- Organized major conferences, including CVPR 2023, ICCV 2021, ECCV 2012, ACCV 2018, and ACCV 2016
- Editorial board member, International Journal of Computer Vision
- Area chair, ICCV 2025
- Senior Area Chair, CVPR 2026
Research Experience
- 2013-2023, Director, Center for Socio-Global Informatics
- 2010 Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
- 2005 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
- 2000 Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
- 1997 Assistant Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
- 1997 Research Scientist, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Education
- 1997 Ph.D. in Robotics, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- 1993 M. Sci. in Robotics, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- 1990 B. Eng, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Background
- Research interests cover various topics in computer vision, from human behavior understanding to object appearance analysis, such as egocentric vision, gaze sensing, and physics-based vision
- Involved in journal editorial work, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, and Computer Vision and Image Understanding
- Held key roles in organizing major conferences such as CVPR 2023 General Co-Chair, ICCV 2021 Program Co-Chair, ECCV 2012 Program Co-Chair, ACCV 2018 General Co-Chair, and ACCV 2016 Program Co-Chair
- IAPR Fellow, IEICE Fellow, and AAIA Fellow
Miscellany
- Affiliated with two graduate schools of the University of Tokyo: Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology and Emerging Design and Informatics Course, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies