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Panasonic Opens Innovation Hub at Punggol Digital District to Drive AI Smart Building and Robotics Solutions

Aug 27, 2025 | Project

Singapore, 27 August 2025 – Panasonic R&D Center Singapore (PRDCSG) today announced the opening of its new “Innovation Hub” at…

Panasonic ranked #1 in Mugshot category of NIST FRVT 1:1 Challenge

Dec 08, 2022 | Project

PRDCSG once again kept Panasonic’s flag flying high in the global arena. In the latest Performance Summary of the NIST*…

Mr. Philip Ong of Panasonic R&D Center Singapore has been awarded EnterpriseSG-SSC/SAC Commendation Award

Jul 15, 2022 | Project

Enterprise Singapore has awarded Mr. Philip Ong with EnterpriseSG-SSC/SAC Commendation Award 2022 for the contribution to the Singapore Standardization Programme…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s Journal Paper Published in the April 2022 Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

May 05, 2022 | Project

Teaming up with Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), Panasonic R&D Center Singapore co-authored a journal paper titled “Covariance…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore marking the first full-year deployment of our AI-based Visitor Counting solution with the latest technology update at the Singapore Flyer’s Time Capsule

Feb 11, 2022 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore deployed our AI-based Visitor Counting solution at the iconic Singapore Flyer – Asia’s largest giant observation…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore ranked in 3rd place in the NIST FRVT 1:1 Verification

Jan 28, 2022 | Project

In the latest Performance Summary of the NIST* FRVT** 1:1 Verification [last updated: 24th January 2022], Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s…

Panasonic’s Flagship LZ2000 OLED TV Continually Powered by Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s Neural Network Architecture

Jan 21, 2022 | Project

At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held on 4th -7th January, Panasonic unveiled its new flagship OLED TV for…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore Won a Silver Medal in a Kaggle Competition

Jan 21, 2022 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore won a silver medal in a Kaggle competition titled “Petfinder.my – Pawpularity Contest”, which started on…

Panasonic Auto Tracking Software Key AW-SF100/200 Powered by Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s Face Recognition Module

Dec 28, 2021 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s Face Recognition module has been incorporated into the latest version of the Panasonic Auto Tracking Software…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore Won the Jury Prize in the 2021 VIPriors Image Classification Challenge

Oct 15, 2021 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore was awarded the Jury Prize, while in 3rd position, in the Image Classification track of the…

Panasonic introduces more of the 2021 OLED and LED TV line-up powered by Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s AI engine

Apr 05, 2021 | Project

Following the debut of its flagship JZ2000 OLED TV at CES 2021, Panasonic unveiled more of its OLED and LED…

Panasonic’s newly launched JZ200 OLED TV powered by Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s proprietary neural network named Lightweight-and-Versatile Network (LVNet)

Jan 29, 2021 | Project

Panasonic has announced the launch of its flagship OLED TV for 2021, that is, the JZ2000, which includes a brand-new…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s Paper Accepted for Publication in an Upcoming Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV)

Jan 08, 2021 | Project

Teaming up with Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), Panasonic R&D Center Singapore co-authored a journal paper titled “Vehicle…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s Technology – LVNet for Photo Management – Incorporated into Panasonic’s New DIGA Models to Be Commercially Launched in Japan

Oct 01, 2020 | Project

New models of Panasonic’s Blu-ray recorder DIGA will be launched in Japan on 16th October 2020. (Model Name: DMR-4T401・4CT401 /…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s paper accepted for Publication in an Upcoming Issue of the Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

Sep 24, 2020 | Project

Teaming up with Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), Panasonic R&D Center Singapore co-authored a journal paper titled “Covariance…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s paper accepted for presentation at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 and for publication in its proceedings

Aug 20, 2020 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s paper titled “Big Data Scenarios Simulator for Deep Learning Algorithm Evaluation for Autonomous Vehicles” has been…

Panasonic launched a “Panasonic Deep Tech Innovation Challenge” inviting local start-ups to leverage Panasonic’s technology & patents for business creation

Apr 20, 2020 | Event

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore has launched a Panasonic Deep Tech Innovation Challenge organized by Panasonic, ICMG and ACE. This Challenge…

Panasonic wins the top spot in a Future Convenience Store Challenge at IREX2019, an International Robot Exhibition 2019

Apr 01, 2020 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore (PRDCSG) joined the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Panasonic’s Robotics Promotion Office, LS,…

Paper accepted for publication in the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Dec 05, 2019 | Project

Teaming up with several world-renowned video experts, Panasonic R&D Center Singapore co-authored a paper titled “General Video Coding Technology in…

Paper accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

Dec 05, 2019 | Project

Collaborating with Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), Panasonic R&D Center Singapore co-authored a paper titled “Modular Lightweight Network…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore (PRDCSG) participated in the ITS World Congress 2019

Dec 05, 2019 | Event

Joining Panasonic’s booth at the ITS World Congress 2019 held at Suntec City of Singapore from October 21st to October…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore Achieves No. 1 Accuracy of Face Recognition on the IJB-C Dataset

Jun 30, 2019 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore achieved the Best Accuracy of Face Recognition on the IJB-C dataset under three different protocols, namely 1:1 mixed verification, 1:N mixed identification and 1:1 covariate verification.

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore Takes Second Place at the Second Edition of the AI Driving Olympics

May 15, 2019 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore finished second among the top 5 teams that made the cut from among the 50 teams in a leading international competition – that is, the second edition of the AI Driving Olympics, where Panasonic R&D Center Singapore is last year’s champion.

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore Won the AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO) at NeurIPS (formerly known as NIPS) 2018

Dec 08, 2018 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore (PRDCSG) teamed up with the National University of Singapore (NUS) to partake in the inaugural AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO) competition, which took place at NeurIPS (formerly known as NIPS)

Panasonic Tops the IROS 2018 Mobile Manipulation Hackathon Competition 2018 as First-Place Winner

Oct 18, 2018 | Event

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore teamed up with the Nanyang Technological University to take part in the IROS Mobile Manipulation Hackathon…

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore Received the ISCIT 2018 Best Paper Award

Sep 26, 2018 | Event

Teaming up with King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) to co-author a paper titled “Image Denoising with Deep Convolutional and Multi-directional LSTM Networks under Poisson Noise Environments”, Panasonic R&D Center Singapore (PRDCSG) received the Best Paper Award at ISCIT 2018 held in Bangkok on 26-29 September 2018.

Panasonic Tops the 2018 Nvidia AI City Challenge as First-Place Winner for Anomaly Detection

Jun 18, 2018 | Event

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore reprises the lead in Face Recognition Technology by notching up a stunning win for Track 2 (Anomaly Detection) in the 2018 Nvidia AI City Challenge .

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore participated in TechInnovation 2017

Sep 19, 2017 | Event

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore had a presence at TechInnovation 2017, a technology-industry brokerage event organized by IPI Singapore at Sands Expo & Convention Centre on 19-20 September 2017, to exhibit 12 posters featuring technologies such as artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, data analytics, wireless communications, etc.

Joint collaborations with I2R: achieved the No. 2 position at MEC 2017 plus a paper accepted at ICMI 2017

Sep 14, 2017 | Project

In collaboration with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Panasonic R&D Center Singapore achieved the No. 2 position in the audio-visual emotion recognition sub-challenge of the Multimodal Emotion Recognition Challenge (MEC) 2017. The challenge (*1) is aimed at the comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio and visual emotion analysis.

Paper accepted at NIPS2017 and another paper at CoR2017

Sep 06, 2017 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore, collaborating with Assistant Professor Feng Jiashi of the National University of Singapore (NUS), co-authored a paper1 titled “Dual-Agent GANs for Photorealistic and Identity Preserving Profile Face Synthesis” that has been accepted at the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2017

Acceptance of two papers by ICCV’17 Workshop on MS-Celeb-1M: Recognizing One Million Celebrities in the Real World

Aug 17, 2017 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore, collaborating with the National University of Singapore (NUS), co-authored two papers that have been accepted by ICCV (International Conference on Computer Vision*) 2017 Workshop on MS-Celeb-1M: Recognizing One Million Celebrities in the Real World, which will be held in Venice, Italy, on October 28th, 2017.

Panasonic tops MS-Celeb-1M Challenges

Jul 19, 2017 | Project

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore, in collaboration with the National University of Singapore (NUS), has achieved the No. 1 position in MS-Celeb-1M Challenge 2017 , which is organized by Microsoft, for both Challenge 1 and Challenge 2. The results are in alignment with our mission to promote Panasonic’s outstanding Face Recognition technology worldwide.

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore Achieving the World’s Top Best Accuracy for Face Recognition

Apr 28, 2017 | Project

In collaboration with the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Innovation Center of Connected Solutions of Panasonic Corporation, Panasonic R&D Center Singapore has recently developed face recognition technology that has achieved the world’s Top Best Accuracy for Face Recognition by benchmarking the dataset covering all the conditions taken in the surveillance market, the dataset of which is provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The ITS Summit Singapore 2017 @Marina Bay Sands

Apr 12, 2017 | Event

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore partook in a 2-day Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) Summit Singapore 2017, which attracted more than 300 delegates, industry partners and speakers from the Asia Pacific countries. At this summit, we showcased our initiatives in autonomous automotive technologies and solutions as well as our efforts to accelerate Singapore’s Autonomous Vehicle landscape.

1-day Design Thinking Workshop @Singapore Polytechnic

Dec 21, 2016 | Event

We believe creativity is an essential skill for our members trying to make a difference in their work at Panasonic R&D Center Singapore. At this, in collaboration with LWC-S (Live Well Collaborative Singapore) which is based at Singapore Polytechnic, Panasonic R&D Center Singapore organized a one-day design thinking workshop for Panasonic R&D Center Singapore’s members on December 21, 2016.

IPBC Asia 2016 @Shanghai, China

Dec 04, 2016 | Event

PRDCSG-IPG attended the IPBC Asia (held in Shanghai on December 4-6, 2016), which is one of the leading events in the IP industry. IPBC Asia attracted top IP executives of global companies to gather and take center stage to discuss issues about the global IP development with a focus on how IP owners can strategically utilize their IP assets, especially in Asia.

Deep Learning Summit Asia @SG 2016

Oct 20, 2016 | Event

Members from Panasonic R&D Center Singapore and various Panasonic divisions and centres in Japan attended the Deep Learning Summit Asia, which presented a great opportunity for us to gain new perspectives on approaches to technical advances in deep learning and smart AI, as well as new forms of creativity in the new technological era. It also provided us with new opportunities for business networking with other participants.

TechInnovation @SG 2016

Sep 20, 2016 | Event

Panasonic R&D Center Singapore partook in TechInnovation 2016 as one of the exhibitors to appeal to local collaboration through crowd-sourcing and crowd-pitching. TechInnovation has been a technology-industry brokerage event organized by IPI Singapore since 2012.

IP Week @ SG 2016

Aug 22, 2016 | Event

The Intellectual Property Group (IPG) of Panasonic R&D Center Singapore (PRDCSG) participated, as one of the exhibitors, in IP Ecosystem…