works with Prof. Bernd Girod in the area of image/video coding. His current research interests include scalable video coding, range image coding and distributed source coding. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Keio University in 1997. Since he joined NTT Laboratories in 1997, He has been engaged in research on Super High Definition (SHD) image coding, especially in the area of lossless and near-lossless coding. For recent years, he has been researching scalable image/video coding in order to distribute the SHD image contents. ( http://www.stanford.edu/~tnakachi/)
Hiroshi Shimamoto
Visiting Scholar, 2005-2006
Hiroshi Shimamoto received M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1991. He joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 1991. Since 1993, he has been engaged in research and development on high resolution and high frame rate television camera systems, such as 60-fps progressive-scan 3-CCD HDTV color camera, high dynamic range image system, 8k x 4k ultra-high definition cameras, and high-quality single-chip HDTV camera using 8M-pixel sensor, at NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories.
Seishi Takamura
Visiting Scholar, 2005-2006
Seishi Takamura received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 1991, 1993 and 1996 respectively. In 1996 he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation, Japan, where he has been engaged in research on efficient video coding and ultra-high quality video coding (e.g, high frame rate video, multi-spectral video and super-high definition). He is currently a senior research engineer at Video Coding Group of NTT Cyber Space Laboratories. From 2005 to 2006 he had been a Visiting Scientist at Stanford University, California. He has been academically awarded 10 times including IPSJ Nagao Special Researcher Award in 2006. Dr. Takamura is a member of IPSJ, IIEEJ and ITE and a senior member of IEEE.
Jianhua Zheng
Visiting Scholar, 2006-2007
Jianhua Zheng received the B.S. degree in communication engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), China, in 1997, the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing both from NWPU in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Since 2005, he joined Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.,China, and engaged in video coding standard research. He is currently the head of image coding group in Advanced Research Department of HiSilicon. His research interests include video coding and processing, multimedia transmission, content-based image and video retrieval, as well as video semantic analysis. He is an active participant for Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) and has over 20 proposals for AVS/MPEG/JVT, as well as about 15 journal papers and conference papers, and he holds three patents. From 2005 to 2006, he works with Prof. Yun He for visiting research at Image and Communication Lab., Tsinghua University, and engaged in AVS standard. He is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering (SCIEN), Stanford University, and works with Prof. Bernd Girod for networked video coding and wireless video delivery