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This paper introduces infrastructure-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communications using VLC. A VLC coupled with a high-speed image sensor is introduced (i.e., image sensor communication). The high-speed image sensors provide eyes for autonomous and connected vehicles. VLC imparts data reception capability to image sensors with necessary functions, which can then be provided to autonomous and connected vehicles. In this paper, some of our research on coupling VLC to high-speed image sensors is introduced, including our key findings: the basics of ISC, a vehicle motion model, and range estimation.
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This work is supported in part by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (No. 16H04364).
Takaya Yamazato was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1964. He is a professor at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan. He received a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1993. From 1993 to 1998, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Information Electronics, Nagoya University, Japan. From 1997 to 1998, he was a visiting researcher at the Research Group for RF Communications, University of Kaiserslautern. In 1998, he gave a half-day tutorial entitled Introduction to CDMA ALOHA" at Globecom held in Sydney, Australia. Since then, he has been serving as a TPC member of Globecom and ICC. In 2006, he received the IEEE Communication Society's Best Tutorial Paper Award. He served as the co-chair of the Wireless Communication Symposia of ICC 2009 and is the co-chair of Selected Areas in Communication Symposia of ICC 2011. From 2008 to 2010, he served as the chair of the Satellite and Space Communication Technical Committee. In 2011, he gave a half-day tutorial entitled Visible Light Communication" at ICC 2011 held in Kyoto, Japan. He served as the editor-in-chief of the Japanese section of IEICE transactions on communications from 2009 to 2011. From 2016, he serves as the director of the Asia/Pacific Region (AP), IEEE Communication Society. His research interests include visible light communication, intelligent transport system, stochastic resonance, and open educational resources. (Email: yamazato@nagoya-u.jp)
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Yamazato, T. V2X communications with an image sensor. J. Commun. Inf. Netw. 2, 65–74 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41650-017-0044-4
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