Optical interconnect technologies are drawing much attention for realizing exa-scale high-performance computing systems. In this research, polymer optical devices for high-bandwidth-density interconnects are designed and fabricated in order to demonstrate their outstanding performances.

SuperSQL has been developed as the database publishing extension for SQL. We have recently added simple Web application development functionality to the SuperSQL. In addition to the high productivity, it will ease the construction of Web application for both PC and mobile devices.

Extending the syntax of Email, we propose Functional Email as the breakthrough for classical Email. Within the Email address, a function name and parameters are given, which are used to generate a query for database to realize dynamic mailing lists.

We introduce a novel naked-eye 3D display system, which takes into account depth perception by shade and shadow and motion parallax of human vision system to make combined use of general-purpose displays for allowing an individual viewer to perceive 2D graphic contents in 3D, without any loss of resolution and brightness.

The appearance of technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and IoT seems to have changed network services dramatically. However, the networks running these services are still bounded by a traditional uniform architecture. The Service-Oriented Gateway adopts a controllable SDN (Software Defined Networking) platform which allows the network to adapt to the needs of these services, thus realizing more potential for the development of network services.

In the future network, we believe that the size and number of contents will grow much larger. To cope with this, we introduce a large file sharing system (Content Espresso) and an information searching system (Catalogue). Accordingly, we are developing a high-resolution video distribution service and the Campus Museum.

Optical functional devices operating in T-band (1000～1260 nm) have been researched. T-band has very wide frequency bandwidth and the capacity of the optical communication can be drastically increased. The tunable light sources, the gain chip using quantum dot technology, and the planar lightwave circuit for T-band are developed.

In the current communication network, increase traffic and power consumption of communication equipment, disaster tolerance of correspondence has been a problem. Therefore we research efficient resource allocation techniques, multiple services simultaneously accommodation technology and high availability technology in a disaster. We demonstrate efficient resource allocation technology in this exhibition.

Data Centric Network enables user to request named data rather than numerically addressed hosts. The demonstration shows that automatical attraction of contents related with the requested content and the contents are cached in-network for low latency.

The research results about routing, media access control, and attack defense which fill power saving, high reliability and high security are shown towards realization of IoT (Internet of Things).

We present a novel wearable facial recognition system “AffectiveWear”. This system can recognize several facial expressions. The devices look like a normal eye-wear and head mounted display. We made prototypes with IR photo-interrupter. With this technology, you can enrich your communication with others or computers in various ways.

We are developing a novel service robot which can communicate with customers by understanding various situation. Actual robot vision system with machine learning based object recognition wiil be demonstrated.

We introcude robust and practical human detection, tracking and pose estimation system for security camera applications. The typical results will be demonstrated in our booth.

We are studying about sports video analysis by using image sensing technologies, such as automatic player detection, tracking, and play classification. The final goal of this project is to apply the system to Tokyo Olympic 2020.

We developed a novel gaze estimation system for digital signage applications. The system doesn’t require special calibration for users. Actual system will be demonstrated in our booth.

Imai laboratory studies on “Interactive Intelligence” to achieve smooth Human-machine interaction. We investigate the mechanism of human cognition and design an adaptive system based on the findings of the human cognition.We prepare a communication robot,an autonomos mobile wheelchair,and a wearable user interface and explain our technical motivation in this exhibition.

A non-task-oriented dialogue system considering human relations is demonstrated. It can memorize contents of the conversation and utilize various knowledge in Wikipedia and Japanese WordNet.

System development using general-purpose robots takes a lot of time. If the intelligent software is incorporated, cost (human, monetary, time) will be even higher. Therefore, in order to facilitate the development of the intelligent system using a robot, we perform research and development for building tools and intellectual software.

Japan will start the 4K/8K broadcasting ahead of the world. We introduce the world’s fastest plastic optical fiber that enables a real-time transmission of the staggering amount of information. Our photonics polymers also bring innovation to the liquid crystal display structure which becomes larger and more complicated.

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a type of content-centric networks. In NDN, users can obtain a content by using the only content name. We propose a method adapted to network traffic in order to improve the performance of NDN.

In today’s Internet, when we want to retrieve content we need to specify the server that provides the content. However, we do not have to pay attention to the server’s location. We’re trying to realize a new content-centric network instead of machine-centric network.