Kazuhiro KondoKazuhiro Kondo received the B.E., the M.E., and the Ph.D. degrees from Waseda University in 1982, 1984, and 1998, respectively. From 1984 to 1992, he was with the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Limited, Tokyo, Japan, where he was engaged in resarch on speech and video coding systems. From 1992 to 1995, he was with the Texas Instruments Tsukuba R & D Center, Tsukuba, Japan, and from 1995 to 1998, the DSP R & D Center, Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA. During this time, he worked on speech recognition systems and multimedia signal processing. In 1999, he joined the Faculty of Engineering at Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan. His current interests include broad aspects of speech and audio signal processing, multimedia signal processing, and speech and audio quality evaluation methods. Dr. Kondo is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the Audio Engineering Society, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, and the Acoustical Society of Japan. Read More Read Less