Publication List

Journal Papers

Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Eisaku Maeda, and Yoichi Sato, “Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition Using Variable-Intensity Templates”, International Journal of Computer Vision, Springer Netherlands, Vol. 83, Issue 2, pp.178-194, June 2009

Oscar Mateo Lozano and Kazuhiro Otsuka, “Real-time visual tracker by Stream processing ---Simultaneous and fast 3D tracking of multiple faces in video sequences by using a particle filter ---,” Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems

(Freely downloadable from http://www.springerlink.com/content/pk22n1632859082k/ )

Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Eisaku Maeda, and Yoichi Sato, "Simultaneous Estimation of Facial Pose and Expression Using Variable-Intensity Template", IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Image Media (accepted) (In Japanese)

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Yoshinao Takemae, Junji Yamato, and Hiroshi Murase, "A Probabilistic Inference of Multiparty-Conversation Structure Based on Markov-Switching Models," Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.47, No. 7, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 2317-2334, 2006 (In Japanese)

Yoshinao Takemae, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, and Shinji Ozawa, "The Subjective Evaluation Experiments of an Automatic Video Editing System Using Vision-based Head Tracking for Multiparty Conversations," IEEJ Trans. Electronics, Information and Systems, Vol. 126-C, No. 4, pp. 435--442, April , 2006

Yoshinao Takemae, Kazuhiro Otsuka, and Naoki Mukawa, "Effectiveness of Video Editing Based on Participants' Gaze for Multiparty Conversation in Face-to-face Situations," Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.46, No. 7, pp.1752-1767, 2005. (In Japanese)

Kazuhiro Otsuka and Naoki Mukawa, "Mutual Occlusion Analysis and Sequential State Estimation of Multiple Objects Based on Multi-view Observation," IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Image Media, Vol.44, No. SIG17(CVIM8), pp.109-125, December 2003. (In Japanese)

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, Haruhiko, Kojima, and Satoshi Suzuki, "Image Sequence Retrieval for Forecasting Weather Radar Echo Pattern," IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst., Vol.E83-D, No.7, pp.1458-1465, July, 2000.

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, Fumio Adachi, Noboru Sonehara, and Satoshi Suzuki, "Temporal Texture Analysis Based on Motion Trajectory in Spatiotemporal Space," Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.40, No.8, pp.3155-3168, August, 1999. (In Japanese)

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Keihiro Ochiai, Satoshi Suzuki, Tsutomu Horikoshi, Toshinori Oda, and Michihiro Inagaki, "Short-time Local Precipitation Nowcasting System: MyWeather," Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.40, No.3, pp.1117-1126, March, 1999. (In Japanese)

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, Fumio Adachi, Keihiro Ochiai, and Satoshi Suzuki, "Optical Flow Estimation from Image Motion Trajectory in Spatiotemporal Space," IEICE Trans. Inf.& Syst.(Japanese Edition), No.9, pp.2061-2073, September, 1998. (In Japanese)

Atsushi Seto, Kazuhiro Ohtsuka, and Rokuya Ishii, "Restoration of Degraded Images with Neural Networks," System and Computers in Japan, Vol. 29, No.8, 1998.

Atsushi Seto, Kazuhiro Ohtsuka, and Rokuya Ishii, "Restoration of Degraded Images with Neural Networks," IEICE Trans. Inf.& Syst.(Japanese Edition), Vol.J80-D-II, Nop.5, pp.1276-1285, May, 1997. (In Japanese)

Book Chapter

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Yoshinao Takemae, Junji Yamato, and Hiroshi Murase, "Probabilistic Inference of Gaze Patterns and Structure of Multiparty Conversations from Head Directions and Utterances," New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Proceeding of the 19th Annual Conferences of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, a volume of LNAI, Springer. Vol. 4012, pp. 353--364, Springer (2006)

Conference Papers (with review)

Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Dan, Mikami, Junji Yamato, “Recognizing Communicative Facial Expressions for Discovering Interpersonal Emotions in Group Meetings”, Proc. ACM ICMI-MLMI2009 (accepted)

Kentaro Ishizuka, Shoko Araki, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tomohiro Nakatani, Masakiyo Fujimoto, “A Speaker Diarization based on the Probabilistic Fusion of Audio-Visual Location Information”, Proc. ACM ICMI-MLMI2009 (accepted)

Dan Mikami, Kazuhiro Otsuka, and Junji Yamato, “Memory-based particle filter for face pose tracking robust under complex dynamics”, in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2009 (CVPR2009), Oral Presentation (acceptance rate=4.1%), Paper http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/dan/demo/cvpr09/CVPR2009paper.pdf, Demo movies http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/people/dan/demo/cvpr09/

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Shoko Araki, Kentaro Ishizuka, Masakiyo Fujimoto, Martin Heinrich, and Junji Yamato, "A Realtime Multimodal System for Analyzing Group Meetings by Combining Face Pose Tracking and Speaker Diarization", Proc. ACM 10th Int. Conf. Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI2008) , pp. 257—264, 2008

[Abstract][Paper][Poster][Movies]

Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Eisaku Maeda, and Yoichi Sato, "Combining Stochastic and Deterministic Search for Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition", British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2008). , http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/bmvc2008/proceedings/papers/83.pdf

Kazuhiro Otsuka and Junji Yamato, "Fast and Robust Face Tracking for Analyzing Multiparty Face-to-Face Meetings", 5th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI2008)，Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5237, pp. 14-25, 2008

Oscar Mateo Lozano and Kazuhiro Otsuka, "Simultaneous and Fast 3D Tracking of Multiple Faces in Video by GPU-based Stream Processing", Proc. IEEE ICASSP2008(The 33rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing), pp.713—716, 2008

Shiro Kumano, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Eisaku Maeda, and Yoichi Sato, "Pose-Invariant Facial Expression Recognition Using Variable-Intensity Templates," Proc. 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2007), Part I, LNCS Vol. 4843, pp. 324-334, 2007(Honorable Mention)

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Hiroshi Sawada, and Junji Yamato, "Automatic Inference of Cross-modal Nonverbal Interactions in Multiparty Conversations", Proc. ACM 9th Int. Conf. Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI2007), pp. 255-262, Nov. 2007.(Outstanding Paper Award)　

[Abstract][Paper][Presentation][Movies]

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Yoshinao Takemae, and Hiroshi Murase, "Conversation Scene Analysis with Dynamic Bayesian Network Based on Visual Head Tracking,", Proc. ICME'06, July, 2006

[Movies]

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, Yoshinao Takemae, and Hiroshi Murase, "Quantifying Interpersonal Influence in Face-to-face Conversations based on Visual Attention Patterns," Proc. ACM CHI Extended Abstract, pp.1175-1180, April, 2006

[Abstract][Paper][Poster]

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Yoshinao Takemae, Junji Yamato, and Hiroshi Murase, “A Probabilistic Inference of Multiparty-Conversation Structure Based on Markov-Switching Models of Gaze Patterns, Head Directions, and Utterances,” Proc. ACM Int. Conf Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI2005), pp.191-198, October, 2005.

[Abstract][Paper][Presentation][Movies]

Yoshinao Takemae, Kazuhiro Otsuka, and Junji Yamato “ Automatic Video Editing System Using Stereo-Based Head Tracking for Multiparty Conversation,” ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM/CHI2005), pp.1817-1820, 2005.

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Yoshinao Takemae, Junji Yamato, and Hiroshi Murase, “Probabilistic Inference of Gaze Patterns and Structure of Multiparty Conversations from Head Directions and Utterances,” Proc. 1st. International Workshop on Conversational Informatics, pp.7-12, 2005.

Yoshinao Takemae, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato: Effects of Automatic Video Editing System Using Stereo-Based Head Tracking for Archiving Meetings, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (IEEE/ICME 2005).

Yoshinao Takemae, Kazuhiro Otsuka, and Junji Yamato, “Development of Automatic Video Editing System Based on Stereo-Based Head Tracking for Archiving Meetings,” The Third International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT2005), p.269, 2005.

Kazuhiro Otsuka and Naoki Mukawa, “A Particle Filter for Tracking Densely Populated Objects Based on Explicit Multiview Occlusion Analysis,” Proc. ICPR2004(International Conference on Pattern Recognition), Volume. 4, pp.23-26, August, 2004.

Kazuhiro Otsuka and Naoki Mukawa, “Multiview Occlusion Analysis for Tracking Densely Populated Objects Based on 2-D Visual Angles,” Proc. CVPR2004(IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition), Volume 1, pp.90-97,June, 2004.

Yoshinao Takemae, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Naoki Mukawa, “An Analysis of Speakers' Gaze Behavior for Automatic Addressee Identification in Multiparty Conversation and Its Application to Video Editing,” Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE/RO-MAN 2004), pp.581-586, 2004.

Yoshinao Takemae, Otsuka Kazuhiro, and Naoki Mukawa, “Impact of Video Editing Based on Participants’ Gaze in Multiparty Conversation,” CHI2004(ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems), pp.1333-1336 , 2004.

Yoshinao Takemae, Otsuka Kazuhiro, and Naoki Mukawa, "Video Cut Editing Rule Based on Participants` Gaze in Multiparty Conversation," ACM Multimedia 2003, pp.303-306, 2003.

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, Satoshi Suzuki, and Haruhiko Kojima, "Memory-based Forecasting for Weather Image patterns," Proc. 17th AAAI(Austin), pp.330-336, July, 2000

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, Satoshi Suzuki, and Haruhiko Kojima, "Memory-based Forecasting of Complex Natural Patterns by Retrieving Similar Image Sequences," Proc. IAPR 10th. Int. Conf. Image Analysis and Processing(Venice), pp.874-879, September, 1999(Best Paper Award)

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, Satoshi Suzuki, and Masaharu Fujii, "Local Precipitation Forecast based on Retrieval of Similar Echo Pattern in Radar Image Sequences," Proc. American Meteorological Society 15th Int. Conf. Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology(Dallas), pp.99-102, January, 1999

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, and Satoshi Suzuki, "Image Sequence Retrieval for Forecasting Weather Radar Echo Pattern," Proc. MVA(Makuhari), pp.238-241, November, 1998

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, Satoshi Suzuki, and Masaharu Fujii, "Feature Extraction of Temporal Texture Based on Spatiotemporal Motion Trajectory," Proc. IAPR 14th ICPR(Brisbane), pp.1047-1051, August, 1998

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, Keihiro Ochiai, Satoshi Suzuki, Fumio Adachi, and Masaharu Fujii, "Precipitation Forecast Based on Segmentation of Radar Echo Motion Field," Proc. American Meteorological Society 25th Conference on Radar Meteorology(Austin), pp,218-219, September, 1997

Kazuhiro Otsuka, Tsutomu Horikoshi, and Satoshi Suzuki, "Image Velocity Estimation From Trajectory Surfaces in Spatiotemporal Space," Proc. CVPR'97(Puerto Rico), pp.200-205, June, 1997

Awards

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)

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