2025, 'Rethinking Open-Set Object Detection: Issues, A New Formulation, and Taxonomy', International Journal of Computer Vision
2025, 'Self-Supervised Learning of Intertwined Content and Positional Features for Object Detection', ICML
2025, 'MS-DPPs: Multi-Source Determinantal Point Processes for Contextual Diversity Refinement of Composite Attributes in Text to Image Retrieval', IJCAI
2024, 'Exploring the Potential of Multi-Modal AI for Driving Hazard Prediction', IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
2024, 'SBCFormer: Lightweight Network Capable of Full-size ImageNet Classification at 1 FPS on Single Board Computers', WACV
2024, 'Contextual Affinity Distillation for Image Anomaly Detection', WACV
2023, 'Symmetry-aware Neural Architecture for Embodied Visual Navigation', IJCV
2023, 'Unsupervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation via cross-region alignment', CVIU
2023, 'Accurate Single-Image Defocus Deblurring Based on Improved Integration with Defocus Map Estimation', ICIP
2022, 'Bridging the Gap from Asymmetry Tricks to Decorrelation Principles in Non-contrastive Self-supervised Learning', NeurIPS
2022, 'GRIT: Faster and Better Image-captioning Transformer Using Dual Visual Features', ECCV
2021, 'Matching in the Dark: A Dataset for Matching Image Pairs of Low-light Scenes', ICCV
2021, 'Look Wide and Interpret Twice: Improving Performance on Interactive Instruction-following Tasks', IJCAI
2021, 'Hyperparameter-Free Out-of-Distribution Detection Using Cosine Similarity', ACCV
2020, 'Evolution of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Using Cartesian Genetic Programming', Evolutionary Computation
2020, 'Efficient Attention Mechanism for Visual Dialog that can Handle All the Interactions between Multiple Inputs', ECCV
2020, 'Analysis and a Solution of Momentarily Missed Detection for Anchor-based Object Detectors', WACV
2019, 'Attention-based Adaptive Selection of Operations for Image Restoration in the Presence of Unknown Combined Distortions', CVPR
2019, 'Dual Residual Networks Leveraging the Potential of Paired Operations for Image Restoration', CVPR
Research Experience
2024.8 - Present: Research Scientist at Sakana AI (Cross appointment with Tohoku University from 2024.8 to 2025.1)
2021.11 - 2025.1: Visiting Researcher at RIKEN AIP
2018.10 - 2025.1: Assistant Professor at Tohoku University (Cross appointment with RIKEN AIP from 2017.10 to 2021.9)
2017.10 - 2021.9: Researcher at RIKEN AIP (Cross appointment with Tohoku University)
2015.4 - 2017.9: Research Fellow (DC1) at Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Background
A research scientist working at Sakana AI in Tokyo. His research focuses on developing good vision and language models.