Munehiro Nakazato

Sony Electronics, Inc.
1730 N. First Street
San Jose, CA
(408) 746-9527
mune@nakazato.org
http://www.nakazato.org

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
Advisor: Prof. Thomas S. Huang
M.E. Computer Science, Keio University, Japan, 1997
B.E. Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Japan, 1995

Programming Languages: C/C++ (15 years), JAVA AWT/Swing (10 years), Objective-C, Perl, Ruby, MATLAB, Csh, LISP/Scheme, Lex/Yacc, LaTeX and SQL.
XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Programming Platform: UNIX System Programming (11 years), POSIX, TCP/IP, Cocoa, OpenGL, CAVE, X-Windows, CGI, CLAPACK, etc.; Windows Programming with Win32 and MFC; J2EE, Java JNI/RMI
System Administration: UNIX, WindowsNT/2000, Mac OS9, OS X, Apache, and Tomcat.
Natural Languages: English, Japanese.

(2006-present) Technical Lead, Sony Electronics, Inc., San Jose, CA.

Leading development of H.264 Video CODEC algorithm and firmware for a media processor for digital still cameras and camcorder.
Designing algorithms of Motion estimation HW.
Rate control algorithm developemnt and evaluation.
Firmware architecture design and development.
Code tuning and optimizaion.

(2003-2006) Senior Engineer, Sony Electronics, Inc., San Jose, CA.

Programmable SoC Solutions for H.264/AVC Video Encoder/Decoder.
Software Architect : Leading development of a realtime AVC encoder SW for an embedded media processor.
Software Architect : Designed SW architecture of AVC HD decoder for an embedded media processor.
Algorithm optimization and Code tuning.
SIMD optimization of H.264/AVC. SIMD instruction set design.

(1999-2003) Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

Multimedia Database. Research on user interface, learning algorithms and storage for content-based image retrieval systems.
Group-oriented User Interfaces for Information Access (Demo)
Online Learning Algorithms for Image Retrieval.
Efficient Data Structure for storing/retrieving High-dimensional numerical data.
Immersive Virtual Reality system for Multimedia Retrieval.
Collaborative Virtual Reality Navigation/Control with Wireless-Equipped Portable Computers.
Implemented a Java Servlet-based client-server image retrieval system (Demo)

(2000) Programmer and Adviser, Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd., Hamamatsu, Japan.

Designed and implemented a Web Service for Multimedia Travel Information System, with which the users search travel information with keywords, pictures and maps.
Advised on the integration of web services, multimedia database and Oracle.

(1997) Research Programmer, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan

Researched and implemented "Ubiquitous Computing VCR system," a speech and gesture activated video recording system.
Implemented the Graphical User Interface and Speech Recognition Interface.

(1995-1997) Research Assistant, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

Designed and implemented "Agent-Oriented Information Base," a distributed information system which automatically adjusts the query preference based on the user's behavior.
Implemented messaging protocol between user hosts and servers
Studied negotiation scheme for software agents on behalf of their own users.
Sponsored by Information Technology Promotion Agency of Japan.

(1995-1997) Computer Instructor, Sony, Tokyo, Japan

(1995-1997) Network Administration Committee, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

(1995) Teaching Assistant, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

(March, 2002) The Best Paper Award in 5th International Conference on Visual Information Systems.
(2001-2002) The President of Illini Japanese Association (IJA)

Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang, "Group-Oriented User Interface for Digital Image Management," Demonstration at International Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST2002), 2002.
Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang, "Extending Image Retrieval with Group-Oriented Interface," In Proceedings of IEEE ICME2002, 2002. [PDF]
Terrence Chen, Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang, "Speeding up the Similarity Search in Multimedia Database," In Proceedings of IEEE ICME2002, 2002.
Munehiro Nakazato, Ljubomir Manola and Thomas S. Huang, "Group-based Interface for Content-based Image Retrieval," In Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI'02), 2002. [PDF]
Munehiro Nakazato, Ljubomir Manola and Thomas S. Huang, "ImageGrouper: Search, Annotate and Organize Image by Groups," In Fifth International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISual 2002), 2002
Munehiro Nakazato and Thomas S. Huang, "3D MARS: Immersive Virtual Reality for Content-Based Image Retrieval," In Proceedings of 2001 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2001), 2001 [HTML | PDF]