Media Computing Conference 2023 was held in Toyama, where Soma Yokota recieved the Young Researcher Award 2023. Soma Yokota, Shumpei Sugita, Issei Fujishiro: “Modeling of Opal Using 3D Voronoi Tessellation for Simulating Play of Color,” Young Researcher Award 2023, Media Computing Conference 2023, August 29, 2023.
The Journal of The Japan Society for Simulation Technology, Vol. 42, No. 2, which contains Special Features on “ Frontiers of Visualization Research” guest-edited by Prof. Fujishiro, is now available. In addition to the summary of these special features, Prof. Fujishiro also authored a survey article titled “Human-in-the-Loop in Visualization Read more…
A SAM team project on automatic generation of vignette illustrations was accepted for 2023 JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory). This project will be conducted over the next 3 years.
Prof. Fujishiro started serving as an associate editor for a new Elsevier Journal, Computers & Education: X Reality (CEXR), which is a sister journal of Computers & Education. See more details here.
Starting today, Prof. Fujishiro will serve as the chief examiner of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) SIG on Computer Graphics and Visual Informatics for two years.
Prof. Fujishiro was inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy, which is known as a prestigious academy, the “visualization technology hall of fame” or the “visualization fellows assembly”, and will highlight the accomplishments of the research leaders of the field of visualization. Prof. Fujishiro is the first Japanese inductee into the academy. It is announced at the IEEE VIS 2021 Read more…
It was formally announced at the 33rd general assembly on August 5, 2021 that Prof. Fujishiro was promoted to the president of the Visualization Society of Japan, after two years as a vice president. https://www.vsj.jp/vsjinfo/president2021.html
It was notified by JSPS that a new KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) [FY2021—2025], for which Prof. Fujishiro serves as the principal investigator, was informally adopted: ELITE：Development of an Expertise Acquisition Platform Based on Provenance Management and Deep Learning with Application to Visual Computing Problems (21H04916)
In the board meeting of IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) dated March 26th, 2021, Prof. Fujishiro was approved to be elevated to a 2020 fellow for his achievement of pioneering works and education/dissemination in the area of computer visualization.