Laboratory

Members in 2021†

• Associate Professor: Nobuyuki Umezu, Dr. Sci., Major in Mech. Systems Eng.
• 13 students
  • Master course 2nd grade: 5
  • Master course 1st grade: 4
  • Undergraduate: 4

Locations†

• E2-501: Lab 1
• E2-510: Lab 2 where the students live
• E2-405: Prof. room
• XX-XXX: Lab 3 for IoT + XR Demonstration

Research topics for students: Undergraduates†

• 2022: Tentative
  • Learning Support with Tangible Environment for Voronoi Diagrams
  • Passing Practice Support for Football Players with First Person Videos
  • Visualizing Visitor Trajectories with Low-Cost LiDAR Sensors
  • Learning Support with Floor-Projected Interactive Contents
  • Development of Infokiosk for Museums with Touchless Operations
  • Learning Support with Tangible Environment for Introductory Programing

• 2021
  • Indoor navigation based on floor map photographs in multi-floor facilities
  • Support for Hand Writing Practice with Emphasized Visual Instructions
  • English Vocabulary Study System based on Image Recognition of Daily Objects
  • Realtime support for Drawing Beginners using a Document Camera

• 2020
  • Supporting Sports Instruction with Comparative Display of Forms
  • Chord-based Visualization of Temporal structure of Symphony
  • Gaze Interface for Contactless Personal ID Input
  • Webcam-based Categorization of Task Engagement of PC Users at Work
  • Presenting Text Layout and Color Patterns Suitable for Book Covers

• 2019
  • Recipe Recommendation and Cooking Instruction based on Food Material Recognition
  • Automatic Generation of Video Summaries for Efficient Route Instruction
  • Automatic Frame Generation with GAN for Animation Production Support
  • Representative Thumbnail Selection from Many Images based on Image Classification
  • Design of Qualitative / Quantitative Database of Audio Features for Supporting Wind Instrument Players

• 2018
  • Automatic generation of musical medleys based on chord and tempo extraction
  • Pseudo-3D display based on head tracking for viewpoint image generation
  • Mood visualization using features extracted from financial news text
  • Improvements on DNN-based pose estimation in still images by learning different datasets
  • Monochrome photograph colorization based on segmentation using deep learning

• 2017
  • Fast similarity calculation between images for realtime photomosaic generation
  • An improved color space for monochome image colorization
  • Keyboard play learning support using mirrored video
  • Image features on movie thumbnails for list display on portable devices

• 2016
  • Numerical evaluation of elements layout in presentation slides
  • Development of information presentation system with mirror integrated display
  • Quality assessment of photomosaics using measures similar to subject impression

• 2015
  • Numeric evaluation of the visibility in presentation slides
  • Visualizing typical colors of words in multiple languages
  • 2D wavelet transform data compression with error level guarantee for Z-map models

• 2014
  • Computer-aided coloring of monochrome images
  • Extracting position characteristics from images on the web
  • Visualization of color terms based on images on the web
  • Acceleraating thumbnail generation from JPEG images
  • Contents-based thumbnailing for short video

• 2013
  • Effects of viewing angles and object colors in miniature photographs
  • Improvements to a support system for composition rules of photograph
  • Extracting features contributing miniature effect in images on the web
  • Extracting chord progressions from audio files and its applications
  • A coloring system for monochrome images with human faces

Research topics for students: Master course†

• 2018
  • Development of a web-based rating system for slide visibility and its evaluation
  • Development of A Smart Mirror with Life Log Functions and Its Evaluation

• 2017
  • Rapid Construction of Coarse Indoor Maps for Mobile Robots
  • Improving 2D Wavelet Transform Data Compression for Shape Models

• 2016
  • Coloring assistance with region segmentation based on textures in monochrome images
  • Selecting few representative images for thumbnails of many images
  • Thumbnail generation for videos with multiple shots

• 2015
  • A coloring algorithm of human faces in monochrome images

• 2014
  • N/A

• 2013
  • Wavelet transform data compression with error guarantee for Z-map models
  • Multiresolution photographic mosaics maintaining image boundaries
  • Co-compression algorithm based on block similarities in JPEG images