KARIYA, Japan, Aug. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort
to deepen and advance its knowledge in artificial intelligence,
DENSO has entered into a technical advisory contract with one of
the world's foremost researchers in computer vision, Carnegie Mellon University Professor Dr.
Takeo Kanade. Through this
contract, DENSO is looking to advance its artificial intelligence
technology and expand its engineering expertise in the areas of
advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous drive, and
the Internet of Things (IoT).
Dr. Kanade, a U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of
Robotics and Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon will provide technical guidance to DENSO engineers on
image recognition and machine learning, and will also speak at
lectures and seminars organized by DENSO for a variety of purposes,
such as recruiting, relationship building, etc. These activities
will be held mostly in Japan.
Dr. Kanade and DENSO have worked together from 2002-2009 on a
joint research of image recognition technology. In addition, he has
been a lecturer of DENSO's high talent program organized by DENSO
E&TS Training Center.
DENSO expects to use artificial intelligence technology in more
areas of its business. Currently, it uses machine learning in its
sensing technologies and applies them to its sensing products.
DENSO has developed technologies and products to help create a
society free from road traffic accidents. Based on its accumulated
technologies, DENSO will continue to contribute to building a safe
and secure automotive society for all people around the world, not
just for drivers and pedestrians.
About Dr. Kanade:
Dr. Kanade works in multiple
areas of robotics: computer vision, multi-media, manipulators,
autonomous mobile robots, medical robotics and sensors. He has
written more than 400 technical papers and reports in these areas,
and holds more than 20 patents. He has been the principal
investigator of more than a dozen major vision and robotics
projects at Carnegie Mellon.
Profile of Professor Takeo
Kanade
- Professor Takeo Kanade received
his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto
University in 1974. After serving as Assistant Professor at
Kyoto University, he became a senior
research engineer at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. At the Robotics
Institute, he was appointed to Associate Professor and to
Professor, and then he served as the Director from 1992 to 2001. In
2006, Professor Kanade established the Quality of Life Technology
Center (QoLT) and became its Director.
- From 2001 to 2009, he also served as the Director of the
Digital Human Research Center (DHRC) at the National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. Currently, he is a Special Fellow of
DHRC.
- Foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Science
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), American Association of Artificial Intelligence, Institute
of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE),
and Robotics Society of Japan
- Special Adviser to the Advanced Integrated Intelligence
Platform Project (AIP) administered by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Awards
NEC C&C Award, Joseph Engelberger Award, Japan Robot
Association (JARA) Award, Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence
(JSAI) Career Achievement Award, Otto
Franc Award, Marr Prize Award, Benjamin Franklin Institute
Medal and Bower Award, IEEE International Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV) Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award Okawa
Prize from the Okawa Foundation for Information and
Telecommunications, IEEE Robots and Automation Society Pioneer
Award, Kyoto Prize
About DENSO Corporation
DENSO Corp.,
headquartered in Kariya, Aichi prefecture, Japan, is a leading global automotive supplier
of advanced technology, systems and components in the areas of
thermal, powertrain control, electronics and information and
safety. Its customers include all the world's major carmakers.
Worldwide, the company has more than 200 subsidiaries and
affiliates in 38 countries and regions (including Japan) and employs more than 150,000 people.
Consolidated global sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016, totaled US$40.2 billion. Last fiscal year, DENSO spent
8.8 percent of its global consolidated sales on research and
development. DENSO common stock is traded on the Tokyo and Nagoya stock exchanges. For more information,
go to www.globaldenso.com, or visit our media website at
www.globaldenso.com/en/newsreleases/media-center/
About DENSO in North America:
In
North America, DENSO employs more
than 23,000 people at 30 consolidated companies and affiliates. Of
these, 25 are manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In the
United States alone, DENSO employs more than 15,000 people
in California, Michigan, North
Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Texas, Alabama and Arkansas. DENSO's North American consolidated
sales totaled US$9.9 billion for the
fiscal year ending March 31, 2016.
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