Cooperative Research Workshop
Imaging Devices and Digital Imaging of Semantic Surfaces in Active
Knowledge Management
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
The University of Aizu, Japan
Shizuoka University, Japan
Time: 12:00~ on November 15th (Fri), 2013
Place: Research Institute of Electronics (Meeting Room, 2nd Floor of RIE)
Opening
Kamen Kanev, Graduate School of Informatics, Shizuoka University, Japan
Cooperative Research Projects at RIE: Greeting Address
Professor Hidenori Mimura, Director of the Research Institute of Electronics,
Shizuoka University, JapanA Model for Interaction through Augmented Surfaces
Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Paolo Bottoni is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests
are in the area of interactive computing, and include: model-based definition of pictorial and visual languages, visualsimulation, formal models of visual interactive computing, multimedia applications for creative processes and fruitionof cultural heritage. On these topics, he has published 160 scientific papers in international journals, contributedvolumes and conference proceedings. He participated as partner, responsible or consultant in many international EC
projects and national projects. He has been in the program committee and reviewer of several conferences andinternational journals, program chair of several workshops and guest editor of special issues of international journals.

We propose a notion of interaction via augmented surfaces in the context of a resource-based
approach to interaction, where events generated in the environments are particular types of resources
triggering response behaviours in an interactive system. Events can be generated at the interface
between any physical object and its environment, i.e. at its surface. In this view the notion of surface
is relative to the energy that the interacting peripherals can release on the surface. A general notionof augmented surface, i.e. one functioning not only as separation with the environment but also as
support for interaction events, is therefore provided. A UML profile is derived from this notion, bywhich to characterise entities involved in interaction with such surface. In particular, we consider aform of augmentation represented by the encoding of specific information, i.e. of some semantics,
relative to an object onto its surface, and the consequent activation of computational action when thesurface is decoded. Encoding and decoding occur through suitable imaging devices. A softwarearchitecture is provided for the development of applications based on semantically augmentedsurface, exploiting stereotypes from the proposed profile. We illustrate the kind of applications to
be developed by considering the integration of a system for reading encoded printed surfaces andintegrating semantics annotations on them.

Laser Marking, Encoding, and Imaging for Semantic Surfaces
Volodymyr Gnatyuk, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
Volodymyr Gnatyuk is a senior scientist at V.E. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the NAS ofUkraine (ISP-NASU), Kyiv, Ukraine and he is Honorable Guest Professor of Shizuoka University, Japan. He
received his M.S. in theoretical physics from Kharkiv State University in 1985, Ph.D. in semiconductor and dielectric
physics from ISP-NASU and Assoc. Prof. Degree from Poltava State Pedagogical University (all in Ukraine). He has
experience in the fields of semiconductor physics; optics, photoelectronics and sensors. His current research interests
are in the area of interaction of pulsed laser radiation with solids and include: (i) processing of II-VI and III-Vsemiconductors with nanosecond laser pulses; (ii) laser-induced doping and development of Cd(Zn)Te-based diodes
for X/gamma-ray detectors; (iii) volumetric laser marking, image formation and digital encoding in transparent

materials. He has been a reviewer of international journals and participated in many international and nationalprojects as a researcher or a partner. He is the (co)author of over 120 articles in journals and proceedings, and about
200 conference abstracts and reports.

Various laser-assisted technological approaches and methods suitable for optical recording of digitalinformation by creation of micromarks (data bits, pixels, and other information carriers) in the bulkof materials, transparent for a selected laser wavelength are evaluated and discussed. A marking
center refers to a local area with optical properties different from the ones of the bulk obtained inresult of actions of short laser pulses tightly focused in the volume of a transparent dielectric.
Depending on characteristics of laser pulses (wavelength and duration), selected materials (glass,plastic, organic medium, etc.) and irradiation conditions, a resulting laser-induced mark can be apoint microcrack or void (pore), parameterized centers with different sizes and orientations, coloredor light emitting centers as well as any other local inhomogeneity caused by thermal breakdown,
optical excitation, chemical reaction or burning of material. Laser-induced marks with varying
appearance (or data pixels) can serve as multi-bit information carriers that open a wide range of new
possibilities for marking, encoding, recording of digital information and creation of images.

Imaging Aspects of *AIDA Programs Based on Active Knowledge Acquisition
Nikolay Mirenkov, The University of Aizu, JapanProfessor Nikolay Mirenkov received his PhD and Doctor of Science degree (Habilitation) in Computer Science andEngineering from the Novosibirsk Technical University and the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1972 and 1983,
respectively. He came to the University of Aizu (Japan) from the USSR Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) in 1993,
where he was the head of the supercomputer software department. He was the President of Russian Association"Parallel Computing," an expert of the National Higher Attestation Committee, and a member of Councils awarding
higher degrees in research. Since 1993 he has been a professor of the University of Aizu. He was head of theGraduate department of Information systems, head of Computer Software department, dean of the Graduate School ofComputer Science and Engineering and Vice President and Professor Emeritus of the University of Aizu. He
authored and edited 12 books, and published more than 200 refereed papers. His research interests include
programming in pictures, self-explanatory components, human-computer interfaces for people with special needs,
visualization, sonification, and filmification of methods and data, the Internet of things, as well as parallel
programming and high performance computing.

*AIDA (Star-AIDA) is a programming/modeling language for programming in pictures (images).
The pictures play a role of algorithmic super-characters and their compositions can be considered ascompound pictures and as “super-texts.” A very-high level of the super-characters allows not only toessentially decrease the algorithm representation sizes, but also to increase understandability ofalgorithms. In addition to the level of the super-characters and special knowledge acquisition behind
them, important contributions to the compactness and understandability of *AIDA programs arerelated to forms of the picture compositions and displaying (visualizing) such compositions. Theseforms, visualizing invisible features of data, algorithms and models, are based on folding/unfoldingtechniques, clarifying annotations, patterns for representing models, formulas, etc. In this talk, theconcept of active knowledge management supporting *AIDA declarations is considered and aspecial approach for manipulating with large-scale formulas and large number of variables ispresented.

Possibilities for Joint Research Collaboration and Exchanges between Sapienza
University of Rome and Shizuoka University
Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, ItalyProf. Bottoni was appointed as Visiting Professor at the Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka
University in April-June 2013. He was hosted by Prof. Kanev who will visit and conduct joint
research at Sapienza University of Rome for three month in 2014. During the visit of Prof. Bottoni
an exchange agreement was concluded between the Department of Computer Science, Sapienza
University of Rome and the Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University. Prof. Bottoni
will outline the organization of Sapienza University of Rome, introduce its faculties and departments,and explain possibilities for joint research collaboration. After the presentation all interested
participants will have a possibility to discuss opportunities for establishing contacts with potential
research partners at Sapienza University of Rome.