graduated from the Department of Mathematical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
in 1969. He finished the master’s course in mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics of the University of Tokyo in 1971. Obtained Doctor of Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1981.
He joined the
Electrotechnical Laboratory
The , or AIST, is a Japanese research facility headquartered in Tokyo, and most of the workforce is located in Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, and in several cities throughout Japan. The institute is managed to integrate scientific and engineeri ...
(ETL) in 1971. He has been engaged in the research of pattern recognition theory and its application. Had been Visiting Researcher at Canada National Research Council, Director of Mathematical Information Laboratory at Software Division, and Director of Information Science Laboratory at Information Science Division. Became Chief Senior Researcher in 1990 and Director of Machine Understanding Division in 1991.
Also he hold adjunct professorships in two universities. He became professor at Cooperative Graduate School, the
University of Tsukuba
is a public university, public research university located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ibaraki, Japan. It is a top 10 Designated National University, and was ranked Type A by the Japanese government as part of the Top Global University Pro ...
in 1992 (to 2010), and Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo in 2001 (to 2007). He retired from
in 2012 and awarded the title of Emeritus Researcher.
He has engaged in mathematical fundamental research and its application concerning
pattern recognition
Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphi ...
,
image processing
An image is a visual representation of something. It can be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or somehow otherwise feed into the visual system to convey information. An image can be an artifact, such as a photograph or other two-dimensiona ...
,
multivariate analysis
Multivariate statistics is a subdivision of statistics encompassing the simultaneous observation and analysis of more than one outcome variable.
Multivariate statistics concerns understanding the different aims and background of each of the dif ...
,
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
, and
neurocomputing
Computational neuroscience (also known as theoretical neuroscience or mathematical neuroscience) is a branch of neuroscience which employs mathematical models, computer simulations, theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain to u ...
.
Otsu's method
In computer vision and image processing, Otsu's method, named after , is used to perform automatic image thresholding. In the simplest form, the algorithm returns a single intensity threshold that separate pixels into two classes, foreground a ...
, an image binarization technique, is still a standard technique widely used both in Japan and abroad.
He has made significant contributions to elementary research on principles of human soft intelligence (information processing) such as recognition, understanding, reasoning, and learning, and "soft information processing (intelligent information processing) method" as applications. In the Real World Computing (RWC) Project (MITI's 10 years national project during 1992-2001), he promoted the research and development of "real world intelligence," and established fundamentals to exploit new application fields of intelligent information processing and multimedia information processing.
Winning prizes
* 1978 - Electronic communication academic meeting Incentive award of art and science: "Threshold determination method from concentration distribution"
* 1988 - Behavior metrology meeting Prize from an academic society Excellent prize: Achievement about "building of unifying basic theory by nonlinear extension of a multivariate analysis/multivariate analyses both hands way" (a series of thesis)
* 1998 - IAPR sponsorship MVA'98 Most Influential Paper of the Decade award : "A New Scheme for Practical Flexible and Intelligent Vision Systems"
* 2002 - Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers Niwa Takayanagi prize achievement prize.: "The real world intelligence technology" promotion of research and development"
References
Further reading
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External links
Computer science bibliography - Nobuyuki Otsu
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
University of Tokyo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Academic staff of the University of Tsukuba