Prof. Dr. Norimichi Tsumura

Norimichi Tsumura received his B.E., M.E. and D.E. in applied physics from Osaka University in 1990, 1992 and 1995, respectively. He moved to the Department of Information and Image Sciences, Chiba University, in April 1995, as an assistant professor. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Chiba University, since February 2002, and a researcher in PRESTO, the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), since December 2001. He was a visiting associate professor at the University of Rochester from March 1999 to January 2000. He was a visiting researcher at Columbia University from April 2012 to March 2013. He is the fellow of the IS&T (Society for Imaging Science and Technology). He received the Optics Prize for Young Scientists (The Optical Society of Japan) in 1995, the Applied Optics Prize for excellent research and presentation (The Japan Society of Applied Optics) in 2000, and the Charles E. Ives Award (Journal Award: IS&T) in 2002 and 2005. He received an IS&T fellowship on 2012. He is interested in color image processing, material appearance, computer vision, computer graphics and biomedical optics.