Mr. Maakito Inoue gave an invited talk at Top conference session “BirdViewAR: Remote Drone Piloting Interface using Augmented Third-Person Perspective to Support Understanding of Surroundings” at The 23rd Forum on Information Technology in Hiroshima, Japan.
A paper has been published summarising research findings that not only deepens our understanding of human-like movements but also addresses an important gap in current research, offering practical guidance for enhancing the realism of AI-generated motion.
Jiawei Huang (alumnus) gave an oral presentation at SIGGRAPH 2024 held in Denver, USA, on a paper published in ACM Transactions on Graphics.
As a part of Tohoku University Open Campus 2024, we brought four research demonstrations from our laboratory to the School of Engineering Open Campus held at the Aobayama Campus. About 10,000 people visited the School of Engineering over the two days.
The 2024 laboratory video was available.
Dr. Mingze Xi, Research Scientist, Immersive Environments Lab, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) ) Data 61 and Dr. James Walsh, Senior Lecturer, Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments, The University of South Australia, visited us and gave us a talk.
We gave poster presentations on four research projects at the Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) held in Singapore.
Twenty-nine students from the University of Washington and Pennsylvania State University visited our laboratory as part of the Tohoku University STEM Summer Program 2024. After the lecture by Prof. Kitamura, our students gave a demonstration of their research and enjoyed exchanging ideas with them.
Dr. Andrew Cunningham, Senior Lecturer, Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments, The University of South Australia, visited us and gave us a talk.
UCL (University College London) in the UK and Tohoku University jointly held a workshop on “Exploring the Future of Smell“.
Professor Marianna Obrist from UCL (University College London) visited us and gave us a talk.
The stay was part of a joint research project, A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on the Potential of the Sense of Smell for Health and Wellbeing, which is being funded by matching funds from Tohoku University and University College London.
CHI 2024 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System) was held in Honolulu, Hawaii. Our lab. made the following three presentations.
Prof. Anatole Lecuyer of INRIA Rennes visited our lab.
After a demonstration by a student, He gave us a talk.
We enjoyed cherry-blossom viewing at Katahira campus.
Prof. Tony Tang of Singapore Management Univerisity visited our lab and gave us a talk.
Mr. Tetsushi Ikeda received the Dean of Engineering Award.
Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura was inducted into the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy.
https://ieeevr.org/2024/awards/vgtc-awards/
IEEE VR 2024 was held in Orlando, USA.
Mr. Kumpei Ogawa and Mr. Yukai Hoshikawa made oral presentations.
Our paper has been published in the online bulletin of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, the scientific journal of IEEE. Oral presentation will be made at 2024 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2024, March 18-21, Orlando, USA), a top conference on virtual reality technoloies.
INTERACTION2024 was held. Mr. Taichi Murakami and Mr. Chihaya Kamide gave demo presentations.
