Scholar
Hiromu Taketsugu
Google Scholar ID: HkFAVbcAAAAJ
Toyota Technological Institute
Citations & Impact
Citations
8
H-index
2
i10-index
0
Publications
11
Co-authors
4
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- First-authored paper 'Active Transfer Learning for Efficient Video-Specific Human Pose Estimation' accepted to WACV (41% acceptance rate), Poster
- First-authored paper 'Physical Plausibility-aware Trajectory Prediction via Locomotion Embodiment' accepted to CVPR (22% acceptance rate), Poster
- First-authored paper 'Uncertainty Criteria in Active Transfer Learning for Efficient Video-Specific Human Pose Estimation' accepted to MVA 2023 (17% acceptance rate), Oral presentation
- Co-authored arXiv preprint 'Human Motion Prediction via Test-domain-aware Adaptation with Easily-available Human Motions Estimated from Videos'
- Published a Japanese-language paper in IPSJ CVIM
Background
- Ph.D. student (D1, enrolled 2025) at Toyota Technological Institute
- Member of the Intelligent Information Media Lab
- Advised by Prof. Norimichi Ukita
- Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Embodied AI, and Social Robotics
- Develops human/scene-interactive and physics-aware systems/robots
- JSPS Research Fellow (DC1, 14% acceptance rate)
- First author of papers accepted to top-tier conferences including CVPR and WACV
- Father of one daughter
Miscellany
- Owns a Maltese dog and a Ragdoll-Siamese mix cat
- Co-founded 'vista', a mutual progress management community, in 2020 with a close friend and continues to organize it
- Enjoys books that encourage scientific rethinking of daily life or philosophical reflection
- Passionate about language learning (Duolingo streak over 500 days), primarily practicing English and Vietnamese (his wife is Vietnamese)
- Loves traveling and connecting with new people
- Regularly works out; was captain of the Spartan Race Club at university
