Imaging & Modeling Laboratory
University of Tsukuba
Graduate School of Science and Technology
Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering
Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Intelligent and Machanical Interaction Systems
Faculty of Cooperative Graduate School
Computer Vision, Computational Imaging, 3D Reconstruction, Motion Analysis, Human Behavior Analysis
The study in this laboratory is the research and development of observation and analysis methods for visual data obtained by using cameras. One direction of the research is based on geometrical analysis, which is one of the fundamental research fields in computer vision, to measure and estimate the shape and motion of objects. We have been especially studying the observation of time-varying objects as an extension of the observation method. Our goal is to develop measurement techniques to observe phenomena that have not been possible in the past and new applications of the measurement techniques. As another direction of the research, we are studying to extract high-level information based on the data obtained from measurements. For example, one of the targets is observing human motion. The physical quantities such as force and muscle activity are estimated by analyzing the motion. The goal of this research is to realize the measurement and estimation of quantities that are invisible from the naked eye and cannot be directly captured by a camera, using computer vision technology. We aim to visualize various phenomena of optically invisible and to extend our researches to estimate higher-order events by combining them with machine learning approach.
