IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 　　　　　・Fellow, 1989 - 2008;  Life Fellow, 2009- 　　　　　・Administrative Committee Member, IES (Industrial Electronics Society) 1991-1992 IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) 　　　　　・Member, Technical Committee (TC-8) 1986-1988 　　　　　・Chairman, Technical Committee (TC-8) 1988-1990 　　　　　・Chairman, Industrial Liaison Committee 1990-1994 　　　　　・Vice President, 1990-1992 　　　　　・Governing Board Member 1992-2002 　　　　　・Fellow, 1996- 　　　　　・Chairman, Fellow Committee 1996-1998 　　　　　・Member, Advisory Committee 1998-2000 　　　　　・Member, Nominating Committee 2000-2002 　　　　　・Member, Constitution and Bylaws Committee 2002-2004 　　　　　・Member, Task Force ICPR 2004-2006 　　　　　・General Co-Chairman, ICPR-2008, 2004-2008 　　　　　・Chairman, Advisory Committee 2006-2008 　　　　　・Member, Advisory Committee 2008-2010, 2010-2012, 2012-2014, 2014-2016 　　　　　・Member, Nominating Committee 2010-2012 IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan) 　　　　　・Fellow, 2000- 　　　　　・Vice chairman, Fellow and Master's Committee, 2005- 2007 　　　　　・Chairman, Fellow and Master's Committee, 2007-2009 JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers) 　　　　　・Senior Member, 2003- RSJ (Robotics Society of Japan) 　　　　　・Member, 1983- 　　　　　・Vice President 1999-2000 　　　　　・President 2001-2003 　　　　　・Auditor 2003-2005 　　　　　・Fellow, 2004 - ; Honorary member, 2008 -; Honorary President, 2008 - SICE (Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan) 　　　　　・Life-time Member, 2011- Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (Taiwan) 　　　　　・Life-time Member, 1993- Trans-disciplinary Federation of Science and Technology 　　　　　・Vice-president 2005-2008         (From a list of over 50 talks)       ・US-Japan Image Processing Conference, A Process for Detecting Defects in Complicated Patterns, Kyoto, 1973       ・IFIP Congress, Dynamic Recognition of Moving Objects, Stockholm, 1974       ・US-Japan Computer Conference, Visual Image Processing, Tokyo, 1975       ・4th ICPR, Computer Vision Research, Kyoto, 1978       ・Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Science, Pattern Recognition and Its Applications, Stockholm, 1979       ・IFAC Symp. on Real-time Digital Control Applications, Industrial Applications of Vision Technology, Guadalajara,           Mexico, 1983       ・7th ICPR, Automatic Recognition of Design Drawings and Maps, Montreal, 1984       ・2nd ISRR (Int. Symposium on Robotics Research), Views on Robotics for Future Industry, Kyoto, 1984       ・ICPE (Int. Conf. on Production Engineering), Trends of Intelligent Robot Technology in Japanese Industry,           Tokyo, 1987       ・IEEE 1988 Workshop on Machine Vision, Knowledge-directed Inspection for Complex Multi-layered Patterns,           Ann Arbor, 1988       ・US-Japan Production Research Conference, Engineering Education in Industry, Newport Beach, 1988       ・MIV'89 Workshop on Industrial Applications of Machine Intelligence and Vision, Knowledge-based Approaches           to Practical Image Processing, Tokyo, 1989       ・IEEE Sixth Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop, Recent Machine Vision Research in Japanese Industry,           Asilomer Conference Center, Pacific Grove, 1989       ・IEEE IROS'90, Special Lecture, Machine Vision Technology: Past, Present, and Future, Tsuchiura, 1990       ・R.O.C. Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Invited Talk, Present and Future of           Image Processing Applications, Nantou, Taiwan, 1993       ・IEEE International Conference on Multi-sensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, Keynote Speech,           Multi-sensor Fusion and Integration in Industry. Las Vegas, 1994       ・UMAP (Pacific Rim University Conference), Panel discussion, "Strategies toward University Internationalization"           and "Better Job Opportunities for Internationalized Students?", Osaka, 1994       ・International Workshop on Bio-robotics, Keynote Speech, Towards Meaningful Robotics for the Future: Are we           headed in the right direction? Tsukuba, 1995       ・9th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Keynote Speech, Recent mage Processing Applications in           Industry, Uppsala, Sweden, 1995       ・Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Recent Image Processing Applications in Industry, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1995       ・First Workshop on Real-World Problem Solving and Decision Making in Design and Manufacturing; Design and           Manufacturing Challenges: Incubation Processes for New Products Development, Tokyo, 1996       ・US-Japan Conference on Flexible Automation, "Machine Vision; A key technology for flexible automation",           Otsu, 1998,       ・IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, "Evolution of Real-time Image Processing in           Practical Applications", Tokyo, 2000       ・IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2001), "Robotics and Machine           Vision for the Future -An Industrial View-", Como, Italy, 2001       ・Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), "Machine Vision in Early Days -Japan's Pioneering           Contributions-" , Tokyo, 2007 International Journal "Machine Vision and Applications", Springer International 　　　　　・Editorial Board Member: 1988-1991 　　　　　・Editor-in-Chief: 1991-1993 　　　　　・Main Editor: 1994-1994 　　　　　・Advisory Editor: 1994-2004 International Journal "Pattern Recognition", Pattern Recognition Society, USA 　　　　　・Associate Editor: 1978- 2004 International Journal "Pattern Recognition Letters", IAPR 　　　　　・Associate Editor: 1995-2003 Best Scientific Paper Award, SICE, 1966 IR-100 Award: (Fully Automatic Bolting Robot), 1974 Technology Award, Japan Society for Promotion of Machine Industry, 1975 Distinguished Researcher Award, Minister of Science and Technology, 1976 Best Paper Award, Pattern Recognition Society (USA), 1978 Outstanding Industrial Technology Award, Prime Minister of Japan, 1978 Outstanding Industrial Technology Award, Prime Minister of Japan, 1981 SME's Half-Century Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (USA), 1982 Invention Award, Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, 1984 IR-100 Award: (Automatic Digitizer for Color Drawings), 1984 IR-100 Award: (Image Processing LSI), 1985 Best Paper Award, IEICE, 1988 IEEE Fellow, 1989 Invention Award, Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation, 1992 IAPR Fellow, 1996 IAPR Special Appreciation for Services as Chairperson of Fellow Committee, 1998 IEICE Fellow, 2000 RSJ Fellow, 2004 Joseph F. Engelberger Award (Technology), Robotics Industries Association, 2005 RSJ Honorary member, 2008; RSJ Honorary President, 2008 IEEE Life Fellow, 2009 MVA Special Appreciation for Services and Contributions as a Founding and Organizing Member, 2015 Program Co-Chairman: IEEE Workshop on Industrial Application of Machine Vision and Machine Intelligence, Tokyo, 1987 Organizing Committee Member: IAPR Workshop on Errors and Failures in Vision Systems, London, 1987 Panel Moderator: IEEE Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Applications, Hitachi City, 1988 Advisory Council Member: IEEE Workshop on Industrial Applications of Machine Intelligence and Vision, Tokyo, 1989 Panelist and Program Committee Member: 10th ICPR, Atlantic City, 1990 Advisory Council Member and Special Lecturer:  IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'90), Tsuchiura, 1990 General Chairman:  IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Kokubunji, 1990 Session Chairman: IAPR International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, 1991 Program Committee Member:  IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Arlington, 1991 Far East Liaison: IEEE 7th Workshop on Multidimensional Signal Processing, Lake Placid, 1991 Panel Chairman: Japan-Korea Computer Vision Conference, Seoul, 1991 Program Committee Member: Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception, Paris, 1991 Program Committee Member: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Palm Spring, 1992 Organizing Committee Chairman: IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, 1992 Organizing Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'93), 1993 Advisory Committee Member: IEEE/Tsukuba International Workshop on Advanced Robotics, Tsukuba, 1993 Program Committee Member: Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception, New Orleans, 1993 Program Committee Member and Coordinator: 2nd Japanese-French Congress of Mechatronics, Takamatsu, 1994 Organizing Committee Chairman: IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Kawasaki, 1994 Advisory Committee Member: IEEE TENCON'94, Region 10's Ninth Annual International Conference on Frontiers of Computer Technology, Singapore, 1994 Advisory Committee Member and Keynote Speaker: IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, Las Vegas, 1994 Industrial & Applications Liaison: 12th ICPR (International Conference on Pattern Recognition), Jerusalem, 1994 Program Committee Member: ISATA (International Symposium on Advanced Transportation Applications), Dedicated Conference on Supercomputer Applications in the Transportation Industries, Aachen, 1994 Scientific Committee Member (Coordinator of Vision Track): 2nd Japan-France Congress on Mechatronics, Takamatsu, 1994 Program Committee Member: International Computer Symposium, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, 1994 Panelist: UMAP on Strategies toward University Internationalization, Osaka, 1994. Program Committee Member: IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, 1996 Advisory Committee Member: IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Makuhari, 1998 IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, 2000 IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Nara, 2002 Advisory Committee Member: IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Tsukuba Science City, 2005 IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, 2007 (2005-2007) IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Yokohama, 2009 (2007-2009) IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Nara, 2011 (2009-2011) IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Kyoto, 2013 (2011-2013) IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, 2015 (2013-2015) IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Nagoya, 2017 (2015-2017) IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, 2019 (2017-2019) IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Nagoya, 2021 (2019-2021) IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Hamamatsu, 2023 (2021-2023) Advisory Committee Chairman: MVA Organization, (2006-2007) MVA Organization, (2007-2009) MVA Organization, (2009-2011) MVA Organization, (2011-2013) MVA Organization, (2013-2015) General Co-chairman: 19th ICPR (International Conference on Pattern Recognition), Tampa, Florida, 2008 (2004-2008) Advisory Committee Member: 21st ICPR (International Conference on Pattern Recognition), Tsukuba, 2012 (2008-2012)