Multimodal learning (Multimodality data + Deep learning)
Cross-domain Deep Feature Combination for Bird Species Classification with Audio-visual Data
- Purpose: to classify bird species
- Background: difficulty of fine-grained classification + employ art/pose based approaches to achieve good performance
- Methodology: Audio-Visual data + CNN + Multimodal learning
Product Detection on Retail Store Shelves
Dividing Products in Store Shelves by Detecting Horizontal Clapboard and Shadow for Product Recognition
Segmentation based Non-learning Product Detection for Product Recognition on Store Shelves
- Purpose: to detect products on retail store shelves
- Background: manual managements of the product arrangement waste resource + present methods require a template of the product
- Methodology: use segmentation to detect products without the templates
Multi-view Face Detection
Multi-view Face Detection using Flipping Scheme
Multi-view Face Detection using Frontal Face Detector
- Purpose: multi-view face detection
- Background: complex logic structure for multi-view detector
- Methodology: use frontal face detector only + mirror reversal theory
Rat head gaze determination
A Novel Rat Head Gaze Determination System Based on Optomotor Responses
- Purpose: rat head gaze determination
- Background: difficult to evaluate rat behavior without markers
- Methodology: homogeneous filtering + head gaze extraction
- Takuya Akashi, Hitoshi Kubota, Hiroyuki Tomita, Hiroyuki Konno.
Face sensing
High-speed Multiview Face Localization and Tracking with a Minimum Bounding Box Using Genetic Algorithm
- Purpose: multi-view face detection & tracking
- Background: high effort & cost of creating dataset & machine learning
- Methodology: no prior machine learning + evolutionary video processing by GA
Human pose estimation
3D Skeleton Matters: Human Pose Retrieval by Human Pose Reconstruction
- Haitian Sun, Chao Zhang, Takuya Akashi.
Interactive Depth Ambiguity Correction for 3D Human Pose Estimation
- Hiroki Hirayama, Haitian Sun, Chao Zhang, Takuya Akashi.
Object tracking for privacy protection
Investigation of Face Tracking Accuracy by Obscuration Filters for Privacy Protection
- Junya Sato, Takuya Akashi.
Parametric template matching
Fast Affine Template Matching over Galois Field
- Chao Zhang, Takuya Akashi.
Robust Projective Template Matching
Full results comparing against SIFT and ASIFT
- Chao Zhang, Takuya Akashi.
Non-parametric template matching
Robust Non-parametric Template Matching with Local Rigidity Constraints
Full results of the benchmark and source code
- Chao Zhang, Takuya Akashi.
Cell Nucleus Detection
Cell Nucleus Detection with Evolutionary Method for a Single Image
- Junya Sato, Takuya Akashi.
3D Pose Estimation
Cube Detection and Pose Estimation Using Property of a Cube with Evolutionary Method
- Kazuki Hiyama, Takuya Akashi.
Online Visual Tracking
Robust Visual Tracking via Coupled Randomness
- Chao Zhang, Takuya Akashi.
Local-changes invariant image matching
High-speed and Local-changes Invariant Image Matching
- Chao Zhang, Takuya Akashi.
Sketch-based image retrieval
Sketch-based Image Retrieval:Weighted HOG By Grayscale Value
- Sun Haitian, Zhang Chao, Takuya Akashi.
Marine computer vision
Investigation of the Practical Use of Motion Sensing by the Optical Flow Estimation for Motion Control System of a Boat
- Shigenobu Kato, Akio Numakura, Kazuyuki Sato, Tasuku Miyoshi, Kim Chyon Hae, Takuya Akashi.
Traffic sensing
Sensing of traffic flow in real-world for reconstruction in VR
- Guo Tian, Takuya Akashi.
Hand gesture estimation
単眼カメラによる進化的動画像処理を用いたモデルベース指屈曲姿勢推定
- 佐藤遼, 日山一樹, 明石卓也.
Basic shape detection
Deterministic Crowdingによる円検出に関する研究
- 平野靖尚, 佐藤惇哉, 明石卓也.
Road safety
Detection of Rushing out into the Street Using the Change of Scene
- Shinnosuke Naito, Takuya Akashi.
Pedestrian sensing with first-person view
An Evolutional Pedestrian Detection Method with Probability-Based Model
- Chao Zhang, Takuya Akashi.
Other Applied Research
Beauty Expert System using Face Sensing
- A-STEP High-risk Challenging type (Revitalization Promotion type) Type I, JST, 2014-2015.
Other Applied Research
- Revitalization Promotion Program (Matching Promotion) Type II, JST, 2013-2015.