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Laboratory Introduction (Department of Integrated information technology)

For graduation research, students select a topic from each faculty member's area of expertise that will be useful in the future. For example, main themes include natural language processing, data mining, image recognition, and education systems in the software technology field, autonomous mobile robots, conversational robots, and nursing support systems in the mechatronics technology field, wearable devices and virtual reality systems in the human factors technology field, and web applications and the Internet of Things (IoT) in the network technology field.

LABORATORY LIST Research themes and contents

Teacher Name Research Topics
Yuichi Itoh ■ Research into understanding people's conditions and situations using IoT
Research into changing human behavior through new displays
■ Research into creating new experiences using XR (VR, AR, MR)
■ Research into creating a new relationship between people and space by computerizing space
Kouzou Oohara ■Research into discovering characteristic patterns from structured and semi-structured data
■ Applied research using machine learning technology
■Research into the discovery and acquisition of experiential knowledge through human-computer interaction
■Analysis of information diffusion on social networks
■ Research into programming learning support using machine learning technology
Yonghao Yue ■Optical simulation to predict how objects appear due to reflection, scattering, etc.
■Mechanical simulation to predict the movement, deformation, and flow of objects
■ Designing functional artifacts that achieve desired optical effects
■Designing functional artifacts that achieve desired mechanical effects
■ Research into applied technologies for interaction and robotics
Kazuhiko Sumi ■ Research into systems that use computers to analyze and understand images and videos
■ Research into making machines intelligent based on image understanding
■Research into personal authentication and its application to information security
DÜRST, Martin J. ■ Research and development of systems for the integration, development, and improvement of information exchange methods (web, e-mail, blogs, chat, etc.)
■ Research into the creation and application of programming languages
■ Software internationalization research and development
Yoshito Tobe ■Research into wireless sensor networks
■ Research into short-range wireless communication
■Research into mobile phone and real-world interaction
Takeshi Morita ■Automatic construction of knowledge graphs from natural language texts
■Home action planning based on large-scale language models and environmental knowledge
■Inference of user's potential needs and interactive navigation based on large-scale language models and environmental knowledge
Hiroaki Yamaguchi ■Path planning method for mobile robots with nonholonomic constraints based on computational geometry
■Construction of a cooperative navigation method for multiple vehicles using virtual agents
■ Formation control of a group of multiple mobile robots
■Control of a multi-steering linked vehicle system
■Hybrid control for mobile manipulators
■Design and control of wave-motion walking machine
■ Motion planning and control of flying robots
LOPEZ, Guillaume F. ■ Research and development of wearable sensors and their data processing technology
■ Research and development into daily life behavior patterns and biological state analysis
■ Research and development of a system that analyzes and provides feedback on living environment information
■ Research and development of smartphones to support daily life

RESEARCH THEMES Examples of student research topics

  • Automatic stack expansion in the Ruby Virtual Machine
  • Improved and more efficient Unicode property handling in Ruby
  • Concentration estimation and activity maintenance support system using wearable devices
  • A system that helps improve sports skills using only wearable devices
  • Health and comfort support systems based on human information
  • Establishment of intelligent workspace support technology through spatial transformation
  • Development of new displays that stimulate various senses
  • Establishment of technology to recognize unconscious human states using IoT sensors
  • Improving the accuracy of continuous learning in neural networks
  • Financial market prediction using text information
  • Improving the explanation performance of recommendation systems using knowledge graphs
  • Simulation for CG to express food textures such as viscosity and stickiness
  • CG technology that mimics human artistic visual depictions
  • CG technology for generating realistic images of natural and man-made objects
  • Understanding the meaning and shape of the 3D world from images and creating 3D models
  • Understanding human postures and movements, and reproducing the movements of virtual humans
  • Improving communication quality by predicting communication behavior
  • Research on revitalizing online communication
  • Avatar communication that conveys emotions
  • Automatic knowledge graph construction from natural language text
  • Domestic Action Planning Based on Object States and Relations Using Large-Scale Language Models
  • Inference of User's Latent Requests and Conversational Navigation Based on Large-Scale Language Models
  • Development of intelligent navigation systems for mobile and flying robots