Best Paper Award: Thangamani Kalaivani, ΐ q, qc Fk, c u: "Texture Significant Hash Function with Robust Occlusion Handling for Fast Inpainting the Virtualized-Reality Models", IDW/AD '12 (2012) Outstanding Paper Award: Takashi Okuma, Masakatsu Kourogi, Nobuchika Sakata, Takeshi Kurata: "A Pilot User Study on 3-D Museum Guide with Route Recommendation Using a Sustainable Positioning System", International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems 2007 (ICCAS2007) Best Paper Award: Nobuchika Sakata, Takeshi Kurata, and Hideaki Kuzuoka: "Visual Assist with a Laser Pointer and Wearable Display for Remote Collaboration", International conference on Collaboration Technologies (CollabTech 2006) Best Paper Award: Takeshi Kurata, Takahiro Oyabu, Nobuchika Sakata, Masakatsu Kourogi, and Hideaki Kuzuoka: "Tangible Tabletop Interface for an Expert to Collaborate with Remote Field Workers" ,International Conference on Collaboration Technology (CollabTech2005) Best Young Researcher Award: Takeshi Kurata, Yuichi Nakamura, and Yuichi Ohta: "Feature Tracking on Occluding Boundaries for Modeling-by-videotaping",International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM'96)