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   Biography
   
  Hideyuki Sawada
   Associate Professor
   Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University
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   Profile

  Hideyuki Sawada is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Engineering,
  Kagawa University. He received the B.E., M.E. and Dr. Eng. degrees in
  Applied Physics from Waseda University in 1990, 1992 and 1999,
  respectively. From 1992 to 1995, he engaged in the development ofoptical
  sensors for measuring the sweetness and color of fruits at Mitsui Mining &
  SmeltingCo., Ltd. He was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the
  Promotion of Science from 1995 to 1998,and conducted a research on the
  music information processing and neuralnetworks. In 1999, he engaged in
  researches on gesture recognition and speech signal processing as a
  Research Associate of Waseda University. His current research, interests
  include sound and image processing, neural networks, robotics, human
  interfaces and welfare engineering. He is a member of IEEE, IPSJ, IEICE,
  RSJ, SICE and JSME.



   Personal Career

  March 1990:
  Graduated from Department of Applied Physics, School of Science
  and Engineering, Waseda University (B.Eng.)

  March 1992:
  Graduated from Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Graduate
  School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University (M.Eng.)

  April 1992 - March 1995:
  Worked in Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd.

  April 1995 - March 1998:
  Engaged in Researches as Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the
  Promotion of Science (DC1)

  February 1999:
  Received Ph.D. from Waseda University (Dr.Eng.)

  April 1998 - March 1999:
  Research Associate of Waseda University

  April 1999 -:
  Associate Professor of Kagawa University




   Selected Papers

  Z Yosuke Mizukami and Hideyuki Sawada,
    "Tactile information transmission by apparent movement phenomenon
      using shape-memory alloy device", International Journal on Disability
      and Human Development, Vol.5, No.3, pp.277-284, 2006

  Z Didier Coquin, Eric Benoit, Hideyuki Sawada and Bogdan Ionescu,
    "Gestures Recognition Based on the Fusion of Hand Positioning and Arm
      Gestures", Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.18, No.6, pp.751-
      759, 2006

  Z Mitsuhiro Nakamura and Hideyuki Sawada,
    "Talking Robot and the Analysis of Autonomous Voice Acquisition",
      IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
      pp. 4684-4689, 2006

  Z Hideyuki Sawada, Atsushi Todo and Toshiya Takechi,
    "Realtime Speaker Tracking for Robotic Auditory System", Annual
      Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, pp.5474-5479,
      2006

  Z Hideyuki Sawada, Norio Takeuchi and Akihiro Hisada,
    "A realtime clarification filter of dysphonic speech and its evaluation by
      listening experiments", International Journal on Disability and Human
      Development, Vol.4, No.3, pp.183-189, 2005

  Z Shuji Hashimoto and Hideyuki Sawada,
    "A Grasping Device to Sense Hand Gesture for Expressive Sound
      Generation", Journal of New Music Research, Vol.34, No.1, pp.115-123,
      2005

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