Title	Professor

Research Fields	Information Science

Bio	After working for Microsoft Product Development Limited, etc., Professor Iigura completed a Ph.D in Information Science at the University of Shizuoka. He specializes in computer graphics and image processing, and also holds a Master of Engineering degree. After working as a lecturer and associate professor at Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, he joined the faculty of Akita University of Art as a professor in 2017.

Recent Activities	<Selected awards / prizes> 2017 2016 Researcher Award (with SAJI Hitoshi). The Remote Sensing Society of Japan 1997 Prizewinner, Creator’s Garage ‘97 1996 Prizewinner, DEP Passport Awards. Sony Music Entertainment <Selected publications / presentations> 2020 Introduce to art-informatics that analyzes the art field by information technology (With MIYAMOTO Kazuyuki, HIJIKATA Dai). ITE Technical Report, Vol. 44(10), pp.89-92. The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers 2019 Forth-kei gengo no kan’i saiteki-ka shuho no ichikosatsu: Kyokushohensu to VM-nai VM wo mochiite [An inquiry on simple optimization methods for Forth languages: Utilizing local variables and nested virtualization]. 2019 Tohoku-Section Joint Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, Japan. Akita University 2018 Abolition of scanner APIs for Words and extension of immediate execution attribute and etc. in Forth languages. 121st IPSJ Special Interest Group on Programming. Information Processing Society of Japan, Tokyo 2016 Fotoriarisutikku Rendara wo Mochiita Kaigacho Rendaringu [Painterly rendering with photorealistic renderers]. Technical Report of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, Vol.40 (11) pp.61-64 2015 GPS to Kusatsu Gazo ni yoru Chokan Gazo no Rejisutoreshon [Oblique aerial image registration from a movie and GPS data] (with SAJI Hitoshi). Journal of The Remote Sensing Society of Japan, Vol.35(3) pp.155-172 2014 Registration of aerial images using pseudo-orthogonal space (with SAJI Hitoshi). 2014 ITS World Congress, Detroit, USA

Courses Taught	Contemporary Art Seminar (Communication Design) Communication Design Lecture B Communication Design Seminar B 1, 2, 3 Graduation Project (Communication Design) (Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts) Transdisciplinary Arts Theory Applied Transdisciplinary Arts Theory B Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar Transdisciplinary Arts Practicum A, B Guided Research I, II (Master’s Program) Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Expression I, II Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Theory I, II Production Skills Studies I, II, III Guided Research I, II, III (Doctoral Program)

Example Works

Particle mapping (The 13th NICOGRAPH / MULTIMEDIA Thesis Contest collection; 1997)	MicroPoint-based shadow (NICOGRAPH; 2012 Autumn)	Clean plate (movie) generation by Inverse Image Mosaic

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: IIGURA Koji (Japanese page)