Short Biography


Kazuhiro Fukui received his B.E and M.E (Mechanical Engineering) from Kyushu University in 1986 and 1988, respectively. In 1988, he joined Toshiba Corporate Research and Development Center and served as a senior research scientist at Multimedia Laboratory in 2002. He had been researched and developed various image recognition systems, such as face recognition system (FacePass) while working for Toshiba. He received his PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003 and joined University of Tsukuba in 2004. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of System Information Engineering at University of Tsukuba. His interests include the theory of computer vision, pattern recognition and their applications.