Author Biographies

Ryo Ito received the B.E. degree in Information Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, in 2024. He is currently pursuing the M.E. degree with the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University. His research interests include research and development in smart agriculture.
Shutaro Konuma received the B.E. degree in Information Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, in 2025. He is currently pursuing the M.E. degree with the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University. His research interests include research and development in smart agriculture.
Tatsuya Yamazaki received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in information engineering from Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, in 1987, 1989 and 2002, respectively. He joined Communications Research Laboratory (at present, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) as a researcher in 1989.Since August 2013, he has been with the Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Niigata, where he is currently a professor. Currently, he is also the director at the Big Data Activation Research Center of Niigata University.From 1992 to 1993 and 1995 to 1996 he was a visiting researcher at the National Optics Institute, Canada. From 1997 to 2001 he was a senior researcher at ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories.His research interests include pattern recognition, statistical image processing, sensing data analysis, and communication service quality management.He served as general co-chair of IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking (KMN'02) and general chair of the 5th International Conference On SmartHomes and Health Telematics (ICOST 2007).He is a member of the IEEE, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, the Information Processing Society of Japan, the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers, and the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.
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