［所信表明］
情報分野は，昨今，AI，IoT，ビッグデータと産学の研究開発を活性化するトピックがあり，社会的に注目が集まっています．そして，技術はめまぐるしく変化しています．多くのソースの情報があふれ，変化に翻弄されやすい状況です．このような状況下だからこそ，最先端を見極める，正しいことを評価する，流行にとらわれないアイデアを議論する，技術の将来展望を議論する等の学会の基本的な活動の価値が増します．これらの活動には，大小さまざまな粒度のコミュニティが必要です．それらの活動を支援することが，学会の最大の使命だと思っています．そのために微力ながら貢献したいと思います．

[プロフィール]
88年　東京大学大学院博士課程修了．工学博士．現在，大学院情報理工学系研究科教授．専門は，画像処理，マルチメディア，ライフログ処理技術と応用．画像工学研究会委員長（05-6）, ヒューマンコミュニケーショングループ委員長(06), ACM Multimedia General co-Chair(12), 日本IBM科学賞(02), 本会論文賞（90,98 前者は，米澤ファウンダーズメダル）, 本会業績賞(92)，本会エレクトロニクスソサイエティ賞(99)など受賞．本会フェロー，IEEE Fellow, 映像情報メディア学会フェロー．学術会議連携会員(11- ). 文部科学省科学官(16-)等．

[Statement]
The field of information technology gains considerable social attention, which has topics such as AI, IoT, Big data etc., stimulating research and development in industry and academia. Technology is changing remarkably. We have too many information sources and tend to be easily confused. Under such circumstances, the value of basic activities of this society becomes increasingly important, that are, finding out the state of the art, evaluating the good, discussing ideas without being influenced by trend, and discussing perspective of technology and more. For these activities to be possible, communities of various scales are indispensable. I think it is the vital role for this society to support such activities. I would like to contribute my humble efforts on this regard.

[Biography]
Prof. Kiyoharu Aizawa received the Dr.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1988. He is currently a Professor at Department of Information and Communication Engineering of the University of Tokyo. His research interest is in image processing and multimedia applications such as lifelogging. He was the chair of TC-IE (2005-6) and HCG (2006). He was the General co-Chair of ACM Multimedia (2012). He received various awards including the 1990, 1998 Best Paper Award (the former was Yonezawa Founders Medal), the1991 Achievement Award, 1999 Electronics Society Award from IEICE Japan, and the IBM Japan Science Prize in 2002. He is awarded IEICE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ITE Fellow. He is a member of Science Council of Japan (2011-) and a Science Adviser of MEXT (2016-).