2nd Asian Image Sensors and Imaging Systems Symposium

2nd Asian Image Sensors and Imaging Systems Symposium is to be held on December 1-2, 2014 at Tamachi Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology. The agenda is quite interesting:

Process technologies

• “Recent trend of image sensor development” (40-min) by Nobukazu Teranishi (University of Hyogo and Shizuoka University, Japan)
• “Highly sensitive image sensors using micro color splitters” (30-min) by Seiji Nishiwaki, Tatsuya Nakamura, Masa-aki Suzuki (Panasonic Corp.)
• “Wide spectral response and highly robust Si image sensor technology” (30-min) by Rihito Kuroda and Shigetoshi Sugawa (Tohoku University, Japan)

Circuit technologies

• “High speed vision chips based on multiple levels of parallel processors” (30-min) by Nanjian Wu (Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• “Column-parallel oversampled ADCs for high performance CMOS image sensors” (30-min) by Youngcheol Chae (Yonsei University, Korea)
• “Column parallel SS-ADC with TDC using multi-phase clock signals for CMOS imagers” (30-min) by Masayuki Ikebe (Hokkaido University, Japan)
• “Column-parallel cyclic ADC for CMOS imagers” (30-min) by Shoji Kawahito (Shizuoka University, Japan)

Low-power technologies

• “Ultra low voltage and low power mixed-signal circuits” (30-min) by Hiroki Ishikuro (Keio University, Japan)
• “Low power image sensor” (tentative) (30-min) by Chih-Cheng Hsieh (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

TOF depth map sensors

• “A 2-D/3-D image sensor with PPD-based lock-in pixels” (30-min) by Seong-Jin Kim (Institute of Microelectronics, A*STAR, Singapore)
• “High-resolution time-of-flight range imagers with lateral electric field modulation pixels” (30-min) by K.Yasutomi, K.Kagawa, S.Kawahito (Shizuoka University, Japan)

Imaging systems

• “Functional imaging of biological tissues based on diffuse reflectance spectroscopy with a digital RGB camera” (30-min) by Izumi Nishidate (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
• “Multi-color, stain-free medical imaging by stimulated Raman scattering microscopy” (30-min) by Yasuyuki Ozeki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Scientific image sensors

• “CCD image sensor for astronomical applications” (30-min) by Hisanori Suzuki, Masaharu Muramatsu, Yasuhito Miyazaki, and Shin'ichiro Takagi (Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.)
• “Radiation image sensor with SOI technology” (30-min) by Yasuo Arai (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan)
• “Advancement of sensor technologies and live imaging -- from a user's viewpoint” (30-min) by Yasushi Okada (RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC), Japan)

Next technology trends

• “Implantable bioimaging device based on CMOS image sensor technology” (30-min) by Takashi Tokuda, Hiroaki Takehara, Toshihiko Noda, Kiyotaka Sasagawa, and Jun Ohta (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
• “Plasmonics for sensor applications” (30-min) by Atsushi Ono, Hiroaki Satoh, and Hiroshi Inokawa (Shizuoka University, Japan)
• “Computational imaging” (30-min) by Hajime Nagahara (Kyushu University, Japan)