2018 Bilateral Workshop between Tohoku University and National Tsing Hua University



Scedule: 16-17 November, 2018

Venue: Akiu Resort Hotel Sakan
    Yumoto Akiu, Taihaku-Ku, Sendai 982-0241, Japan

Scientific Program:

      Organized session only: We do not accept submissions from non-invited speakers.

    16 November, 2018

      10:20-10:30 Opening [Meeting Room Horai]

        Prof. Mitsuyuki Nakao (Dean of Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
        Prof. Nen-Fu Huang (Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University)

      10:30-12:00 Plenary Session [Meeting Room Horai]

        10:30-11:15:Prof. Takayuki Okatani (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
          Title: Toward computer vision for understanding objects beyond their categories
        11:15-12:00 Prof. Hsi-Pin Ma (Vice Dean of College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University)
          Title: AI for healthcare

      12:00-13:30 Lunch

      13:30-15:10 Session 1 [Meeting Room Horai]

        13:30-13:55 Prof. Chiou-Ting Candy Hsu (Dept. of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University)
          Title: Generative adversarial guided learning for domain adaptation
        13:55-14:20 Prof. Hafumi Nishi (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
          Title: Physicochemical understanding of human genetic variations
        14:20-14:45 Prof. Chi-Chun Jeremy Lee (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University)
          Title: Joint neuroperceptual and expressive acoustics modeling for deep vocal emotion decoding
        14:45-15:10 Prof. Zhenglie Cui (RIEC, Tohoku University)
          Title: Effects of inter-word pauses and speech rates on word intelligibility in a long-path echo environment: For improvement of outdoor mass notification sound systems

      15:10-15:30 Break

      15:30-17:10 Session 2 (Meeting Room Horai)

        15:30-15:55 Prof. Hwann-Tzong Chen (Dept. of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University)
          Title: Escaping from Collapsing Modes in a Constrained Space
        15:55-16:20 Prof. Masamichi Miyama (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
          Title: The challenge of T-QARD toward applications of D-Wave machines for the real world problems
        16:20-16:45 Prof. Chia-Wen Lin (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University)
          Title: Identity-preserving face processing for better face recognition
        16:45-17:10 Prof. Koh Yang Wei Patrick (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
          Title: Ground-state of quantum spin-glasses

      19:30-21:30 Banquet

    17 November, 2018

      8:30-12:30 Plenary General Discussions

Co-sponsered by

    College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University, Japan