At the 2025 Tokai-Section Joint Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Information, and Related Engineering, Hiroki Tominari received an Encouragement Award for his presentation on data augmentation for retinal image segmentation based on ground-truth masks.
Award and Presentation
- - Encouragement Award
- - Title: Data augmentation for retinal image segmentation based on ground-truth masks
- - Awardee: Hiroki Tominari
- - Field: data augmentation for medical image segmentation
Award Overview
This summary is based on the official award announcement and submission guide published by the conference.
The Tokai-Section Joint Conference is an annual conference jointly organized by Tokai branches of societies including the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and the Information Processing Society of Japan.
The Encouragement Award recognizes outstanding young presenters. The submission guide states that eligible candidates are members aged 35 or younger on the presentation date, including those applying for membership, and that previous recipients are excluded.
Although detailed scoring criteria are not public, the award can reasonably be understood as a comprehensive evaluation of originality, technical validity, presentation clarity, and discussion. This award recognizes the value of the retinal image segmentation data-augmentation study as a young-researcher presentation.
Conference Information
- Conference dates
- September 18-19, 2025
- Venue
- Shinshu University Nagano Engineering Campus
- Award announcement
- January 23, 2026
- Certificate date
- January 20, 2026
- - Eligibility: members aged 35 or younger on the presentation date, including membership applicants
- - Application format: presenters register for award consideration at submission
- - Positioning: young-presenter recognition at a joint annual conference in the Tokai region
- - Hiroki Tominari of Chubu University appears in the public awardee list
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