3rd International Workshop on Image Sensors and Imaging Systems (IWISS2016)

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)