Minako Sawaki

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Biography

She received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Keio Univ. in 1989. From 1989, she has been with the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). Currently, she is working on research of character recognition.

Research Interests

character recognition, image recognition, personal communication technology

Selected Publications (in English only)

*** media recognition ***
  1. Minako Sawaki, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Eisaku Maeda : "gWHO IS THISh QUIZ DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND USERSf EVALUATION h, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT2008), pp.149-152, 2008.12.
  2. Y. Minami, M. Sawaki, R. Higashinaka, K. Dohsaka, T. Yamada, T. Matsubayashi, H. Isozaki and E. Maeda : "Quizmaster Mushrooms: gWho is thish Quiz Dialogue Systemh, IEEE ASRU2007, 2007.12idemo sessionj[PDF].
  3. Minako Sawaki, Yasuhiro Minami, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kohji Dohsaka, Takeshi Yamada, Tatsushi Matsubayashi, Hideki Isozaki, and Eisaku Maeda: "Quizmaster Mushrooms: "Who is this" Quiz Dialogue System", ICMI2007(demo session), 2007.11.
  4. Yasuhiro Minami, Minako Sawaki, Kohji Dohsaka, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kentaro Ishizuka, Hideki Isozaki, Tatsushi Matsubayashi, Masato Miyoshi, Atsushi Nakamura, Takanobu Oba, Hiroshi Sawada, Takeshi Yamada, and Eisaku Maeda "The World of Mushrooms: Human-Computer Interaction Prototype Systems for Ambient Intelligence ", ICMI2007, pp.366-373, 2007.11.j[PDF].
  5. Marvin Decker and Minako Sawaki : "Lighting Independent Skin Tone Detection Using Neural Networks", IEICE Trans. Inf.& Syst., Vol.E90-D No.8 pp.1195-1198, 2007.8.
  6. Eisaku Maeda, Yasuhiro Minami, Masato Miyoshi, Minako Sawaki, Hiroshi Sawada, Atsushi Nakamura, Junji Yamato, Takeshi Yamada, and Ryuichiro Higashinaka : "The World of Mushrooms\A Transdisciplinary Approach to Human-Computer Interaction with Ambient Intelligence", NTT Technical Review , 2006.12, pp.17-25.
*** character recognition ***

  1. M. Mori, M. Sawaki, J. Yamato : gRobust character recognition using adaptive feature extractionh, IEEE International Conference Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, i2008/11j.
  2. Mori, Sawaki, Hagita : "Video Text Recognition Using Category-Dependent Feature Extraction Based on Feature Compensation", Syst. Comput. Jpn., 2005.10iin pressj.
  3. Mori, Sawaki, Hagita, Murase, Mukawa : "Robust Feature Extraction Method Based on Run-Length Compensation for Degraded Character Recognition", Syst. Comput. Jpn., Vol. 35, N. 9, pp.1-9, 2004.8.
  4. Shinmura, etc. : "Enhancing Character Recognition by Optimizing Focal Length", Proc. of MVA2002, 2002.12.
  5. Mori, Sawaki and Hagita. : "Category-dependent feature extraction for recognition of degraded handwritten characters", Proc. of ICPR2002, 2002.8.
  6. Mori, Sawaki, Hagita, Murase and Mukawa : "Robust feature extraction based on noise estimation for degraded-and-deformed character recognition, Proc. of ICDAR, 2001.9.
  7. Sawaki, Murase and Hagita : "Automatic Acquisition of Context-based Image Templates for Degraded Character Recognition in Scene Images", Proc. of ICPR2000.
  8. Sawaki, Murase and Hagita : "Characters Recognition in Bookshelf Images using Context-based Image Templates", Proc. of ICDAR '99, pp.79-82.
  9. Sawaki, Murase and Hagita : "Character Recognition in Bookshelf Images by Automatic Template Selection", Proc. of ICPR '98, Volume 2, pp.1117-1120.
  10. Sawaki, Hagita and Ishii : "Robust Character Recognition for Gray-Scale Images with Graphical Designs and Noise", Proc. of ICDAR '97, Volume 2, pp.491-494.
  11. Sawaki and Hagita : "Text-line Extraction and Character Recognition of Document Headlines with Graphical Designs using Complementary Similarity Measure", IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 20, pp. 1103 - 1109 (1998).
  12. Sawaki and Hagita : "Recognition of Degraded Machine-Printed Characters Using a Complementary Similarity Measure and Error-Correction Learning", IEICE trans. Inf. & Syst., Vol. E79-D, No. 5, May 1996.
  13. Sawaki and Hagita : "Text-line Extraction and Character Recognition of Japanese Newspaper Headlines with Graphical Designs", Proc. of ICPR, 1996.
  14. Sawaki and Hagita : "Character Recognition of Japanese Newspaper Headlines with Graphical Designs", Proc. of SPIE, 1995.
  15. Hagita, Sawaki and Ishii : "A Model for Selective Increase of Learning Samples in Character Recognition", Proc. of SPIE, 1995.
  16. Hagita and Sawaki : "Robust Recognition of Degraded Machine-Printed Characters Using Complementary Similarity Measure and Error Correcting Learning", Proc. of SPIE, 1994.
*** personal communication ***
  1. Fukayama, Ohno, Mukawa, Sawaki, Hagita : "Messages Embedded in Gaze of Interface Agents - Impression management with agent's gaze -", Proc. of CHI2002, 2002.
  2. Mukawa, Fukayama, Ohno, Sawaki and Hagita : "Gaze Communication between Human and Anthropomorhic Agent", Proc. of IEEE ROMAN2001, 2001.9.
  3. Fukayama, Sawaki, Ohno, Murase, Mukawa and Hagita : "Expressing Personality of Interface Agents by Gaze", INTERACT2001, 2001.7.
*** others ***
  1. Sawaki and Yamamori : "Effects of Meaningful Noise on Performance of Intellectual Tasks", IEICE trans.(E) letter.

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