Norihiro Hagita
Director
ATR
Intelligent Robotics and Communicatuon Laboratories
Biography
Received Ph.D. degrees from Keio University(Japan) 1986 in electrical engineering and joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT) in 1978. He engaged specially in developing handwritten character recognition. Also stayed as a visiting researcher at Prof. Stephen Palmer's lab in University of California, Berkeley(Dep. of Psychology) during 1989-1990. Currently is the director of ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories(IRC).
Research Interests
pattern recognition, machine learning, multimedia content-base retrieval, visual perception, neurophysiology, human-to-robot communication and interactive media and communication lifeware (new communication life style and its basic framework) , pattern recognition，character recognition, image recognition，communication scene analysis
Publications papers
Society Membership
- IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan)
- IPSJ (The Information Processing Society of Japan)
- JSAI (The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence)
- IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)
- RSJ(The Robotics Society of Japan)