The Imaging Society of Japan

　
The annual conference provides opportunities for researchers and engineers concerning imaging technology to make active discussion and exchange of ideas through sharing their latest investigations.

Every spring (June), Imaging Conference Japan is held in the Kanto area, and in autumn (November), the Imaging Conference JAPAN Fall Meeting is held in the Kansai area.

　
A regular symposium is organized twice a year (in May at Kansai, in December at Tokyo) featuring a specific theme. An international symposium is also held irregularly featuring a technical field which is insufficient only by domestic knowledge such as electronic paper.

　
Lecture course is held twice a year targeting engineers having 1 to 3 years’ experience in the imaging technology to learn basics.  The spring course includes 2days lecture at Tokyo. The fall course is an intensive course in one day at Kansai area.  The spring course has an optional course of practical training for numerical simulation.

　
Technical seminar is organized by each sub-committee of the Technical Committee with presentations by specialists in the specific field.

　
Key concept of the “Imaging Café” is to enjoy discussion with some refreshments in the evening after work.  It is open monthly with a guest speaker.  An individual membership earns a special discount to the registration fee.

ISJ’s Journal is published including original papers, technical articles, feature issues (Imaging Today) and reports/ announcements of ISJ’s events.  The Editorial Committee maintains opportunity for members to share knowledge.  “Imaging Today” features recent topics or information of some relevant fields providing articles by specialists.

　
Authors of the articles featured at the “Imaging Today” of the ISJ’s Journal are invited and make lectures and discussions. The lectures are followed up with a social hour.  It is held twice a year.

　
“Standardization” is a mission of the academic society to define the common scales and terms.  ISJ’s technical committee researches and develops high-precision test charts, standard developers and also distributes a terminology of the technical terms.

The Imaging Technology Glossary compiled by ISJ was updated in 2024 and published on the website. User interface have been improved for finding words.

　
ISJ edits and publishes books on imaging technology. The recent publications are “Electro-photography”, “Electronic Paper”, “Inkjet” and “Chemical Toner”.

　
Recently, several community sites such as the Inkjet Community and the Simulation Community organized by the sub-committees are established.

　
ISJ makes honorable recognitions of those who have remarkable accomplishments to contribute academic or technological progress in the fields of image and imaging.  ISJ prepares the Society Award, the Achievement Award, the Paper Award, the Research Grant, the Technology Award, the Technical Research Award and the President Grand Prize. ISJ also gives honors of Fellows to those who contributed to the specialized fields.

　
According to the ISJ’s articles of incorporation, ISJ holds an annual regular general assembly to resolve important bills.  The assembly is held during the period of the annual conference in spring.  Each one individual membership carries one voting rights.

　
ISJ’s homepage introduces the newest information of the events and applications. Useful links such as to registration sites of the respective events, application sites of the annual conference, updating your membership information are available through this page.

　
In 2017, a collaboration project with the Vision Society of Japan has begun.  From July 2018, we started “Basic Course on Vision and Image (4 times in total)”.  By training engineers who are familiar with both the fields of vision science and image engineering, we aim to evolve into a technology that efficiently draws out the power of images.

　
In October 2018, we established the Special Interest Group of 4D and Functional Fabrication (4DFF), starting with the “Conference on 4D and Functional Printing 2018” co-sponsored by the ISJ and Consortium of the Global Society with Planetary Fabbing, SFC Keio University.  We will develop it as a place for discussions and presentations in research areas aimed at realizing the fourth axis (time axis or value axis) that is beyond the expansion of the material range of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology.

　
ISJ started the honoring business to certify “Copying Machine Heritage” in 2018 in order to commend the technical and social achievements of the early copiers that became the driving force of the copier industry in Japan, and to keep the memory of the technology installed in existing historic copiers for a long time and pass it on to future generations.  Currently, 10 cases and 11 models are certified.