Kazunori Kotani

Kazunori Kotani received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and electronic systems engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information science and control engineering from the Nagaoka University of Technology, in 1981, 1983, and 1990, respectively. From 1983 to 1989, he was at the Consumer Products Research Center, Hitachi Ltd. He was a Research Associate at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, from 1990 to 1991. He is currently a Professor with the School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). His research interests include computer vision, facial image analysis, and CG. Prof. Kotani is a member of ITE and J-FACE.