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Awards

Outstanding Presentation Award

for Akishige Yuguchi, Atsushi Nakazawa, Koichiro Yoshino, Sung-Gwi Cho, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara, "Comparison of the Beginning of Touching Motions by Humanitude Experts and Novices Through the Contact Surface of an FTIR Sensing System,"
in the 24th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI 2023), Niigata, Japan [Website].

Special Committee Award

for Nobuhiro Ueda, Hideko Habe, Akishige Yuguchi, Seiya Kawano, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Sadao Kurohashi, and Koichiro Yoshino,
"Construction of Multimodal Dialogue Dataset for Comprehensive Reference Analysis in the Real World,"
in the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2023), Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan [Website].

Outstanding Performance Award, 3rd place

for Shota Kanezaki, Kanta Watanabe, Seiya Kawano, Akishige Yuguchi, Marie Katsurai, and Koichiro Yoshino (Team ToastedMarshmallow),
"Multimodal Dialogue System Based on Predictions of Dialogue Act and Entrainment,"
in the 5th Dialogue System Live Competition in part of the 13th Dialogue System Symposium, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan [Website].

Best Research Award

for Taiki Nakamura, Seiya Kawano, Akishige Yuguchi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, and Koichiro Yoshino,
"Operative Action Captioning for Estimating System Actions,"
in the 253rd IPSJ Meeting for Special Interest Group of Natural Language Processing (SIGNL), Kyoto, Japan [Website].

Outstanding Presentation Award

for Mayuki Toyoda, Akishige Yuguchi, Sung-Gwi Cho, Yuki Sato, Jun Takamatsu, Atsushi Nakazawa, Takahiro Wada, and Tsukasa Ogasawara, "Analysis of Hand Contact Surface for Touching Motion Toward End-effector to Reproduce Humanitude’s Touching,"
in the 22nd SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI 2021), online, Japan.

Outstanding Presentation Award

for Tetsuya Sano, Akishige Yuguchi, Atsushi Nakazawa, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara,
"Human-like Eye Movement Behaviors for Android Robots Based on Human Observation,"
in the 19th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI 2018), Osaka, Japan.

Finalist of Best Paper in Biomimetics Award

for Akishige Yuguchi, Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Ricardez, Ming Ding, Jun Takamatsu, and Tsukasa Ogasawara,
"Gaze Calibration for Human-Android Eye Contact Using a Single Camera,"
in the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2017), Macau SAR, China.

Finalist of the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017, 6th Place

for Team NAIST-Panasonic, in Nagoya, Japan.

Student Award for Social Activity

at The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan.

Special Award from the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ)

in the 25th Intelligent Robot Contest 2013, Sendai, Japan [YouTube].

1st Place of the Technical Course Competition

in the 25th Intelligent Robot Contest 2013, Sendai, Japan [YouTube].

Research Grants

Creative and International Competitiveness Project (CICP 2020)

from Division of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan.

• Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

• Project theme: Operation of home appliances for cooking using service robots and ontology

• Budget: 550,000 JPY

JST CREST AIP Challenge Program

from  AIP Network Laboratory, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan.

• Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

• Project theme: Understanding and realization of eye behaviors using android robots for attentive listening

• Budget: 1,000,000 JPY

Academic Activity

Associate Editor:

• 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)

• 2023 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2023)

Program Committee Member:

• Augmented Humans International Conference 2024 (AHs 2024)

• 14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2024)

• 3rd International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2024)

• 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2023)

• Augmented Humans International Conference 2023 (AHs 2023)

• Augmented Humans International Conference 2022 (AHs 2022)

• 2nd International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2022)

• 1st International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2020)

Conference Session Organizer:

• 2024 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2024)

  • Cooperation between Human and Machine

• 2023 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2023)

  • Cooperation between Human and Machine

Award Judge:

• 2023 JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ROBOMECH 2023)

• 23rd SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI 2022)

Reviewer:

• Journal paper:

  • Scientific Reports

    • 2024: 1 paper

  • Advanced Robotics (International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan)

    • 2024: 1 paper (Full paper)

    • 2023: 1 paper (Full paper)

    • 2022: 1 paper (Full paper)

• Conference paper:

  • 3rd International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2024): 1 paper

  • 14th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2024): 2 papers

  • 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2023): 1 paper

  • 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2023): 1 paper

  • 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023): 1 paper

  • 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023): 1 paper

  • 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023): 1 paper

  • Augmented Humans International Conference 2023 (AHs 2023): 1 paper

  • 13th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS 2023): 2 papers

  • 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023): 1 paper

  • 14th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2022): 2 papers

  • 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction  (HAI 2022): 2 papers 

  • 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022): 3 papers

  • 2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2022): 1 paper

  • 2022 International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2022): 1 paper

  • Late-Breaking Reports Track of 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022): 1 paper

  • 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021): 2 papers

  • 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021): 3 papers

  • 2020 International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB 2020): 1 paper

  • 2019 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics (ARM 2019): 1 paper

Social Activity

Judge in the 44th All Japan Micromouse Tournament, Japan

Judge of Poster Presentation in the Chiba Prefectural Competition, RoboCupJunior 2022, Japan

Judge of OnStage Challenge in the Chiba Prefectural Competition, RoboCupJunior 2021, Japan

Judge and/or Staff as Volunteer of Rescue Challenge in RoboCupJunior, Japan

Japan Open (National) Competition 

Regional Competitions in Kansai Block Area

Regional Competitions in Kanto Block Area

Frontier Award Judge of the Chiba Prefectural Competition, RoboCupJunior 2017, Japan

Frontier Award Judge of the Chiba Prefectural Competition, RoboCupJunior 2015, Japan