Introduction(English)

About me

Takuya Kato

Waseda University Leading Doctoral Course Embodiment Informatics (http://www.leading-sn.waseda.ac.jp/) 「WILL」Member Waseda University Department of Pure and Applied Physics Shigeo Morishima Lab Doctoral Course

ACM student member

Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), JSPS.

Email: takuya_lbj (a) ruri.waseda.jp

Address: zip 169-8555 Morishima lab. 55N406, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

[Research Interest]

・Robotics

・Perception

・Human Computer Interaction

・Entertainment Computing

・Charactor Animation

・Machine Learning

・Digital Dance ( http://research.mlabdance.com/)

Biography

2010.03 Waseda University High School

2010.04 Waseda University Department of Applied Physics

2014.03 Waseda University Department of Applied Physics (Bachelors)

2014.04 Waseda University Department of Pure and Applied Physics (Master Course)

2014.07 University of California, Los Angeles. Visiting Student.

Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology 2014 Participants (https://www.csst.ucla.edu/)

（Acceptance rate of Japanese Students:0.4%）

Mentor: Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dt/, Masaki Nakada(Ph.D. Candidate) http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~nakada/

Best Presenter Award (Top 6 out of 92 participants)

2016.03 Waseda University Department of Pure and Applied Physics (Master)

2014.04 Waseda University Department of Pure and Applied Physics (Doctoral Course)

2016.04 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), JSPS.

2017.04 University of California, Berkeley. Visiting Student Scholar.

(Mentor: Prof. Alexei Efros, Jun-Yan Zhu, Taesung Park)

Graduate Program for Embodiment Informatics Scholarship

[Others]

ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profile (http://www.siggraph.org/discover/inspiration/member-profiles/takuya-kato)

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Team Leader

SIGGRAPH 2016 Team Leader

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015 Student Volunteer Sub-Committee(http://sa2015.siggraph.org/en/student-volunteers/student-volunteers-committee.html)

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014, 2015 Student Volunteer

Waseda Wind Ensemble Stage Director (http://www.wasesui.net/)

『Hoop』2014 December Utah Jazz Season Prediction (amazon_link )

Internship

Walt Disney Company (Japan), Interactive Group Technology Team (2016. 12 - 2017.03)

OLM Digital Internship (2015.04-09 )(Mentor: Dr. Ken Anjyo http://www.olm.co.jp/rd/anjyo/)

Internship at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Dr. Masataka Goto https://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/ (2015. 09-10) (2016. 02-03)

Work Experience

Research assistant of CREST, JST. "Building a Similarity-aware Information Environment for a Content-Symbiotic Society." 04/2016 - 08/2016. [link]

Research assistant of ACCEL, JST. 09/2016 - 03/2021. [link]

Publications

International Conference(Reviewed)

[Full Paper]

  1. Character Transfer: Example-based individuality retargeting for facial animation (Acceptance rate 22%)
  2. Takuya Kato, Shunsuke Saito, Masahide Kawai, Tomoyori Iwao, AkinobuMaejima, Shigeo Morishima
  2. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2014 (WSCG2014), 121-129, June 2014\

[Short Papers / Techincal Briefs]

  1. Garment Transfer for Quadruped Characters
  2. Fumiya Narita, Shunsuke Saito, Takuya Kato, Tsukasa Fukusato, and Shigeo Morishima.
  3. Eurographics 2016, Lisbon, 2016.05.09-13.
  4. Region-Based Painting Style Transfer
  5. Shugo Yamaguchi, Takuya Kato, Tsukasa Fukusato, Chie Furusawa, Shigeo Morishima
  6. ACM SIGGRAPH Asia2015, Kobe, 2015.11.02-05.

[Posters]

  1. Yugo Sato, Takuya Kato, Naoki Nozawa, Shigeo Morishima. " Perception of Drowsiness based on Correlation with Facial Image Features" ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2016, Anaheim, 2016.07.22-23.
  2. Tsukasa Nozawa, Takuya Kato, Pavel Savkin, Naoki Nozawa, Shigeo Morishima, "3D Facial Geometry Reconstruction using Patch Database " ACM SIGGRAPH 2016, Anaheim, 2016.07.24-28.
  3. Shoichi Furukawa, Takuya Kato, Pavel Savkin, Shigeo Morishima, "Video Reshuffling: Automatic Video Dubbing without Prior Knowledge" ACM SIGGRAPH 2016, Anaheim, 2016.07.24-28. ACM Student Research Competition 1st Place.
  4. Savkin Pavel, Daiki Kuwahara, Masahide Kawai, Takuya Kato, Shigeo Morishima, "Wrinkles Individuality Representing Aging Simulation" ACM SIGGRAPH Asia2015, Kobe, 2015.11.02-05.
  5. Takuya KATO, Ryo SUZUKI, Naomi OKAMURA, Taro KANAI, Akira KATO, Yuko SHIRAI, “Musasabi: 2D/3D intuitive and detailed visualization system for the forest” ACM SIGGRAPH2015, Los Angeles, 2015.08.09-13.
  6. Hiroki Kagiyama, Masahide KAWAI, Daiki KUWAHARA, Takuya KATO, Shigeo MORISHIMA , “Automatic Synthesis of Eye and Head Animation According to Duration and Point of Gaze” ACM SIGGRAPH2015, Los Angeles, 2015.08.09-13.
  7. Fumiya NARITA, Shunsuke SAITO, Takuya KATO, Tsukasa FUKUSATO and Shigeo MORISHIMA, “Texture Preserving Garment Transfer” ACM SIGGRAPH2015, Los Angeles, 2015.08.09-13.
  8. Shugo YAMAGUCHI, Chie FURUSAWA, Takuya KATO, Tsukasa FUKUSATO, Shigeo MORISHIMA, "BGMaker: Example-Based Anime Background Image Creation from a Photograph" ACM SIGGRAPH2015, Los Angeles, 2015.08.09-13. ACM Student Research Finalist.(3rd Place)
  9. Fumiya Narita, Shunsuke Saito, Takuya Kato, Tsukasa Fukusato and Shigeo Morishima. "Pose-Independent Garment Transfer." ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014, Shenzhen, 2014.12.03-06.
  10. Takuya Kato, Shunsuke Saito, Masahide Kawai, Tomoyori Iwao, Akinobu Maejima and Shigeo Morishima. "Example-Based Blendshape Sculpting With Expression Individuality" ACM SIGGRAPH 2014, 7, Vancouver, 2014.08.10-14.

Domestic Journal (Japanese with English abstract)

  1. Pavel A. Savkin, Takuya Kato, Tsukasa Fukusato, Shigeo Morishima. "Aged Wrinkles Individuality Considering Aging Simulation." The Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), Vol.57, No.7, pp.1627--1637, 2016.07. Specially Selected Paper [link]

Japanese Conference (Reviewed)

[Oral Presentation]

  1. 山口周吾, 加藤卓哉, 古澤知英, 福里司, 森島繁生. " BG Maker ~アニメ背景画生成システムの提案とゲーム応用の可能性." Computer Entertainment Developers Conference 2015 (CEDEC2015), 横浜, 2015.08.26-28.
  2. 成田史弥, 斉藤隼介, 加藤卓哉, 福里司, 森島繁生. "ポーズに依存しない4足キャラクタ間の衣装転写システムの提案." Visual Computing/GCAD合同シンポジウム2015, 9, 姫路, 2015.06.28-29.(採択率:42%).
  3. サフキン・パーベル, 川井正英, 桑原大樹, 加藤卓哉, 森島繁生. "皺の発生過程を考慮した経年変化顔画像合成." Visual Computing/GCAD合同シンポジウム2015, 37, 姫路, 2015.06.28-29.(採択率:42%).
  4. 加藤卓哉. 森島繁生 "Character Transfer キャラクタ固有の表情特徴を考慮した顔アニメーション生成手法." Computer Entertainment Developers Conference 2014 (CEDEC2014), 横浜, 2014.09.02-04.

[Poster]

  1. 鍵山裕貴, 加藤卓哉, 森島繁生. "注視時間と注視位置が変化する際のキャラクタの頭部及び眼球運動の自動合成." Computer Entertainment Developers Conference 2015 (CEDEC2015), 横浜, 2015.08.26-28.

Japanese Conference (Not Reviewed)

[Oral Presentation]

  1. 成田史弥, 斉藤隼介, 加藤卓哉, 福里司, 森島繁生. "フィッティングを保持した体型の変化に頑健な衣装転写システムの提案." 情報処理学会 第77回全国大会, 4Y-02, 京都大学, 2015.03.18. 学生奨励賞
  2. サフキン・パーベル, 川井正英, 桑原大樹, 加藤卓哉, 森島繁生. "皺の個人性を考慮した経年変化顔画像合成" 情報処理学会 第77回全国大会, 4Y-05, 京都大学, 2015.03.18.
  3. サフキン・パーベル, 川井正英, 桑原大樹, 加藤卓哉, 森島繁生. "キャラクタ特有の特徴再現を考慮したリアルな表情リターゲッ ティング手法の提案." 情報処理学会 グラフィックスとCAD研究会第158回研究発表会, 15, 理化学研究所, 2015.02.27. 優秀研究発表賞
  4. 加藤卓哉, 斉藤隼介, 川井正英, 岩尾知頼, 前島謙宣 森島繁生. "キャラクタに固有な表情変化の特徴を反映したキーシェイプ自動生成手法の提案." 情報処理学会 第76回全国大会, 4ZC-3, 東京電機大学, 2014.03.12. 学生奨励賞
  5. 加藤卓哉, 川井正英, 斉藤隼介, 岩尾知頼, 前島謙宣 森島繁生. "キャラクタ特有の特徴再現を考慮したリアルな表情リターゲッティング手法の提案." 情報処理学会 グラフィックスとCAD研究会第154回研究発表会, 15, 理化学研究所, 2014.02.21.

[Poster]

  1. Shugo Yamaguchi, Takuya Kato, Tsukasa Fukusato, Chie Furusawa, Shigeo Morishima (Waseda Univ.). "Region-Based Painting Style Transfer." MIRU2015, SS5-33, 大阪, 2015.07.27 - 30.
  2. 加藤卓哉, 斉藤隼介, 川井正英, 岩尾知頼, 前島謙宣 森島繁生. "キャラクタ固有の表情特徴を考慮した顔アニメーション生成手法." Visual Computing/GCAD合同シンポジウム2014, 37, 東京, 2014.06.29-30.

Others

  1. "Character Transfer: Example-based individuality retargeting for facial animations" Skindulgence Let Your Beauty Shine Through. [link]

Presentation / Lecture

  1. OngaCREST Symposium 2016(https://ongacrest.jp/symposium2016/).
  2. Program for leading Graduate Schools Forum 2015 2015.10.24-25. [link]
  3. Graduate Program for Embodiment Informatics Waseda University Program for Leading Graduate Schools 3rd Symposium "Challenges for 2nd year", "Musasabi: 2D/3D intuitive and detailed visualization system for the forest” Oral Presentation 2015.10.29.[link]

Funding

  1. Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1) 2016.04-2019.03. [link]
  2. Graduate Program for Embodiment Informatics Scholarship(http://www.leading-sn.waseda.ac.jp/) 2014.04 - 2016. 03
  3. University of California, Los Angeles, Cross-disciplinary Scholars in Science and Technology 2014.07-2014.09