ATR Human Information Science Laboratories (visual cognition)
Sumio YANO |
 The Human Information Science Laboratories, established in October 2001, is one group of laboratories in the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, and mainly conducts research under the guidance of the Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO). Its laboratories cooperate closely with the NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, and joint research projects are common. Their areas of study and expertise include the spoken language, visual cognition, computational neuroscience, and emergent communication mechanisms.
To achieve an information society that enriches humanity, their research aims at producing technology that can be systemized. This will enhance the knowledge base and create leading-edge technologies that will pioneer advancements in the information society. Such efforts are made feasible through the progress of studies to understand human beings. To deepen our knowledge and achieve this goal, work continues on the study of human information reception, processing, and generation mechanisms, together with attempts to engineer systems imitating such mechanisms. Research and development progresses daily, in an environment buzzing with a diversity of languages, spoken by people who come from various backgrounds and countries yet share a common passion to meet the goal.
While information technology is expected to become increasingly sophisticated, we are determined to pursue the construction of new technologies, bearing in mind our predecessors' words: "without a true understanding of human beings, there will be no fundamental technologies for an information society that is rich in humanity." |
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2003/03
