2015

• (Nov 21) Attended Rakuten Technology Conference, Tokyo
• Invited Speaker: Pr. Takeo Kanade, CMU --> photo with part of the team!

Pr. Kanade with part of the Team at Rakuten, Tokyo.

• (Nov 8-9) Gave industry talk at MathWorks Asian Faculty Research Summit 2015, Tokyo
• (Oct) Promoted to Vice Manager of our new Visual Computing Group (Research Lead)
• (Oct 19-22) Attend 3DV2015, Lyon, France
• (Oct 1) Welcome to Dr. Bjorn Stenger! [scholar]
• (Oct 1) Welcome to Dr. Tomoyuki Mukasa (Kyoto Univ.)!
• (Oct 1) Welcome to Dr. Daiki Kimura (Tokyo Tech)!
• (Sep 29) Attend ISMAR15, Fukuoka, Japan: Rakuten Bronze sponsorship + demo
• (Sep 19) Attend Matsuyama Laboratory 20th anniversary symposium at Kyoto University :)
• (Aug-) Welcome to Tommi Kerola (Intern, PhD student from Tokyo Tech)!
• (Aug 23) Rakuten is a Gold sponsor of the Machine Learning Summer School to be held in Kyoto! Find us there! [MLSS]
• (July 13) Rakuten acquired fits.me (UK virtual fitting room startup), now our new collaborators!
• (July-) Welcome to Adnane Boukhayma (Intern, PhD student from Morpheo team, INRIA Grenoble)!
• (Jun-) Welcome to Dr. Jiu Xu (Waseda Univ.)!
• (Jun 1) SIGGRAPH 2015 Poster accepted [link]
• (May 26) Keynote Speech at Kinovis Inaugural Workshop on dynamic 3D shape modeling, INRIA Grenoble, France [link]
• (Mar 04) Rakuten Reality Domain Group has a paper accepted at CVPR2015!
• (Feb 28) Summary of my research work at Matsuyama Laboratory, Kyoto University on YouTube [link] and slideshare [link] 
• (Feb 20) The Visual Computer journal paper to be published in Mar. 2015 [link]
• (Feb-) Welcome to Shintaro Murakami (Intern, MS student from Sato Laboratory, The University of Tokyo)!
• (Jan 23) Poster&Demo at IPSJ SIG-CVIM: Computer Vision and Image Media, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
• Collaboration with Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

2014

• (Dec 22) VR tourism application demo using Oculus Rift DK2 at Nagano prefecture office, Tokyo
• Press and Media coverage by national television TV Tokyo [link]
• (Dec 8-11) Present paper at 3DV2014, Tokyo [link]
• (Dec 8) Session chair at 3DV WS on Dynamic Shape Measurement and Analysis
• (Nov 21) Guest speaker at plenary session - French Chamber of Commerce in Japan (Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie au Japon) []
• Research seminar co-organized by the French Embassy and the CNRS (National Scientific Research Center of France)
• (Oct 1) Joined Rakuten, Inc. as Lead Scientist of the Reality Domain Group, Rakuten Institute of Technology (Computer Vision R&D)

Recap of my 3D Video projects at Matsuyama Lab., Kyoto University, Japan (2008-2014).

• (Sep) Photo with Matsuyama Laboratory [here]
• (Sep 8) Paper accepted at 3DV2014
• (Sep 6-12) Presented paper at ECCV2014, Zurich, Switzerland
• Collaboration with INRIA Grenoble, France
• (Sep 1-2) Gave invited talk at IPSJ SIG-CVIM: Computer Vision and Image Media, University of Tsukuba [url]
• (Aug 6) In Program Committee of the 3DV Workshop on Dynamic Shape Measurement and Analysis [url] 
• (July 12-13) Staff at Kyoto University-Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Prize Symposium [url]
• Invited Speakers: Pr. Pentland (MIT), Pr. Kanade (CMU), Pr. LeCun (Facebook/NYU)
• (July 11) In Program Committee of ACM VRST2014 Symp. Virtual Reality Software and Technology [url]
• (Jun 23-28) Presented paper at CVPR2014, Columbus, Ohio, USA [Publications][spotlight]
• (Jun 16) Paper accepted at ECCV2014 [Publications]
• (Jun 11) Released code for dynamic surface alignment using geodesic mapping (our CVPR10 and PAMI14 papers) [Downloads][Github]
• (Jun 6) Released library libamrg to compute augmented Multiresolution Reeb Graphs and 3D shape similarity [aMRG]
• (May 4) IEEE Trans. Human-Machine Systems journal paper accepted (multimodal human-human interaction) [Publications]
• (Apr 2) Grant-in-aid for young scientist awarded by JSPS (2-year project funding)
• (Apr 1) Microsoft Azure project nominated "lighthouse" project (value: sixty man-hours)
• (Mar 24-28) Hosted Dr. Franck Hetroy-Wheeler (Assoc. Pr.) from INRIA Grenoble, France (Talk on Point Cloud Processing of Trees and Plants)
• (Mar 13) In Program Committee of 3DV2014 Int'l Conf. 3D Vision [url]
• (Feb 25) Paper accepted at CVPR2014 [Publications] [youtube]
• (Feb 16) The Visual Computer journal paper accepted (inconsistent geometric data encoding) [Publications]
• (Feb 8) Selected to participate in the Kinect for Windows v2 Developer Preview Program
• (Jan 11) Won Microsoft Azure for Research Award (value: 40,000 USD)
• (Jan 9) IPSJ Trans. CVA paper accepted (kinematic structure estimation) [Publications]

2013

• (Dec) Received Dr. Jean-Sebastien Franco (Assoc. Pr.) and Benjamin Allain (PhD stu.) from INRIA Grenoble, France
• Dr. J.-S. Franco gave a talk on Advances in 4D Modeling
• (Dec 2) Visited Microsoft Japan, Shinagawa HQ, Tokyo, Japan
• (Nov 21-26) Visited Morpheo research team at INRIA Grenoble, France
• Gave talk at seminar on 4D modeling
• (Nov 8) Received Pr. James J. Little from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 
• (Talks on `Tracking and Measurements in Sports Video` and `Actively Using Vision and Context for Home Robotics`)
• (Oct 8) Online version of PAMI[ieee] and CVPR13[ieee] are available on IEEE Xplore [Publications]
• (Oct 5) Added C++ code to compute geodesics on 3D surface mesh [Downloads]
• (Sep 12) View online 3D video reconstruction sample here (with JAVA) [Downloads]
• (Aug 20) IEEE Trans. PAMI paper accepted [Publications]
• (Jul 30-Aug 1) Gave talk (invited lecture) at MIRU2013, Tokyo, Japan [link]
• (Jul 21-26) Presented paper at HCI2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA [Publications]
• (Jul 19) In Program Committee of ICCV2013 Int'l Workshop on Dynamic Shape Capture and Analysis (4DMOD) [link]
• (Jul 3) In Program Committee of ACPR2013 Int'l Joint Workshop on Advanced Sensing / Visual Attention and Interaction (ASVAI) [link]
• (Jul 2) Obtained Highly Skilled Professional status from Ministry of Justice, Japan
• (Jun 23-28) Presented paper at CVPR2013 in Portland, Oregon, USA [Publications]
• (Jun 20) Added a mini tool to test photometric stereo using a monitor (laptop/desktop) as light source [Downloads]
• (Jun 8) Met the President of France François Hollande at the French embassy in Tokyo, Japan [see photo]
• (May 22) Received Dr. Tae-Kyun Kim (Lecturer) from Imperial College London, UK (Talk on Randomised Forests)
• (May 8) Added "Downloads" section to this webpage. You will find:
• Binaries to compute augmented Multiresolution Reeb Graphs (aMRG) from 3D models as in [Tung et al., IJSM2005]: [here]
• 1000 meshes from the "Yoga" sequence used in [Tung et al., PAMI2012]: [here] and [here] (please don't forget to cite us)
• (May 2) Received Dr. Alejandro Ribes (Research Eng.) from EDF R&D, France (Talk on Multispectral Imaging)
• (Apr 18) Received Dr. Tamy Boubekeur (Assoc. Pr.) and Noura Faraj (PhD stu.) from Telecom ParisTech, France
• (Mar 18-19) Gave talk at Kyoto University and Queen Mary University of London Symposium on Intelligent Sensing, Kyoto University [link]
• (Mar 6) Gave talk at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
• (Mar 5) Gave talk at Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
• (Mar 2) Paper accepted at CVPR2013
• (Feb 4) In Program Committee of CVPR2013 Int'l Workshop on Human Activity Understanding from 3D Data (HAU3D) [link] 
• (Feb) Hosted Benjamin Petit (PhD stu.) and Vagia Tsiminaki (PhD stu.) from INRIA Grenoble for one month, France
• (Feb 1) In Program Committee of 3DV2013 Int'l Conf. 3D Vision [link] 
• (Jan 22) Gave talk at 3D Human Behavior Analysis Workshop, Kyoto University [link]
• Received Pr. Adrian Hilton from University of Surrey, UK (Talk at Workshop)
• Received Pr. Edmond Boyer from INRIA Grenoble, France (Talk at Workshop)

3D Video of traditional Japanese dance performed by Maiko-san, captured at Mastuyama Lab., Kyoto University, Japan.