Shunichi Kaneko received the B.S. degree in precision engineering and the M.S. degree in information engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1978 and 1980, respectively, and then the Ph.D degree in systems engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1990. He worked as a research assistant of the Department of Computer Science from 1980 to 1991, an associate professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering from 1991 to 1995, and an associate professor of the Department of Bio-application and  Systems Engineering from 1995 to 1996, in Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan. He had been a professor of the Laboratory of System Sensing and Control in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology in Hokkaido University, and then retired in March 2020. His research topics mainly include image and video signal processing, optical sensing, and computer vision.