Welcome to the Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Lab., aka Ishikawa Lab., at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University

NEWS

Dec 4, 2024
First year Master's student Yiming Liang presented a poster at ICPR2024.
Oct 1, 2024
One Master's student joined the lab.
Apr 1, 2024
Six Bachelor's students and four Master's students joined the lab.
Mar 26, 2024
Five Bachelor's students and one Master's student graduated.
Oct 10, 2023
Doctoral student Tan Xin presented a poster at ICIP2023.
Sep 26, 2023
One Bachelor's student and one Master's students graduated.
Jun 22, 2023
One paper was accepted to ICIP 2023.
Apr 1, 2023
Five Bachelor's students and six Master's students joined the lab.
Mar 26, 2023
Five bachelor's student and four Master's students graduated.
Sep 26, 2022
One bachelor's student and two Master's students graduated.
Apr 1, 2022
Six Bachelor's students and four Master's students joined the lab.
Mar 26, 2022
Five Bachelor's students and four Master's students graduated.
Oct 1, 2021
One Master's student and two doctoral students joined the lab.
Sep 18, 2021
Three Master's students graduated.
Apr 15, 2021
One paper is accepted to CVFAD Workshop, CVPR 2021 .
Apr 1, 2021
Four Bachelor's students and four Master's students joined the lab.
Yusuke Horiuchi became a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Aug 21, 2020
One paper is accepted to IEEE SMC 2020.
Apr 1, 2020
Five Bachelor's students and six Master's students joined the lab.
Yoshihiko Mochizuki left Waseda to become an Assistant Professor at Saitama Institute of Technology.
Mar 26, 2020
Four Master's students and Six Bachelor's students graduated.
Sep 25, 2019
Four Master's students joined the lab.
Apr 9, 2019
Seven Bachelor's students and two Master's students joined the lab.
Mar 26, 2019
Four Master's students and one Bachelor's student graduated.
Oct 1, 2018
Satoshi Iizuka left Waseda to become an Assistant Professor at Tsukuba University.
Sep 1, 2018
Edgar Simo-Serra left the lab to start his own lab in the same Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University, as an Assistant Professor.
Apr 3, 2018
One Bachelor's student and four Master's students joined the lab.
Apr 1, 2018
Edgar Simo-Serra became a JST Sakigake researcher.
Mar 24, 2018
Four Master's students and Five Bachelor's students graduated.
Nov 28, 2017
Master's second year student Kazuma Sasaki gave a spotlight presentaion at ACPR2017.
Oct 28, 2017
Senior student Moeko Takagi gave a poster presentation at an ICCV2017 workshop.
Apr 3, 2017
Six undergraduate and four master's students joined the lab.
Mar 24, 2017
Six undergraduate and one master's students graduated.
Feb 28, 2017
A paper by Master's student Kazuma Sasaki was accepted to CVPR2017.
Feb 13, 2017
Papers by Master's students Ryutaro Kitagawa and Toshiya Takaoka were accepted to MVA2017.
Oct 27, 2016
Our Automatic Image Colorization was awarded the Innovative Technologies 2016 Special Prize for "Culture" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Oct 20, 2016
Edgar Simo-Serra was awarded the Esteva-Vivanco Family Prize: Best PhD Thesis on Artificial Intelligence by the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Sep 2, 2016
Our Automatic Image Colorization was selected as one of the Innovative Technologies 2016 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Jul 13, 2016
Two papers are accepted to ICPR 2016.
Apr 28, 2016
The colorization paper accepted to SIGGRAPH2016 was reported in The Verge: The Verge: These old black-and-white photos were colorized by artificial intelligence
Apr 21, 2016
Two of our papers were accepted to SIGGRAPH2016 technical papers:
Mar 1, 2016
Our paper was accepted to CVPR2016: "Fashion Style in 128 Floats: Joint Ranking and Classification using Weak Data for Feature Extraction"
Aug 1, 2015
A new Junior Researcher, Edgar Simo-Serra joind the lab.
Apr 1, 2015
Four seniors, a Master's student, and two Junior Researchers, Drs. Satoshi Iizuka and Lisa Uechi joind the lab.
Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Yuji Oyamada left the lab to join Tottori University.
Mar 26, 2015
Five senior students and two Master's students graduated.
Oct 29, 2014
Lukas Prasuhn, a graduated Master's student gave a presentation at ICIP2014.
Sep 26, 2014
Our coronary artery stenoses detection and lumen segmentation algorithm using higher-order graph cuts is now listed at the top in the Rotterdam Coronary Artery Stenoses Detection and Quantification Evaluation Framework website.
Jun 30, 2014
Belén returned to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid again.
Apr 1, 2014
Four first-year Master's students and five seniors joined the lab.
Mar 26, 2014
Five Master's students and six Bachelor's students graduated.
Mar 8, 2013
Mochizuki, Okagawa, and Kotaki gave a presentation at the 5th International Symposium on the Project "Computational Anatomy".
Jan 9, 2014
Belén is back! She will stay for six months.
Sep 21, 2013
Yoshiro Kitamura joined the lab as a doctoral student.
Apr 2, 2013
Thomas returned to TUM.
Apr 1, 2013
Assistant Professor Oyamada, two first-year Master's students, and eight seniors joined the lab.
Mar 26, 2013
Nine Bachelor's students graduated.
Feb 23, 2013
Mochizuki, China, Kotaki, and Okagawa gave a presentation at the 4th International Symposium on the Project "Computational Anatomy".
Oct 11, 2012
Thomas gave a presentation at the Twelfth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2012).
Sep 28, 2012
Two Master's students, Ty Sovisal and Nou Savatthymony, joined the lab.
Jul 7, 2012
Belén returned to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Apr 2, 2012
Eight seniors and six Master's students joined the lab
Mar 26, 2012
Seven students graduated with their Bachelor of Engineering degrees!
Jan 8, 2012
Belén Ríos Sanchez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) joined the lab as an Erasmus Mundus-BEAM visiting Ph.D. student.
Sep 2, 2011
Thomas Windheuser (Technische Universität München) joined the lab as an Erasmus Mundus-BEAM visiting Ph.D. student.
Aug 3, 2011
Site came online!

For Ishikawa's older papers, see his personal page.

Papers

Xin Tan and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Dataset-Level Directed Image Translation for Cross-Domain Crowd Counting," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023.

Yusuke Horiuchi, Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, and Hiroshi Ishikawa. “Differentiable Rendering-Based Pose-Conditioned Human Image Generation,” Proc. Fourth Workshop on Computer Vision for Fashion, Art, and Design (CVFAD2021) at the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021, pp. 3921-3925.

Yutaka Momma, Weimin Wang, Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, Ryosuke Nakamura, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "P^2Net: A Post-Processing Network for Refining Semantic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Cloud based on Consistency of Consecutive Frames," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2020.

Mayu Omiya*, Yusuke Horiuchi*, Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Optimization-Based Data Generation for Photo Enhancement" (*equal contribution), The 32nd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019) Workshops, Long Beach, California. June 16-20, 2019.

Ryoji Ogata, Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Temporal Distance Matrices for Squat Classification," The 32nd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019) Workshops, Long Beach, California. June 16-20, 2019.

Yusuke Horiuchi, Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Spectral Normalization and Relativistic Adversarial Training for Conditional Pose Generation with Self-Attention," The 16th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2019), May 27-31, 2019, Tokyo, Japan.

Masayuki Fujitani, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, Satoshi Iizuka, Edgar Simo-Serra, Hirokazu Kobayashi, Chika Iwamoto, Kenoki Ohuchida, Makoto Hashizume, Hidekata Hontani, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Re-staining Pathology Images by FCNN," The 16th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2019), May 27-31, 2019, Tokyo, Japan.

Mayu Omiya, Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Learning Photo Enhancement by Black-Box Model Optimization Data Generation," SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Brief, 2018.

Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Real-Time Data-Driven Interactive Rough Sketch Inking," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 37, Issue 4 (Presented at SIGGRAPH2018), Article 98, August 2018.

Kazuma Sasaki, Satoshi Iizuka, Edgar Simo-Serra, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Learning to Restore Deteriorated Line Drawing," The Visual Computer (Proc. of Computer Graphics International), 2018., vol 34, 6-8, pp.1077-1085.

Edgar Simo-Serra*, Satoshi Iizuka*, and Hiroshi Ishikawa "Mastering Sketching: Adversarial Augmentation for Structured Prediction" (*equal contribution), ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 37 (Presented at SIGGRAPH), Article 11, Janualy 2018.

Kazuma Sasaki, Yuya Nagahama, Zheng Ze, Satoshi Iizuka, Edgar Simo-Serra, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Adaptive Energy Selection For Content-Aware Image Resizing," The 4th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR), Nanjing, China, November 26-29, 2017.

Naoto Inoue, Edgar Simo-Serra, Toshihiko Yamasaki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, Inoue, "Multi-Label Fashion Image Classification with Minimal Human Supervision," International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, Venice, Italy, Oct 22-29, 2017.

Moeko Takagi, Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, Takagi, "What Makes a Style: Experimental Analysis of Fashion Prediction," International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops, Venice, Italy, Oct 22-29, 2017.

Satoshi Iizuka, Edgar Simo-Serra, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Globally and Locally Consistent Image Completion," ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ), Volume 36, Article 107, July 2017.

Kazuma Sasaki, Satoshi Iizuka, Edgar Simo-Serra, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Joint Gap Detection and Inpainting of Line Drawings," The 30th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017), Honolulu, HI, July 21-26, 2017.

Ryutaro Kitagawa, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, Satoshi Iizuka, Edgar Simo-Serra, Hiroshi Matsuki, Naotake Natori, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Banknote Portrait Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network," The 14th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2017), May 8-12, 2017, Nagoya, Japan.

Kosuke Fukano, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, Akihiro Sugimoto, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Room Reconstruction from a Single Spherical Image by Higher-Order Energy Minimization," 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2016), Cancun, Mexico. December 4-8, 2016.

Tomohiro Ishii, Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, Akihiro Sugimoto, Hiroshi Ishikawa, and Ryosuke Nakamura, "Detection by Classification of Buildings in Multispectral Satellite Imagery," 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2016), Cancun, Mexico. December 4-8, 2016.

Satoshi Iizuka, Edgar Simo-Serra, and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2016), "Let there be Color!: Joint End-to-end Learning of Global and Local Image Priors for Automatic Image Colorization with Simultaneous Classification". ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 35, Issue 4 (Proc. of SIGGRAPH2016), Article 110, July 2016.

Edgar Simo-Serra, Satoshi Iizuka, Kazuma Sasaki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2016), "Learning to Simplify: Fully Convolutional Networks for Rough Sketch Cleanup". ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 35, Issue 4 (Proc. of SIGGRAPH2016), Article 121, July 2016.

Edgar Simo-Serra and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2016), "Fashion Style in 128 Floats: Joint Ranking and Classification using Weak Data for Feature Extraction". The 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2016), Las Vegas, Nevada. June 26-July 1, 2016.

Yoshiro Kitamura, Yuanzhong Li, Wataru Ito, Hiroshi Ishikawa (2016), "Data-Dependent Higher-Order Clique Selection for Artery–Vein Segmentation by Energy Minimization". International Journal of Computer Vision, Volume 117, Issue 2, pp 142-158, April 2016.

Tsutomu Inoue, Yoshiro Kitamura, Yuanzhong Li, Wataru Ito, and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2015), "Psoas Major Muscle Segmentation Using Higher-Order Shape Prior". MICCAI Workshop on Medical Computer Vision: Algorithms for Big Data (MICCAI-MCV 2015), Oct. 9, 2015, Munich, Germany.

Tomohiro Ishii, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, Hidemoto Nakada, Ryosuke Nakamura, and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2015), "Surface Object Recognition with CNN and SVM in Landsat 8 Images". The 14th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2015), May 18-22, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

Naoki Kobayashi, Yuji Oyamada, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2015), "Three-DoF Pose Estimation of Asteroids by Appearance-based Linear Regression with Divided Parameter Space". The 14th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2015), May 18-22, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

Minato Morita, Asuka Okagawa, Yuji Oyamada, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2015), "Multiple-Organ Segmentation Based on Spatially-Divided Neighboring Data Energy". The 14th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2015), May 18-22, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

Asuka Okagawa, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, Yuji Oyamada, and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2015), "Multi-Organ Segmentation by Minimization of Higher-Order Energy for CT Boundary". The 14th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2015), May 18-22, 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

Lukas Prasuhn, Yuji Oyamada, Yoshihiko Mochizuki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2014), "A HOG-Based Hand Gesture Recognition System on a Mobile Device". The IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2014), October 27-30, 2014, Paris, France.

Yoshiro Kitamura, Yuanzhong Li, Wataru Ito, Hiroshi Ishikawa (2014), "Coronary Lumen and Plaque Segmentation from CTA Using Higher-Order Shape Prior". In the 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI2014), September 14-18, 2014, Boston, MA, USA.

Hiroshi Ishikawa (2014), "Higher-Order Clique Reduction Without Auxiliary Variables". In the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2014), June 23-28, 2014, Columbus, OH, USA. pp. 1362-1369.

Yoshiro Kitamura, Yuanzhong Li, Wataru Ito, Hiroshi Ishikawa (2013), "Adaptive higher-order submodular potentials for pulmonary artery-vein segmentation". In the Fifth International Workshop on Pulmonary Image Analysis, September 26, 2013, Nagoya, Japan.

Thomas Windheuser, Hiroshi Ishikawa, and Daniel Cremers (2012), "Generalized Roof Duality for Multi-Label Optimization: Optimal Lower Bounds and Persistency" PDF. In the Twelfth European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2012), October 7-13, 2012, Firenze, Italy. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7577, pp. 400-413, Springer-Verlag.

Hiroshi Ishikawa (2011), "Transformation of General Binary MRF Minimization to the First Order Case" PDF. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1234-1249, June 2011.

Talks, etc.

Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Automatic Image Colorization and Rough Sketch Cleanup by Deep Learning", ACCV2016 Area Chairs Workshop, Aug. 15, 2016, Keelung Evergreen Laurel Hotel, Taiwan.

Hiroshi Ishikawa, "MAP Estimation of Markov Random Fields with Some Applications in Medical Imaging" (invited talk), Probabilistic Graphical Model Workshop: Sparsity, Structure and High-dimensionality, Mar. 23, 2016, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM), Tokyo, Japan.

Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Higher-Order Graph Cuts and Medical Image Segmentation" (invited talk) Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biomedical Imaging and Image Analysis (MCBMIIA2015), Nov. 24, 2015. University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Higher-order Graph Cuts," ACCV2014 Area Chairs Workshop, Sep. 3, 2014, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Proposal Selection in Higher-order Graph Cuts", Jul. 10, 2012. In 25th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO2012), Vilnius, Lithuania.

Book Chapters

Hiroshi Ishikawa, "Graph Cuts—Combinatorial Optimization in Vision" (Chapter 2), In Image Processing and Analysis with Graphs: Theory and Practice, Edited by Olivier Lézoray and Leo Grady, CRC Press, July 2012. ISBN: 978-1-439-855072.

Hiroshi Ishikawa and Olga Veksler, "Optimizing Multi-Label MRFs with Convex and Truncated Convex Priors" (Chapter 4), In Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing, Edited by Andrew Blake, Pushmeet Kohli, and Carsten Rother, MIT Press, September 2011. ISBN: 978-0-262-01577-6.