An Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) and on editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), The Visual Computer journal, IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision Applications (CVA), and Encyclopedia of Computer Vision. Served as a Program Co-Chair of PSIVT 2010, 3DIMPVT 2011, ACCV 2012, ICCV 2017, and a General Co-Chair for ACCV 2014 and ICCV 2021. Won the Osaka Science Prize in 2022 and Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2025. A Fellow of IEEE and a member of IPSJ.
Research Experience
From April 2003 to March 2015, he was with Visual Computing group at Microsoft Research Asia. In April 2015, he joined Osaka University as a professor. By the end of September 2024, he is leaving Osaka University and joining Microsoft Research Asia to open its new research lab in Tokyo.
Education
Received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EECS from the University of Tokyo in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively.
Background
Research area includes computer vision, machine learning and optimization.