Masaki Oshima was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1944. He received a B.E. degree in Electronics in 1968 and an M.E. degree in Electro -communications in 1970, both from the University of Electro -Communications, Tokyo, Japan. In 1982, he received a Dr. of Eng. degree in Computer Science from the Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. Since 1970, he has been with the Electrotechnical Laboratory, Ibaraki , Japan, where he had conducted research on vision with emphasis on object recognition using range data. He had been the head of Computer Vision Section since 1985. Since 1992, he has been a Professor at the Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Tokyo, Japan. In October 2003, the Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine consolidated with Tokyo University of Fisheries and has become a part of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. In 1979 he received the Honorable Mention for the Pattern Recognition Society Award. His research interests include computer vision, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Oshima is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, the Information Processing Sosiety of Japan, the Robotics Society of Japan, the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, the Marine Engineering Society in Japan, the Japan Institute of Navigation, and the Law and Computers Association of Japan.