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Image Processing Laboratory |
Ryuichi Oka
Professor |
Shunji Mori
Visiting Professor |
Jintae Lee
Associate Professor |
Konstantin Kolchin
Visiting Researcher |
Tony Y. T. Chan
Assistant Professor |
Yu Nakajima
Research Associate |
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The Image Processing Laboratory engages in research and development of image based pattern recognition including some areas of Artificial Intelligence and database organisation and retrieval. More specifically, as can be seen from the background information and the recent research publications of the members of the laboratory, multimedia recognition and retrieval including character recognition is our current focus. Related to the recent progress of the web, a huge amount of multimedia data without index becomes available to store in our PC's. However, no sophistcated methodology to manage such data has been developed so far. So that we are solicited to attach an index to each data. Our research aim is to develop algorithms to realize automatic annotation to real word data for integrated retrieval of multimedia information. The algorithms include self-organisation and transformation among representation of multimedia and feature extraction and recognition of real data. Real world data includes video, still image, speech, music, sound, and text each of which has not been indexed by labels. A software package for multimedia integration retrieval called CrossMediator was developed by the research group directed by Prof. R.Oka in ten-year project (1992-2002) RWC of METI (Japan). Some parts of CrossMediator have been in the commercial market by through a private company. Our laboratory will pursue to develop more sophisticated functions which might reveal a new generation of the Internet.
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| [oka-01:2002] | Takuichi Nishimura Ryuichi OKA and Hiroaki Yabe. On Spotting Recognition of Gesture Motion from Time-varying Image. Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 43(SIG 4 (CVIM 4)):54-68, 2002.
This paper describes some methods for recognizing human gestures from a time varying image captured by a single or multiple video cameras. Each method is suitable to recognize human gestures performed in a different situation. The situations include the case of a single person facing a camera and the case of multiple persons captured by an omni-view camera and so on. The paper describes an architecture to realize a real-time dialogue system consisting of speech recognition, task model, CG output and speech synthesis outpout modules which cooperate with gesture recognition module. |
| [t-chan-01:2002] | Tony Y. T. Chan. Unifying Metric Approach to the Triple Parity. Artificial Intelligence, 141(1):123-135, Oct 2002.
The even-odd parity problem is a tough one for neural networks to handle because they assume a ??nite dimensional vector space. Typically, the size of the neural network increases as the size of the problem increases. The triple parity problem is even tougher. In this paper, amethod is proposed for supervised and unsupervised learning to classify bit strings of arbitrary length in terms of their triple parity. The learner is modeled by two formal concepts, transformation system and stability optimization. Even though a small set of short examples were used in the training stage, all bit strings of any length were classified correctly in the online recognition stage. The proposed learner has successfully learned to devise away by means of metric calculations to classify bit strings of any length according to their triple parity. The system was able to acquire the concept of counting, dividing, and then taking the remainder, by autonomously evolving a set of string-editing rules along with their appropriate weights to solve the difficult problem. |
| Referred Proceeding Papers |
| [oka-02:2002] | Hiroshi Kameya, Shunji Mori, and Ryuichi Oka. Amethod of writer verification without keyword registration using feature sequences extracted from on-line handwritten sentences. In Proc. of MVA2002IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Application, pages 479-483, December 2002.
This paper proposes a new method for writer verification based on so-called Continuous Dynamic Prpgramming. The method belongs to the category of content-free writer verification. This method uses an arbitrary partial inteval of the registrated sequence of strokes. The usage of the order of the strokes is different from the conventional methods of content independent methods. |
| [oka-03:2002] | Takuichi Nishimura Masataka Goto, Hiroki Hashiguchi and Ryuichi Oka. RWC Music Database: Popular, Classical, and Jazz Music Databases. In Proc. of 3rd Inter. Conf. on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2002), pages 287-288, October 2002.
This paper describes the RWC music dadabase whichwas developed under the RWC Program to widely provide researchers in this field. |
| [t-chan-02:2002] | Tony Y. T. Chan. Fast Naive-Euclidean Learner. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, volume 2, page session MP1F. IEEEComputer Society, 2002.
A method is proposed for learning to classify vector objects. It combined the strategy of the Best Stepwise Feature Selection with a classifier of Euclidean nearest-neighbor. Time complexities for the various procedures were analysed. Each object was represented by a vector in a fixed D-dimensional Euclidean space. Objects were divided into training and test sets. Nineteen experiments were performed and their CPU times and accuracies reported. The proposed naive learner was found to be extremely fast with good error rates. It could be used as a baseline learning agent, in terms of CPU time and accuracy, against which other learning agents can be measured. |
| [t-chan-03:2002] | Tony Y. T. Chan. Naive Euclidean Approach to Classification of Satellite Images. In Proceedings of the Global Mapping Forum, 2002.
Accepted for publication |
| [oka-07:2002] | Ryuichi Oka. Image and integration of multi-media information (Invited lecture). In Proc. of First Symposium on Intelligent Integration of Audio-Visual Information for Social Information Infrastructure, pages 19-42. Nagoya University, March 2003. |
| [oka-08:2002] | Ryuichi Oka. How to access media data among different kinds of media information (Invited lecture). In Proc. of Workshop on Language Processing for Integrating Modality of Media, pages Session2-2. Society of Natural Language Processing, March 2003. |
| [oka-09:2002] | Ryuichi Oka. A personal view of the difficulty for solving problems in the field of artificial intelligence (Invited lecture). In Proc. of the 16-th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, pages 2A4-01. Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, May 2002. |
| [t-chan-04:2002] | Tony Y. T. Chan. Pattern Learning: A Unifying Approach. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2003.
To be published |
| [oka-10:2002] | Ryuichi Oka. Hitachi Jouhou Seigyo System Corp., March 2003. |
| [oka-11:2002] | RyuichiOka. Artificial Intelligence Research Promotion Foundation, December 2002. |
| [oka-12:2002] | Ryuichi Oka. Mediadrive Inc., June 2002. |
| [t-chan-05:2002] | Tony Y. T. Chan, 2001. Associate editor, Journal of Applied Systems Studies |
| [oka-13:2002] | Ryuichi Oka. Control Apparatus and Method by Gesture Recognition and Recording and Recording Mediaum Therefor The Application is based Patent Application No. 2002-144058 in Japan, 2002. |
| [oka-14:2002] | Satoshi Kuranami. Graduation Thesis: Retrieval of image data in web by using image query, University of Aizu, 2003.
Thesis Advisor : Ryuichi Oka |
| [oka-15:2002] | Yasuyuki Muramatsu. Graduation Thesis: Extraction of moving objects from video data for robust gesture recognition, University of Aizu, 2003.
Thesis Advisor : Ryuichi Oka |
| [oka-16:2002] | Tateaki Suenaga. Graduation Thesis: Segmentation and recognition of telop characters from TV video image data, University of Aizu, 2003.
Thesis Advisor : Ryuichi Oka |
| [oka-17:2002] | Hirai Keigo. Graduation Thesis: Clustering of text and image for grouping similar contents of web data, University of Aizu, 2003.
Thesis Advisor : Ryuichi Oka |
| [oka-18:2002] | Tokuyoshi Yanagida. Graduation Thesis: Extraction of text-image correlation for web image data with text, University of Aizu, 2003.
Thesis Advisor : Ryuichi Oka |
| [oka-19:2002] | Yoshiyuki Hasemi. Graduation Thesis: Segmentation of video data for scene detection, University of Aizu, 2003.
Thesis Advisor : Ryuichi Oka |
| [oka-20:2002] | Nobukazu W. Murakami. Master Thesis: A Method for Separating Characters from An Overlapped Character Pattern, University of Aizu, 2003.
Thesis Advisor : Ryuichi Oka |
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Annual Review 2002