SICE Annual Conference Awards

Description

To recognize excellent presenters who submit high quality papers and present them at the SICE Annual Conference.

Award

Winner of each category: Certificate and trophy.

Finalists of SICE Annual Conference International Award

Schedule Code: FrBT8.4
Date & Time: Friday, August 30th, 2024, 14:15-14:30
Nominee: Yusei Suzuki, Akihide Shibata, Kazuhiro Hori, and Mitsuru Higashimori
Title: Robotic Mastication Simulator That Can Reproduce Food Bolus Formation
Schedule Code: FrBT6.1
Date & Time: Friday, August 30th, 2024, 13:30-13:45
Nominee: Hiroshi Ito
Title: Some Implications of Positivity with Interior Equilibria Via Asymmetrically Scaled Sectorial Supply Rates
Schedule Code: FrAT8.7
Date & Time: Friday, August 30th, 2024, 11:50-12:05
Nominee: Yasutoshi Makino, Shun Terui, Mingxin Zhang, and Hiroyuki Shinoda
Title: Perceptual Differences in Compression of Tactile Vibrations and Their Restoration Using Autoencoders
Schedule Code: WeAT2.2
Date & Time: Wednesday, August 28th, 2024, 10:45-11:00
Nominee: Motoki Koyama, Masato Ishikawa, Naoki Morisawa, Masaya Imanishi, and Hiroshi Suguro
Title: Bayesian Optimization of Automatic Control Parameters for Hydraulic Excavators in Excavating Soft and Flat Soil
Schedule Code: FrAT9.8
Date & Time: Friday, August 30th, 2024, 12:05-12:20
Nominee: Akito Morita, Io Yamada, and Hirotsugu Okuno
Title: Effects of Color Constancy Algorithms on Robustness of CNNs to Changes in Illumination Conditions
Schedule Code: WeBT7.6
Date & Time: Wednesday, August 28th, 2024, 16:05-16:20
Nominee: Taihei Suda, Masaya Takasaki, and Keisuke Hasegawa
Title: Remotely Estimating Strategy for Direction of Emitting Source of Gaseous Substance Using Angular Scanning of Ultrasound-Driven Straight Airflow

Finalists of SICE Annual Conference Young Author's Award

Schedule Code: FrBT9.2
Date & Time: Friday, August 30th, 2024, 13:45-14:00
Nominee: Renta Noguchi
Title: Relationship between VPD, Transpiration Rate and Vapor Conductance for Plants of Different Growth Levels
Schedule Code: WeBT4.3
Date & Time: Wednesday, August 28th, 2024, 15:20-15:35
Nominee: Kohei Asai
Title: Estimation of Position, Orientation, and Phase Offset for Ultrasonic Phased Array
Schedule Code: FrAT2.4
Date & Time: Friday, August 30th, 2024, 11:05-11:20
Nominee: Jyothiraditya Ramaswamy
Title: Enhancing System Identification through Transfer Learning in Gaussian Process Models: Bridging Sim-To-Real and Cross-Environment Applications
Schedule Code: FrAT3.5
Date & Time: Friday, August 30th, 2024, 11:20-11:35
Nominee: Pasut Insung
Title: Utilizing a Classification Tree for Rocky Terrain Detection in 3D Point Clouds for Coastal Erosion Studies



Finalist session

In addition to their regular presentations noted above, finalists will also give presentations in the following special session:
Thursday, August 29, 2024
10:20--12:50 Room B204
Special Session ThAT9
IA/YAA Finalist Session

Basis of Judgment

  • Quality of the paper (originality, impact) and presentation technique.
  • The Award Selection Committee will select no more than 6 finalists for International Award and no more than 5 finalists for Young Author's Award based on the final manuscripts. Those finalists will be notified before the conference.
  • Two IA winners and one YAA winner will be selected during the conference based on the presentations as well as the quality of the papers.

Presentation

The winners will be announced on SICE 2024 website. The prize consists of a certificate and a trophy. All other finalists receive certifications.