Peeraya SRIPIAN
Associate Professor
About Me
Experiences and research interest
Facts about me
Hello, My name is Peeraya Sripian (you can call me by my nickname Gift). I was born and raised in Thailand. I lived in the U.S. for a year, being an exchange student in my senior high school year. Since then, I have been fascinated to go study abroad and see the world. After I finished highschool, I came back to Thailand and studied undergraduate course in liberal arts, majoring in Japanese language and a minor in advertising management.
In my final year of undergrad, I chose the free elective course of web programming. That was my first time ever to enter the world of computer science. The beauty of programming logic influenced me to further my Master degree in Computer Science, and then the Ph.D.
Currently, I work as an Associate Professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. I am working on a project relates to emotion sensing, Japanese fashion and computer vision. Also, I am personally interested in proofing some new optical illusion using visual experiments. I have been engaging in the project that uses hybrid images as a visual acuity assessment tool. Other research includes image processing in medical use, computer vision, computer graphic, and Media for entertainment purposes.
- LanguagesThai (native), English (fluent, TOEIC 965), Japanese (fluent, JLPT N1)
- My MottoWhen there is a will, there is always a way.
- My hobbyTravel, Photography, Music, Books
Education
2013
Ph.D. in Multidisciplinary Sciences
Doctorate Number: HAKU SOGO 1214 Scholarship: Japanese Government MEXTEmbassy recommendation track: Research to doctorate student
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Doctoral thesis “Edge-Alignment Free Hybrid Image: Its Synthesis and Assessment Methods”
Advisor: Professor Dr. (Eng.) Yasushi Yamaguchi
2006
M.Sc. in Computer Science (Conversion)
Graduated with Distinction
Department of Computer Science University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom
Master thesis “Alpha Compositing”
Advisor: Professor Dr. Philip Willis
2005
B.A. Business Japanese, with minor in Advertising Management
Graduated with Summa Cumma Laude, GPA. 3.88Department of Business Japanese, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand
Teaching Experiences
2023 to Current
Associate professor
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan College of Engineering: Innovative Global Program / Computer Science and Engineering2018 to 2022
Assistant professor
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan College of Engineering: Innovative Global Program / Computer Science and Engineering2013 to 2018
Lecturer / Assistant to the dean (International Affairs)
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand Media Technology, Major in Media Digital Technology2009 to 2012
Teaching assistant
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan I worked as a teaching assistant and research assistant as a part time job while I was studying Ph.D. The courses I was responsible wereIntroduction to Information System (in Japanese)
Introduction to Programming with RUBY language (in Japanese)
2008 to 2013
Part-time Thai Language Instructor
Taught Thai language for reading and conversation in private and group of Japanese at Thaicom Language Center, Tokyo, JapanWorking Experiences
Sep 2007 to Jan 2008
Marketing Manager (Part-time)
Company name: Optima Text, Bangkok, Thailand Company description: Translation and interpretation service for Japanese-Thai language. Responsibility: I was responsible with marketing planning and management for the company. The reason for quitting was to study abroad in Japan.Jan 2007 to Mar 2007
Japanese Interpreter
Company name: Siam Kito, Bangkok, Thailand Company description: Produce material handling equipment for industrial plants Responsibility: I was a Japanese interpreter and secretary for Japanese manager.2009 to 2012
Teaching assistant
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan I worked as a teaching assistant and research assistant as a part time job while I was studying Ph.D. The courses I was responsible wereIntroduction to Information System (in Japanese)
Introduction to Programming with RUBY language (in Japanese)
Research Interest
Optical Illusion
I am interested in computational visual illusion. I did a Ph.D thesis entitled "Synthesis and Assessment method of edge-alignment free hybrid images". Since then, I still continued researching the visual illusion and currently I am challenging on creating a new kind of hybrid image. In addition, I am also doing a research on proofing an old but rare to many optical illusion called "Binoculars' illusion".
Affective engineering
I am currently doing many collaborative research on estimation of emotion using biological signals especially heart rate variability and brain waves. With estimated emotion, we have done many experiment regarding the improvement of human-robot, or human-virtual agent impression. Recently, we also apply emotion estimation to encourage student participation in distance learning.
Kawaii
I am personally interested in Kawaii attributes of things. Recently, I have been investigating the Kawaii attribute for Japanese Kawaii fashion by using image processing to extract the features of fashion images
Research
Publication lists and funding
Journal Publications
Conference Proceedings Publications
Research grant acquisition
As Principal investigator
- Clarification of distance compression and personal space perception in virtual environment using physiological signals, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2023 to 2025
- The synthesis method for viewing angle-based hybrid image by using angle-dependent frequency noises , Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists , Project year: April,2019-March,2022
- Visual acuity test using hybrid image, Thailand National Research Council (Around 1,054,000 yen/year) Project year: Oct, 2016-Sept,2017
- Using hybrid image in visual acuity test, Thailand National Research Council (Around 744,000 yen/year), Project year: Oct, 2014-Sept, 2017
As Collaborative investigators
- Extraction and quantification of characteristics of Japanese "kawaii" fashion and visualization of its positioning, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2020 to 2023
- 3D-Mesh Model Steganography and Secure Communication in a Cloud Manufacturing Environment Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Bilateral Program with Department of Science and Technology in India , Project year: Jun,2021-March,2023
- Line Drawing and Stylization in Consideration of Human Visual System Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Project year: April,2020-March,2023
- 日本の「かわいい」ファッションの特徴量の抽出・定量化と、その位置付けの可視化, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Project year: Apr, 2020 - Mar 2023
Teaching
Teaching subjects
Currently teaching
Undergraduate school
- Introduction to Computer Programming (Python, R, C, Java)
- Web design and programming
- Interaction Design
Graduate school
- Advance System and Information Engineering
Taught courses
until Aug 2017, chronological order from most recent
- Image Processing for Digital Media Projects using C++ / Matlab / Python
- Creative Thinking
- Human Perception-Based Design
- Learning and Problem Solving Skills – General education (in English)
- Computer Vision using C++
- Web Programming with HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL
- Medical Image Processing
- Statistics for Media
Contact
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Get in Touch
For prospective student, please send the email to me. I will be happy to carry on the discussion and set up an online meeting for further inquiries. For current students, please use the contact method provided in class.