Ukrit Watchareeruetai
Senior AI Researcher
Sertis Vision Laboratory, Sertis Co., Ltd.
Senior AI Researcher
Sertis Vision Laboratory, Sertis Co., Ltd.
Doctor of Engineering
Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
Master of Information Science
Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours
Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University
Face analytics
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Benjaphan Sommana, Sanjana Jain, Pavit Noinongyao, Ankush Ganguly, Aubin Samacoits, Samuel W. F. Earp, and Nakarin Sritrakool, “LOTR: Face landmark localization using Localization Transformer,” IEEE Access, vol.10, pp.16530-16543, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3149380
Benjaphan Sommana, Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Ankush Ganguly, Samuel W. F. Earp, Taya Kitiyakara, Suparee Boonmanunt, and Ratchainant Thammasudjarit, “Development of a face mask detection pipeline for mask-wearing monitoring in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: A modular approach,” The 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE 2022), Bangkok, Thailand, June 22-25, 2022.
Plant nutrient deficiency
Kadipa Aung Myo Han and Ukrit Watchareeruetai, "Black gram plant nutrient deficiency classification in combined images using convolutional neural network," The 2020 International Electrical Engineering Congress (iEECON 2020), Chiang Mai, Thailand, March 4-6, 2020.
Kadipa Aung Myo Han and Ukrit Watchareeruetai, "Classification of nutrient deficiency in black gram using deep convolutional neural networks," The 16th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE 2019), Pattaya, Thailand, July 10-12, 2019.
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Pavit Noinongyao, Chaiwat Wattanapaiboonsuk, Puriwat Khantiviriya, and Sutsawat Duangsrisai, "Identification of plant nutrient deficiencies using convolutional neural networks," The 6th International Electrical Engineering Congress (iEECON 2018), pp.679-682, Krabi, Thailand, March 7-9, 2018.
Pavit Noinongyao, Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Puriwat Khantiviriya, Chaiwat Wattanapaiboonsuk, and Sutsawat Duangsrisai, "Separation of abnormal regions on black gram leaves using image analysis," The 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE 2017), pp.1-5, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, July 12-14, 2017.
Leaf identification
Mathara Rojanamontien, Poomkawin Sihanatkathakul, Nicha Piemkaroonwong, Supanat Kamales, and Ukrit Watchareeruetai, "Leaf identification using apical and basal features," Proceedings of the 2016 - 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST), pp.234-238, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Feb 3-6, 2016.
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Matchima Ditthawibun, and Kriangkrai Phanjan, "Detection of leaf apex and base by using contour and symmetry analysis," Proceedings of the 19th International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC 2015), Chiang Mai, Thailand, pp.1-5, November 23-26, 2015.
Lawn weed detection
Ukrit Watchareeruetai and Noboru Ohnishi, "A new color-based lawn weed detection method and its integration with texture-based methods: a hybrid approach," IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems, vol.131, no.2, pp.355-366, February, 2011.
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Hiroaki Kudo, and Noboru Ohnishi, "Computer vision based methods for detecting weeds in lawns," Machine Vision and Applications, vol.17, no.5, pp. 287-296, October 2006.
Interest point detection
Mathara Rojanamontien and Ukrit Watchareeruetai, "Shape recognition by using scale invariant feature transform for contour," The 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE 2017), pp.1-6, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, July 12-14, 2017.
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Akisato Kimura, Robert Cheng Bao, Takahito Kawanishi, and Kunio Kashino, "Interest point detection based on stochastically derived stability," IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications, vol.3, pp.186-197, December 2011.
Fingerprint enhancement
Vutipong Areekul, Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Kittiwat Suppasriwasuseth, and Sawasd Tantaratana, "Separable Gabor filter realization for fast fingerprint enhancement," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), vol. 3, pp.253-256, Genoa, Italy, September 11-14, 2005.
Vutipong Areekul, Ukrit Watchareeruetai, and Sawasd Tantaratana, "Fast separable Gabor filter for fingerprint enhancement," Proceedings of First International Conference on Biometrics Authentication (ICBA 2004), LNCS 3072, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.403-409, Hong Kong, China, July 17-19, 2004.
Evolutionary computer vision
Ukrit Watchareeruetai and Kriangkrai Phanjan, "Evolution of contours for shape recognition," Proceedings of the 31st International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC 2016), pp.207-210, Okinawa, Japan, July 10-13, 2016.
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Hiroaki Kudo, and Noboru Ohnishi, "Redundancies in linear GP, canonical transformation, and its exploitation: a demonstration on image feature synthesis," Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, vol.12, no.1, pp.49-77, March 2011 (Published online: July 6, 2010).
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Hiroaki Kudo, and Noboru Ohnishi, "Multi-objective genetic programming with redundancy-regulations for automatic construction of image feature extractors," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, vol.E93-D, no.9, pp.2614-2625, September 2010.
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Hiroaki Kudo, and Noboru Ohnishi, "Evaluations of feature extraction programs synthesized by redundancy-removed linear genetic programming: a case study on lawn weed detection," Journal of Information Processing, vol.18, pp.164-174, April 2010. (Reprinted in: Information and Media Technologies, vol.5, no.2, pp.566-576, June 2010) (IPSJ Digital Courier Funai Young Researcher Encouragement Award)
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Noboru Ohnishi, Hiroaki Kudo, and Yoshinori Takeuchi, "Acceleration of genetic programming by hierarchical structure learning: a case study on image recognition program synthesis," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, vol.E92-D, no.10, pp.2094-2102, October 2009.
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Yoshinori Takeuchi, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Hiroaki Kudo, and Noboru Ohnishi, "Efficient construction of image feature extraction programs by using linear genetic programming with fitness retrieval and intermediate-result caching," in Foundation of Computational Intelligence Volume 4: Bio-inspired Data Mining, A. Abraham et al. (eds), Springer-Verlag, pp.355-375, 2009. ISBN 978-3-642-01087-3
Linear genetic programming
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, "Evolution of introns in linear genetic programming: a study on symbolic regression problems," Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 19th 2014), pp.173-176, Oita, Japan, January 22-24, 2014.
Ukrit Watchareeruetai, Prapaipim Junhavittaya, and Pannatorn Supharatnodom, "Reuse of building blocks in linear genetic programming," Proceedings of 36th Electrical Engineering Conference (EECON-36), vol. 2, pp. 853-856, Kanchanaburi, Thailand, December 11-13, 2013. (in Thai language) (Best Paper Award)
Extreme learning machine
Pavit Noinongyao and Ukrit Watchareeruetai, "An extreme learning machine based pretraining method for multi-layer neural networks," Joint 10th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (SCIS 2018), Toyama, Japan, December 5-8, 2018.
Boonnithi Jiramaneepinit and Ukrit Watchareeruetai, "Iterative extreme learning machine," The 22nd International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC 2018), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 21-24, 2018.
Ukrit Watchareeruetai and Boonnithi Jiramaneepinit, "An improvement of extreme learning machine using subclass clustering," The 22nd International Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC 2018), Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 21-24, 2018.
2013: Best Paper Award (EECON-36)
2011: IPSJ Digital Courier Funai Young Researcher Encouragement Award
2008: Presentation award (IPSJ MPS-72)
2006: Finalist for The Best Paper Award (CIS-RAM 2006)
October 2015 - September 2017: Research grant from International College, KMITL
October 2011 - March 2013: Research grant from International College, KMITL
October 2010 - September 2011: Research grant from International College, KMITL
March 2010 - present: Public Sector Innovation Scholarship
April 2008 - March 2009: Research grant from The Hori Information Science Promotion Foundation link
October 2004 - March 2010: Japanese Government (MONBUKAGAKUSHO: MEXT) Scholarship
May 1998 - April 2002: Scholarship from the Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University