- Name: Norimichi Ukita
- Affiliation:
Graduate School of
Engineering, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan (TTI-J).
- Title: Professor
- Phone: +81 52 809 1832
- E-mail: ukita AT toyota-ti.ac.jp
- Date of Birth: Oct. 16, 1973.
- Hometown: Okayama, Japan.
- Educational experience
- 1992: Graduated from Okayama Hosen High School
- 1996: Graduated from Department of Information
Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University
- 1998: Received Master of Engineering degree from
Department of Information Technology, Graduate
School of Engineering, Okayama University
- 2001: Received Doctoral degree in Informatics from
Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate
School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Prof. Takashi
Matsuyama Lab.)
- Professional experience
- 2001.10: Assistant Professor at Department of Information
Processing,
Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of
Science and Technology (Prof. Masatsugu Kidode Lab.)
- 2002.11-2006.03: Research associate of
Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and
Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology
Agency (JST) (Supervisor: Prof. Shinji Tomita)
- 2007.04-2016.09: Associate Professor at
Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of
Science and Technology
- 2007.12-2009.12: Visiting Research
Scientist, the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon
University (Supervisor: Prof. Takeo Kanade)
- 2011.04-2017.03 Visiting Research
Scientist, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute
International
- 2016.10-2017.03 Visiting Professor,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- 2017.04-: Guest Professor at Cyber Media Center,
Osaka University
- 2016.10-: Professor in Graduate School of Engineering,
Toyota Technological Institute, Japan (TTI-J)
- 2019.09-: Adjunct Professor in Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
- Degree
- 2001: Ph.D degree in Informatics from Kyoto University,
Title: Real-Time
Cooperative Multi-Target Tracking by Communicating Active
Vision Agents (Abstract)
- Awards
- 1999: Excellent Paper Award of IEICE (Institute of
Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
- 2011: Senior membership, IEICE
- 2012: Distinguished service award of ISS, IEICE
(Institute of
Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
- 2015: Distinguished reviewer award of ISS, IEICE
(Institute of
Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
- 2016: Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (MIRU 2016)
- 2017: Outstanding Contribution in Evaluation (MIRU 2017)
- 2018: Senior membership, IPSJ
- 2018: Winner (1st place) in NTIRE 2018 challenge on image super-resolution (CVPR Workshop)
- 2018: 1st place in PIRM 2018 perceptual SR challenge (ECCV Workshop)
- 2019: Best poster award in International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2019)
- 2019: Honorable Mention Awards in NTIRE 2019 challenge on video super-resolution and video-deblurring (CVPR Workshop)
- 2019: Honorable Mention Award in NTIRE 2019 challenge on image enhancement (CVPR Workshop)
- 2019: Runner-Up Award in AIM 2019 challenge on extreme super-resolution (ICCV Workshop)
- 2020: Outstanding reviewer (ACCV2020)
- 2021: Best practical paper award in International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2021)
- Research Interests
- Computer Vision
- Cooperative Distributed Vision
- Target (multiple moving objects) tracking
- Posture/shape analysis of human/clothing
- Vision-based computer interface
- Professional activities
- Program chair: Sixth International Workshop
on Symbolic-Neural Learning 2022
- General chair: International Conference on
Machine Vision and Applications 2021
- General chair: International Conference on
Machine Vision and Applications 2019
- Local organizing chair: Second International Workshop
on Symbolic-Neural Learning 2018
- Program chair: IAPR International Conference on
Machine Vision and Applications 2017
- Publication chair: IAPR International Conference on
Machine Vision and Applications 2015
- Demo and industrial Liaison Chair: International
Conference on 3D Vision 2014
- Award co-chair and Local arrangement chair: IAPR
International Conference on
Machine Vision and Applications 2013
- Local arrangement chair: IAPR Conference on
Machine Vision and Applications 2011
- Local organizing member: First International Workshop
on Symbolic-Neural Learning 2017
- Organizing committee: IAPR Conference on Machine Vision
Applications 2005,2007,2009
- Planning Group Member of Japanese-American-German Frontiers of
Science Symposium 2017
- Co-chair of Planning Group Member of Japanese-German Frontiers of
Science Symposium 2014
- Planning Group Member of Japanese-German Frontiers of
Science Symposium 2013
- Area chair: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition 2023
- Area chair: International Conference on
3D Vision 2021, 2022
- Area chair:
International Conference on
Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance 2019
- Senior Program committee: AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence 2022, 2023
- Senior Program committee: International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence 2020
- Program committee: IEEE Conference on Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022
- Program committee: IEEE International Conference on Computer
Vision 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021
- Program committee: European Conference on Computer
Vision 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022
- Program committee: British Machine Vision Conference
2017, 2018
- Program committee: International Conference on 3D Vision
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Program committee: Asian Conference on Computer Vision
2006,2012,2014,2016
- Program committee: IEEE International Conference on
Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2013,2015,2017
- Program committee: Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and
Video Technology (PSIVT) 2009,2010,2013,2015,2019
- Program committee: ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Smart Cameras 2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015
- Program committee: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference
on Intelligent Agent Technology 2006,2007,2008,2009
- Program committee: International Workshop
on Symbolic-Neural Learning 2020
- Member: IEEE Computer Society, IEICE, IPSJ