Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a Keynote talk at “International Tourism and Convention Forum 2023 in Sendai.”

Prof. Kazuyuki Fujita was granted the title of “Tohoku University Prominent Research Fellow,” which is given to young researchers who challenge original research that opens up new frontiers.

Prof. James E.Young (University of Manitoba, Canada) and Dr. Monica Perusquía-Hernández (NAIST) gave us talks.

The following commentary article was published in Journal of Information Processing (JIP).

• Ken Fujiwara, Miao Cheng, Chia-huei Tseng, Yoshifumi Kitamura. AI Understands Human Emotions and Gets Close to People: Reading Emotions from Bodily Movements: The Development of the Motion Unit AI. Journal of Information Processing, Vol.64, No.2, pp.e25-e31 (2023-01)

The following commentary article was published in the January 2023 issue of SENSAIT.

• Yoshifumi Kitamura, Ken Fujiwara, Taku Komura. Emotion Estimation from Human Body Movements and Generation of Emotionally Rich Movements of Characters – Toward the Realization of Humanity-rich Telecommunication.