2023

May 13, 2023. Open campus

We held an open campus for prospective students and showed our latest research demonstrations. In the darkroom, Akihiro introduced his new work on a light field camera.

May 10, 2023. BBQ welcome party

We held a barbecue party to welcome new members. We enjoyed so much meat that we couldn't eat it all.

May 10, 2023. Laboratory guidance

Laboratory guidance was held for new members, and Mayuka introduced the daily rules of the laboratory. After that, professors introduced research themes for new members. The total number of participants exceeded 30, and it was too cramped in the meeting room of the laboratory, so it was held in a large lecture room.

Mar. 29, 2023. Fusion wall experiment

With the cooperation of IMAGICA GROUP, we brought equipments such as the latest ToF camera and event-based camera to the studio in Tokyo in collaboration with Chiba University, and conducted an image measurement experiment in the Fusion Wall environment that Ippei is working on. The two dancers performed many times over a long period of time.

Mar. 24, 2023. Degree conferment ceremony

The degree conferment ceremony was held, and three students completed the master's course. Dr. Kushida also move to Ritsumeikan University in April. We hope that everyone will be active in the new environment.

Mar. 16-17, 2023. Prof. Caron

Prof. Caron, who is currently working at the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory at Tsukuba, visited us. We discussed about measurement experiments and workshops in France.

Mar. 10, 2023. Kubo lab at Chiba University

Prof. Kitano visited Prof. Kubo's lab at Chiba University and gave a lecture on adaptive sampling of spectral information. The direction of future joint research was also discussed.

Mar. 2-3, 2023. CVIM workshop @ Hakodate

Ryo presented his research on differentiable photon mapping at the CVIM workshop held in Hakodate. He also enjoyed seafood in Hokkaido where it still snows.

Feb. 27-28, 2023. Spring seminar.

The Spring Seminar was held and participants were given two days to work on clarifying fog images using deep learning. This is a photo of the online certificate ceremony.

Feb. 25, 2023. Open campus

An open campus was held for students, and various optical measurement demonstrations were carried out in our laboratory. This is the first public demonstration of Ippei's human pose estimation.

Feb. 16, 2023. Mr. Asada from Mitsubishi Electric

Mr. Asada, one of the first students of our laboratory and currently working for Mitsubishi Electric, came to our university for recruiting. The optical replica of ink painting that he made during his master's research are still displayed in Professor Mukaigawa's room.

Feb. 10, 2023. Ramen club activity

We resumed our ramen club activity at the famous ramen restaurant "Mitsuba" in Nara. Daniel, who came from France last month, enjoyed his first ramen in Japan.

Feb. 8, 2023. Master thesis presentations

Ryo, Tomoki, and Kotaro successfully finished their master thesis presentations. Unfortunately, we were unable to hold a consolation party again this year.

Feb. 7, 2023. Mr. Yamamoto and Mr. Kitajima of Panasonic

Mr. Yamamoto and Mr. Kitajima, alumni who are currently working for Panasonic, came to our university for a company information session. This year's job hunting is becoming more active.

Jan. 30, 2023. Mr. Muraji of HONDA

Mr. Muraji, an alumnus who is currently working for HONDA, came to our university for a company information session. He is working on the development of automatic driving technology at the company.

Jan. 27, 2023. Open Lab

CVIM, MVE, and SIG-MR joint workshop was held at our university. Since it was a good opportunity, we held an open lab and demonstrated four researches, including hyperspecral imaging using an event-based camera.

Jan. 5, 2023. New year chicken

The year 2023 has started. We celebrated with Kentucky Fried Chicken as M1 students just finished their final examinations for Visual Media Processing II, a course offered by our laboratory.