Research Interests
Computer Vision
Cooperative Distributed Vision
Target (multiple moving objects) tracking
Posture/shape analysis of human/clothing
Vision-based computer interface (obsolete)

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)