Publications

Books

ITS System Papers

Machine Vision Papers

Hardware Papers

Books

1.   “Handbook of Intelligent Transportation,” Electrical and Electronic Engineering Series, Ichiro Masaki, Academic Press, Jan.2004, ISBN: 0124766404.  

2.   “Vision-based Vehicle Guidance,” Perception Engineering Series, Ichiro Masaki, Springer-Verlag, May 1992, ISBN: 0387975535.

3.   "LISP," Winston, P.H. & B.K.P. Horn, 
Cover art © Karen A. Prendergast.

Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1981. Second ed. 1984. Third ed. 1989. ISBN 0-201-08319-1

Japanese translation, Baifukan Co. Ltd. (of first ed.) 1981, (of third ed.) 1991, ISBN 4-563-01464-8

German translation (of second ed.), Addison-Wesley, 1987, ISBN 3-925118-61-6

Spanish translation (of third ed.) Addison-Wesley Iberoamericana, Tercera edición, 1991. ISBN 0-201-62937-2

4.   Robot Vision, Horn, B.K.P. 
Cover art © Hajime Sorayama

MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1986 ISBN 0-262-08159-8, and

McGraw-Hill, New York, 1986 ISBN 0-07-030349-5

Russian Translation MIR 1989, ISBN 5-03-000570-6

Japanese Translation NTT RVT 1993, ISBN 4-254-20062-5

RoVis errata in Acrobat PDF (*) form (156 k). in TeX DVI form (16 k).

 5.   Shape from Shading, Horn, B.K.P & M.J. Brooks (eds.). 

Cover art © Bradford Washburn

MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1989 ISBN 0-262-08183-0

 

 

ITS System Papers

ITS Development & Future (14)

1.    "Intelligent Transportation Systems and Police Activities" (Japanese), Ichiro Masaki, Policies for Police Activities, to be published 

2.        “Intelligent Transportation Systems – Challenges and Opportunities.” Yajun Fang, Yoshiki Ninomiya, Ichiro Masaki, Invited Paper, the 2nd International Symposium on Multimedia Mediation Systems, 2002 (pp.72-77).

3.    "Intelligent Transportation Systems in Europe", (Interview article), Ichiro Masaki, VERTIS News, Vehicle, Road and Traffic Intelligence Society, No.2, 2000

4.    "Intelligent Transportation Research Center at MIT's MTL" (Japanese), Ichiro Masaki, Systems, Control, and Information Journal, Vol.44, No.8, pp.48-49, August, 2000

5.    "Intelligent Transportation Systems for the 21st Century", Ichiro Masaki, Technical Journal of Mitsubishi Electric, Vol.73, No.10, pp.687, October 1999

6.    "Intelligent Transportation Systems" (Japanese), Ichiro Masaki, Seminar in Electronics Show, October, 1999

7.    "Intelligent Transportation Systems" (Japanese), Ichiro Masaki, Journal of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Vol.51, No.7, pp.18-21, July, 1999

8.    "Communication Systems for Intelligent Transportation Systems" (Japanese), Ichiro Masaki, Design Conference, Nikkei Electronics, May 1999 

9.    "Intelligent Transportation Systems in the US", (Interview article), Ichiro Masaki, VERTIS News, Vehicle, Road and Traffic Intelligence Society, April, 1999

10. "Intelligent Transportation Systems" (Japanese), Ichiro Masaki, Omron Technics magazine, Vol.38, No.4, pp.375-377, 1998

11.  Editor, "MIT Intelligent Vehicle Research", MIT, 1997

12.  "System Design for Intelligent Transportation Systems", Ichiro Masaki, 1996 IEEE Intelligent   Vehicles Symposium, pp.213-216, September, 1996

13.   "Fuzzy and Neural Control for Automobiles", Ichiro Masaki, invited paper for Second IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and 1993 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, March 1993

14. "Fuzzy Logic Technology & the Intelligent Highway System (IHS)", Ichiro Masaki, Fuzzy Logic Technology and Applications I, IEEE Press,1993

ITS Efficiency Improvement (5)

1.      “Evaluation of Auction and Bidding Algorithms for Resolving Network Resource Competition." Ichiro Mizunuma, Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2001 (IV2001, pp.449-454)

2.     “Multi-authority virtual network for intelligent transportation systems." Ichiro Mizunuma, Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (IV2000, pp.430-435)

3.     “Recognition of 3D Compressed Images and Its Traffic Monitoring Applications." Nicole Love, Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (IV2000, pp.463-467)

4.   "System Design for Intelligent Railway Systems", Demir, R., Ichiro Masaki, Crawley, E.F., IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp.218-223, November 1997

5.   "Fuzzy and Neural Systems, and Vehicle Applications", Ichiro Masaki, Conference on Science of Artificial Neural Networks, SPIE, pp. 686-701, April 1992

 

Machine Vision Papers

Sensor-fusion-based Obstacle Detection (9)

1.       “A Shape-Independent-Method for Pedestrian Detection with Far Infrared-images.” Yajun Fang, Keiichi Yamada, Yoshiki Ninomiya, Berthold Horn, Ichiro Masaki, Special Issue on "In-Vehicle Computer Vision Systems" of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.53, No.6, Nov. 2004 (pp.1679-1697).

2.        “Comparison between Infrared-image-based and Visible-image-based Approaches for Pedestrian Detection.” Yajun Fang, Keiichi Yamada, Yoshiki Ninomiya, Berthold Horn, Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2003 (IV2003, pp.505-510).   

3.        “Preceding vehicle recognition based on learning from sample images.” Takeo Kato, Yoshiki Ninomiya, Ichiro Masaki,  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol.3, No.4, Dec. 2002, pp.252-260.

4.        “Depth-Based Target Segmentation for Intelligent Vehicles: Fusion of Radar and Binocular Stereo.” Yajun Fang, Ichiro Masaki, Berthold Horn, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol.3, No.3, Sept. 2002, pp.196 –202.

5.  "An Obstacle Detection Method by Fusion of Radar and Motion Stereo." Takeo Kato, Yoshiki Ninomiya, Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol.3, No.3, Sep. 2002, pp.182-188.

6.        “Distance/Motion Based Segmentation under Heavy Background Noise.” Yajun Fang, Ichiro Masaki, Berthold Horn, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2002 (IV2002, pp.483-488). 

7.        “Distance Range Based Segmentation in Intelligent Transportation Systems: Fusion of Radar and Binocular Stereo.” Yajun Fang, Ichiro Masaki, Berthold Horn, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2001 (IV2001, pp.171-176).

8.    “An Obstacle Detection Method by Fusion of Radar and Motion Stereo.” Takeo Kato, Yoshiki Ninomiya, Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2001 (IV2001, pp.37-42).

9. “Three-Camera Stereo Vision for Intelligent Transportation Systems.” Nicole Love, Ichiro Masaki, SPIE’s Photonic East ’96 Symposium, November, 1996

General Vision Application in ITS (9)

1.     “Time to Contact Relative to a Planar Surface.” Berthold Horn, Yajun Fang, Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2007 (IV2007).

2.   “Application of the discrete Haar wavelet transform to image fusion for nighttime driving." W.F.Herrington, Berthold Horn, Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2005 (IV2005, pp.273-277)   

3.   "Machine-Vision Systems for Intelligent Transportation Systems", Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Intelligent Systems & Their Applications magazine, pp.24-31, November/December, 1998  

4.   "A Sub-Pixel Stereo Vision for Cost-Effective Intelligent Vehicle Applications", Kaminski, L., Allen, J., Ichiro Masaki, Lemus, G.,   IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 95, pp.7-12, September, 1995

5.   "Vehicle-Based Vision Sensors for Intelligent Highway Systems", Ichiro Masaki, Technologies for Intelligent Vehicle Highways, Boston, pp.156-174, SPIE, November 1994 

6.   "ASIC Approaches for Vision-based Vehicle Guidance", Ichiro Masaki, Special Issue on Automotive Electronics, Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, December 1993   

7.   "Three Dimensional Vision Systems for Intelligent Vehicles", Ichiro Masaki, IEEE IECON Conference, November 1993, Hawaii 

8.   "Vision-based Vehicle Guidance", Ichiro Masaki, International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, Instrumentation, and Automation, IEEE, pp.862-867, November 1992

9.   "Predictive Multiple Sampling Algorithm with Overlapping Integration Intervals for Linear Wide Dynamic Range Integrating Image Sensor2", Acosta-Serafini, P.M., Ichiro Masaki, Sodini, C.G., submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 

Vision Application in Robotics (11)

1.   "Function-Oriented Vision Chips for Factory Automation", Ichiro Masaki, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, Instrumentation, and Automation, pp.801-806, November 1992

2. "SpectraSight: Real-Time Multi-Spectrum Visual Processor", Ichiro Masaki, 1988 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.1554-1559, 1988

3.    "Modular Multi-Resolution Vision Processor", Ichiro Masaki, 1986 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.454-459, 1986

4.   "SEAMSIGHT: A Pipelined Vision System for Seam Tracking", Ichiro Masaki, IEEE 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Montreal, pp. 424-427, 1984

5.    "Arc Welding Robot Visually Tracks Its Way Along Seam", Ichiro Masaki, Gorman, R.R., Shulman, B.H., Dunne, M.J., Toda, H., Welding and Metal Fabrication magazine, pp.17-19, January/February, 1982 

5.   "Arc Welding Robot with Vision", Ichiro Masaki, Gorman, R.R., Shulman, B.H., Eleventh International Symposium on Industrial Robots, Tokyo, pp.813-820, October 1981

6.   "Arc Welding Robot with Visual Seam Tracking Function", Ichiro Masaki, K.H.I. Technical Review, pp.117-122, August 1981

7.   "How Vision is Helping Unika Take the Correct Welding Path", Ichiro Masaki, Gorman, R.R., Jordan, D.C., Sensor Review, Vol.1, No.2, pp.89-92, April 1981

8.   "Kawasaki Vision System", Toda, H., Ichiro Masaki, Proceedings of 10th International Symposium on Industrial Robots and 5th International Conference on Industrial Robot Technology, Milan, pp.163-175, March 1980

9.   "Welding Robot with Visual Seam Tracking: Unika-80A", Ichiro Masaki, Gorman, R.R., Jordan, D.C., Lindbom, T.H., Dunne, M.J., Toda, H., International Conference on Developments in Mechanized, Automated and Robotic Welding, London, The Welding Institute, pp.12/1-12/8, November 1980

10.  "A Computer-Aided Robot Operation Systems Design", Hasegawa, Y., Ichiro Masaki, Iwasawa, M., Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Industrial Robots, Chicago, pp.203-213, September 1975

11.  "Arms of the WABOT (Waseda Automatic Manipulator 4) - Human Type Bilateral Arm -(Japanese), Kato, I., Ichiro Masaki, Ishida, T., Osako, S., Mizukawa, M., Bulletin of Science and Engineering Research Laboratory, No.62, p.19-30, Waseda University, 1973

  Selected Vision Papers from Prof. Berthold Horn

Other General Vision (4)

1.   "Research Trends in Vision Systems", Ichiro Masaki, International Hi-Tech Forum, pp. 8-13, 1992

2.   "Industrial Vision Systems Based on Application-Specific IC Chips", Ichiro Masaki, Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, Vol. E 74, No. 6, pp. 1728-1734, June 1991

3.   "Vision Processors Based on Application Specific Hardware Modules", Ichiro Masaki, IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.279-284, Oct 1988

4.   "Development of a Computer Dedicated to Visual Recognition (Japanese)", Ichiro Masaki, Industrial Robots and Application Systems, pp.111-117, No.49, 1985, Japan Industrial Robot Association

 

 

Hardware Papers

ITS Device (5)

1.   "Digital Sensor Network: Communication Network for Sensing Systems", Kumazawa, M., Ichiro Masaki, 7th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, November, 2000

2.      “TV Camera-based Vehicle Motion Detection and its Chip Implementation." Yajun Fang, Marcelo Mizuki, Ichiro Masaki, Berthold Horn, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (IV2000, pp.0, pp.0, pp.134-139)

3.   "Digital Sensor Network: Communication Network for Sensing Systems (Japanese)", Kumazawa, M., Ichiro Masaki, Industrial Application Conference, pp.367-368, Institute of Electrical Engineers-Japan, August, 2000

4.    “Smart Sensors and Transportation Systems”, Ichiro Masaki, Fourth Symposium on Sensing Via Image Information, (Invited), June 1998

5.   "Massively Parallel Image Processing Systems for Intelligent Transportation System Applications", Talib, Z.A., Love, N.S., Gealow, J.C., Hall, G., Ichiro Masaki, Sodini, C.G., IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp.367-372, November 1997 

Hardware Design for Vision & Image Process (8)

1.   "A Mixed-Signal Array Processor with Early Vision Applications", Martin, D.A., Lee, H.-S. Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol.33, No.3, pp.497-502, March 1998 

2.  "A Mixed-Signal Array Processor with Its Applications", Martin, D.A., Lee, H.-S., Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp.894-899, November 1997

3.   "A Mixed-Signal Array Processor with Early Vision Applications", Martin, D.A., Lee, H.-S., Ichiro Masaki, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1997

4.   "Desktop Programmable Pixel-Parallel Accelerator for High Speed Image Processing", Love, N.S., Talib, Z.A., Ichiro Masaki, Sodini, C.G., DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, pp.1379-1383, May 1997

5.     “A Binary Block Matching Architecture with Reduced Power Consumption and Silicon Area Requirement." Marcelo Mizuki, Ichiro Masaki, Berthold Horn, IEEE Intertational Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May, 1996, pp.3249-3252.

6.   "New Architecture Paradigms for Analog VLSI Chips", Ichiro Masaki, Wyatt, J. L., Sodini, C.G., Lee, H.-S., Horn, B.K.P., Vision Chips: Implementing Vision Algorithms with Analog VLSI Circuits, IEEE Computer Press, 1995

7.   "Function-Oriented Chip Approach for Real-Time Vision", Ichiro Masaki, IEEE IECON Conference, November 1993, Hawaii

8.   "Parallel/Pipelined Processor Dedicated to Visual Recognition", Ichiro Masaki, 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.100-107, 1985