A scientific paper entitled “Audio Signal Enhancement with Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Data” written by Dr. Nobutaka ITO and Professor Masashi SUGIYAMA of the Graduate School of Frontier Science at the University of Tokyo was selected for the “Best Paper Award” at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), one of the largest and most influential research conferences of the Signal Processing Society in the world. The paper was selected from 6127 submitted papers, of which 2765 were accepted for publication in the conference proceedings.

Dr. Ito who participated in-person in the conference, received the award at the awards ceremony held on Friday, June 9, in Rhodes, Greece from the organizing committee, represented by General Chair Dr. Petros Maragos.

Professor Sugiyama and Dr. Ito are respectively, the project sub-leader and associate researcher of the Basic research project (Advancement of Fundamental AI) titled “Automatic Learning of High Accurate Prediction Models from Limited Supervised Data” led by Professor Tatsuya HARADA (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo) in the Institute for AI and Beyond.

Dr. Ito receiving the honorable certificate from Petros Maragos General Chair

・Full paper
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10095988/authors#authors
・ICASSP2023 Official website
https://2023.ieeeicassp.org/

Professor Tatsuya HARADA of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology （RCAST）of the University of Tokyo was awarded the Science and Technology Award in the Science and Technology Promotion Category for the 2022 Commendation for Science and Technology from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) jointly with Professor Shinichi SATO of National Institute of Informatics (NII) and his research collaborators on April 20, 2022 for the contributions made by the “Medical Big-Data Cloud Platform and its application to AI automated diagnosis research”.

The "Commendation for Science and Technology from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology" is awarded to persons who have made outstanding achievements in research and development, promotion of understanding related to science and technology.

Professor Tatsuya HARADA is the Project Leader of the Basic Research (Advancement of Fundamental AI) project entitled "Automatic Learning of High Accurate Prediction Models from Limited Supervised Data" at the Institute for AI and Beyond of the University of Tokyo.

・MEXT Homepage: Selected the 2022 Commendation for Science and Technology (Awards for Science and Technology in Research Category) by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (only in Japanese).
https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/mext_00989.html
・Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (only in Japanese):
https://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/news/release/20220408.html
・National Institute of Informatics (NII) News Release
https://www.nii.ac.jp/news/release/2022/0408.html

Professor Masashi SUGIYAMA, Sub-Leader of the Basic Research (Advancement of Fundamental AI) entitled "Automatic Learning of High Accurate Prediction Models from Limited Supervised Data" (Project Leader, Professor Tatsuya HARADA), was selected for the 2022 Commendation for Science and Technology (Awards for Science and Technology in Research Category) by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
The Award Ceremony will be held on April 20 at the auditorium of the Ministry.
The "Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology" is awarded to persons who have made outstanding achievements in research and development, promotion of understanding related to science and technology.

Awarded research:
Weakly Supervised Machine Learning for Building Reliable Artificial Intelligence