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