Biography

Mar. 1993 B.E. from Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University

Mar. 1995 M.E. from Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University

Aug. 1995 ~ Jan. 1999 : Advanced Video Processing Lab., NTT Human Interface Laboratories, NTT

Jan. 1999  ~ Dec. 2000 : Media Creation Project, NTT Cyber Space Laboratories

Dec. 2000 ~ Mar. 2001 : Content Commerce Project, NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories

Apr. 2001 ~ Media Information Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Apr. 2005 ~ Mar. 2007: Ph.D Candidate, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University

Apr. 2010 ~ Distinguished Researcher, Media Information Labs. NTT Communication Science Labs., NTT

July 2010 ~ Sept. 2010: Distinguished Invited Researcher, Idiap Research Institute

Currently, Senior Research Scientist / Distinguished Researcher in NTT Communication Science Labs.

Publications

Awards

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, Innovative Technologies Special Award (Ecology) 2012,

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, Innovative Technologies Award 2012 (Digital Content Expo 2012),

JSAI, Incentive Award 2011 (Co-authored）

MIRU2011 (Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding) Interactive Session Award (Jul. 2011)

IEICE Kiyasu Award (2010)

IEICE Best Paper Award (2010)

MIRU2009 (Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding) Excellent Paper Award (Jul. 2009)

IEICE MVE(Technical Group on Multimedia and Virtual Environment) MVE Award (Nov. 2008)

8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2007) Honorable Mention

ACM 9th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI2007) Outstanding Paper Award

IAPR 10th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Best Paper Award (1999)

IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Best Paper Award of IPSJ National Convention(1998)

IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Young Researcher's Award (1998)

Membership

IEEE

IEICE (Institute of Electrical, Information and Communication Engineers)

IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan)

Committees

ICMI-MLMI2011 Demo Chair

IEEE FG2011 Area Chair

Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Society (Japanese Edition), Apr. 2010~

ACM 11th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and Workshop on Machine Learning for Multi-modal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI2009), Area Chair

ACM Multimedia 2009, Technical Program Committee (2009)

ACM 14th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM2009) Program Committee (2008)

IEICE SIG of Verbal-Nonverbal Communication, organizing member （April 2008-）

70th National Convention of IPSJ, chair for W4(video and tracking) session（Mar. 2008）

ACM 2nd Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia, Technical Program Committee (2007)

FIT2007 Reviewer(2007)

Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2007 Reviewer (2007)

ACM Multimedia 2007 Technical Program Committee (2007)

ACM 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM2008) Reviewer (2008)

AVIRG(Audio Visual Information Research Group) organizing member (Oct. 2006-）

ACM 1st. Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia Technical Program Committee (2006)

Committee of IPSJ SIG of Computer Vision and Image Media（April 2003-）

Editorial Committee of IPSJ Transaction on Computer Vision and Image Media （April 2004 - July 2008）

IEICE Transaction Reviewer （from Jun. 2002）

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Research Interests

・Conversation Scene Analysis
        Probabilistic Modeling and Inference of Conversation Structure of Multiparty Meetings.
        Recognition of Human Behaviors in Meetings
        Realtime multimodal system for analysing meeting scenes
・Nonverbal Communications
・Computer Vision
        Target Tracking, Face Tracking (Sparse Template Condensation Tracker: STCTracker）
        Gesture recognition, Facial expression recognition
・GPU Computing，GPGPU，NVIDIA CUDA
         GPU-based Particle Filtering for Fast Face Pose Tracking (STCTracker)
・Probabilistic Methods such as Bayesian Net, MCMC, Particle Filter.

News!

Nov. 29, 2011      We have presented our new line of work at ACM Multimedia 2011