SATO Jun holds the position of Professor at the Department of Information Engineering (メディア情報分野) within the Faculty of Engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge (1993–1996) and previously served as a Research Assistant at Cambridge (1996–1998). His research focuses on perceptual information processing and intelligent informatics, with specializations in computer vision, 3D reconstruction, and optical engineering applications. He has authored influential books like Computer Vision - Geometry of Vision (1999) and Computer Graphics (2017), and contributed to international publications such as Springer's Computer Vision: A Reference Guide (2020). Key professional roles include serving as President of the IEEE Nagoya Branch since 2023, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision (Springer, 2010–present), and committee member for various organizations including Japan's Ministry of Education (2015–present) and the Nagoya City Business Potential Evaluation Committee (2008–2015). He has been recognized with prestigious awards including the BMVC Best Science Paper Prize (1994, 1997) and ITE Niwa-Takayanagi Prize (2015). His research extends to industrial collaborations, evidenced by patents like the "3D Information Presentation Device" (2014–2017) and "Position Detecting Device" (2016–2019). Recent work emphasizes applications in automotive safety, occluded object reconstruction, and novel imaging systems using advanced optical configurations and neural networks.

