About me
I am a robotics researcher in TOYOTA Central R&D Labs, Inc. In 2022, I was dispatched in TOYOTA Motor North America as a executive engineer and visiting in University of California, Berkeley. In Univeristy of California, Berkeley, I am working with Prof. Sergey Levine as a visiting research fellow.
From 2017 to 2019, I was a visiting scholar in Stanford University and worked with Prof. Silvio Savarese. Before joining into TOYOTA group, I was a research associaite in Nagoya Institute of Technology for 3.5 years and received Ph.D degree in 2008.
Research interest
Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer vision, Motion Control
Selected publication
Vision-based navigation
SELFI: Autonomous Self-Improvement with Reinforcement Learning for Social Navigation [arXiv]
arXiv (pre-print only now)
Noriaki Hirose, Dhruv Shah, Kyle Stachowicz, Ajay Sridhar and Sergey Levine
SACSoN: Scalable Autonomous Control for Social Navigation [RA-Letters][Web][arXiv][Code]
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-Letters)
Live demo: Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023
Presen.: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
Presen.: 2nd workshop Social Robot Navigation: Advances and Evaluation in IROS 2023
Noriaki Hirose, Dhruv Shah, Ajay Sridhar and Sergey Levine
DVMPC: Deep Visual MPC-Policy Learning for Navigation [RA-Letters][Web][arXiv]
IEEE RA-Letters 2019 (IROS presentation)
Noriaki Hirose, Fei Xia, Roberto Martin-Martin, Amir Sadeghian and Silvio Savarese
VUNet: Dynamic Scene View Synthesis for Traversability Estimation Using an RGB Camera [RA-Letters][Web][arXiv]
IEEE RA-Letters 2019 (ICRA presentation)
Noriaki Hirose, Amir Sadeghian, Fei Xia, Roberto Martin-Martin, and Silvio Savarese
GONet: A Semi-supervised Deep Learning Approach for Traversability Estimation [IROS][Web][arXiv]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018)
Best Paper Award Finalist on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics
Noriaki Hirose, Amir Sadeghian, Marynel Vazquez, Patrick Goebel, and Silvio Savarese
Monocular depth estimation
Depth360: Self-supervised Learning for Monocular Depth Estimation using Learnable Camera Distortion Model [IROS][arXiv]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022)
Noriaki Hirose and Kosuke Tahara
Personal robot
Personal Robot Assisting Transportation to support active human life [IROS][ICRA][IROS]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013, 2015)
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014)
Noriaki Hirose, Ryosuke Tajima, Kazutoshi Sukigara, Seigo Ito and Minoru Tanaka
Motion Control
Modeling of rolling friction by recurrent neural network using LSTM [ICRA]
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017)
Noriaki Hirose and Ryosuke Tajima
Deadbeat Feedforward Compensation With Frequency Shaping in Fast and Precise Positioning [IEEE trans. on IE]
IEEE trans on Industrial Electronics 2009
Noriaki Hirose, Kawafuku Motohiro, Makoto Iwasaki and Hiromu Hirai
Initial Value Compensation Using Additional Input for Semi-Closed Control Systems [IEEE trans. on IE]
IEEE trans on Industrial Electronics 2008
Noriaki Hirose, Kawafuku Motohiro, Makoto Iwasaki and Hiromu Hirai
Award list
Finalist of IROS best paper award on safety, security, and rescue robotics (2018)
Research award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers(SICE), Chubu branch (2016)
Presentation award from the Institute of Electrical Engineering of Japan (2015)
IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics 2015 recognition award for contribution as steering committee member (2015)
Presentation award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers(SICE), SI division (2013)
Research encouragement award from the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), Japan (2013)
Research encouragement award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers(SICE), Chubu branch, (2008)
Presentation award from the Institute of Electrical Engineering of Japan (2007)