Published papers include 'FineBio: A Fine-Grained Video Dataset of Biological Experiments with Hierarchical Annotation' in IJCV 2025, among others in top international conferences and journals.
Research Experience
Oct. 2025 - Present, Senior Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST); Nov. 2024 - Mar. 2025, Visiting Scholar at Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, researching on assembly action understanding from videos (Mentor: Prof. Kris Kitani); Apr. 2023 - Sep. 2025, Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Education
Obtained Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 2022, advised by Prof. Yoichi Sato.
Background
Research Interests: Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Human Behavior Understanding, First-Person Vision, Video Understanding, Hand-Object Interaction Understanding, Learning from Human Observation, Vision & Language, Assisting Human Activities with Computer Vision. Brief Introduction: Currently a Senior Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Miscellany
Email: takuma.yagi[at]aist.go.jp; Currently recruiting technical trainees (interns), RAs, or postdocs interested in video analysis research.