Accolades
Accolades
Close to 30 years of continuous renewal and augmentation have culminated in the prestige of Panasonic R&D Center Singapore today. Every challenge presents itself as a set of opportunities for us to excel and ride the tides to the next generation of advancement.
2019
MD: Masaaki Yamane
- 2019 : Achieves No. 1 Accuracy of Face Recognition on the IJB-C dataset of the NIST Face Challenges
- 2022 : Panasonic ranked #1 in Mugshot category of NIST FRVT 1:1 Challenge; Verification released on 7th Nov 2022
- 2022 : Received EnterpriseSG-SSC/SAC Commendation Award in 2022
- 2023: Received the International Electrotechnical Commission “1906 Award” – first at PRDCSG in Sep 2023
- 2023: Inked MOU with IPI Singapore to support local businesses’ innovation processes in Oct 2023
2018
- MD: Asashi Shimodaira
- First-Place Winner of the competition for the Mobile Manipulation Hackathon as one of the 6 finalists at IROS 2018
- First-Place Winner of the AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO) at NeurIPS (formerly known as NIPS)
2015
- MD: Seigo Nakao
- 2017: First-Place Winner of Leaderboard in the NIST IJB-A Face Challenge (as of 31st March)
- 2017: First-Place Winner of the MS-Celeb-1M Grand Challenge (Track 1 & Track 2)
- 2018: Panasonic Foundation Anniversary Awards including President Award and CTO Award
- 2018: First-Place Winner of Leaderboard Track 2 (Anomaly Detection) in the 2018 NVIDIA AI City Challenge
2012
- MD: Akino Inoue
- Panasonic R&D Center Singapore (Panasonic R&D Center Singapore) amalgamated under PA (Panasonic Asia Pacific)
- 2013: President Tsuga visited Panasonic R&D Center Singapore at Tai Seng
- 2012: Winner, Classification Method – PASCAL VOC 2012
- 2013: Winner, 2013 VOT Tracking Championship
- 2013: First Cloud Solution: “Cloud Stringers” granted ICT Awards 2013 at BroadcastAsia and CommunicAsia 2013
- Power of Innovation – Patents granted: 174
2009
- MD: Hideyuki Kanzaki
- 2010: Invention Award, Audio Compressing Technology for low algorithm bandwidth expansion
- 2010: 1st Place for Best Paper Award, ICCE International Conference on Consumer Electronics
- 2010: Winner, Classification Method – PASCAL VOC 2010
- 2011: Winner, Classification Method – PASCAL VOC 2011
2006
- MD: Yasuyuki Shintani
- 2008: Received Emmy Award to commend H.264 AVC high-profile development
2004
- MD: Tsuyoshi Sakata
- Initiated UniPhier and invested in Image Recognition Research
- Established core competence in AI – Machine Learning of face detection for DSC cameras
- Reinforced new IPR investigation activities
2000
- MD: Hideyuki Oka
- Doubled PSL’s workforce and established the new group structure
- Started 3G projects
- Started IPR activities
- 2002: Received President Award, Commercialised Mobile Phone for Overseas Market GD87/88
1996
- MD: Yoshio Yasumoto
- Gained independence as PSL (Panasonic Singapore Laboratories Pte Ltd)
- 1997: Received President Award, MPEG Encoding Technology Development Group
- 1997: Received Panasonic Award on MPEG2 standardisation contribution
- 1999: Received Panasonic Award on MPEG4 standardisation contribution
1990
- Founder: Takuyo Kogure
- Founding of AVIRC (AV Information Research Center) under Panasonic Asia Pacific (then Asia Matsushita Singapore)
- MPEG Standardisation was initiated in 1990 as the main R&D activity in AVIRC to contribute to Panasonic’s AV Products and IPR building
