8th Salon of Excellence was held.
Reported by:
Shun Muramatsu, a first-year master’s student, Itoh lab
Introduction
WINGS-PES students take turns facilitating the WINGS-PES Salon including introducing our labs to participants from other research fields. For the 8th WINGS-PES Salon on February 14, 2020, I introduced Itoh lab and my research.
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Itoh lab introduction
This time, I utilized a poster session style in order to deepen the understanding of my lab’s research because poster presentations can foster more frank and interactive discussions with participants from research fields which may be completely different from mine. Itoh lab is researching and developing sensing technology for the environment surrounding all people based on the concept of “spreading N/MEMS (Nano/Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) and watching the human environment”. There are two major research themes: “Sensors/IoT devices”, from the creation of sensing devices to data acquisition and analysis, and “Electronic textiles”, in which sensors and components are mounted in fibers or cloth. Seven posters were prepared from the following themes, and the students in my lab conducted the poster session.
My research introduction
My research theme is non-contact heart sounds measurement using microphones. I am trying to measure heart sounds utilizing a device such as a smart speaker. I think that being able to monitor someone’s health condition 24 hours a day by simply placing the device in a room has incredible
potential. However, it is difficult to measure faint sounds such as heart sounds by remote microphones, and it is necessary to remove a wide variety of noises ranging from electrical noises to environmental sounds. Currently, I am trying to use sound source separation technology such as independent component analysis for a noise removal method.