About me
[Profile]
I'm a Lecturer at the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering in Waseda University. I received a Ph.D from the Department of Pure and Applied Physics at Waseda University in 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Shigeo Morishima. I obtained my B.E. and M.E. degree in 2012 and 2014 respectively. During 2017-2023, I was mainly working at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology in the University of Tokyo, where I was a member of User Interface Research Group and working with Prof. Takeo Igarashi as an assistant professor. Before that, I worked with Daichi Ito (Sr. Technical Artist / Concept Designer), Darshan Prasad (Research Engineer), Duygu Ceylan (Research Scientist), and Radomír Měch (Principal Scientist) at Adobe Research as an internship student for three months from July 2015, for three months from June 2016 and for three month from April 2017. In addition, I have joined an exploratory software project IPA MITOH Program as a programmer for ten months from June 2014, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering as a Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor) in April 2017, and a CG technical advisor at Japan Medical Company Inc (2022). My main research areas are Computer Graphics (CG) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) such as cartoon animation. I received the best paper awards at ACE, CASA, CVMJ, IEEJ, IPSJ, ISID, NICOGRAPH International, and VL/HCC. ACM, IPSJ, IIEEJ member.
[Research Interest]
My current research interest is Computer Graphics and Human Computer Interaction, especially for cartoon animation:
User Experience Design
Geometry Processing
Video & Image Processing
Information Visualization
Biography
03/2012 Received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E), Waseda University, Japan.
03/2014 Received a Master of Engineering (M.E), Waseda University, Japan.
04/2014 Ph.D candidate, Waseda University, Japan.
06/2014 IPA:Exploratory IT Human Resource Project (The MITOH Program), Japan. (Mentor : Akihito Fujii)
04/2015 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), JSPS, Japan. (Mentor : Shigeo Morishima)
07/2015 Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. (Mentor : Daichi Ito, Radomír Měch)
06/2016 Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. (Mentor : Daichi Ito, Darshan Prasad, Duygu Ceylan)
03/2017 Received a Ph.D in Engineering, Waseda University, Japan.
04/2017 Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor), Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Japan.
04/2017 Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. (Mentor : Daichi Ito, Duygu Ceylan)
09/2017 Assistant Professor, the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan.
04/2023 Lecturer, the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Dept. of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda Univesity, Japan.
Work Experience
Lecturer, the School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Dept. of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda Univesity, Japan, 2023/04-current. [link]
Technical Advisor at Japan Medical Company Inc., Japan. 08/2022 - 03/2023. [link]
Assistant Professor, the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan. 09/2017 - 03/2023. [link]
Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor), Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Japan. 04/2017 - 08/2017. [link]
Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. 04/2017 - 07/2017. [link]
Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. 06/2016 - 09/2016. [link]
Internship at Adobe Research in San Jose, California, USA. 07/2015 - 10/2015. [link]
Research assistant of SEIREN Co., Ltd. "Virtual Clothing System for Personal Order Shopping." 05/2015 - 03/2016.
Research assistant of CREST, JST. "Building a Similarity-aware Information Environment for a Content-Symbiotic Society." 04/2014 - 03/2016. [link]
IPA:Exploratory IT Human Resources Project (The MITOH Program). "Sketching Interface for Freehand Drawing Animation." 06/2014 - 03/2015. [link]
Selected Projects
All research projects are available here.
AniFaceDrawing: Anime Portrait Exploration during Your Sketching
Zhengyu Huang, Haoran Xie, Tsukasa Fukusato, and Kazunori MiyataACM SIGGRAPH North America 2023 Conference Track (accepted)International Symposium on Intelligence Design (ISID) 2023 Poster[ACM] [Youtube](Exploring the latent space of StyleGAN for consistently and stably synthesizing anime portrait images from intermediate sketches)Interactive Texture Editing for Garment Line Drawings
Tsukasa Fukusato Ryohei Shibata, Seung-Tak Noh, and Takeo IgarashiComputer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), Special Issue of CGI 2022[Web] [Wiley] [Youtube]Journal Cover PageIF = 1.010(Interactive system to directly manipulate UV coordinates on garment line drawings)View-Dependent Deformation for 2.5D Cartoon Models
Tsukasa Fukusato and Akinobu MaejimaIEEE Computer Graphics and Applications[Web] [IEEE] [Arxiv] [Youtube]Best Paper Award at VC2020, CGVI Best Presentation AwardsIF = 1.909, Citation = 2(N-way morphing to simulate view-specific exaggerations in an arbitrary viewpoint)ODEN: Live Programming for Neural Network Architecture Editing
Chunqi Zhao, I-Chao Shen, Tsukasa Fukusato, Jun Kato, and Takeo IgarashiACM Intelligent User Interface (IUI) 2022Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE) 2021[Web] [ACM] [Youtube]Citation = 2(Leveraging live programming techniques in NN architecture editing to show an always-on visualization)Interactive Viewpoint Exploration for Constructing View-Dependent Models
Tsukasa Fukusato and Akinobu MaejimaMotion, Interaction, and Games (MIG) 2021[Web] [ACM] [Youtube]Best Presentation Award at VC+VCC2021(Next best view policy with intermediate characteristics at modeling time for constructing VDMs)DualFace: Two-Stage Drawing Guidance for Freehand Portrait Sketching
Zhengyu Huang, Yichen Peng, Tomohiro Hibino, Chunqi Zhao, Haoran Xie, Tsukasa Fukusato, and Kazunori MiyataComputational Visual Media (CVMJ), Special Issue of CVM 2021International Symposium on Intelligence Design (ISID) 2021 Poster[Web] [Springer] [Arxiv] [Youtube] [Code]CVMJ Honorable Mention Award, Best Poster Awards at ISID 2021IF = 4.127, Citation = 26(Data-driven approach to assist users to design global and local features of facial drawings)Interactive Meshing of User-Defined Point Set
Tsukasa Fukusato, Seung-Tak Noh, Takeo Igarashi, and Daichi ItoJournal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT), Presented at I3D 2021[JCGT] [Youtube]Citation = 2(Constructing spatially-varying alpha-shapes with a painting metaphor)Integrated Development Environment with Interactive Scatter Plot for Examining Statistical Modeling
Kentaro Asai, Tsukasa Fukusato, and Takeo IgarashiACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2020Online meeting of CHI 2020 Japan Chapter 2020[Web] [ACM] [Youtube] [Code]Citation = 5(Augmenting a text-based code editor by integrating a scatter plot editor to visually design 2D datasets)Sketch2VF: Sketch-based Flow Design with Conditional Generative Adversarial Network
Zhongyuan Hu, Haoran Xie, Tsukasa Fukusato, Takahiro Sato, and Takeo IgarashiComputer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW), Special Issue of CASA 2019[Web] [Wiley] [Youtube]Best Paper Nominee, Journal Cover Page, Top Downloaded PaperIF = 1.010, Citation = 30(cGAN-based 2D vector field generation to understand the human perception of fluid motions using hand drawn strokes)Voice Animator: Automatic Lip-Synching in Limited Animation by Audio
Shoichi Furukawa, Tsukasa Fukusato, Shugo Yamaguchi, and Shigeo MorishimaAdvances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE) 2017[Springer] [Youtube]Best Paper Awards: Gold, JP Patent: JP2019096114ACitation = 10(Formant-based keyframing system to design limited-stylized lip-sync animation)3D Character Generator based on 2D Design
Tsukasa Fukusato, Daichi Ito, Nathan Carr, and Radomir MechAdobe MAX Japan 2016 Sneak Preview[Youtube (Japanese)] U.S.Patent: US20170212661 A1(How to design a low-poly 3D model from orthographics images)Computational Cartoonist: A Comic-style Video Summarization System for Anime Films
Tsukasa Fukusato, Tatsunori Hirai, Shunya Kawamura, and Shigeo MorishimaMultimedia Modeling (MMM) 2016ACM CHI 2016 Symposium on Emerging Japanese HCI Research Collection[Springer]Citation = 7(Evaluation criteria for comic-style summarization in anime films)Active Comicing for Freehand Drawing Animation
Tsukasa Fukusato and Shigeo MorishimaMathematical Progress in Expressive Image Synthesis (MEIS) 2015IPA: Exploratory IT Human Resources Project 2014[Web] [Springer] [Youtube]Citation = 3(2D freeform stroke animation using a least-distorting interpolation and a set of established principles of 2D animation)Automatic Depiction of Onomatopoeia in Animation Considering Physical Phenomena
Tsukasa Fukusato and Shigeo MorishimaACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games (MIG) 2014ACM CHI 2016 Symposium on Emerging Japanese HCI Research Collection[ACM]Citation = 13(Onomatopoeia formulation from impression of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols)Publications
My list of publications is available here.
Technical Skills
Programming: C++, C, Objective-C, JavaScript, OpenGL, OpenCV, openFrameworks, MEL Script.
Software: Autodesk Maya
Development: Visual Studio, Xcode
Contact
TEL: (coming soon)
FAX: (coming soon)
Address: 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-8555, Japan
E-Mail: tsukasafukusato[at]waseda.jp