The 3rd International Workshop on Image Sensors and Imaging Systems (IWISS2016) is to be held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology on November 17-18, 2016. The agenda is quite impressive, consisting of mostly invited presentations:
- Ion implantation technology for image sensors (Prof. Nobukazu Teranishi, Dr. Genshu Fuse*, and Dr. Michiro Sugitani*, Shizuoka Univ./ Univ. of Hyogo, *Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ion Technology Co., Ltd., Japan)
- 3D-stacking architecture for low-noise high-speed image sensors (Prof. Shoji Kawahito, Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
- A Dead-time free global shutter stacked CMOS image sensor with in-pixel LOFIC and ADC using pixel-wise connections (Prof. Rihito Kuroda, Mr. Hidetake Sugo, Mr. Shunichi Wakashima, and Prof. Shigetoshi Sugawa, Tohoku Univ., Japan)
- 3D stacked image sensor featuring low noise inductive coupling channels (Prof. Masayuki Ikebe, Dr. Daisuke Uchida, Dr. Yasuhiro Take*, Prof. Tetsuya Asai, Prof. Tadahiro Kuroda*, and Prof. Masato Motomura, Hokkaido Univ., *Keio Univ., Japan)
- Low-noise CMOS image sensors towards single-photon detection (Prof. Min-Woong Seo, Prof. Keiichiro Kagawa, Prof. Keita Yasutomi, and Prof. Shoji Kawahito, Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
- Bioluminescence imaging in living animals (Prof. Takahiro Kuchimaru, Prof. Tetsuya Kadonosono, Prof. Shinae Kizaka-Kondoh, Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
- Restoration of a Poissonian-Gaussian color moving-image sequence (Prof. Takahiro Saito and Mr. Takashi Komatsu, Kanagawa Univ., Japan)
- Always-on CMOS image sensor: energy-efficient circuits and architecture (Prof. Jaehyuk Choi, Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
- Low-voltage high-dynamic-range CMOS imager with energy harvesting (Prof. Chih-Cheng Hsieh and Mr. Albert Yen-Chih Chiou, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
- Various ultra-high-speed imaging and applications by Streak camera (Mr. Koro Uchiyama, Hamamatsu Photonics K. K., Japan)
- Time-of-flight image sensors toward micrometer resolution (Prof. Keita Yasutomi and Prof. Shoji Kawahito, Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
- Toward the ultimate speed of silicon image sensors: from 4.5 kfps to Gfps and more (Prof. Goji Etoh, Osaka Univ., Japan)
- Studies on adaptive optics and application to the biological microscope (Prof. Masayuki Hattori, National Inst. for Basic Biology, Japan)
- Application of light-sheet microscopy to cell and development biology (Prof. Shigenori Nonaka, National Inst. for Basic Biology, Japan)
- Non-contact video based estimation for heart rate variability spectrogram using ambient light by extracting hemoglobin information (Prof. Norimichi Tsumura, Chiba Univ. , Japan)
- Development of ultraviolet- and visible-light one-shot spectral domain optical coherence tomography and in situ measurements of human skin (Mr. Heijiro Hirayama or Mr. Sohichiro Nakamura, FUJIFILM Corp., Japan)
- Extremely compact hyperspectral camera for drone and smartphone (Prof. Ichiro Ishimaru, Kagawa Univ., Japan)