Overview

In the Information Media Laboratory, you can find valuable information about our main research techniques and methods focusing on communications and broadcasting with next generation information infrastructure by using information media such as Internet and Web.

2014

July 2014, Quick Report on Doctoral Theses Recommended by SIG-DBS
A Study on Analysis and Utilization of Crowd-sourced Spatio-temporal Contexts from Social Media
Shoko Wakamiya
Information Processing Society of Japan

2July 2014, Quick Report on Doctoral Theses Recommended by SIG-DBS
A Study on Structural and Semantic Analysis for Presentation Content Management
Yuanyuan Wang
Information Processing Society of Japan

September 2014, ACIT 2014 Best Paper
A Route Recommender System based on Difference of User's Sojourn Time on Sightseeing Spots
Daisuke Kitayam, Keisuke Ozu, Shinsuke Nakajima and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of the 2nd International Symposium on Applied Computing and Information Technology (ACIT 2014), Kitakyushu, Japan, August 31-September 4, 2014

March 2014, Certificate of Merit (Student) for The 2014 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services
Extraction of Naming Concepts Based on Modifiers in Recipe Titles
Akiho Tachibana, Shoko Wakamiya, Hidetsugu Nanba and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of the 2014 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services (ICICW 2014), pp. 507-512, Hong Kong, March 12-14, 2014

March 2014, Certificate of Merit (Student) for The 2014 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services
An E-commerce Recommender System Based on Degree of Specialties in Online Shops
Motoki Zaizen, Daisuke Kitayama and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of the 2014 IAENG International Conference on Internet Computing and Web Services (ICICW 2014), pp. 492-496, Hong Kong, March 12-14, 2014

March 2014, DEIM 2014 Student presentation awards
An Exploratory Search Method for Presentation Contents based on User Browsing Behavior
Yuanyuan Wang,Yukiko Kawai and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of the 6th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM Forum 2014), A4-2,Awajishima,Hyogo,Japan, March 2014

March 2014, DEIM 2014 The most excellent interactive awards
An Exploratory Search Method for Presentation Contents based on User Browsing Behavior
Yuanyuan Wang,Yukiko Kawai and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of the 6th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM Forum 2014), A4-2,Awajishima,Hyogo,Japan, March 2014

2013

November 2013, SocInfo 2013 Best Paper Runner-up
Social-Urban Neighborhood Search based on Crowd Footprints Network
Shoko Wakamiya, Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo2013), pp. 429-442, Kyoto, Japan, November 25-27, 2013

2012

November 2012, Vol.66, No.11 Best Author
Fusion of Image and Heterogeneous Media
Kazutoshi Sumiya, Daisuke Kitayama and Shoko Wakamiya
The Journal of The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, Vol.66, No.11, pp. 896-902, November 2012

September 2012, LBSN 2012 Best Student Paper Award
Crowd-sourced Cartography: Measuring Socio-cognitive Distance for Urban Areas based on Crowd's Movement
Shoko Wakamiya, Ryong Lee, and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2012), pp. 935-942, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Sept 8, 2012

August 2012, EDB 2012 Best paper award
Measuring Crowd-sourced Cognitive Distance between Urban Clusters with Twitter for Socio-cognitive Map Generation
Shoko Wakamiya, Ryong Lee, and Kazutoshi Sumiya
The 4th International Conference on Emerging Databases-Technologies,Applications, and Theory (EDB 2012), pp. 181-192, Seoul, Korea, August 23-25, 2012

2011

November 2011, LBSN 2011 Best Student Paper Award
Crowd-based Urban Characterization: Extracting Crowd Behavioral Patterns in Urban Areas from Twitter
Shoko Wakamiya, Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2011), pp. 10:1-10:9, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 1, 2011

2010

March 2011, DEIM 2011 Excellent interactive awards
An User Interest Model based on User's Search Operations on the Local Information System
Rika Kotera, Kenta Oku, Daisuke Kitayama and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of the 3rd Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM Forum 2011), B4-2, Izu, Shizuoka, February 2011

November 2010, WebDB Forum 2010 Enterprise awards (Yahoo! awards)
Discovering Geo-social Events based on Geographic Regularities from Collective Experiences of Local Crowds via Twitter
Tatsuya Fujisaka, Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of WebDB Forum, November 2010

November 2010, LBSN 2010 Best Paper Award
Measuring Geographical Regularities of Crowd Behaviors for Twitter-based Geo-social Event Detection
Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN 2010), San Jose, California, November 2010

2009

March 2010, The 72nd National Convention of IPSJ Convention encouragement awards
Analyzing Consistency of Map Modifications based on Spatial Features for Information Credibility
Daisuke Kitayama, Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of Information Processing Society of Japan 50th Anniversary 72nd National Convention of IPSJ, pp. 579-580, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, March 9, 2010

March 2010, The 72nd National Convention of IPSJ Student encouragement awards
Analytical System based on User Movement Patterns using Mass GeoTagged Micro-blogs for Discovering Social Event and Exploring Characteristics
Tatsuya Fujisaka, Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of Information Processing Society of Japan 50th Anniversary 72nd National Convention of IPSJ, pp. 845-846, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, March 2010

November 2009, The 149th DBS Student encouragement awards
Lost again on the way?: Measuring Human Map-Reading Ability
Kaori Kobayashi, Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya
IPSJ SIG Technical Report, Vol.2009-DBS-149 No.8, pp. 1-8, November 20, 2009

November 2009, The 149th DBS Student encouragement awards
Exploring Regional Characteristics Using the Movement History of Mass Mobile Microbloggers
Tatsuya Fujisaka, Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya
IPSJ SIG Technical Report, Vol.2009-DBS-149 No.17, pp. 1-8, November 2009

September 2009, NGMAST2009 Best Paper Award
Layer-based Media Integration for Mobile Mixed-Reality Applications
Ryong Lee, Yong-Jin Kwon and Kazutoshi Sumiya
The 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services And Technologies (NGMAST2009), September 2009

2008

March 2009, DEIM 2009 Excellent interactive awards
A Presentation Method of Regional Information based on User's Digital Map Operation and Category Select
Rika Kotera, Daisuke Kitayama and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of the 1st Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM Forum 2009), C2-5, Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan, March 2009

September 2008, iDB 2008 Student encouragement awards
A Method of Analyzing Topic Ambiguity based on Geographical Distributions and Web Search Results
Daisuke Kitayama, Ryong Lee and Kazutoshi Sumiya
IPSJ SIG Technical Report, Vol. 2008, No. 88, pp. 49-54, September 2008

2007

November 2007, DBWeb2007 Student encouragemet awards
An Interval Retrieving Method based on Semantic Scene Type for Presentation Content
Daisuke Kitayama, Akiko Otani, Ryoko Hiramoto and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of DBWeb2007, 1C-2, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, November 2007

July 2007, DBWS2007 Student encouragement awards
A Comparative News Retrieval Method using Content Elements Order
Daisuke Kitayama and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Technical Report of IEICE, Vol.107, No.131, DE2007-22^114, pp. 277-282, July 2007

2005

March 2006, DEWS2006 The most excellent presentation awards
A Web Search Method using User Operation on Digital Maps
Ryoko Hiramoto and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of 17th Data Engineering Workshop (DEWS2006), 4B-oi2, Okinawa, March 2006 (in Japanese)

March 2006, DEWS2006 Excellent prezentation awards
An Archive Contents Making Support Method based on Operation Logs in Remote Conferencing Systems
Zhiyi Ge and Kazutoshi Sumiya
Proc. of 17th Data Engineering Workshop (DEWS2006), 6C-i5, Okinawa, March 2006 (in Japanese)