Associate Professor Akira Kubota of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering) has been awarded Engineers Essay Prize and the Essay Peer Review Distinction Prize by the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers.

The Essay Prize is awarded to selected outstanding works that have been published in the Institute's journal.

Winning essay:Virtual Bokeh Reconstruction from a Single System of Lenses, Kazuya Kodama (National Institute of Informatics), Akira Kubota (Chuo University)

The Essay Peer Review Distinction Prize is to people recognized for their number of essays reviewed and speed of reviewing.

• [Link]Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
• [Link]Signal and Image Processing Lab (Kubota Lab)