ICCE 2024 Award

Preface 

      ICCE2024 ended with a great success. This year, we prepared various awards to encourage discussions and presentations in ICCE2024 as a new trial. We sincerely hope that this attempt was successful.

ICCE2024 Award Chair 
Yoshio Iwai 
Htoo Htoo Sandi Kyaw

Best Paper Award

Kodai Kikuchi (NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan); Kohei Tomioka and Akira Honji (NHK, Japan); 
Takenobu Usui (NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, Japan); Hirakawa Keigo (University of Dayton, USA); 
Kazuya Kitamura (NHK, Japan), 
Hardware Implementation of Low-Latency Image Denoising with Wavelet Shrinkage and Noise2Noise-Based Learning for Ultra-High Definition Cameras

Best Regional Paper Award

  • Yuto Fujita and Kiyoshi Ueda (Nihon University, Japan), A Method for Selecting Training Data Using Doc2Vec for Automatic Test Cases Generation
  • Shuto Ohkawa and Kiyoshi Ueda (Nihon University, Japan); Takumi Miyoshi and Taku Yamazaki (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan); Ryo Yamamoto (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan), Selecting Nodes to Operate Relay Function for UAV Routing in Wireless Multi-Hop Network
  • Brennan Huber and Farah Kandah (Auburn University, USA), DECAY: Dynamic Evaluation and Component Analysis for Enhancing Trust Management
  • Min-Hang HsuChen-Chien Hsu and Cheng-Kai Lu (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan); Shao-Kang Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Enhancing Online Action Detection: Addressing Common Challenges via LSTR with Improved Modeling
  • Jonggyu Oh, Kiyoung Kwak and Kangmin Lee (ETTIFOS, Korea (South)), Timing Offset Independent PSCCH Detection Method for 5G-NR V2X SL Systems

Best Student Paper Award

Keisuke Fukada, Tatsuhiko Shirai and Nozomu Togawa (Waseda University, Japan)
Hybrid Iterative Annealing Method Using a Quantum Annealer and a Classical Computer

Best Poster Award

Balin Lin (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan); 
Yong-Xiang Lin (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology & Taiwan Tech, Taiwan); 
Bayisa Kune Mamade, Yung-Yao Chen and Kai-Lung Hua (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
GazeVAE: Gaze Visual Attention Estimator

Best Student Poster Award

Ryo Takamatsu, Shintaro Izumi and Hiroshi Kawaguchi (Graduate school of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan)
Wearable Perspiration Characteristic Sensor Using Bi-Directional Driver Circuit

Best Design Competition Award

Shintaro Matsui, Katsuaki Kamimae, Haruto Ikehara, Takuho Kawazu, Masahiro Nishimura, Huang Yuwei, Shuto Abe, Kenyu Okino, Yuta Hashiguchi, Kengo Yanagihara, Takumi Obayashi, Tatsunosuke Shiota, Kim Chaeseung, Yukito Taguchi, Ryuki Tsuruda, Taito Manabe and Yuichiro Shibata (Nagasaki University, Japan) 
Rust-Based Memory-Safe Design of SoC FPGA Unmanned Mobile Vehicles

Best Reviewer Award

Boon Chong Ang (Intel Corporation, Malaysia)

Best Chairperson Award

Not yet determined.

Best Session Presentation Award

Day 1 
3:30pm-5:30pm 
CT01 (Florentine C):  Tolga Arul (University of Passau, Germany), Studying the Effects of Prolonged Thermal Stress Aiming to Induce Artificial Aging on DRAM Retention-Based Physical Unclonable Functions 
Invited Session (Siena): Marzieh Amini and Sreeraman Rajan (Carleton University, Canada), Comparative Analysis of mmWave Radar-Based Object Detection in Autonomous Vehicles  
CT03+CT09-1 (Florentine B): Akshar K R (EMotorad, India), Retrofittable Automatic Shifter of Rear-Derailleur with Mode-Based Transmission and IoT
Shashank Hegde (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Retrofittable Automatic Shifter of Rear-Derailleur with Mode-Based Transmission and IoT
CT09-1+SS01 (Florentine E): Tobias Clement (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), XAI-Enhanced Semantic Segmentation Models for Visual Quality Inspection 
CT04-2 (Florentine F): Peiqi Wang (Algonquin College, Canada), Gamifying a 5G Core to Create a Capture the Flag Cyber Security Training Environment
CT04-1 (Florentine G): Jens Schleusner (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany), Sub-Microsecond Time Synchronization for Network-Connected Microcontrollers

5:30pm-6:30pm 
CT11 (Florentine C): Kentaro Katayama (Fujitsu Limited, Japan), Digital Annealing Engine for High-Speed Solving of Constrained Binary Quadratic Problems on Multiple GPUs
CT21 (Siena): Bruno Farias (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), An Architecture to Emulate Television Receivers
CT08 (Florentine B): Kim Fung Tsang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), FastPlane: A Fully Convolutional Network for Real-Time 3D Plane Segmentation
SS11-3 (Florentine F): Yoshiki Yamaguchi (University of Tsukuba, Japan & Kumamoto University, Japan), Stereo Vision System for Crop Height Measurement Using a Monocular Camera-Equipped Drone
CT13 (Florentine G): Sungjin Lee (Dong Seoul University, Korea (South)), Performance Enhancement Using Data Augmentation of Point Cloud Based 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving

Day 2
1:00pm-3:00pm
SS03-1 (Siena): Chih-Yang Lin (National Central University, Taiwan), ECG Anomaly Detection with LSTM-Autoencoder for Heartbeat Analysis 
CT12-1 (Florentine B): Ryotaro Negishi (Waseda University, Japan), Evaluation of Ensemble Learning Models for Hardware-Trojan Identification at Gate-Level Netlists 
CT17-1 (Florentine E): Masataka Kamigaito (Meiji University, Japan), Experimental Evaluation of the Pre-Coded Windowed OFDM Using SDR 
CT02-3 (Florentine F): Eddie B de Lima Filho (TPV & Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM, Brazil), An Automated Testing Methodology to Evaluate Multimedia Processing Stacks Running on Digital TV Receivers
Ping-Sing Tsai (Rivian Automotive Inc, USA), Impact of Photometric Space Linearity on Demosaicing Image Quality 
SS09 (Florentine G): Jedidah M Mwaura (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan), A Study on DDoS Attacks Detection on IoT Devices Using Machine Learning for Microcontrollers

3:30pm-5:30pm 
CT10-1 (Florentine C): Jong-Moon Chung (Yonsei University, Korea (South)), Analysis of H.266 Versatile Video Coding Streaming and Decoding for XR & HDR on Smartphones
SS01 (Siena): Yi-Shau Chou (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan), Enhanced Moving Object Detection and Tracking in Remote Sensing Videos
CT12-2 (Florentine B): Kousei Sakata (Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group, Japan), Implementation of Switching Fallback Control to Expand Availability Under Cyber-Attacks
CT06-1 (Florentine E): Hsiao-Chuen Chen (Tzu-Chi University of Science and Technology, Taiwan), EndoEye: A Marker-Based Artificial Intelligence Monitoring System for Endotracheal Tube Displacement
Uta Kobayashi (Hosei University, Japan), A CSRR Glucose Concentration Sensor with Increased Resolution Using the Q-Value Enhancement Circuit Technique
CT06-2 (Florentine F): Johnathan Frech (University of Louisville, USA), Nursing Home Patient Monitoring System for Improved Healthcare and Outcomes
Pragati S Dharmale (San Francisco Bay University, USA), Neel Kansara (Monta Vista High School Cupertino CA USA, USA), Enhancing Autism Spectrum Disorder Recognition in EEG Data Through Filtering-Driven CNN Approach
CT02-1 (Florentine G): Masahiro Fukui (NTT Computer and Data Science Laboratories & NTT Corporation, Japan), A Seat Headrest Loudspeaker System with Personalized Sound Zone Capabilities

5:30pm-6:30pm 
CT10-2 (Florentine C):  Brenda Zhuang (MathWorks, USA),  A Practical Framework for Designing and Deploying Tiny Deep Neural Networks on Microcontrollers 
CT10-3 (Siena): Ryusei Ikegami and Ryotaro Kainuma (National Institute of Technology, Nagaoka College, Japan), Anomalous Sound Detection System in Manufacturing Industry Using Unsupervised Learning
CT17-2 (Florentine B): Saba Al-Rubaye  (Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Communication Network Architecture with 6G Capabilities for Urban Air Mobility
CT06-3 (Florentine E): Masaki Senzaki (Mie University, Japan), Robotic Prosthesis with Controllable Knee Angle That Responds to Changes in Gait Pattern
CT02-2 (Florentine F):  Rômulo Fabrício, Jr. (TPV Technology, Brazil), Providing DTV Play's Services with a Multimedia Processing Stack Based on GStreamer
SS10 (Florentine G): Sae Goto (Okayama University, Japan), Parallel Configuration Experiment for a Radiation-Hardened Optically Reconfigurable Gate Array with a Holographic Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal Memory

Day 3 
1:30pm-3:00pm 
CT14 (Siena): Atah Nuh Mih, Hung Cao and Asfia Kawnine (Analytics Everywhere Lab - University of New Brunswick, Canada), ECAvg: An Edge-Cloud Collaborative Learning Approach Using Averaged Weights 
CT19 (Florentine B): Hideaki Miyaji (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Efficient Cross-Chain Communication Protocol Across the Blockchain Ledgers 
SS02 (Florentine E): Shao-Ju Wang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan), Enhanced Speed Estimation Based on 2D Object Detection and Monocular Vehicle Pose Estimation
CT15 (Florentine F): Yong-Hao Hu (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Synchronizing Full-Body Avatar Transforms with WebRTC DataChannel on Educational Metaverse
SS11-1 (Florentine G): Yuiki Tani (The University of the Ryukyus, Japan), A 100Gbps-Ready Low Latency On-Chip Router for FPGA Clusters

3:30pm-5:30pm 
SS05 (Florentine C): Andrea Mattia Garavagno (University of Genoa & Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy), Running Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search on Embedded Devices Under 512MB of RAM
SS03-2+CT12-3 (Siena): Katsuaki Nakano (Kanazawa Institute of Technology & Rochester Institute of Technology, Japan), Complementing Vehicle Trajectories Using Two Camera Viewpoints
SS04+SS07 (Florentine B): Giacinto Barresi (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy), Executive Control in a Mixed Reality Exergame for Motor-Cognitive Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis
SS08 (Florentine E): Toru Osuga (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan), An Evaluation of Throughput Control on Local 5G System
CT06-5 (Florentine F): Kazutaka Yamamoto (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Effects of "Robotic Rocking Pillow" on Human Short Sleep at Noon
SS11-2 (Florentine G): Yusuke Yamagiwa (University of Tsukuba, Japan), A FPGA-Based Learning Accelerator for Self-Organizing Map and Its Application to Trend-Visualization

5:30pm-6:30pm 
SS06 (Siena): Purab Ojha (Appendd Digital Solutions LLP, USA), Software Development Efficiency Metrics Prediction Using Fed-Layered Self Attention Grid
CT05 (Florentine B): David Han (Drexel University, USA), Analyzing the Efficacy of Synthetic Images in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection
CT10-5 (Florentine E): Kazuki Fukae (Nagasaki University, Japan), Fish School Behaviour Classification for Optimal Feeding Using Rose Diagram
CT06-6 (Florentine F): Shiyu Teng (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Multi-Modal and Multi-Task Depression Detection with Sentiment Assistance 

Best Audience/Questioner Award (listed in alphabetical order)

Asfia Kawnine (Analytics Everywhere Lab - University of New Brunswick, Canada) 
Atah Nuh Mih (Analytics Everywhere Lab - University of New Brunswick, Canada) 
Bo-Hao Liao (Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) 
Brennan Huber (Auburn University, USA) 
Hideaki Miyaji (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) 
Hiroaki Morino (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan) 
Hung Truong Thanh Nguyen (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg & Analytics Everywhere Lab - University of New Brunswick) 
Maho Shiotani (Panasonic Holdings Corporation, Japan) 
Mari Yasunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) 
Narishige Abe (Fujitsu Limited, Japan) 
Nobuo Funabiki (Okayama University, Japan); 
Robin Kremer (Saarland University & Saarland Informatics Campus, Germany) 
Rudolf Vohnout (University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic) 
Seokheon Cho (University of California, San Diego & Qualcomm Institute, USA) 
Stone Liu (Carleton University, Canada) 
Thomas Austin (San Jose State University, USA)

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