The IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences announces a forthcoming Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems to be published in March 2023. Authors who presented their original works in SISA 2021 are solicited to submit papers to this special section. For the detailes, please check the call for papers: https://www.ieice.org/eng/s_issue/cfp/2023_3EA_3.pdf.

The submission deadline is Feb. 18 Mar. 4, 2022 (extended).

Thanks,
SISA 2021 General Chair
Hiroshi Tsutsui

The organizing committee sent all papers presented in SISA 2021 to IEICE Proceedings Series and all sent papers are now available. The following five papers are listed as open access papers and DOIs are assigned to all presented papers. If your institute or organization is a subscription member, you can access all PDF files.

• RS1-1
  Nighttime Single Image Haze Removal Employing Multi-Scale Gaussian Filter
  Takafumi Akita (Yamaguchi University, Japan), Seiichi Kojima (Taiko Kikai Industries Co., Ltd., Japan), Eiji Uchino, Noriaki Suetake (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
• RS1-2 SISA Best Student Paper Award
  Protecting Semantic Segmentation Models by Using Block-Wise Image Encryption with Secret Key from Unauthorized Access
  Hiroki Ito, MaungMaung AprilPyone, Hitoshi Kiya (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
• RS1-4 SISA Excellent Student Paper Award
  Expanded Null Beamforming for Full-Duplex MIMO Communication on IEEE 802.11
  Kotaro Nagano, Masahiro Kawano, Yuhei Nagao, Hiroshi Ochi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• RS1-5 SISA Excellent Student Paper Award
  ReLU Functions Using Finite State Machines for Stochastic Computing
  Kanta Yoshioka, Ichiro Kawashima, Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• RS1-6
  Estimation of Personal Information Based on Joint Locations Obtained by Pose Estimator
  Shiho Hanashiro, Yui Suzuki, Ryusuke Miyamoto (Meiji University, Japan)

Thanks,
SISA 2021 General Chair
Hiroshi Tsutsui

All SISA 2021 programs have been successfully completed. I’d like to thank all authors, participants, and committee members for their contributions to this workshop.

As Prof. Shingo Yoshizawa, the technical program chair, announced at the award ceremony, three students won the SISA Student Paper Awards. Congratulations!

SISA Best Student Paper Award

• RS1-2 Hiroki Ito (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
  Protecting Semantic Segmentation Models by Using Block-Wise Image Encryption with Secret Key from Unauthorized Access
  Hiroki Ito, MaungMaung AprilPyone, Hitoshi Kiya (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

SISA Excellent Student Paper Award

• RS1-4 Kotaro Nagano (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
  Expanded Null Beamforming for Full-Duplex MIMO Communication on IEEE 802.11
  Kotaro Nagano, Masahiro Kawano, Yuhei Nagao, Hiroshi Ochi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• RS1-5 Kanta Yoshioka (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
  ReLU Functions Using Finite State Machines for Stochastic Computing
  Kanta Yoshioka, Ichiro Kawashima, Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

All papers presented in SISA 2021 will be sent to IEICE Proceedings Series, and the following papers will be published as open access papers (SISA selected papers).

• RS1-1 Nighttime Single Image Haze Removal Employing Multi-Scale Gaussian Filter
  Takafumi Akita (Yamaguchi University, Japan), Seiichi Kojima (Taiko Kikai Industries Co., Ltd., Japan), Eiji Uchino, Noriaki Suetake (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
• RS1-2 Protecting Semantic Segmentation Models by Using Block-Wise Image Encryption with Secret Key from Unauthorized Access
  Hiroki Ito, MaungMaung AprilPyone, Hitoshi Kiya (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
• RS1-4 Expanded Null Beamforming for Full-Duplex MIMO Communication on IEEE 802.11
  Kotaro Nagano, Masahiro Kawano, Yuhei Nagao, Hiroshi Ochi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• RS1-5 ReLU Functions Using Finite State Machines for Stochastic Computing
  Kanta Yoshioka, Ichiro Kawashima, Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
• RS1-6 Estimation of Personal Information Based on Joint Locations Obtained by Pose Estimator
  Shiho Hanashiro, Yui Suzuki, Ryusuke Miyamoto (Meiji University, Japan)

As Prof. Hiroyuki Tsuji announced at the SISA 2021 closing, the next SISA, SISA 2022, is planned to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sep 15-16. The new organizing committee is planning to run the workshop in a hybrid format, which would consist of both in-person and virtual presentations. We are looking forward to seeing you in Bangkok.

Thank you,
SISA 2021 General Chair
Hiroshi Tsutsui

SISA 2021 Online Proceedings is now available to the participants. I’ve sent the online contents access information to the participants via email. If you did not receive my email, please contact us.

The instructions on how the workshop will be implemented with Zoom can be found here. I guess that most of the participants are familiar with Zoom. If you are a beginner of Zoom, I recommend you test your environment via https://zoom.us/test.

The sessions will start on Tuesday, Sep 21. The first program is the opening ceremony, which will begin at 10:20 am on Tuesday, followed by Special Session 1, which will start at 10:40 am. Note that the time is in Japanese Standard Time, 9 hours ahead of UTC (i.e., UTC +09:00).

Thanks,
SISA 2021 General Chair
Hiroshi Tsutsui

SISA 2021 will start next week. The organizing committee is now working on the final preparation. Next Monday, the online proceedings, presentation PDF files, and short presentation videos will be available to the participants.

I sent an email to all participants with the subject “SISA 2021 will start next week”. Similarly, I’ll send the online contents access information to the participants next Monday. If you did not receive my email, please contact us.

One more announcement. The regular registration deadline already passed. However, the student registration is still available till Sep 19. The student registration is free. We hope many students join this workshop.

Thanks,
SISA 2021 General Chair
Hiroshi Tsutsui

The registration deadline, Sep 13, 2021, is approaching. The regular registration fee is JPY 7,000, and students can attend the workshop free. We hope many researchers join this workshop and discuss the latest topics. Check Registration page.

We confirmed all authors’ registrations, camera-ready paper submissions as well as copyright transfer agreement submissions. Now, the organizing committee is preparing the online proceedings.

Just a gentle reminder for authors especially presenters: the deadline for submission of presentation files is also approaching. That is Sep 13, 2021, which is the same day as the non-author registration deadline.

Stay safe and healthy!
SISA 2021 General Chair
Hiroshi Tsutsui

Due to the COVID-19 worldwide outbreak and the uncertainty of travel and venue regulations, the organizing committee decided to hold this workshop as a real-time virtual workshop without face-to-face in-person sessions.

Fortunately, we can reduce the workshop cost and settle the registration fees low. The regular registration fee is JPY 7,000, and students can attend the workshop free. We hope many researchers join this workshop and discuss the latest topics. Check Registration. Note that the non-author registration deadline is Sep 13, 2021.

Considering the schedule from now on, we extended the camera-ready and author registration deadline to Aug 27 for authors to have enough time to revise their papers. A tentative technical program is available on this page. The technical program committee will deliver the author notifications soon.

One more announcement. We are pleased to announce our invited keynote speaker for SISA 2021, Prof. Kazunori Hayashi, Kyoto University, Japan. The title of the speech is “Discrete Signal Detection via Compressed Sensing Technique.” For the details, please check Keynote Speech.

SISA 2021 General Chair
Hiroshi Tsutsui

Now, the SISA 2021 TPC members are reviewing the submitted papers. Due to the submission deadline extension and the upload chasing, the acceptance notification delivery will be delayed. According to the latest estimation from the TP chair, we can send the notifications on July 20, 2021. Considering the notification delay, we may extend the deadline for the camera-ready paper submissions and author registrations, which will be announced later.

SISA 2021 General Chair
Hiroshi Tsutsui

The deadline for paper submission was extended to June 18, 2021. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions to the SISA 2021 workshop, held from 20-22 Sep 2021. Hope you and your family are healthy and safe during these uncertain and unprecedented times.

SISA 2021 General Chair
Hiroshi Tsutsui

We renewed this website for SISA 2021. Now we are ready to publish SISA 2021’s information on www.ieice-sisa.org.

Due to the COVID-19 worldwide outbreak, SISA 2021 will be held as a real-time virtual workshop. Depending on the COVID-19 situation at that time, we may run the workshop in a hybrid format in Sapporo, Hokkaido, which would consist of both in-person and virtual presentations.