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  1. [pdf] Takeru Oba and Norimichi Ukita,
     Future-guided offline imitation learning for long action sequences via video interpolation and future-trajectory prediction,
     Neurocomputing, Available online 22 May 2023, 126325 DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2023.126325
  2. [pdf][code] Takeru Oba and Norimichi Ukita,
     Data-Driven Stochastic Motion Evaluation and Optimization with Image by Spatially-Aligned Temporal Encoding,
     Proc. of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2023), UK, May, 2023.(IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Joint Chapter Young Award)
• Journal Papers
  1. [pdf] Fuma Yasue, Kota Shinjo, Yuki Kondo, Kazutoshi Akita, Hibiki Mitsuboshi, Masamichi Yoshimura, and Norimichi Ukita,
     Neural Image Enhancement and Restoration for Time-lapse SPM Images,
     Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, DOI: 10.35848/1347-4065/ac8537, 2022.
  2. [pdf] [code] Masashi Nagaya and Norimichi Ukita,
     Embryo Grading With Unreliable Labels Due to Chromosome Abnormalities by Regularized PU Learning With Ranking,
     IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol.41, No.2, pp.320-331, DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2021.3126169, 2022.
  3. [pdf] Yuki Sawada, Takeshi Sato, Masashi Nagaya, Chieko Saito, Hiroyuki Yoshihara, Chihiro Banno, Yosuke Matsumoto, Yukino Matsuda, Kaori Yoshikai, Tomio Sawada, Norimichi Ukita, and Mayumi Sugiura-Ogasawara
     Evaluation of artificial intelligence using time-lapse images of IVF embryos to predict live birth,
     Reproductive BioMedicine Online, Vol.43, No.5, pp.843-852, DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.05.002, 2021.
  4. [pdf] Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Muhammad Haris, Yoshiyuki Tsuda, Norimichi Ukita,
     Continuous Finger Gesture Spotting and Recognition based on Similarities between Start and End Frames,
     IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol.23, No.1, pp.296-307, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2020.3010306, 2022.
  5. [pdf] [code] Muhammad Haris, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Norimichi Ukita,
     Deep Back-Projection Networks For Single Image Super-Resolution,
     IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol.43, No.12, pp.4323-4337, DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2020.3002836, 2021.
  6. [pdf] Kodai Shimosato and Norimichi Ukita,
     Multi-modal Data Fusion for Land-subsidence Image Improvement in PSInSAR Analysis
     IEEE Access, Vol.9, pp.141970-141980, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3120133, 2021.
  7. [pdf] Takeru Oba and Norimichi Ukita,
     Instance Segmentation by Semi-supervised Learning and Image Synthesis,
     IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E103-D, No.6, pp.1247-1256, 2020.
  8. [pdf] Takuya Matsumoto, Kodai Shimosato, Takahiro Maeda, Tatsuya Murakami, Koji Murakoso, Kazuhiko Mino, and Norimichi Ukita,
     Human Pose Annotation using a Motion Capture System for Loose-fitting Clothes,
     IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E103-D, No.6, pp.1257-1264, 2020.
  9. [pdf] Kohei Sendo and Norimichi Ukita,
     Heatmapping of Group People Involved in the Group Activity,
     IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E103-D, No.6, pp.1209-1216, 2020.
  10. Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Muhammad Haris, Yoshiyuki Tsuda, Norimichi Ukita,
      Finger Gesture Spotting from Long Sequences based on Multi-Stream Recurrent Neural Networks,
      Sensors, Vol.20, No.2, 528, DOI: 10.3390/s20020528, 2020.
  11. Taishi Sawabe, Shohei Ota, Masayuki Kanbara, Norimichi Ukita, Tetsushi Ikeda, Luis Yoichi Morales Saiki, Atsushi Watanabe, Norihiro Hagita,
      Warning Notification of Potential Collisions for Comfort Intelligence on Autonomous Vehicles,
      Intelligent Transport Systems for Everyone's Mobility, pp.279-295, 2019.
  12. [pdf] Tsuyoshi Higashiguchi, Norimichi Ukita, Masayuki Kanbara, Norihiro Hagita,
      Individuality-preserving Gait Pattern Prediction based on Gait Feature Transitions,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E101-D, No.10, pp.2501-2508, 2018.
  13. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Yusuke Uematsu,
      Semi- and Weakly-supervised Human Pose Estimation,
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 170, pp.67-78, May, DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2018.02.003, 2018.
  14. [pdf] Yuki Kawana, Norimichi Ukita, Jia-Bin Huang, and Ming-Hsuan Yang,
      Ensemble Convolutional Neural Networks for Pose Estimation,
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 169, pp.62-74, DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2017.12.005, 2018.
  15. [pdf] Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Norimichi Ukita, Manabu Ikeda, Hiroaki Kazui, Takashi Kudo, and Satoshi Nakamura,
      Detecting Dementia through Interactive Computer Avatars,
      IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Vol. 5, DOI: 10.1109/JTEHM.2017.2752152, 2018.
  16. Kunio Nobori, Norimichi Ukita, and Norihiro Hagita
      An Image Generation Method with Low Distortion Surround View for Vehicle Camera Systems Using a Composite Projection and a Halfpipe Shape Model,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. J101-D, No.5, pp.780--790, 2018.
  17. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita,
      Pose Estimation with Action Classification using Global-and-Pose Features and Fine-grained Action-specific Pose Models,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E101-D, No.3, pp.758-766, 2018.
  18. [pdf] Qun Shi, Norimichi Ukita, and Ming-Hsuan Yang,
      Natural Facial and Head Behavior Recognition using Dictionary of Motion Primitives,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E100-D, No.12, pp.2993-3000, 2017.
  19. [pdf] Yuki Kawana and Norimichi Ukita,
      Occluded Appearance Modeling with Sample Weighting for Human Pose Estimation,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E100-D, No.10, pp.2627-2634, 2017.
  20. [pdf] Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Koji Suganuma, Takaaki Deguchi, Go Hasegawa, Yutaka Nakamura, Norimichi Ukita, Naoki Aizawa, Katsuhiko Shibata, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Morito Matsuoka,
      Tandem equipment arranged architecture with exhaust heat reuse system for software-defined data center infrastructure,
      IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol.5, No.2, pp.182-192, 2017.
  21. [pdf] Tsuyoshi Higashiguchi, Toma Shimoyama, Norimichi Ukita, Masayuki Kanbara, Norihiro Hagita,
      Classification of Gait Anomaly due to Lesion using Full-body Gait Motions,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E100-D, No.4, pp.874-881, 2017.
  22. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Asami Okada,
      High-order Framewise Smoothness-constrained Globally-optimal Tracking,
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 153C, pp.130-142, 2016.
  23. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Yusuke Moriguchi, and Norihiro Hagita,
      People Re-identification across Non-overlapping Cameras using Group Features,
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 144, pp.228-236, 2016.
  24. Takaaki Deguchi, Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Go Hasegawa, Yutaka Nakamura, Norimichi Ukita, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Morito Matsuoka,
      A workload assignment policy for reducing power consumption in software-defined data center infrastructure,
      IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol.E99-B, No.2, pp.347-355, 2016.
  25. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita,
      Part-Segment Features with Optimized Shape Priors for Articulated Pose Estimation,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E99-D, No.1, pp.248-256, 2016.
  26. Yoichi Matsuyama, Norimichi Ukita, and Norihiro Hagita
      Efficient modeling by selecting samples for human pose estimation by latent SVM,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. J98-D, No.7, pp.1098--1107, 2015.
  27. Asami Okada, Norimichi Ukita, and Norihiro Hagita
      Globally-optimal multi-object tracking with Constraints on Moving Directions,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. J98-D, No.1, pp.250--257, 2015.
  28. [pdf] Edilson de Aguiar and Norimichi Ukita,
      Representing Mesh-based Character Animations,
      Computers and Graphics, Vol.38, No.2, pp.10-17, 2014.
  29. Yusuke Moriguchi, Norimichi Ukita, and Norihiro Hagita,
      People Identification across Non-overlapping Cameras using Group Features,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. J97-D, No.4, pp.868--875, 2014.
  30. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita,
      Simultaneous Particle Tracking in Multi-Action Motion Models with Synthesized Paths,
      Image and Vision Computing, Vol.31, No.6-7, pp.448-459, 2013.
  31. Yusuke Moriguchi, Asami Okada, Norimichi Ukita, and Norihiro Hagita,
      People Groping by Spatio-Temporal Features of Trajectories,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. J96-D, No.11, pp.2776-2783, 2013.
  32. Shigenobu Fujine, Norimichi Ukita, and Norihiro Hagita,
      High-fidelity Performance Capture System using Zoom-in Pan-Tilt Cameras,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. J96-D, No.10, pp.2580-2589, 2013.
  33. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Kazuki Matsuda,
      3D Reconstruction with Globally-optimized Point Selection,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E95-D, No.12, pp.3069-3077, 2012.
  34. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Takeo Kanade,
      Reference Consistent Reconstruction of 3D Cloth Surface,
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 116, Issue 8, pp.869-881, 2012.
  35. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Takeo Kanade,
      Gaussian Process Motion Graph Models for Smooth Transition among Multiple Actions,
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 116, Issue 4, pp.500-509, 2012.
  36. [pdf] Kazuki Matsuda and Norimichi Ukita,
      Direct Shape Carving: Smooth 3D Points and Normals for Surface Reconstruction,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E95-D, No.7, pp.1811-1818, 2012.
  37. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Kunihito Terashita, and Masatsugu Kidode,
      Efficient Topological Calibration and Object Tracking with Distributed Pan Tilt Cameras,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E95-D, No.2, pp.626-635, 2012.
  38. Norimichi Ukita, Noriaki Ichida, and Masatsugu Kidode,
      Synthesizing Transition Paths among Multiple Motion Models for Human Pose Tracking,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. J94-D, No.8, pp.1260-1268, 2011.
  39. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Akira Makino, and Masatsugu Kidode,
      Real-time Uncharacteristic-part Tracking with a Point Set,
      IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E93-D, No.7, pp.1682-1689, 2010.
  40. Norimichi Ukita, Michiro Hirai, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Complex Pose Tracking with Probablistic Dynamical Volume Models and Visual Hull Constraints,
      IPSJ Transactions, Vol.51, No.4, pp.1238-1247, April, 2010.
  41. Naoko Enami, Norimichi Ukita, Masatsugu Kidode :
      Image Matching with a Car-mounted Camera robust to Changes in Imaging Conditions,
      International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol.23, No.7, pp.1369-1395, 2009.
  42. Norimichi Ukita, Ryosuke Tsuji, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Shape Analysis of a Human Body wearing Cloting based on PCA of Time-series Volume Data,
      IPSJ Transactions on CVIM, Vol.1, No.2, pp.63-75, July, 2008.
  43. Ikuhisa Mitsugami, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Displaying a Moving Image By Multiple Steerable Projectors,
      The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers Journal, Vol.62, No.5, pp.763-770, 2008.
  44. Ikuhisa Mitsugami, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Fixed-center Pan-Tilt Projector and Its Calibration,
      Transaction of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Vol. J88-D, No.11, pp.3065-3078, 2007.
  45. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita :
      Probabilistic-Topological Calibration of Widely Distributed Camera Networks,
      Machine Vision and Applications Journal, Vol.18, No.3-4, pp.249-260, 2007.
  46. Norimichi Ukita :
      Real-time Cooperative Multi-target Tracking by Dense Communication among Active Vision Agents,
      Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, Vol.5, No.1, pp.15-30, 2007.
  47. [pdf] Yous Sofiane, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      An Assignment Scheme to Control Multiple Pan/Tilt Cameras for 3D Video,
      Journal of Multimedia, Vol.2, Issue 1, pp.10-19, 2007.
  48. Katsuji Aoki, Atsushi Yoshida, Shoichi Araki, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode :
      Functional Assesment of Surveillance of Whole Observation Area by Active Cameras,
      IPSJ Transactions on CVIM, Vol.48, No.SIG17, pp.65-77, 2007.
  49. Norimichi Ukita:
      Probabilistic-Topological Calibration of Widely Distributed Cameras,
      Transaction of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Vol. J89-D, No.7, pp.1523-1533, 2006.
  50. Norimichi Ukita:
      Real-time Cooperative Multi-target Tracking by Dense Communication among Active Vision Agents,
      Transaction of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Vol. J88-DII, No.9, pp.1438-1447, 2005.
  51. Toshihiro Kitajima, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Estimating the Temporal Positions and Postures of Non-rigid Objects lacking Sufficient Features based on the Stick and Ellipse Model,
      Transaction of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Vol. J88-DII, No.2, pp.334-346, 2005.
      Norimichi Ukita, Toshihiro Kitajima, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Temporal posture estimation of nonrigid objects lacking sufficient features based on the automatically generated stick and ellipse model,
      Systems and Computers in japan, Vol.37, No.6, pp.21-31, 2006.
  52. Norimichi Ukita and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Real-time Cooperative Multi-target Tracking by Communicating Active Vision Agents,
      Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol.97, No.2, pp.137-179, 2005.
  53. Norimichi Ukita, Akihiro Terabe, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Wearable Virtual Tablet: Fingertip Drawing Interface using an Active-infrared Camera,
      Information Processing Society of Japan Journal, Vol.45, No.3, pp.977-990, 2004.
  54. Norimichi Ukita and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Real-time Cooperative Multi-target Tracking by Communicating Active Vision Agents,
      IPSJ Transactions on CVIM, Vol.43, No. SIG11, pp.64-79, 2002.
  55. Takashi Matsuyama and Norimichi Ukita:
      Real-Time Multi-Target Tracking by a Cooperative Distributed Vision System,
      Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol.90, No. 7, pp.1136-1150, 2002. (Invited Paper)
  56. Norimichi Ukita and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Incremental Observable-Area Modeling for Cooperative Tracking,
      Information Processing Society of Japan Journal, Vol.42, No.7, pp.1902-1913, 2001.
  57. T. Matsuyama and N. Ukita:
      Cooperative Tracking by Active Vision Agents,
      Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.19, No.4, pp.439-445, 2001.
  58. Toshikazu Wada, Norimichi Ukita and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Fixed-Viewpoint Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera and Its Applications,
      Transaction of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers D-II, Vol. J81-DII, No.6, pp.1182-1193, 1998. (Excellent Paper Award)
• International Conferences
  1. Xuan Yang, Sorataro Fujika, Yuga Yajima, Akihiro Fujii, Teruo Tanaka, Kazutoshi Akita, Norimichi Ukita, Satoshi Ohshima
     Applying Automatic Tuning to Hyper-parameter Optimization of Machine Learning Programs for Super-Resolution, HPC Asia, Feb, 2023.
  2. [pdf] [code] Takahiro Maeda and Norimichi Ukita,
     MotionAug: Augmentation with Physical Correction for Human Motion Prediction,
     Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2022), USA, June, 2022. (acceptance rate = 25.33%)
  3. [code] [pdf] Yohei Yamashita, Kodai Shimosato, and Norimichi Ukita,
     Boundary-aware Image Inpainting with Multiple Auxiliary Cues,
     Proc. of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE2022), CVPR Workshop, June, 2022
  4. [pdf] Goutam Bhat, et al.,
     NTIRE 2022 Burst Super-Resolution Challenge,
     Proc. of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE2022), CVPR Workshop, June, 2022
  5. [pdf] Muhammad Haris, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Norimichi Ukita,
     Task-Driven Super Resolution: Object Detection in Low-resolution Images,
     Proc. of the 28th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2021), Dec., 2021.
  6. [pdf] Ryota Hayashi, Asei Shimokura, Takuya Matsumoto, Norimichi Ukita,
     Joint Learning of Object Detection and Pose Estimation using Augmented Autoencoder,
     Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2021), July, 2021.
  7. [pdf] [dataset] Sanae Fujii, Kazutoshi Akita, Norimichi Ukita,
     Distant Bird Detection for Safe Drone Flight and Its Dataset,
     Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2021), July, 2021. (oral acceptance rate = 18.9%)
     
  8. [pdf] Chihiro Nakatani, Kohei Sendo, Norimichi Ukita,
     Group Activity Recognition Using Joint Learning ofIndividual Action Recognition and People Grouping,
     Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2021), July, 2021. (oral acceptance rate = 18.9%)
     
  9. [pdf] [code] Yuki Kondo, Norimichi Ukita,
     Crack Segmentation for Low-Resolution Images using Joint Learning with Super-Resolution,
     Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2021), July, 2021. (oral acceptance rate = 18.9%)(Best Practical Paper Award)
     
  10. [pdf] Takahiro Maeda, Norimichi Ukita,
      Data Augmentation for Human Motion Prediction,
      Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2021), July, 2021. (oral acceptance rate = 18.9%)
      
  11. [pdf] Kazutoshi Akita, Masayoshi Hayama, Haruya Kyutoku, Norimichi Ukita,
      AVM Image Quality Enhancement by Synthetic Image Learning for Supervised Deblurring,
      Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2021), July, 2021.
  12. [pdf] Goutam Bhat, et al.,
      NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Burst Super-Resolution: Methods and Results,
      Proc. of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE2021), CVPR Workshop, June, 2021
  13. [pdf] Kazutoshi Akita, Muhammad Haris, and Norimichi Ukita,
      Region-dependent Scale Proposals for Super-Resolution in Object Detection,
      Proc. of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems, Dec, 2020
  14. [pdf] Sanghyun Son, et al.,
      AIM 2020 Challenge on Video Temporal Super-Resolution,
      Proc. of Advances in Image Manipulation workshop and challenges on image and video manipulation Workshop (AIM2020), ECCV Workshop, Aug, 2020
  15. [pdf] Dario Fuoli, et al.,
      AIM 2020 Challenge on Video Extreme Super-Resolution: Methods and Results,
      Proc. of Advances in Image Manipulation workshop and challenges on image and video manipulation Workshop (AIM2020), ECCV Workshop, Aug, 2020
  16. [pdf] [supp pdf] [code] Muhammad Haris, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Norimichi Ukita,
      Space-Time-Aware Multi-Resolution Video Enhancement,
      Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, USA, June, 2020. (acceptance rate = 22.1%)
      
  17. [pdf] Kai Zhang, et al.,
      NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Perceptual Extreme Super-Resolution: Methods and Results,
      Proc. of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE2020), CVPR Workshop, USA, June, 2020
  18. [pdf] Vicent Sanz Marco, Norimichi Ukita, Natsuko Kobayashi, and Morito Matsuoka,
      AICO, Artificial Intelligent COach,
      Proc. of International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, Czech Republic, June, 2020.
  19. [pdf] Shuhang Gu, et al.,
      AIM 2019 Challenge on Image Extreme Super-Resolution: Methods and Results,
      Proc. of Advances in Image Manipulation Workshop (AIM2019), ICCV Workshop, South Korea, Oct., 2019.
  20. [pdf] Andrey Ignatov, et al.,
      AIM 2019 Challenge on RAW to RGB Mapping: Methods and Results,
      Proc. of Advances in Image Manipulation Workshop (AIM2019), ICCV Workshop, South Korea, Oct., 2019.
  21. [pdf] [supp pdf] [code] Muhammad Haris, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Norimichi Ukita,
      Recurrent Back-Projection Network for Video Super-resolution,
      Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2019), USA, June, 2019. (acceptance rate = 25.2%)
      
  22. [pdf] Seungjun Nah, et al.,
      NTIRE 2019 challenge on video deblurring: Methods and results,
      Proc. of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE2019), CVPR Workshop, USA, June, 2019
  23. [pdf] Seungjun Nah, et al.,
      NTIRE 2019 Challenge on Video Super-Resolution: Methods and Results,
      Proc. of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE2019), CVPR Workshop, USA, June, 2019
  24. [pdf] Abdelrahman Abdelhamed, et al.,
      NTIRE 2019 Challenge on Real Image Denoising: Methods and Results,
      Proc. of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE2019), CVPR Workshop, USA, June, 2019
  25. [pdf] Andrey Ignatov, et al.,
      NTIRE 2019 Challenge on Image Enhancement: Methods and Results,
      Proc. of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE2019), CVPR Workshop, USA, June, 2019
  26. [pdf] Kohei Sendo and Norimichi Ukita,
      Heatmapping of People Involved in Group Activities,
      Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2019), May, 2019. (oral acceptance rate = 18.5%)
  27. [pdf] Takuya Matsumoto, Kodai Shimosato, Takahiro Maeda, Tatsuya Murakami, Koji Murakoso, Kazuhiko Mino, and Norimichi Ukita,
      Automatic Human Pose Annotation for Loose-fitting Clothes,
      Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2019), May, 2019. (Best poster award)
  28. [pdf] Gibran Benitez-Garcia, Muhammad Haris, Yoshiyuki Tsuda, and Norimichi Ukita,
      Similar Finger Gesture Recognition using Triplet-loss Networks,
      Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2019), May, 2019. (oral acceptance rate = 18.5%)
  29. [pdf] [supp pdf] [caffe code] [pytorch code] Muhammad Haris, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Norimichi Ukita,
      Deep Back-Projection Networks For Super-Resolution,
      Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2018), USA, June, 2018.
  30. [pdf] Radu Timofte, et al.,
      NTIRE 2018 Challenge on Single Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results,
      Proc. of New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop (NTIRE2018), USA, June, 2018
  31. Taishi Sawabe, Ota Shohei, Masayuki Kanbara, Norimichi Ukita, Tetsushi Ikeda, Luis Yoichi Morales Saiki, Atsushi Watanabe, and Norihiro Hagita,
      Warning Notification of Potential Collisions for Passenger Anxiety Reduction on Autonomous Wheelchairs,
      Proc. of The 16th ITS Asia-Pacific Forum, May, 2018.
  32. Taishi Sawabe, Naoki Nishikawa, Masayuki Kanbara, Norimichi Ukita, Norihiro Hagita,
      Discomfort-ride map for personal mobility passengers on sidewalks area,
      Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct., 2017.
  33. Tamotsu Endo, Norimichi Ukita, Hiroki Tanaka, Norihiro Hagita, Satoshi Nakamura, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Hiroaki Kazui, Manabu Ikeda, Takashi Kudo,
      Initial Response Time Measurement in Eye Movement for Dementia Screening Test,
      Proc. of the 15th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2017), May, 2017.
  34. Kunio Nobori, Norimichi Ukita, Norihiro Hagita,
      A Surround View Image Generation Method with Low Distortion for Vehicle Camera Systems Using a Composite Projection,
      Proc. of the 15th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2017), May, 2017. (acceptance rate = 19.1%)
  35. Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Norimichi Ukita, Takashi Kudo, and Satoshi Nakamura,
      Automatic Detection of Very Early Stage of Dementia through Multimodal Interaction with Computer Avatars,
      ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Nov., 2016.
  36. Hiroki Tanaka, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Norimichi Ukita, Takashi Kudo, and Satoshi Nakamura,
      Automatic Detection of Very Early Stage of Dementia through Spoken Dialog with Computer Avatars,
      38th Annual International Conference on the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Aug., 2016.
  37. Ryohei Hashimoto, Masayuki Kanbara, Norimichi Ukita, Tetsushi Ikeda, Luis Yoichi Morales Saiki, Atsushi Watanabe, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Norihiro Hagita,
      Behavior Representation of Robotic Wheelchairs with Physiological Indices for Passenger Comfort,
      IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, Nov., 2015.
  38. Taishi Sawabe, Masayuki Kanbara, Norimichi Ukita, Tetsushi Ikeda, Luis Yoichi Morales Saiki, Atsushi Watanabe, Norihiro Hagita,
      Comfortable Autonomous Navigation Based on Collision Prediction in Blind Occluded Regions,
      IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, Nov., 2015.
  39. [pdf] Yuki Kawana and Norimichi Ukita,
      Occlusion-Robust Model Learning for Human Pose Estimation,
      Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, Nov., 2015.
  40. [pdf] Tsuyoshi Higashiguchi, Toma Shimoyama, Norimichi Ukita, Masayuki Kanbara, and Norihiro Hagita,
      Lesioned-part Identification by Classifying Entire-body Gait Motions,
      Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, Nov., 2015.
  41. Norimichi Ukita,
      Part-segment Features for Articulated Pose Estimation,
      Proc. of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2015), May, 2015.
  42. Yuki Kawana and Norimichi Ukita,
      Occlusion-free Appearance Modeling of Body Parts for Human Pose Estimation,
      Proc. of the 14th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2015), May, 2015.
  43. Takaaki Deguchi, Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Go Hasegawa, Yutaka Nakamura, Norimichi Ukita, Kazuhiro Matsuda, and Morito Matsuoka,
      Impact of workload assignment on power consumption in software-defined data center infrastructure,
      IEEE CLOUDNET, Oct., 2014. (acceptance rate = 28.1%)
  44. Masayuki Hayashi, Masayuki Kanbara, Norimichi Ukita, and Norihiro Hagita,
      Physical Activity Estimation using Accelerometer and Facility Information for Elderly Healthcare,
      IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct., 2014.
  45. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Yoichi Matsuyama, and Norihiro Hagita,
      Efficient modeling by selecting learning samples in human pose estimation,
      IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Sep., 2014.
  46. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Koki Eimon, Carsten Rocker,
      Mining Crucial Features for Automatic Rehabilitation Coaching Systems,
      International Workshop on User-Centered Design of Pervasive Healthcare Applications, May, 2014.
  47. [pdf]Norimichi Ukita, Daniel Kaulen, and Carsten Rocker,
      Towards an Automatic Motion Coaching System: Feedback Techniques for Different Types of Motion Errors,
      International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems, Jan., 2014.
  48. [pdf]Norimichi Ukita and Atsushi Nakazawa,
      Human Body-parts Tracking for Fine-grained Behavior Classification,
      IEEE Workshop on Decoding Subtle Cues from Social Interactions, in conjunction with ICCV2013, Dec., 2013.
  49. [pdf]Norimichi Ukita,
      Iterative Action and Pose Recognition using Global-and-Pose Features and Action-specific Models,
      Workshop on Understanding Human Activities: Context and Interactions, in conjunction with ICCV2013, Dec., 2013. [project]
  50. [pdf] Keiji Morimoto, Yoichi Matsuyama, and Norimichi Ukita,
      Continuous Action Recognition by Action-specific Motion Models,
      Proc. of the 13th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2013), May, 2013. (oral acceptance rate = 21.7%)
  51. [pdf] Asami Okada, Yusuke Moriguchi, Norimichi Ukita, and Norihiro Hagita,
      People Groping by Spatio-Temporal Features of Trajectories,
      Proc. of the 13th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2013), May, 2013.
  52. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Kazuki Matsuda, and Norihiro Hagita,
      Shape Reconstruction with Globally-optimized Surface Point Selection,
      Proc. of the 21th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2012), Nov., 2012.
  53. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Shigenobu Fujine, and Norihiro Hagita,
      High-resolution Performance Capture by Zoom-in Pan-tilt Cameras,
      Proc. of Joint 3DIM/3DPVT Conference: 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DIMPVT), Oct., 2012.
  54. [pdf] Edilson de Aguiar and Norimichi Ukita,
      Representing and Manipulating Mesh-based Character Animations,
      Proc. of Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI), Aug., 2012.
  55. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita,
      Articulated Pose Estimation with Parts Connectivity using Discriminative Local Oriented Contours,
      Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2012), 2012. (acceptance rate = 24.1%)
  56. [pdf] Kazuki Matsuda and Norimichi Ukita
      Direct Shape Carving: Smooth 3D Points and Normals for Surface Reconstruction,
      The 12th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2011), June, 2011.
  57. [pdf] Michiro Hirai, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Real-time Pose Regression with Fast Volume Descriptor Computation,
      Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010), Aug., 2010.
  58. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Michiro Hirai, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Complex Volume and Pose Tracking with Probabilistic Dynamical Models and Visual Hull Constraints,
      Proc. of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV2009), Sep., 2009. (acceptance rate = 23.2%)
  59. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Kunihito Terashita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Efficient Topology Calibration and Object Tracking with Distributed Pan Tilt Cameras,
      Proc. of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC2009), Aug., 2009.
  60. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Akira Makino, and Masatsugu Kidode :
      Real-time Uncharacteristic-part Tracking based on Points Tracking,
      The 11th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2009), 2009.
  61. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Akihito Kotera, and Masatsugu Kidode :
      Behavior Recognition with HMM and Feature Analysis using a PTZ camera,
      The 11th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2009), 2009.
  62. [pdf] Naoko Enami, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode :
      Image Rectification for Robust Matching of Car-mounted Camera Image,
      The 11th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2009), 2009. (oral acceptance rate = 26.8%)
  63. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Shohei Kawata, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      IBR-based Free-viewpoint Imaging of a Complex Scene using Few Cameras,
      Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2008), Dec., 2008. (oral acceptance rate = 18.6%)
  64. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Ryosuke Tsuji, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Real-time Shape Analysis of a Human Body in Clothing with Time-series Part-labeled Volumes,
      Proc. of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2008), Oct., 2008. (acceptance rate = 27.9%)
  65. [pdf] Norimichi Enami, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Image Matching Robust to Changes in Imaging Conditions with a Car-mounted Camera,
      Proc. of the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC2008), Sep., 2008.
  66. [pdf] Ikuhisa Mitsugami, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Displaying a Moving Image By Multiple Steerable Projectors,
      Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS2007), in conjunction with CVPR2007, Jun., 2007.
  67. [pdf] Masayuki Kanbara, Norimichi Ukita, Masatsugu Kidode, and Naokazu Yokoya:
      3D Scene Reconstruction from Reflection Images in a Spherical Mirror,
      Proc. of the 18th International Conference on Pa ttern Recognition (ICPR2006), pp.874-879, Aug., 2006.
  68. [pdf] Sofiane Yous, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Multiple Active Camera Assignment for High Fidelity 3D Video,
      Proc. of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS2006), Jan., 2006.
  69. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Tomohisa Ono, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Region Extraction of a Gaze Object using the Gaze Point and View Image Sequences,
      Proc. of 7th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI2005), pp.129-136, Oct., 2005. (oral acceptance rate = 25%)
  70. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita:
      Real-time Cooperative Multi-target Tracking by Dense Communication among Active Vision Agents,
      Proc. of 5th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT2005), pp.664-671, Sep., 2005. (oral acceptance rate = 18%)
  71. [pdf] Ikuhisa Mitsugami, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Robot Navigation by Eye Pointing,
      Proc. of IFIP 4th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC2005), pp.256-267, Sep., 2005.
  72. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita:
      Target-color Learning and Its Detection for Non-stationary Scenes by Nearest Neighbor Classification in the Spatio-Color Space,
      Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS2005), pp.394-399, Sep., 2005.
  73. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita:
      Real-time Dense Communication among Agents for Active Tracking,
      Proc. of 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS2005), pp.1335-1336, Jul., 2005.
  74. [pdf] Ikuhisa Mitsugami, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Multi-Planar Projection by Fixed-Center Pan-Tilt Projectors,
      Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS2005), in conjunction with CVPR2005, Jun., 2005.
  75. [pdf] Ikuhisa Mitsugami, Norimichi Ukita, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Fixed-Center Pan-Tilt Projector and Its Calibration Methods,
      Proc. of IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2005), pp.492-497, May, 2005.
  76. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Akihito Sakakihara and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Extracting a Gaze Region with the History of View Directions,
      Proc. of 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2004), Vol.4, pp.957-960, Aug., 2004.
  77. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Toshihiro Kitajima and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Estimating the Positions and Postures of Non-rigid Objects lacking Sufficient Features based on the Stick and Ellipse Model,
      Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Articlated and Nonrigid Motion, in conjunction with CVPR2004, Jun., 2004.
  78. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Wearable Virtual Tablet: Fingertip Drawing on a Portable Plane-Object using an Active-Infrared Camera,
      Proc. of 8th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2004), pp.169-176, Jan., 2004. (oral acceptance rate = 28%)
  79. [pdf] Ikuhisa Mitsugamai, Norimichi Ukita and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Estimation of a 3D Gaze Position using View Lines,
      Proc. of 12th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP2003), pp.466-473, Sep., 2003.
  80. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Virtual Synchronization for Real-Time Multi-Target Tracking by Asynchronous Distributed Cameras,
      Proc. of 1st Workshop on Computer Vision System Control Architectures, in conjunction with ICVS2003, pp.11-14, Mar., 2003.
  81. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Akihiro Terabe, Yasuyuki Kono, and Masatsugu Kidode:
      Wearable Virtual Tablet: Fingertip Drawing Interface using an Active-Infrared Camera,
      Proc. of IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2002), pp.98-101, Dec., 2002.
  82. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Real-time Cooperative Multi-target Tracking by Communicating Active Vision Agents,
      Proc. of 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2002), Vol.2, pp.14-19, Aug., 2002. (oral acceptance rate = 20%)
  83. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Real-time Multi-target Tracking by Cooperative Distributed Active Vision Agents,
      Proc. of 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS2002), pp.829-838, Jul., 2002. (oral acceptance rate = 26%)
  84. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita, Takashi Nagao and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Versatile Cooperative Multiple-Object Tracking by Active Vision Agents,
      Proc. of IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2000), pp.569-573, Nov., 2000.
  85. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Incremental Observable-Area Modeling for Cooperative Tracking,
      Proc. of 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2000), Vol.4, pp.192-196, Sep., 2000. (oral acceptance rate = 13%)
• Book Chapters
  1. Andreas Besginow, Sebastian Buttner, Norimichi Ukita, Carsten Rocker,
     Deep Learning-Based Action Detection for Continuous Quality Control in Interactive Assistance Systems,
     Human-Technology Interaction, Springer, pp.127-149, Dec., 2022.
  2. Norimichi Ukita, Daniel Kaulen, and Carsten Rocker,
     A User-Centered Design Approach to Physical Motion Coaching Systems for Pervasive Health,
     Smart Health, LNCS, Vo.8700, Springer, pp.189-208, 2015.
• Invited Talks
  1. Norimichi Ukita, Fuma Yasue, Kota Shinjo, Yuki Kondo, Kazutoshi Akita, Hibiki Mitsuboshi, and Masamichi Yoshimura,
     Neural Image Restoration for Time-lapse SPM Images,
     29th International Colloquium on Scanning Probe Microscopy (ICSPM29), Dec., 2021
  2. Norimichi Ukita:
     Image Super-resolution for Micro-structure Analysis,
     JSPS 167-th committee (Nanoprobe Technology), Jan., 2021.
  3. Norimichi Ukita:
     Image Super-resolution using machinelearning and its applications to electron micrography,
     The Japan Society of Applied Physics, Tokai Chapter Seminar, Oct., 2020.
  4. Norimichi Ukita:
     Image and Video Super-resolution and thier Application to Tiny Object Detection,
     3D Computer Vision and Graphics Workshop, Nov., 2019.
  5. Norimichi Ukita,
     Micro Structure Analysis by Image Super Resolution,
     Lattice defect Forum -Lattice defect and Material informatics-, Sep., 2019.
  6. Muhammad Haris, Greg Shakhnarovich, and Norimichi Ukita,
     Recurrent Back-Projection Network for Video Super-resolution,
     Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2019), July, 2019.
  7. Norimichi Ukita:
     Image and Video Super-resolution for Learning Visual Representations: Application to Tiny Object Detection,
     Third International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL-2019), July, 2019.
  8. Norimichi Ukita:
     Human Pose Estimation using Motion Priors and Ensemble Modeling,
     International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems, Oct., 2017.
  9. Norimichi Ukita:
     3D human pose tracking using action-specific motion and regression models,
     Workshop on 3D Human Behavior Analysis, Jan., 2013.
  10. Norimichi Ukita:
      Human sensing, modeling, and control in a wide range of observation levels,
      9-th Japanese-German Frontiers of of Science Symposium, Oct., 2012.
  11. [pdf] Norimichi Ukita and Takashi Matsuyama:
      Real-Time Cooperative Multi-Target Tracking by Communicating Active Vision Agents,
      Proc. of 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, Vol.1, pp.439-446, Jul., 2003.