Research Projects

Extraction of 3D information from pictures and videos

• Visual SLAM
• Structure from Motion (SfM)

Image processing algorithms

• Image transformation for extracting features
• Classification and discrimination using extracted features

Disaster simulation and its application

• Simulation of tank fire in a combinat and extinction planning
• Evacuation simulation in disaster, tsunami, with human psychology and navigation, Tunami

Intelligent image processing

• Automated image processing procedure generation
• Image processing expert system
• Generic object recognition
• Deep learning

Visual information processing and cooperative behavior of mobile robots

• High-level object classification by color image processing, and recognition of 3-dimensional alignment
• Recognition of the environment by the integration of the restricted visual information
• Action planning (route planning) utilizing visual information
  and distance sensor information
• Realization of the cooperative behavior based on the information integration
• Environment recognition (map generation and the tracking of objects) that uses several cameras
• Evaluation of the above methods by a simulation software

Medial image processing

• Head (brain) MR image.
  Construction of digital brain atlas, registration between atlas and clinical images, tissue classification using atlas.
• Head (brain, neck) MRA image.
  Extraction and quantitative evaluation of stenosis.
• Heart and coronary MRA image.
  Extraction and quantitative evaluation of stenosis.

Parallel image processing