On every Wednesday and Friday
mornings, Prof. Nishihara has arranged seminar sessions; all students
in his laboratory (including all Ph.D., Master degree, and 4th-year
of the Bachelor degree students) have to attend and present the progress
of their research work, in turn. Besides, Prof. Nishihara had kindly
arranged a special lecture session (22nd April, 2005) for me to present
about one of my research works in details (Digital Signal Processing
in Hearing Aids) and about research of other staffs at Digital Signal
Processing Research Laboratory (DSPRL) at Chulalongkorn University,
in brief.
One example of the research
work that has been implemented on DSK board (from Texas Instrument)
was demonstrated to me. It was about background subtraction and tracking
the target from video sequences. By having the DSK board being program,
the algorithm can operate with real-time processing. The performance
of this work was very impressive.
Furthermore, Prof. Nishihara
kindly showed me the Satellite Lecture Room for distance education provided
by the Center for Research And DeveLopment of Education Technology at
TIT (CRADLE). CRADLE has started the distance education since 2002.
Lectures in English are transmitted to two universities in Bangkok,
Thailand, based on agreement of TIT with the National Science and Technology
Development Agency (NSTDA) of Thailand, and to other high schools and
universities in Japan. The Academic Network for Distance Education by
Satellite (ANDES) system is fully equipped with high-technology instruments.