At the exhibition, Tokyo University of Technology’s media science majors and graduate students set up a joint booth between Tokyo University of Technology, Nippon Engineering College and the University of Southern California. The students’ energetic presentation and lively event attracted the attention of visitors. Prof. Richard Weinberg and four graduate students from USC also participated in the event to promote the USC School of Cinematic Arts and to report on the present state of affairs in their collaborative research with Tokyo University of Technology.

■Comment from Mr. Koji Mikami
Tokyo University of Technology has been participating in the Tokyo International Anime Fair since it’s inauguration in 2002, and as a university, we have been holding various symposiums from academic standpoints. This year, we gave a presentation on the challenges that we discovered in our test production, using a case example of accommodating the next generation high-definition image production “4K”. We would like to continue this business-academia collaboration and the tackling of new technological challenges and issues that the industry faces. We will continue to present the results at the Tokyo International Anime Fair.

■Comment from Associate Researcher Kengo Watanabe
One can argue that image media processing, or image processing, is a new brush or drawing material, or new media. The sensibility of painting by programming acquired through the development of “Yumeiro enogu (dream color paint)” is applied and embodied in the “smoothing plug-in”.