Kyoto University Global COE｜Information Technology to Promote the Circulation of Knowledge

Primordial Knowledge Model Core

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Promotion Staff

Professor HIROSHI OKUNO Department of Intelligence Science and Technology Computational auditory scene analysis, music information processing, intelligent robotics, robot audition http://winnie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okuno/souran_e.html okuno AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Prof. Okuno received B.A. and Ph.D from the University of Tokyo in 1972 and 1996, respectively. He worked for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone till 1998, Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project of JST, and Tokyo University of Science. He has been a professor of Kyoto University since 2001. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and a visiting associate rofessor at the University of Tokyo. He has done research in programming anguages, parallel processing, and reasoning mechanism in AI, and he is urrently engaged in computational auditory scene analysis, music scene analysis and robot audition.
Professor SHIGEO KOBAYASHI Department of Intelligence Science and Technology biological information, thermal receptor, sensation, neurobiology skoba AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Graduated from Kyoto University, Faculty of Technology. Obtained Master of Education from University of Tokyo. Obtaiend Ph.D. from University of Tokyo. Associate Professor at Yamaguchi University, Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies. Professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics. Research field is Biological Information. I study sensation as virtual reality, which is made by the brain. I have started a study to identify brain-substance that makes mind in Paramecium, based on the hypothesis that one-cell organism is prototype of animals.
Professor TOYOAKI NISHIDA Department of Intelligence Science and Technology conversational informatics, social intelligence design, artificial intelligence http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~nishida/ nishida AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Toyoaki Nishida is a professor of Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. He received the Doctor of Engineering degree from Kyoto University in 1984. His research centers on artificial intelligence and human computer interaction. In 2001, he founded a series of international workshops on social intelligence design. Then, he broadened the scope of research to include understanding and augmenting conversational communication, and opened up a new field of research called Conversational Informatics. Currently, he leads several projects on social intelligence design and conversational informatics. He is a member of the board of directors of IPS (Information Processing Society) of Japan and JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence). He serves as an editorial board member of several academic journals, including Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, AI & Society, and Journal of JSAI (editor-in-chief).
Professor TAKASHI MATSUYAMA Department of Intelligence Science and Techonology Image Understanding, Cooperative Distributed Processing,3D Video, Computer vision, Human Communication http://vision.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html tm AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Takashi Matsuyama received the Doctor of Engineering degrees from Kyoto University Faculty of Engineering in 1980 respectively. He is currently a professor in the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate school of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan. He is also a Director-General of the Institute for Information Management and Communication, also at Kyoto University. He was a recipient of the Marr Prize at the 5th International Conference of Computer Vision in 1995 and won the Funai Best Paper award at IPSJ FIT Conference 2005. He is interested in Image Understanding, Cooperative Distributed Vision and Three Dimensional Video Capture.

Research Collaborator

Professor Akihiro　Yamamoto
Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Gradudate Scool of Informatics Kyoto University

Inductive Inference, Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery
http://www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Eakihiro/cve.html
akihiro AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Akihiro Yamamoto received the B.S. degree from Kyoto University in 1985, and the Dr.Sci. degree from Kyushu University　in 1990 respectively.
He worked as an Lecturer and an Associate Professor at Hokkaido University from 1990 to 2003. He is now a Professor of Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University. His present interests include Inductive Logic Programming, and its applications to Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery.

Office Staff

Faculty

Assistant Professor Shogo Okada Department of Intelligence Science and Technology Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Neural Network, Artificial Intelligence http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~okada.s/index_j.html okada_s AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Shogo Okada received the B.E. degree in engineering from the Yokohama National University, Japan, and the M.E. degree and the PhD degree in engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2003, 2005 and 2008, respectively. He has worked as an assistant professor at Kyoto University since 2008. His research interests include gesture understanding and Self-organizing Incremental Neural Network.
Assistant Professor Toru Takahashi Graduate School of Informatics Robot audition, Speech synthesis, Speech recognition, Speech and acoustic signal processing http://winnie.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tall/home-e.html tall AT kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Toru Takahashi received the B.E. degree in computer science, the M.E. degree and the D.E. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 1996, 1998 and 2004, respectively. He had worked as a research assistant for about 4 years in Wakayama University. He has been working for Kyoto University since February 1, 2008. His research interests are human speech synthesis and recognition including HMM speech synthesis, STRAIGHT (speech analysis, modification, synthesis system), and HMM base speech recognition system. To realize synthesizing expressive speech, general speech modification framework named speech texture mapping was proposed. Currently, he is developing HRI-JP Audition for Robots with Kyoto University (HARK) system, STRAIGHT system, and Speech Signal Tool Kit (SPTK).
Research Associate Shohei NOBUHARA Visual Information Processing Group (Department of Intelligence Science and Technology) Computer Vision, 3D Video http://vision.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~nob/index.php.en nob AT i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Shohei Nobuhara received his B.Sc. in Engeneering, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University, Japan in 2000, 2002, and 2005 respectively. From 2005 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Kyoto University. Since 2007, he has been a research associate at Kyoto University. His research interest includes computer vision and 3D video.