2024

July 19, 2024. Public hearing for Kessy's doctoral thesis

A public hearing was held for Kessy's doctoral thesis. Her peer-reviewed journal paper was accepted a few days ago, and she is well on her way to receiving her doctoral degree.

June 12-14, 2024. SSII2024

At the Image Sensing Symposium SSII2024 held in Yokohama, Prof. Kitano, Johannes, Prof. Funatomi and Prof. Mukaigawa received the Takagi Award of the Society of Image Sensing Technology. This is the result of joint research with NEC on laser speckle.

May 27, 2024. Prof. Jayasuriya

Professor Jayasuriya from Arizona State University, with whom we have been conducting collaborative research for a long time, visited our laboratory. After giving a lecture on acoustic cameras, he had individual discussions with our laboratory members.

May 23, 2024. Towards studying in France

Akihiro was selected as a French government scholarship student and attended the `France Alumni Day' held at the French Embassy. He passed the highly competitive application process and will start his six-month study abroad in France in September.

May 18, 2024. Open campus

An open campus for prospective students was held. Many people from all over Japan came to visit.

Apr. 27, 2024. Farewell party of Alex

Alex from Technical University of Munich has finished his master thesis research and is going back to Germany. So we held a farewell party in Osaka.

Apr. 22, 2024, Welcome party

At today's laboratory meeting, the new members introduced themselves, including their previous research. Afterwards, we held a Yakiniku welcome party.

Apr. 19, 2024, Workshop @ Chiba university

Four professors and five students from our laboratory participated in the workshop held at Chiba University, and all of them gave presentations. Including former members, there were a total of 14 members of our laboratory among the participants.

Apr. 17, 2024, Oritentation

We held our annual orientation for eight new students in a rented lecture room. The instructor is Akihiro, who has become D1 student.

Mar. 22, 2024, NAIST Academic Excellence Award

Ippei, who will begin his doctoral course in April, received the `NAIST Academic Excellence Award', which is given to those who have particularly excellent academic performance and outstanding research achievements.

Mar. 22, 2024, Sunny graduation ceremony

A graduation ceremony was held, and Mayuka, a doctoral student, along with nine master's students completed their studies. Although yesterday was extremely cold and snowy, today turned out to be a beautiful sunny day, perfect for the celebratory stage.

Mar. 6, 2024, Farewell party

A farewell party was held after a long time. It is the first time in five years since 2019 that it has been held as an official event of the laboratory.

Mar. 4, 2024, CVIM encouragement award

Prof. Fujimura received the Encouragement Award at the CVIM workshop held in Hiroshima. This is a new challenge to introduce a priori knowledge of the scene into NeRF for generating free viewpoint images.

Mar. 1, 2024, Red Tokyo Tower

For the evaluation experiment of the joint research with IMAGICA GROUP, we asked professional dancers to dance in the studio of Red Tokyo Tower and generated videos according to the results of posture estimation. Although the experiment was performed on the spot, but thanks to Ippei's efforts, it turned out to be an artistic work .
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Feb. 29, 2024, 10th anniversary of the lab @ Tokyo

We celebrated the 10th anniversary of our laboratory in Tokyo, in conjunction with the trip of Prof. Mukaigaa, Prof. Funatomi, and Prof. Kitano to Tokyo. Despite the sudden decision to hold the event, 13 alumni attended the event.

Feb. 26-27, 2024, Spring seminar

A spring seminar was held. For the first time, participants were challenged to generate images from free viewpoints using NeRF. The actual use of NeRF also revealed its advantages and disadvantages.

Feb. 24, 2024, Open campus

An open campus event for prospective students was held. This time, attendees were able to see demonstrations of human pose estimation, NeRF, and SPAD measurements.

Feb. 16, 2024, Flower bouquet

We received bouquets from alumni Mr. Mihara, Mr. Ohno, Mr. Kajiwara, and Mr. Ueda to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our laboratory. We took some photos of them with some items related to their research.

Feb. 2, 2024, 10th anniversary of the lab

Ten years have passed since the laboratory was established in February 2014, so we celebrated the laboratory turning 10 years old. Several alumni also joined us online. The birthday cake can be seen in the center.

Jan. 26, 2024, Visit to Microsoft

Prof. Funatomi, Prof. Kitano, and Kazuma, who were in the United States, visited the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond and had a meeting with Professor Ikeuchi and colleagues who are doing collaborative research. Our current focus is on researching the spectral analysis of ancient tomb murals.

Jan. 25, 2024, AROB2024@Beppu

At the international symposium AROB2024 held in Beppu, Ryuki presented research results on the estimation of soil moisture using a thermal camera. This study contributes to the fundamental technology for the safe navigation of robots in disaster scenarios.

Jan. 23, 2024, EI2024@San Francisco

At the international conference EI2024 held in San Francisco, Kazuma presented research results on fluorescent dye detection using a liquid crystal variable retarder. This is the result of joint research with Kyushu University.