Profile

Tatsuya Yamazaki received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in information engineering from Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, in 1987, 1989 and 2002, respectively.He joined Communications Research Laboratory (at present, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) as a researcher in 1989.
Since August 2013, he has been with the Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Niigata, where he is currently a Professor. Currently, he is alsothe director at the Big Data Activation Research Center of Niigata University.
From 1992 to 1993 and 1995 to 1996 he was a visiting researcher at the National Optics Institute, Canada.From 1997 to 2001 he was a senior researcher at ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories.

His research interests include pattern recognition, statistical image processing, sensing data analysis, and communication service quality management.

He served as general co-chair of IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking (KMN'02) and general chair of the 5th International Conference On SmartHomes and Health Telematics (ICOST 2007).

He is a member of the IEEE, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, the Information Processing Society of Japan, the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, and the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

Research Resullts (since 2013)

Invited Talks

[Keynote Speech] Tatsuya Yamazaki, "Overview of Multimedia Service Quality Studies," the 4th Asia Pacific Information Technology Conference (APIT 2022), Feb. 2022.

[Invited Talk] Tatsuya Yamazaki, "Recent Progress in Quality of Experience Studies," 2021 International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Communications (ICETC 2021), No.IB1-1, Dec. 2021.

[Keynote Speech] Tatsuya Yamazaki, "Camera-based Exercise Support Systems for Elderly Care," the 2021 Asia Pacific Information Technology Conference (APIT 2021), Feb. 2021.

[Keynote Speech] Tatsuya Yamazaki, "Smart Sensing in Home and Farm Environments," IEEE Computer Science and Information Technologies (CSIT 2020) , Sep. 2020.

[Keynote Speech] Tatsuya Yamazaki, "Visual Inspection Applications Using Machine Learning," the 2020 Asia Pacific Information Technology Conference (APIT 2020), Jan. 2020.

[Keynote Speech] Tatsuya Yamazaki, "Ubiquitous Sensing: from Home to Farm," the 2019 Asia Pacific Information Technology Conference (APIT 2019), Jan. 2019.

[Keynote Presentation] Tatsuya Yamazaki, "ICT Support for Elderly Physical and Cognitive Care," 2018 International Symposium for Advanced Computing and Information Technology，Aug. 2018.

Books

T. Yamazaki, "A cognitive system of elderly exercise evaluation with sensors and robots," in Cognitive Informatics, Computer Modelling, and Cognitive Science,Vol.2, Application to Neural Engineering, Robotics, and STEM (G. Sinha and Jasjit S. Suri. Eds.), Elsevier, April 2020.

T. Yamazaki, "Case Studies on Biometric Application for Quality-of-Experience Evaluation in Communication," in Advances in Biometrics -Modern Methods and Implementation Strategies-, (G. Sinha Ed.), Springer, pp.227-247, Dec. 2019.

T. Yamazaki, K. Miyakawa, "Water Management based on Precision Agriculture for Pears." in Pears Cultivars, Production and Harvesting (Luz, A.R. Ed.), Chapter 8, pp.205-223, Nova Science Publishers, New York, Aug. 2019.

Tatsuya Yamazaki, "First Impression Factor Analysis through Facial Video Evaluation Experiments," in Facial Expressions: Recognition Technologies and Analysis (Flávia de Lima Osório and Mariana Fortunata Donadon Eds.), Chapter 9, pp.169-184, Nova Science Publishers, New York, Jun. 2019.

Papers

Mikhail A. Domasevich, Hideo Hasegawa, and Tatsuya Yamazaki, "Quality Evaluation of Kohaku Koi (Cyprinus rubrofuscus) Using Image Analysis," Fishes, Vol.7, No.4, Aug. 2022.

Tatsuya Yamazaki, "Quality of Experience (QoE) Studies: Present State and Future Prospect," IEICE Trans. Commun., vol.E104-B, no.7, pp.716-724, Jul. 2021.

Kazuya Fujihara, Yasuhiro Matsubayashi, Mayuko Harada Yamada, Masahiko Yamamoto, Toshihiro Iizuka, Kosuke Miyamura, Yoshinori Hasegawa, Hiroshi Maegawa, Satoru Kodama, Tatsuya Yamazaki and Hirohito Sone, "Machine Learning Approach to Decision Making for Insulin Initiation in Japanese Patients With Type 2 Diabetes (JDDM 58): Model Development and Validation Study," JMIR Medical Infomatics, vol.9, no.1, Jan. 2021.

Shu Iwata and Tatsuya Yamazaki, "Brain Activity Sensing to Verify Effects of Facial Image Reconstruction Puzzle—Verification by Young Students," Sensors and Materials, Vol.32, No.11(1), pp.3567-3580, Nov. 2020.

Tatsuya Yamazaki and Akito Fukui, "Defect Detection for Forged Metal Parts by Image Processing," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication," Vol.9, No.1, pp.23-26, Mar. 2020.