IVRC LeapStage was held in the Science Agora 2022 at Telecom Center, Tokyo.

A team of students from our laboratory exhibited ‘ “Te”mpura ‘, and it received “Waku-waku prize“.

• You can see the video from here -> [IVRC2022] “Te”mpura

ACM UIST 2022 (The Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) was held in Bend, Oregon, U.S.A.

Ms. Yuki Onishi’s paper was accepted and she made an oral presentation.

Mr. Keito Uwaseki and Mr. Ryota Gomi demonstrated their works.

• Yuki Onishi, Kazuki Takashima, Shoi Higashiyama, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura. WaddleWalls: Room-scale Interactive Partitioning System using a Swarm of Robotic Partitions.
• Keito Uwaseki, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura. ConfusionLens: Dynamic and Interactive Visualization for Performance Analysis of Multiclass Image Classifiers.
• Ryota Gomi, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura. A Triangular Actuating Device Stand that Dynamically Adjusts Mobile Screen’s Position.

Dr. Benjamin Tag (University of Melbourne) and Assistant Prof. Ryo Suzuki (University of Calgary) visited our laboratory.

We demonstrated our research to them.

Dr. Benjamin Tag gave us a talk in a hybrid format.

The open house of the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC) was held in Hybrid.

And our laboratory introduced our research activities with demonstrations.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a lecture at the Tohoku University Industry-University-Industry-Government Forum 2022 (the lecture video is available here).

• Theme：”Humanity-rich Telecommunications Pioneered by Nonverbal Information — Utilization of both Cyber and Real Space”

After the forum, there is a tour visiting our laboratory.

Open Symposium on “Designing the Next Normal of  Academic Conferences” was held by onsite & online hybrid. (The video is available now in a limited basis)

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura chaired the session and Assistant Professor Kaori Ikematsu gave a lecture from our laboratory.

We enjoyed Imoni party.

Third grade students of National Institute of Technology, Sendai College visited our lab.

We show them our research and discussed it with them.

Yuki Onishi won the 3rd prize in the research presentation contest “Falling Walls Lab Sendai 2022” held at TFC Tohoku Forum for Creativity.

Prof. Haruo Noma (College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University) visited our laboratory.

And Prof. Noma gave us a lecture on his latest research about haptic technology.

IVRC award ceremony was held at the 27th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

At the ceremony, ‘ “Te”mpura ‘, created by a team of students from our lab, was selected to participate in the Leap Stage.

• 大岡凌，板倉晃平，米澤晴，田中雄大，木村聡杞，松井遼太郎：手んぷら，第 27 回日本バーチャルリアリティ学会大会論文集，1A3-02，2022．

Project Assistant Professor Miao Cheng presented a poster at ECVP (European Conference on Visual Perception) 2022 held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

A paper was appeared in IEEE Sensors Journal.

• Yuhei Osaka, Jiawei Huang, Yoshifumi Kitamura: Learning to Track Monofrequency Multi-axis 3D Passive Magnetic Markers, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3199154.

Prof. Mario Doulis of Merz-Akademie Stuttgart, Germany visited our laboratory, and gave us a talk in a hybrid format.

Also, we demonstrated our research to Prof. Mario.

Promotional movie of our laboratory (2022 version) is now available.

• Promotional movie 2022

A “Training A” session was held in a hybrid format, in which fourth-year undergraduate students gave presentations on papers of their own choice. From our laboratory, Mr. Ryo Ooka, Mr. Ryotaro Matsui, Mr. Tomohiro Mozumi, and Mr. Satoki Kimura presented their papers.

Mr. Takuma Hagiwara, an alumnus of our laboratory, visited our laboratory with a person from his affiliated company.

The students gave a demonstration of their research to Mr. Hagiwara and his colleagues.

A master thesis review meeting was held in a hybrid format, and Mr. Taichi Tsuchida, a second-year student of the master’s course, gave a presentation from our laboratory.

We visited Prof. Nobuyuki Sakai’s laboratory (Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University).

We held Welcome Party for the new members.