Ms. Kono (D3) gave a poster presentation at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), which was held from April 14 to 19, 2024, in Seoul, Korea. Mayuka Kono, Yutaro Hirao, Monica Perusquía-Hernández, Naoya Isoyama, Hideaki Uchiyama;,Nobuchika Sakata, Jun Takamatsu, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa "U2R: Underwater Ultrasonic Reflection Wave Dataset Toward Pose-Invariant Material Recognition" Read more
On April 4th, 2024, we held a welcome party for our new members. We hope you make the most of your time and have a rewarding experience in our laboratory! Read more
On March 22, 2024, two students completed the doctoral program, and ten students completed the master's program. Due to business trips and relocations, only five of them attended the graduation ceremony. Congratulations to everyone! (Doctoral Program) Johannes Schirm "Quantitative Evaluation of Subjective Experience in Virtual Reality" Hu Xiaodan "Developing and Optimizing Soft-edge Occlusion System for Light Dimming Using Transmissive Liquid Crystal Displays" (Master's Program) Yuito Arisumi Read more
At the top-tier VR conference, IEEE VR 2024, held in Orlando, USA, from March 16 to 22, 2024, we gave six presentations. Hiroki Ota (M2) and alumnus Yan Zhang had their full papers accepted and delivered oral presentations. Xiaodan Hu (D2) presented a poster. Ryutaro Kurai (D1) gave an oral presentation at the 1st Workshop on Seamless Reality. Assistant Professor Yutaro Hirao presented a regular paper Read more
At the IEICE Well-being Information Technology (WIT) Workshop held on March 18–19, 2024, three presentations were delivered by Arisumi (M2), Kondo (M2), and Nakata (M2). Yuito Arisumi, Yutaro Hirao, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez (NAIST), Naoya Isoyama (Otsuma Women's University), Hideaki Uchiyama, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa (NAIST) "AR Onomatopoeia Teaching Materials for Generating Real-Time Onomatopoeia from Environmental Sounds" Chisa Kondo, Yutaro Hirao, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hideaki Uchiyama, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa (NAIST) Read more
At the IEICE Media Experience and Virtual Environment (MVE) Workshop held from March 13 to 15, 2024, seven presentations were delivered by Matsuda (D1), Ishizuka (M2), Higashiyama (M2), Paniagua (M1), Hori (M1), Otsubo (M1), and Kimura (M1). Hiroyuki Ishizuka (NAIST), Kenya Sakamoto, Sayaka Shirai, Jason Orlosky (Osaka University), Yutaro Hirao, Monica Perusquia Hernandez (NAIST), Naoya Isoyama (Otsuma Women's University), Hideaki Uchiyama, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa (NAIST) "Estimating Subjective Read more
We had a farewell party on March 11, 2024, for those who will be graduating this spring. Congratulations! Read more
On February 29, 2024, Dr. Rob Teather, a JSPS Invitation Fellow, delivered an invited lecture. On March 1, Dr. Ernst Kruijff and Dr. Bernhard Riecke, both here on a short-term visit for collaborative research, jointly gave an invited lecture. Title: The New Reality of Extended Reality: Empirical Evaluation of Interaction in XR Speaker: Rob Teather, Carleton University, Canada Abstract: Extended reality (XR), a catch-all term for Read more
From Monday, February 26, to Wednesday, February 28, 2024, we held a Spring Seminar with the participation of seven students. The seminar featured three themes: "Implementing and Experiencing Pseudo-Haptics (Touch Illusions)," "Creating AR Apps with Smartphones," and "Reading Biosignals to Recognize User States." Each student worked on the theme of their choice. Although some participants struggled due to time constraints, we believe they were able to Read more
We had Open Campus on February 24, 2024, and introduced our laboratory and demonstrated our research to many visitors either in-person or online. Thank you very much for coming! Read more
We had a trimonthly birthday party. Those who have a birthday between October and December were celebrated. Read more
Associate Professor Rob Teather from Carleton University, Canada, will stay at our laboratory from January 5 to March 4, 2024, under the JSPS Invitation Fellowship Program for Research in Japan (Short-term). During his stay, we plan to conduct collaborative research on haptic feedback for multi-user interactions in virtual reality. Additionally, Dr. Teather will be accompanied by his family, including his wife, Associate Professor Victoria McArthur, also Read more
Prof. Uchiyama gave an oral presentation at the HCG Symposium 2023, which was held from December 11th to 13th, 2023, on our former intern, Mr. Pereira's effort for an international competition on indoor localization, the xDR Challenge 2023. In our approach, we designed three techniques: Inertial Odometry, BLE-based Fingerprinting, and IMU-based Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR). Matthieu Pereira, Huakun Liu, Yutaro Hirao, Monica Perusquía-Hernández, Hideaki Uchiyama, and Read more
Xiaodan Hu (D3)'s paper has been accepted to Elsevier Display. Xiaodan Hu, Yan Zhang, Hideaki Uchiyama, Naoya Isoyama, Nobuchika Sakata, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, "Smart dimming sunglasses for photophobia using spatial light modulator," Displays, Vol. 81, Jan., 2024. (abstract) We present a smart sunglasses system engineered to assist individuals experiencing photophobia, particularly those highly sensitive to light intensity. The system integrates a high dynamic range (HDR) camera and a Read more
A co-authored paper with Osaka University, Augusta University, and Virginia Tech, has been published in IEEE TVCG (Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics). This is primarily a research achievement by Guanghan Zhao of Takemura Laboratory, Osaka University. Guanghan Zhao, Jason Orlosky, Joseph Gabbard, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, "HazARdSnap: Gazed-Based Augmentation Delivery for Safe Information Access While Cycling," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 30, No. Read more
We took a lab trip to Kotohira and Kurashiki on November 4th and 5th, 2023. 21 members enjoyed the travel very much! Read more
We organized the workshop themed Cyber-Physical Technologies for Affective Wellbeing (CPTAW) on October 27th and 28th, 2023 in Nara, Japan. The workshop provided an opportunity for young researchers to exchange their research progress and brainstorm about possible research directions to develop hardware and software that bridges the real and the virtual worlds (a target of Society 5.0) by improving the quality of human-human and human-agent communication Read more
Ms. Nakata (M2), Mr. Shinohara (M2), and Mr. Ohashi (M1) gave oral presentations at a workshop of the Technical Group on Media Experience and Virtual Environment (MVE), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), which was held from October 26th to 27th, 2023. Mr. Ohashi talked about his previous study which received a SIG-CS Award in 2022. In addition, Mr. Yamaoka (M2) received a Read more
We had a trimonthly birthday party. Those who have a birthday between July and September were celebrated. Read more
We had three presentations at the top conference on AR/MR/VR, ISMAR 2023 which was held from October 16 to 20, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. Our alumnus, Dr. Nakano, gave an oral presentation of a full paper. Mr. Ohashi gave a poster presentation. Ms. Hu had a poster presentation as the second author. (Conference Paper) Kizashi Nakano, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Naoya Isoyama, Hideaki Uchiyama, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, "Effects Read more
A co-authored paper with the University of Tsukuba and Tokyo Institute of Technology has been published in IEEE ToH (Transactions on Haptics). This is primarily a research achievement by の Jiayi Xu at the LE laboratory (Prof. Kuroda), University of Tsukuba. Jiayi Xu, Shoichi Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Naoto Ienaga, and Yoshihiro Kuroda, "Integration of Independent Heat Transfer Mechanisms for Non-Contact Cold Sensation Presentation with Low Residual Heat," Read more
Prof. Perusquia's following paper was presented at ACM ICMI 2023 (2023 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction), held from 9-13 October in Paris, France. Deffrennes, A., Vincent, L., Pivette, M., El Haddad, K., Bailey, J.D., Perusquía-Hernández, M., Alarcão, S.M., Dutoit, T. "The Limitations of Current Similarity-Based Objective Metrics In the Context of Human-Agent Interaction Applications" (Abstract) There are two main ways of evaluating a model generating an Read more
Prof. Kiyokawa gave a keynote entitled "Toward Smart Smart Glasses" at ACM SUI 2023 (ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction) which was held from October 13th to 14th, 2023, in Sydney, Australia. Read more
The graduation ceremony was held, and three master's students, Liu Huakun, Wei Xin, and Xia Wei completed their studies. All of them will proceed to the doctoral course. Congratulations to all of you! We wish you further success in the doctoral course! Read more
Mr. Ota (M2), Mr. Otsubo (M1), Ms. Kimura (M1), and Mr. Maeda (M1) have presented their studies at the 28th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan which was held from September 12th to 14th, 2023. Mr. Ota also demonstrated his system. Hiroki Ota, Yutaro Hirao, Monica Perusquía-Hernández, Hideaki Uchiyama, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa "A Scroll-type Haptic Device Using a Single Motor" (pdf) https://conference.vrsj.org/ac2023/program/doc/3A2-04.pdf Hiromu Otsubo, Read more
Prof. Perusquía and Ms. Matsuda (D1) gave the following oral presentations at ACII 2023 (the annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing) which was held from September 10th to 13th, 2023, in Cambridge, USA. Prof. Perusquía presented our effort for the Emotion Physiology and Experience Collaboration (EPiC) Competition on behalf of the team. The EPiC Competition was held as one of the Read more
Our alumnus, Ms. Sasaki has presented the following work at RO-MAN 2023 which was held from August 28th to 31st, 2023. In this research, we propose a haptic device that can present a wide range of softness-hardness by using a two-layered structure consisting of a pneumatic balloon and a mechanical piston. Takuya Sasaki, Daiki Hagimori, Monica Perusquía-Hernández, Naoya Isoyama, Hideaki Uchiyama, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, and Yoshihiro Kuroda, Read more
Mr. Liu (M2)'s paper has been published on IEEE TIM (Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement). In this study, we present a deep data-driven inertial measurement unit (IMU) online calibration (DUET) method that can compensate for the run-time errors of the accelerometer and gyroscope to improve inertial-based odometry. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10225410 Huakun Liu, Xin Wei, Monica Perusquía-Hernández, Naoya Isoyama, Hideaki Uchiyama, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa "DUET: Improving Inertial-Based Odometry via Read more
Our alumnus, Ms. Matsuo has presented the following work at APMAR 2023 (the 15th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Mixed and Augmented Reality) which was held from August 18th to 19th, 2023. In this research, we propose a method to operate a remote vehicle without causing any apparent delay even when communication delays are large. Shota Matsuo, Monica Perusquía-Hernández, Naoya Isoyama, Hideaki Uchiyama, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, "Vehicle Telepresence Read more
We exhibited a demo at ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 which was held from August 6th to 10th, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA. This year is the 50th anniversary of SIGGRAPH and some of the best interactive works shown at SIGGRAPH over the last 50 years were invited to the exhibition event called "Blasts From the Past". Our demonstration, "Occlusion-capable Optical See-through Head-mounted Displays," was originally exhibited in Read more