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Kazuhiro Otsuka, Ph. D.　

Professor

Specialization in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering Science,
Yokohama National University

Contact

79-5, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama-shi, 240-8501 JAPAN
Laboratory: Room 308/310, Electrical and Computer Engineering Bldg.
E-mail: otsuka-kazuhiro-xb[at-mark]ynu.ac.jp

Research Areas

  • Multimodal Interaction, Social Signal Processing
  • Nonverbal Communications
  • Conversation Scene Analysis, Human Behavior Recognition
  • Telepresence Systems
  • Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, Bayes Models, Artificial Intelligence

Past Project at NTT

  • Multimodal Conversation Scenen Analysis
    • Realtime system for multimodal meeting scene analysis (2005-2010)
    • Automatic estimation of conversation structures and gaze directions in multiparty meetings (2005-2020)
    • Functional head movements analysis and recognition (2018-)
    • Automatic estimation of empathy/antipathy among meeting participants (2009-2012)
  • Multimodal Communication Systems
    • MM-Space: Reconstructing multiparty meetings using kinetic displays (2011)
    • MM+Space: 4-degree-of-freedom kinetic displays for reconstructing multiparty meeting scenes (2013)
    • MMSpace: Realtime kinetic telepresence system (2006)
  • Computer Vision
    • STCTracker: GPU-accelerated high-speed particle filter for face pose tracking (2007-2008)
    • Memory-based particle filter for robust face pose tracking (2009-2010)

Education

1993.3 B.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University
1995.3 M.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University
2007.3 Doctor of Information Science from Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University

Professional Experience

1995.4- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan
1995.8- NTT Human Interface Laboratories
1999.2- NTT Cyber Space Laboratories
2000.1- NTT Cyber Solution Laboratories
2001.4- NTT Communication Science Laboratories (NTT-CSL)
2007.4- Senior Research Scientist in NTT-CSL’s Media Information Lab. 
2010.7-9 Distinguished Invited Researcher at Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
2012.10- Senior Research Scientist/ Supervisor in NTT-CSL’s Human Information Science Lab.
2018.9-2020.3 Part-time lecturer in Department of Optical and Imaging Science and Technology, School of Engineering, Tokai University
2020.4- Tenure-track Associate Professor in Graduate School of Engineering Science, Yokohama National University

Publication

Awards

  1. IEICE Human Communication Group (HCG) Symposium’s Excellent Interactive Session Award, Dec. 2018
  2. IEICE Human Communication Group (HCG) Symposium’s Excellent Interactive Session Award, Dec. 2015
  3. IEICE Human Communication Group (HCG) Symposium’s Excellent Interactive Session Award, Dec. 2015
  4. IEICE Human Communication Group (HCG) Symposium’s Organized Session Award, Dec. 2015
  5. IEICE Human Communication Award (Dec. 2014)
  6. IEICE Human Communication Group (HCG) Symposium’s Excellent Interactive Session Award, Dec.2012
  7. 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2014) Outstanding Paper Award (Nov. 2014)
  8. 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2012) Outstanding Paper Award （Nov. 2012)
  9. METI(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) of Japan, Innovative Technologies Special Award (Ecology) 2012,
  10. METI(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) of Japan, Innovative Technologies Award 2012 (Digital Content Expo 2012),
  11. JSAI, Incentive Award 2011 (Co-authored）
  12. MIRU2011 (Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding) Interactive Session Award (Jul. 2011)
  13. IEICE KIYASU-Zen’iti Award (2010)
  14. IEICE Best Paper Award (2010)
  15. MIRU2009 (Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding) Excellent Paper Award (Jul. 2009)
  16. IEICE MVE(Technical Group on Multimedia and Virtual Environment) MVE Award (Nov. 2008)
  17. 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2007) Honorable Mention
  18. ACM 9th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI2007) Outstanding Paper Award
  19. IAPR 10th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Best Paper Award (1999)
  20. IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Best Paper Award of IPSJ National Convention(1998)
  21. IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Young Researcher’s Award (1998)

Professional affiliations

  • IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Member  2005 ~
  • IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan) Senior Member 
  • IPSJ(Information Processing Society of Japan)  Member 1996~

Professional Activities

  • IEICE Transactions Reviewer 2012 Jan — Present
  • IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (Japanese Edition) Associate Editor 2010May- 2014Apr
  • IPSJ Transaction on Computer Vision and Image Media, Associate Editor 2004 Apr – 2008 July
  • IPSJ SIG on Computer Vision and Image Media, Expert Member 2003Apr – 2009Mar
  • IPSJ 70-th National Convention of IPSJ 2008 Session Chair
  • ACM ICMI-MLMI2009, Area Chair
  • ICMI-MLMI2011 Demo Chair
  • IEEE FG2011 Area Chair
  • ACM ICMI2013 Doctoral Consortium Mentor
  • ACM ICMI2014 Demo Chair
  • ACM ICMI2016 Doctoral Consortium Mentor
  • IEICE Technical Committee on Verbal Nonverbal Communication, Chair 2016 April ~
  • IEICE Technical Committee on Verbal Nonverbal Communication, Vice Chair 2010 April ~ 2016 Mar,
  • IEICE Technical Committee on Verbal Nonverbal Communication, Committee Member 2008 April ~
  • ACM 1st. Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia  (HCM’06) Technical Program Committee
  • ACM 2nd. International Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia (HCM’07) Technical Program Committee
  • ACM 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM2008) Reviewer
  • ACM Multimedia 2007 Technical Program Committee 
  • ACCV2007 Reviewer 
  • FIT2007 Reviewer
  • ACM 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM2008) Reviewer 
  • ACM 2nd Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia, Technical Program Committee 
  • ACM MMM2009 Program Committee
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) Reviewer 2008～2009
  • ACM Multimedia 2009 Technical Program Committee
  • IEEE International Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis (SBA2011) Reviewer
  • MIRU2011 Program Committee
  • MIRU2012 Program Committee
  • SSII2011 Reviewer
  • SSII2012 Reviewer
  • SSII2013 Reviewer
  • SSII2014 Reviewer
  • SSII2015 Reviewer
  • ACM Multimedia 2015 Technical Program Committee
  • ACM ICMI2015 Technical Program Committee
  • ACM ICMI2016 Technical Program Committee
  • ACM ICMI2016 Doctoral Consortium Mentor
  • ACM IUI2017 Technical Program Committee
  • ACM ICMI2018 Technical Program Committee
  • ACM ICMI2019 Technical Program Committee