Research Interests

• Cognitive Modelling with Deep Neural Network

• Homeostatic Neural Network

• Behavioral Turing Test

• Adaptive behaviors

• Evolution

• Unconscious learning 

• Collective behaviors

• Virtual reality

• Complexity

• Adversarial Imitation Learning

• Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Projects

Publication List 

News

• Our paper was awarded the Outstanding Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on CI in Artificial Life and Cooperative Intelligent Systems (IEEE ALIFE-CIS), held from March 17-20, 2025. The title of the awarded paper is "Shared Encoding and Representation of Tool-Mediated and Direct Touch via Superposition Mechanisms."

• Our new paper titled " Multi-stream Single Network: Efficient Compressed Video Action Recognition with a Single Multi-input Multi-output Network" was accepted in IEEE ACCESS (2024. 2. 8)

• 2022年に「人工知能」に書いた「生命への構成論的アプローチ 」が一般公開されました。
  飯塚博幸. (2022). 生命への構成論的アプローチ. 人工知能, 37(1), 4-11. (2024. 1. 1)

• 共有モジュールネットワークを用いた自他分離と記号接地シミュレーション. シミュレーション= Journal of the Japan Society for Simulation Technology/日本シミュレーション学会 編, 42(3), 150-157. シミュレーションに掲載されました。

• The following special issue titled "Artificial Life and Art" was published in Japanese (2023.9.1). 飯塚博幸, 人工生命研究とアート,  特集：メディアアートの拡張と普遍化, 映像情報メディア学会誌, Vol. 77, No. 5, 577--579, 2023

• Our new paper titled "Hybrid Life: Integrating biological, artificial, and cognitive systems" was accepted in WIREs Cognitive Science (2023. 5. 30)

• Our new paper titled "Elucidation of the Correlation between Heme Distortion and Tertiary Structure of the Heme-Binding Pocket Using a Convolutional Neural Network" was accepted in Biomolecules (2022. 8. 22)

• Our new paper titled "Compressed video ensemble based pseudo-labeling for semi-supervised action recognition" was accepted in Machine Learning with Applications (2022. 6. 7)

• Our new paper titled "Superposition mechanism as a neural basis for understanding others" was accepted in Scientific Reports(2022. 2. 21)

• We organize a special session entitled "Brain theory from ALIFE" at the 27th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (2022, 1, 26). The talks were uploaded on youtube. 

• Our new paper titled "Multi-modal shared module that enables bottom-up formation of map representation and top-down map reading" was accepted in the journal of Advanced Robotics (2021. 10. 1)

• Invited talks at the "projection" workshop of the 38th annual meetings of Japanese cognitive science society (日本認知科学会) (2021. 9. 05)

• Our paper titled "Electrical Generation of Intranasal Irritating Chemosensation" was accepted in IEEE ACCESS (2021.7.23). 

• Talks at Alife2021 meeting in Tokyo (2021, 7, 17)