Faculty Information

Specialization and related fields

Academic background

Business career

Belonging society

Winning science prize

Official position and committee in Univ.

Book and thesis

Academic conference presentation

（Last updated : 2024-03-30 11:51:27）

NOZAWA Akio
Department Aoyama Gakuin University Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, College of Science and Engineering

Position Professor

■ Specialization and related fields

Life, health and medical informatics, Mechanics and mechatronics, Intelligent robotics, Power engineering, Soft computing, Cognitive science

■ Academic background

1.	Aoygama Gakuin University Ph.D. in Engineering

■ Business career

1.	2002/04～2006/08	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Science and Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics Research Associate
2.	2012/04～2017/03	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Science and Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics Associate Professor
3.	2017/04～	Aoyama Gakuin University College of Science and Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics Professor

■ Belonging society

1.	2003/09～	Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
2.	2010/03～	The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

■ Winning science prize

2015/01

20th ISAROB Young Author Award (Interrelation Analysis of Vehicle Operating Data and Respiration)

■ Official position and committee in Univ.

2019/04/01～2021/03/31

Aoyama Gakuin University Chair

■ Book and thesis

1.	Article	Spatial Feature Extraction for Acute Blood Pressure Fluctuations in Facial Visible Images Using Sparse Coding IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering 18(9) (Collaboration) 2023/09
2.	Article	Feature Extraction for Estimating Acute Blood Glucose Level Variation from Multi-wavelength Facial Images IEEE Sensors Journal (Collaboration) 2023/07
3.	Article	Hemodynamic Estimation Using Sparse Modeling for Facial Thermal Images IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems 142(2),pp.172-177 (Collaboration) 2023/02
4.	Article	Optimization of Facial Skin Temperature-Based Anomaly Detection Considering Diurnal Variation Artificial Life and Robotics 28,pp.394-402 (Collaboration) 2023/01
5.	Article	Attempt to extract features and classify subjective poor physical conditions in facial images using deep metric learning Artificial Life and Robotics 28(2),pp.381-387 (Collaboration) 2022/12
6.	Article	Feature analysis for drowsiness detection based on facial skin temperature using variational autoencoder : a preliminary study Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal (Collaboration) 2022/11
7.	Article	Classification of stress coping styles based on time series correlation of face area temperature IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering 17(9),pp.1367-1369 (Collaboration) 2022/09
8.	Article	Laparoscopic surgical skill evaluation with motion capture and eyeglass gaze cameras: A pilot study Asian Journal of Endoscopic Surgery 15(3),pp.619-628 (Collaboration) 2022/07
9.	Article	Evaluation of the effects of food intake on task engagement based on psychophysiological states Artificial Life and Robotics 27(1),pp.123-129 (Collaboration) 2022/02
10.	Article	Relationship Between Long-Term Variability of Facial Hue Information in Physiological and Psychological ROIs and Health Condition IEEE Access 9,pp.145554-145562 (Collaboration) 2021/11
11.	Article	Remote Blood Pressure Sensing Using Near-Infrared Wideband LEDs IEEE Sensors Journal 21(21),pp.24327-24337 (Collaboration) 2021/11
12.	Article	Estimation of resting blood pressure using facial thermal images by separating acute stress variations Artificial Life and Robotics (Collaboration) 2021/10
13.	Article	Evaluation of the effects of food intake on task engagement based on psychophysiological states Artificial Life and Robotics (Collaboration) 2021/10
14.	Article	Spatial normalization of facial thermal images using facial landmarks Artificial Life and Robotics (Collaboration) 2021/10
15.	Article	Years of experience is more effective in defining experts in the gaze analysis of laparoscopic suturing task than task duration Applied Ergonomics 96,pp.103474 (Collaboration) 2021/10
16.	Article	An attempt to construct the individual model of daily facial skin temperature using variational autoencoder Artificial Life and Robotics (Collaboration) 2021/09
17.	Article	Effects of the Flow State on Nasal Skin Temperature during Occupational Tasks IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering 16(4),pp.650-652 (Collaboration) 2021/04
18.	Article	Anomaly detection in facial skin temperature using variational autoencoder Artificial Life and Robotics 26(1),pp.122-128 (Collaboration) 2021/02
19.	Article	Face Alignment in Thermal Infrared Images Using Cascaded Shape Regression International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(4),pp.1776 (Collaboration) 2021/02
20.	Article	Attempt to Prevent Drowsiness by Heat Dissipation Control IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering 15(8),pp.1244-1245 (Collaboration) 2020/07
21.	Article	Improving the Accuracy of Noncontact Blood Pressure Sensing Using Near-Infrared Light IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems 140(7),pp.769-774 (Collaboration) 2020/07
22.	Article	Drowsiness Estimation Model Based on Hemodynamics IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems Vol. 140(No. 3),pp.409-410 (Collaboration) 2020/03
23.	Article	Electric Circuit Model and Thermo-Hue Hemodynamic Analysis for Non-Contact Blood Pressure Measurement IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering Vol. 140(No 1),pp.122-123 (Collaboration) 2020/01
24.	Article	Relationship between mechanisms of blood pressure change and facial skin temperature distribution Artificial Life and Robotics Vol. 25(No. 1),pp.48-58 (Collaboration) 2020/01
25.	Article	Construction of an individual model for estimating blood pressure using independent components of facial skin temperature considering time variation Journal of Information and Communication Engineering Vol. 5(Issue 1),pp.264-267 (Collaboration) 2019/12
26.	Article	Effects of Daily Life Behavior with a Secondary Task on Performance and Psychophysiological States Journal of Information and Communication Engineering Vol. 5(Issue 1),pp.275-279 (Collaboration) 2019/12
27.	Article	Model for Non-contact Blood Pressure Measurement Using the Facial Feature Amount based on Amplitude and Phase Analysis Journal of Information and Communication Engineering Vol. 5(Issue 1),pp.260-263 (Collaboration) 2019/12
28.	Article	Feature Extraction of Blood Pressure from Facial Skin Temperature Distribution Using Deep Learning IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems Vol. 139(No. 7),pp.759-765 (Collaboration) 2019/07
29.	Article	Drowsiness level modeling based on facial skin temperature distribution using a convolutional neural network IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering Vol. 14(No. 16),pp.870-876 (Collaboration) 2019/03
30.	Article	Image Segmentation-Based Face Tracking on Thermal Images for Automatic Estimation of Psychophysiological States Using Facial Skin Temperature Distribution Journal of Bioinformatics and Neuroscience Vol. 4(Issue 1),pp.142-146 (Collaboration) 2018/12
31.	Article	Statistics Causality Analysis of Emotions Evoked by Self-Feedback and Facial Features Based on Feature Maps Journal of Advanced Control, Automation and Robotics Vol.4(Issue 2),pp.156-159 (Collaboration) 2018/12
32.	Article	Psychological and physiological responses to airflow stimuli: Differences in responses based on sex and targeted body site International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 68(2018),pp.176-185 (Collaboration) 2018/11
33.	Article	Contactless blood pressure sensing using facial visible and thermal images Artificial Life and Robotics Vol. 23(Issue 3),pp.387-394 (Collaboration) 2018/09
34.	Article	Quantitative Evaluation of Attention to the Driving Environment During Automated Driving at Levels 3 using ERP: Evaluation of Psychophysiological State of Driver IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems Vol. 138(No. 9),pp.1148-1153 (Collaboration) 2018/09
35.	Article	Contactless Blood Pressure Assessment by Facial Visible Image Analysis IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems Vol. 138(No. 7),pp.783-789 (Collaboration) 2018/07
36.	Article	Emotional Arousal by Feedback for Selfies: A Pilot Study IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems 138(7),pp.805-811 (Collaboration) 2018/07
37.	Article	Evaluation of Variations in Autonomic Nervous System's Activity During the Day Based on Facial Thermal Images Using Independent Component Analysis IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems Vol. 138(No. 7),pp.812-821 (Collaboration) 2018/07
38.	Article	Blind source extraction of long‐term physiological signals from facial thermal images Artificial Life and Robotics Vol. 23(Issue 1),pp.218-224 (Collaboration) 2018/01
39.	Article	The attempt of swallowing discrimination by heart rate variability using machine learning IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering Vol. 12(No. S2),pp.S137-S138 (Collaboration) 2017/12
40.	Article	Enhancing cardiac parasympathetic nervous activity using a posture respiration ambient biofeedback system: a pilot study Artificial Life and Robotics (Collaboration) 2017/09
41.	Article	Evaluation of dynamics of forehead skin temperature under induced drowsiness IEEJ Trans Elec Electron Eng 12(S1),pp.104-109 (Collaboration) 2017/06
42.	Article	Measurement of psychophysical quantities of air-flow stimulus IEEJ Trans Elec Electron Eng 12(S1),pp.183-184 (Collaboration) 2017/06
43.	Article	Psychophysiological assessment of an adaptive asynchronous human–machine system with the dual-task method Artificial Life and Robotics 22(2),pp.238-246 (Collaboration) 2017/03
44.	Article	Comparison of Cool and Warm Thermal Stimulations to Reduce Driver's Drowsiness IEEJ Transaction on Electronics, Information and Systems pp.xxx-xxx (Collaboration) 2016/12
45.	Article	Blind Signal Processing of Facial Thermal Images based on Independent Component Analysis IEEJ Transaction on Electronics, Information and Systems pp.1142-1148 (Collaboration) 2016/08
46.	Article	Physiological and psychological evaluations in low- and high-frequency noise using near-infrared spectroscopy Artificial Life and Robotics, Springer pp.5-10 (Collaboration) 2016/03
47.	Article	Objective Evaluation of Subjective Complexity by Change in Oxygenated Hemoglobin Concentration and Hemodynamics IEEJ Transaction on Electronics, Information and Systems (Collaboration) 2015/12
48.	Article	Driver's drowsiness inhibition by subcutaneous stimulation based on SNS activity Artificial Life and Robotics, Springer pp.341-346 (Collaboration) 2015/11
49.	Article	Psychophysiological assessment of the adaptive asynchronous human-machine system on the operation period discrimination characteristic IEEJ Transaction on Electronics, Information and Systems (Collaboration) 2015/11
50.	Article	Causal analysis between vehicle operating data and physiological responses Artificial Life and Robotics, Springer pp.299-304 (Collaboration) 2015/10
51.	Article	Analysis of physiological effect of reading books by paper and electronic medium IEEJ Transaction on Electronics, Information and Systems pp.520-525 (Collaboration) 2015/05
52.	Article	Detection of driver inattention from fluctuations in vehicle operating data Artificial Life and Robotics, Springer pp.28-33 (Collaboration) 2015/01
53.	Article	Estimation of mode of viewing TV and preference of TV contents by autonomic nervous system index IEEJ Transaction on Electronics, Information and Systems (Collaboration) 2014/10
54.	Article	Measurement of Autonomic Nervous System Activity on Photographing IEEJ Transaction on Electronics, Information and Systems (Collaboration) 2014/10
55.	Article	Analysis of the Mode of Viewing TV Based on the Stress Coping Style IEEJ Transaction on Electronics, Infomation and Systems pp.205-211 (Collaboration) 2014/02
56.	Article	Evaluation of Mental Workload on Repetitive Handwriting Process pp.878-885 (Collaboration) 2012/10
57.	Article	Comparative Discussion on Psychophysiological Effect of Self-administered Facial Massage by Treatment Method IEEJ Trans. EIS pp.706-712 (Collaboration) 2012/05
58.	Article	Instrumentation of KANSEI with Thermography pp.15-19 (Single) 2012/04
59.	Article	Examination about Detection of Deep Kansei using Oxygenated Hemoglobin Concentration pp.349-355 (Collaboration) 2012/02
60.	Article	Analysis of speech signal based on frequency distribution and intonation 『Artificial Life and Robotics』(Springer) (Collaboration) 2011/10
61.	Article	Dynamic analysis of dorsal thermal image 『Artificial Life and Robotics』(Springer) (Collaboration) 2011/10
62.	Article	Physiological effect of frequency of illumination in visual search task IEEJ Trans. EIS(電気学会) (Collaboration) 2011/07
63.	Article	Emotion spectrum analysis for a daily repetitive mental workload 『Artificial Life and Robotics』(Springer) pp.316-319 (Collaboration) 2010/10
64.	Article	Characteristics of Salivary Chromogranin A as a Short-term Mental Stress Biomarker Japan Society of Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering(日本生体医工学会) (Collaboration) 2010/04
65.	Article	Evaluation of the Effect of Intermittent Mental Work-load by Nasal Skin Temperature IEICE TRANSACTIONS of Information and Systems(電子情報通信学会) pp.535-543 (Collaboration) 2010/04
66.	Article	Presumption of Transient Awakening of Driver by Facial Skin Temperature IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems(電気学会) pp.428-432 (Collaboration) 2010/03
67.	Article	Serial Assessment of Physiological Evaluation Indices for Repetitive Mental Workload IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems(電気学会) pp.407-413 (Collaboration) 2010/03
68.	Article	Investigation of Evaluation for Sound Reproduction by Oxygenated Hemoglobin Concentration Change in Frontal Lobe - Persuit to the Objective Evaluation Index of Deep Kansei - Transaction of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering(日本感性工学会) pp.323-328 (Collaboration) 2010/02
69.	Article	Evaluation of Spoken Language Understanding by Oxygenated Hemoglobin Concentration 『Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics』(Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers) pp.3-9 (Collaboration) 2010/01
70.	Article	Autonomous Reconfiguration of Robot shape by Using Q-learning 『Artificial Life and Robotics』(Springer Japan) pp.213-218 (Collaboration) 2009/12
71.	Article	Man-machine Interface for Modular Robot System 『Artificial Life and Robotics』(Springer Japan) pp.209-212 (Collaboration) 2009/12
72.	Article	Comparison between amount of Gustatory Sense and Nasal Skin Temperature 『Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics』(Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers) pp.81-86 (Collaboration) 2009/01
73.	Article	Correlation analysis on alpha attenuation and nasal skin temperature 『Journal of Statistical Mechanics : Theory and Experiment』(Institute of Physics Publishing) P01007 (Collaboration) 2009/01
74.	Article	Detection of Fight or Flight Reaction on Facial Skin Thermogram using Spatio-Temporal Spectrum Differential Analysis 電気学会論文誌A(IEEJ) pp.470-477 (Collaboration) 2006/06
75.	Article	Estimation of Frequency Differential Limen to Modulated Vibratory Stimuli 電気学会論文誌A(IEEJ) pp.464-469 (Collaboration) 2006/06
76.	Article	The Single-trial Analysis of P300 and the Difference threshold of Modulated Vibration 電気学会論文誌A(IEEJ) pp.478-483 (Collaboration) 2006/06
77.	Article	Identification and States Estimation of Walker by Walking Image of Front View 『Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics』(The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers ) pp.59-66 (Collaboration) 2006/01
78.	Article	Characteristics of Behavior of Robots with Emotional Model pp.32-38 (Collaboration) 2005/08
79.	Article	Study of Individual Feature Extraction from Range Data of Human Nose 『Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics』(The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers ) pp.451-457 (Collaboration) 2003/09
80.	Article	Quantitative Evaluation of the Tactile Sense by ERP 『Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics』(The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers ) pp.33-38 (Collaboration) 2003/01
81.	Article	Quantitative Evaluation by ERP for Vibration Discrimination 『Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics』(The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers ) pp.313-317 (Collaboration) 2002/03
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■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2022/01/25	An optimization of anomaly detection algorithms considering diurnal variation in facial skin temperature using VAE (27th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 27th 2022))
2.	2022/01/25	Evaluation of the Effect of Environmental Temperature Variations on the Spatial Distribution of Facial Skin Temperature (27th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 27th 2022))
3.	2022/01/25	Physical Deconditioning Detection with the Spatial Distribution of Temperature and Color in the Face using Triplet Loss Function (27th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 27th 2022))
4.	2021/11/27	An attempt to construct a general model for resting blood pressure estimation using independent components of facial thermal images (International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences (ICIIBMS 2021))
5.	2021/11/27	Causal structure analysis of physiological and psychological states on task engagement (International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences (ICIIBMS 2021))
6.	2021/09/17	Evaluation of model performance for estimating resting blood pressure using independent components of facial thermal images (IEEE 19th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics)
7.	2021/07/20	Physiological evaluation for task engagement regarding fatigue and refreshment (The 32nd International Congress of Psychology)
8.	2021/01/21	An attempt at spatial normalization of facial thermal images based on facial feature points (The 26th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics)
9.	2021/01/21	Separation of circadian and acute-stress blood pressure variations on facial skin temperature distribution (The 26th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics)
10.	2021/01/21	The effects of the jellied nutritional supplement intake on physiological and psychological states and behaviour: An exploratory study (The 26th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics)
11.	2021/01/21	Threshold Selection Methods for Anomaly Detection of Facial Skin Temperature Using Variational Autoencorder (The 26th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics)
12.	2020/09/21	Feature extraction for drowsiness detection using facial skin temperature distribution (15th Quantitative InfraRed Thermography conference 2020)
13.	2020/01/24	Construction of a general model for estimating blood pressure using independent components of facial skin temperature in consideration of the mechanism of variation (IEEE 18th World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics)
14.	2020/01/23	Anomaly Detection in Thermal Face Images for Health Management (The 25th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2020)
15.	2020/01/23	Derivation of Probability Distributions on Long-term Facial Infrared Images (The 25th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2020)
16.	2019/11/23	Construction of Model for Estimating Blood Pressure Using Independent Components of Facial Skin Temperature Considering Time Variation (International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences)
17.	2019/11/23	Influence of Daily Life Behavior with Listening to Music on Stress Structure (International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences)
18.	2019/11/23	Model for non-contact Blood Pressure Measurement based on the Facial Feature Amount of Amplitude and Phase Analysis (International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences)
19.	2019/01/24	Analysis of relationships between mechanism of variations in blood pressure and facial skin temperature distribution (The Twenty-Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2019)
20.	2019/01/24	Estimation of stress structure on daily life behavior using psychophysiological information (The Twenty-Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2019)
21.	2019/01/19	Evaluation of master-slave manipulator to operate from the first-person point of view (The Twenty-Second International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2017)
22.	2018/10/22	Causality analysis between emotions evoked by self-feedback and facial feature amounts (International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences)
23.	2018/10/22	Face tracking based on temperature distribution of thermal images for real-time psychophysiological states evaluation using facial skin temperature (International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and BioMedical Sciences)
24.	2018/05/31	Influence of Different Characteristics of Air Flow on a Person’ s Sense Evaluation (ISASE-MAICS 2018)
25.	2018/03/28	副次課題を伴う家事行動のストレス構造分析 (2018年日本感性工学会春季大会)
26.	2018/01/18	A Contactless Blood Pressure Sensing Using Facial Thermal and Visible Images (The Twenty-Third International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2018)
27.	2018/01/18	Classification of hemodynamic response to verbal task: effect of task difficulty and task complexity (The Twenty-Third International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2018)
28.	2018/01/18	Extraction of Brain Wave Features for Cyclist Based on DAE (The Twenty-Third International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2018)
29.	2017/01/19	An enhancement of cardiac parasympathetic nervous activity by posture-respiration ambient biofeedback system - a pilot study (The Twenty-Second International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2017)
30.	2017/01/19	Blind source extraction of long-term physiological signals from facial thermal images (The Twenty-Second International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics 2017)
31.	2016/07/27	Verification of the generality in the process of 'encouragement' (31st International Conference of Psychology)
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