GRASP Special Seminar – Yasushi Yagi, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, OSAKA University, “Gait Image Analysis and Its Applications”

Yasushi Yagi is the Professor of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka university, Ibaraki, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 1991. In 1985,
he joined the Product Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation, where he worked on robotics and inspections. He became a
research associate in 1990, a lecturer in 1993, an associate professor
in 1996, and a professor in 2003 at Osaka University.
International conferences for which He has served as chair include :
FG1998 (Financial Chair), OMINVIS2003 (Organizing chair), ROBIO2006
(Program co-chair), ACCV2007 (Program chair), PSVIT2009 (Financial
chair), ICRA2009(Technical Visit Chair), ACCV2009 (General chair).
ACPR2011 (Program co-chair). He has also served as the Editor of IEEE
ICRA Conference Editorial Board (2008-2011). He is the member of Editorial Board of International Journal of
Computer Vision, the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IPSJ Transactions on
Computer Vision & Applications and the Financial Chair of Asian
Federation of Computer Vision Societies. He was awarded ACM VRST2003 Honorable Mention Award, IEEE ROBIO2006
Finalist of T.J. Tan Best Paper in Robotics, IEEE ICRA2008 Finalist for
Best Vision Paper and PSIVT2010 Best Paper Award. His research
interests are computer vision, medical engineering and robotics. He is
a fellow of IPSJ and a member of IEICE, RSJ, and IEEE.