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Shiro Kumano, PhD.

E-mail: kumano.shiro(at)lab.ntt.co.jp

2009-	Researcher Media Information Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2007-2009	Internship trainee Media Information Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2006-2009	Doctral course student Sato Laboratory, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

Research Interests

Empathy estimation		Interpersonal Emotion Estimation		Facial expression Recognition

Awards

Honorable Mention Award (Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2007)

 

Publications

Journal papers

[1] S. Kumano, K. Otsuka, J. Yamato, E. Maeda and Y. Sato, "Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition Using Variable-Intensity Templates", International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 83, no. 2, pp.178-194, 2009.

Conferences papers

[5] S. Kumano, K. Otsuka, D. Mikami, M. Matsuda and J. Yamato, "Understanding Communicative Emotions from Collective External Observations", Proc. CHI '12 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI2012), pp. 2201-2206, 2012.

[4] S. Kumano, K. Otsuka, D. Mikami and J. Yamato, "Analyzing Empathetic Interactions based on the Probabilistic Modeling of the Co-occurrence Patterns of Facial Expressions in Group Meetings", IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2011), pp. 43-50, 2011.

[3] S. Kumano, K. Otsuka, D. Mikami and J. Yamato, "Recognizing Communicative Facial Expressions for Discovering Interpersonal Emotions in Group Meetings", International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), Sept. 2009. pdf, poster

[2] S. Kumano, K. Otsuka, J. Yamato, E. Maeda and Y. Sato, "Combining Stochastic and Deterministic Search for Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition", British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2008.

[1] S. Kumano, K. Otsuka, J. Yamato, E. Maeda and Y. Sato, "Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition Using Variable-Intensity Templates", Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Vol. I, pp. 324-334, 2007. [Honorable Mention Award]

Conferences papers (co-author)

[4] Kazuhiro Otsuka, Shiro Kumano, Dan Mikami, Masafumi Matsuda, and Junji Yamato, “Reconstructing Multiparty Conversation Field by Augmenting Human Head Motions via Dynamic Displays”, In Proc. CHI '12 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI ’12), 2012.

[3] Dan Mikami, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Shiro Kumano, and Junji Yamato, Enhancing Memory-based Particle Filter with Detection-based Memory Acquisition for Robustness under Severe Occlusions, VISAPP2012, 2012.

[2] Kazuhiro Otsuka, Kamil Sebastian Mucha, Shiro Kumano, Dan Mikami,,Masafumi Matsuda, and Junji Yamato, “A System for Reconstructing Multiparty Conversation Field based on Augmented Head Motion by Dynamic Projection”, ACM Multimedia 2011, 2011.

[1] L. Su, S. Kumano, Kazuhiko Otsuka, Dan Mikami, Junji Yamato, and Yoichi Sato, "Early Facial Expression Recognition with High-frame Rate 3D Sensing", IEEE Int’l Conf. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2011), Oct., 2011.

 

Activities

IPSJ SIG of Computer Vision and Image Media (April 2009-), Committee.
The Thirteenth IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2013), Organizing Committee member.
International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision 2012 (ICIEV12), International Program Committee member.
The Ninth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2011), Program Committee member.
The Twentieth International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010, 2012), Reviewer.
The 15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM2009), Reviewer.