Graph-Text Contrastive Learning of Inorganic Crystal Structure toward a Foundation Model of Inorganic Materials, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 2024
Fed3DGS: Scalable 3D Gaussian Splatting with Federated Learning, arXiv:2403.11460
Federated Learning for Large-Scale Scene Modeling with Neural Radiance Fields, arXiv:2309.06030
Multi-task Curriculum Learning based on Gradient Similarity, BMVC2022
Feature Space Particle Inference for Neural Network Ensembles, ICML2022
TeachAugment: Data Augmentation Optimization Using Teacher Knowledge, CVPR2022 (Oral)
Clustering as Attention: Unified Image Segmentation with Hierarchical Clustering, arXiv:2205.09949
Rethinking PointNet Embedding for Faster and Compact Model, 3DV2020
Superpixel Segmentation via Convolutional Neural Networks with Regularized Information Maximization, ICASSP2020
Unsupervised Auto-Encoding Multiple-Object Tracker for constraint-consistent combinatorial problem, ICASSP2020
Joint Pedestrian Detection and Risk-level Prediction with Motion-Representation-by-Detection, ICRA2020
QR-code Reconstruction from Event Data via Optimization in Code Subspace, WACV2020
Adversarial Transformations for Semi-Supervised Learning, AAAI2020
Superpixel Convolution for Segmentation, ICIP2018
Drive Video Analysis for the Detection of Traffic Near-Miss Incidents, ICRA2018
Research Experience
2024.04 - present: Chief Research Scientist at SB Intuitions Corp.
2025.01 - present: Director of Multimodal AI department
2024.11 - 2024.12: Manager of Vision & Language team
2024.04 - 2024.10: Senior Research Scientist at SB Intuitions Corp.
2024.04 - 2024.09: Manager at SoftBank Corp.
2018.04 - 2024.03: Research Scientist at Denso IT Laboratory, Inc.
2016.05 - 2018.03: Research assistant at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Background
Research interests include multimodal AI, computer vision, and natural language processing. Currently a Chief Research Scientist at SB Intuitions Corp. and has published papers at several international conferences.
Miscellany
MIRU2021, Interactive Presentation Award
SSII2021, Interactive Session Audience Award
MIRU2017, Student Excellence Award
PRMU Specialist, 2025
Developing large vision-language models, Sarashina2-Vision 8B, Sarashina2-Vision 14B
Reviewer, CVPR/ECCV/ICCV/WACV/NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML etc.
Tutorial Committee, SSII2024
PRMU/CVIM Research Mentorship Program 2023/2024/2025