News Archive

2018/12/31 Associate Professor Christian Sandor has moved to Extended Reality Lab at City University of Hong Kong. We are thankful for all the knowledge and wisdom he brought to our lab, and wish him all the best in life as he starts a new chapter in his journey.

2018/12/10 Damien Constantine Rompapas won Best Oral Presentation Award in CICP.

2018/12/07 Daniel Eckhoff won Best Short Paper Award in VRCAI 2018.

2018/11/27 Naoki Inoue won Best Poster Award in MoST&JST Conference on ICT 2018.

2018/11/27 Jayzon Ty won Best Poster Award in MoST&JST Conference on ICT 2018.

2018/09/12 Ryo Akiyama has been selected as a research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC2).

2018/08/08 Ryo Akiyama gave a poster presentation at MIRU 2018, and he got a poster presentation award.

2018/05/10 Assistant Professors Alexander Plopski and Takafumi Taketomi presented "Communication, Education and Management of an International Laboratory" as a keynote talk at the domestic workshop (CVIM).

2018/04/16 Assistant Professor Alexander Plopski presented "Efficient In-Situ Creation of Augmented Reality Tutorials" at Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT.

2018/04/15 Assistant Professor Takafumi Taketomi presented "Generative fence obstacle removal for images with color consistency" at APMAR 2018.

2018/03/30 The website on the 'Global Research Network for Healthy Society Based on Collaboration Between Media Informatics and Sports Science’ which is a research collaboration between NAIST and NIFS has been opened.

2018/03/22 Nicko Reginio Caluya presented his conference paper on "Transferability of Spatial Maps: Augmented Versus Virtual Reality Training" at IEEE VR 2018.

2018/03/21 Ryo Akiyama gave a poster presentation on "Light Projection-Induced Illusion for Controlling Object Color" at IEEE VR 2018.

2018/03/20 Oral Kaplan gave a poster presentation on "Towards Situated Knee Tracking Visualization for Self Analysis in Cycling" at IEEE VR 2018.

2018/01/18 Jayzon Ty presented his work on "A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Virtual and Augmented Reality on the Psychological Response of Users when Hurting Avatars" at CICP 2017.

2017/12/14 Oral Kaplan gave a presentation about exercise motivation in ACE(Advancements in Computer Entertainment) 2017.

2017/12/01 Yuto Inamitsu won Excellence Award in ISCA(International Students Creativity Award) 2017.

2017/11/29 Assistant Professor Takafumi Taketomi and Haruka Matsumura presented their research in ICAT-EGVE 2017.

2017/11/04 Tatsuya Nakajima and Shuichi Otani won the Credit Saison Award in Ritsumeikan University Venture Contest.

2017/11/04 Shuichi Otani won Excellence Award in NBK New Business Awards Business Plan bracket.

2017/10/20 Ryo Akiyama and Haruka Matsumura presented their research in SIG-MR 2017.

2017/9/30 Ryo Akiyama's research theme has been selected as a Strategic Basic Research Program by Japan Science and Technology Agency.

2017/8/26 We held our laboratory's 10th year anniversary party in Osaka.

2017/7/02 Qirui Zhang and Ryo Akiyama presented their work in APMAR.

2017/6/27 ISUVR was held at NAIST for three consecutive days.

2017/5/13 We introduced our laboratory in NAIST Open Campus.

2017/4/17 Four new M1 students join the laboratory.

2016/12/12 Oral Kaplan and Ouchi Yuma won the Best Oral Presentation Award in CICP2016.

2016/12/10 Shalika Pathirathna won the Best Poster Award in ICAT-EGVE 2016.

2016/9/23 Damien Constantine Rompapas won the Best Demo Award in ISMAR 2016.

2016/7/1 Alexander Plopski became Assistant Professor.

2016/6/1 Teerapat Chaupetch and Chutikan Noikanchana joined the laboratory as an internship students.

2016/5/20 Assistant Professor Takafumi Taketomi's research group has been adopted by the 戦略的情報通信研究開発推進事業（SCOPE）.

2016/5/14 We introduced our laboratory in NAIST Open Campus.

2016/4/18 Geert Lugtenberg joined the laboratory as an internship student.

2016/4/18 Assistant Professor Takafumi Taketomi gave two oral presentations in システム制御情報学会研究発表講演会.

2016/4/18 New students; six master's, two research, one internship, joined the laboratory.

2016/4/18 Associate Professor Christian Sandor gave a Keynote talk and PhD. Student Arno in Wolde Lubke gave an oral presentation in APMR2016.

2016/4/1 Alexander Plopski joined the lab as Postdoctoral Researcher.

2016/4/1 Assistant Professor Goshiro Yamamoto has moved to Kyoto University Medical School Hospital.

2015/2/5 M1 student Kohei Oshima has returned from his internship at Oulu University in Finland.

2014/11/20 M1 student Seiya Kojima has returned from his internship at Oulu University in Finland.

2014/11/13 D3 student Marc Santos joined the 20th Virtual Reality Software and Technology Conference.

2014/11/9 Several demonstrations took place in NAIST Open Campus.

2014/10/24 M1 student Luiz Sampaio has returned from his internship at Oulu University in Finland.

2014/10/22 M1 student Seiya Kojima went to Oulu University in Finland for his internship.

2014/10/20 Sevilla Benjz joined the laboratory as an internship student.

2014/10/6 D3 student Yuchiro Fujimoto has returned from his internship at Disney Research Zurich.

2014/10/1 Ren Hu joined the laboratory as an internship student.

2013/10/1 Pitaksarit Sirawat, Shalika Pathirathna and Liem Hoang joined the laboratory.

2014/9/24 Professor Hirokazu Kato received the title of "Fellow" from Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers on "Pioneering Research on Augmented Reality Based on ARToolKit Development".

2014/9/22 M1 student Luiz Sampaio went to Oulu University in Finland for his internship.

2014/9/21 Laboratory's annual study trip took place in Okinawa.

2014/9/12 M1 students Luiz Sampaio and Kohei Oshima gave a short presentation in Innovation Japan 2014.

2014/9/10 M2 student Max Krichenbauer presented his research work in ISMAR 2014.

2014/8/25 M2 student Tatsuya Fukui went to Oulu University in Finland for his internship.

2014/8/22 Tharacheewin Chuphan completed his internship period．

2014/8/15 Kenny Moser completed his internship period.

2014/8/4 Associate Professor Christian Sandor held MARR event in NAIST.

2014/7/28 Yuto Itoh from TU Munchen visited the laboratory.

2014/7/8 Professor Hirokazu Kato gave a speed in InsideAR Tokyo 2014．

2014/6/10 Kenny Moser and Tharacheewin Chuphan joined the laboratory as internship students.

2014/6/6 D3 student Yuchiro Fujimoto has returned from his long term business trip in University of South Australia.

2014/5/17 Laboratory introduction and several demonstrations took place in NAIST Open Campus.

2014/5/1 Associate Professor Christian Sandor's research with Google Glass was published in a newspaper article.

2014/4/18 D2 student Jarkko and M2 student Max gave a presentation in KJMR2014.

2014/4/7 Associate Professor Christian Sandor's research with Google Glass won Google Faculty Award.

2014/4/2 Laboratory introduction for new prospective students took place.

2013/12/28 Eeva Leinonen, new internship student from the University of Oulu, has joined our Lab．

2013/12/24 Fujimoto's (D2) article has been accepted for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics．

2013/12/20 Fujimoto (D2) has returned from the University of Oulu.

2013/12/17 Santos' s(D2) article has been accepted for IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

2013/12/11 We had a demonstration in Todaiji temple about Virtual History Experience system.

2013/11/25 Assistant Prof. Taketomi has moved to University of Oulu, Finland, for a long term research period.

2013/11/23 Keyaki (D3) has returned from Microsoft Research Asia.

2013/11/11 We had a party to welcome new members and to send off Assist. Prof. Taketomi

2013/11/10 We presented research demonstrations during NAIST Open Campus

2013/11/04 We presented a demonstration of magic book at the "けいはんな"プチ体感フェア (Kenhanna Fair).

2013/10/08 Fujimoto (D2) has departed to the University of Oulu, Finland for an internship (10/8-12/20).

2013/10/07 Assist. Prof. Taketomi and Fujimoto (D2) had a poster presentation and a demonstration, respectively, at International symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. 　

2013/10/01 New research students, Amar Husejic and Oral Kaplan, joined our lab.

2013/10/01 New M1 student, Luiz Sampaio, joined our lab.

2013/09/27 NAIST graduation ceremony was held today. From our lab, one M2 student, Arno Lübke, graduated.

2013/09/18 Fujimoto(D2) presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

2013/9/14 Shimizu(M2) has departed to Hunan university for an exchange program.(9/14-9/28).

2013/9/10 Bando(M1) has departed to the University of Oulu, Finland for an internship (9/10-10/9).

2013/9/10 Lee(M2) and Kimura(M2) presented at the HIS(9/10 - 13).

2013/9/2 We had a lab trip in Ise(9/3 - 9/4)．

2013/8/31 Keyaki(D3) presented at the SCIT 2013(8/31 - 9/4)．

2013/8/31 Naoyuki Maeda and Pirasa Chokpitiboon finished internship.

2013/8/11 Keyaki(D3) departured to Microsoft Research Asia for an internship．

>2013/8/1 Former Associate Professor Miyazaki has became a full Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

2013/7/23 Keyaki(D3) presented at theiDB 2013 Workshop(7/21-23)．

2013/7/18 Marc(D2) presented at theIEEE Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) 2013(7/15-18 blog)．

2013/7/7 Keyaki's (D3) article has been accepted for Transactions of International Processing society of Japan.

2013/6/24 Pirasa Chokpitiboon, new internship students from Kasetsart University, has joined our Lab.

2013/6/3 Naoyuki Maeda, new internship students from Tokuyama College of Technology, joined our Lab.

2013/6/3 Keyaki's(D3) article has been accepted by SCIT2013.

2013/5/9 Keyaki(D3) won the best paper award(PhD section) at DEIM2013.

2013/4/24 We had a welcome party.

2013/4/19 New M1 students, Max Krichenbauer, Seiji Ochiai, and Tatsuya Fukui joined our lab.

2013/4/14 Fujimoto(D2), Marc(D2), Angie(M2) presented at the 6th Korea-Japan Workshop on Mixed Reality (4/13-14 - blog).

2013/4/8 Jayzon Flores and Nicko Reginio Caluya, new internship students from Ateneo De Manira University, has joined our Lab.

2013/4/2 Muhammad Zeeshan Asghar joined our lab as a D1 student.

2013/03/26 Keyaki's (D2) article has been accepted for International Journal of Web Information System.

2013/03/22 NAIST graduation ceremony was held today. From our Lab, 9 M2 students and 1 D3 student graduated.(blog)

2013/03/11 We held a ferewell party

2013/03/11 Marc (D1) presented a poster at 4th Augmented Human International Conference 2013 (3/7-8 - blog).

2013/03/4 Bownpaseuth Oupathama, a new internship student from National Univerity of Laos, has joined our Lab.

2013/03/4 During DEIM2013, Keyaki (D2) won the Student Presentation Award.

2013/02/5 Fujimoto's (D1) article has been accepted for Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

2013/01/25 Matti Pouke, a doctoral student from University of Oulu joined our lab.

2013/01/24 Marina (D3) published an article in the SBC Journal on 3D Interactive Systems.

2012/11/19 Keyaki (D2) presented his research during the 14th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (12/03-05).

2012/11/19 Marina (D3) presented a paper during ICPR 2012 (11/11-15)

2012/11/6 During The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2012), Prof. Kato won The 10 Year Lasting Impact Award.

2012/11/5 Marina (D3) and Fujimoto (D1) presented their researches during ISMAR2012 (11/5-8).

2012/10/26 We held a welcome party to new members and a farewell party to Assistant Prof. Uranishi(10/24).

2012/10/03 Lee (M1) departured to Oulu University, Finland for an internship.

2012/10/01 Assistant Prof. Uranishi has moved to Osaka University.

2012/10/01 Okada (M2) presented his research during the Meeting of the Japanese Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

2012/09/24 Arita (M2) and Kubo (M2) have presented their researches during the Meeting of the Information Processing Society of Japan - Kansai branch.

2012/09/04 Angie (M1) has arrived from Finland, after spending one month in an internship at Oulu University (blog).

2012/09/04 We held the Lab Summer Camp at Hiroshima from Aug. 26-28．

2012/08/29 Henry (D3) presented his research during the 1st International Symposium on Socially and Technically Symbiotic Systems(blog)．

2012/08/06 Angie (M1) departured to Oulu University, Finland for an internship.

2012/08/03 We held a welcome party to the new internship student Yusuke Oguma.

2012/08/01 Yusuke Oguma, a new internship student, has joined our Lab.

2012/07/26 We held a farewell party to Dr. Robert W. Lindeman and the internship student, Yuya Nishizaki.

2012/07/17 The internship students Geert Lugtenberg and Emiel de Munck have returned to their country.

2012/07/11 Assistant Prof. Uranishi has came back from University of Oulu, Finland, for a long term research period (07/02).

2012/06/14 We held a welcome party for Dr. Robert W. Lindeman and the intern student, Yuya Nishizaki.(6/13)

2012/06/08 Professor Kato's visit in the University of Oulu. (06/02-06/04 - blog).

2012/06/06 Student Jaakko Hyry (D1) published an article in 'Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing' Journal.

2012/06/05 Associate Professor, Dr. Robert W. Lindeman, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and intern student, Yuya Nishizaki, came to our lab(06/04)

2012/06/01 Student Marina Oikawa (D3) won the best paper award at XIV Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR2012).

2012/06/01 Marina Oikawa(D3) and Igor Almeida(D2) presented their researches in the XIV Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR2012)(05/28-05/31 - blog).

2012/05/30 Our Lab presented some research demosntrations during NAIST Open Campus 2012 (05/26 - blog).

2012/05/25 Students Okada (M2) and Terawaki (M2) presented their researches during the SCI2012 (05/21-05/23 - blog).

2012/04/24 We held a welcome party for the new M1 and research students of our Lab.

2012/04/16 Student Igor (D2) presented his research during KJMR 2012 (04/13-04/15).

2012/04/05 Student Matsubara (D3) presented his research during SAC 2012 (03/26-03/30).

2012/03/23 NAIST graduation ceremony was held today. From our Lab, 13 M2 students and 1 D3 student graduated.

2012/03/22 Assistant Prof. Yamamoto has moved to University of Oulu, Finland, for a long term research period.

2012/03/22 Our Lab presented some research demosntrations during NAIST Open Campus 2012 (03/10).

2012/03/22 Spring Seminar was held from 03/07 to 03/09.

2012/03/13 The student Fujimoto (M2) presented his research during the AH2012 (03/08-03/09).

2012/03/13 The students Igor Almeida (D1) and Juan Carlos Yu Yu (M2) presented their research during IEEE 3DUI2012 (03/04-03/05).

2012/03/07 The students Keyaki (D1), Fukuzawa (M2) and Yoshitake (M2) presented their research during the 4th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (03/03-03/05).

2012/02/21 M2 students presented their researches during Master Thesis Presentation (02/13-02/17).

2012/02/06 Two internship students from The Netherlands, Geert Lugtenberg and Emiel de Munck, have been assigned to our Lab.

2012/01/10 Assistant Prof. Ikeda has moved to Osaka University.

2012/01/04 Fujimoto (M2) made a presentation during the 83th Human Interface Meeting (2011/12/20)．

2011/11/28 Keyaki (D1) paticipated and made a presentation at studying group of VLDB2011.

2011/11/28 The student Igor (D1) won the best poster award during ICAT 2011．

2011/11/28 Assist. Prof. Uranishi，the student Marina (D2) and the student Igor (D1) presented a poster of their researches during ICAT 2011 (11/28-11/30)．

2011/11/05 We presented research demonstrations during NAIST Open Campus．

2011/11/05 The students Matsubara (D3) and Keyaki (D1) will present their research during the 153th Database Systems Meeting of the Information Processing Society of Japan (03/11).

2011/11/05 Assist. Prof. Ikeda and the research student Hyry presented theis researches during ISABEL 2011 (Blog) (10/26-29)．

2011/11/05 Assist. Prof. Uranishi，Assist. Prof. Yamamoto and the student Marina (D2) presented their researches during ISMAR 2011 (10/26-10/29) (Blog)．

2011/11/05 We held a welcome party for the new students and staff member of our Lab (10/18).

2011/10/18 The students Matsubara (D3) and Keyaki (D1) will present their research during the 153th Database Systems Meeting of the Information Processing Society of Japan (03/11).

2011/10/06 The student Nishida (M2) is now in Finland, Oulu University, for an internship period.

2011/10/03 2 new M1 students and 1 research student have joined our lab．

2011/10/01 Assistant Prof. Takafumi Taketomi has joined our Lab.

2011/09/27 Assistant Prof. Ikeda presented his research during the 2011 Joint Virtual Reality Conference(JVRC2011).

2011/09/22 Fukuzawa (M2) got a student award from the Information Processing Society of Japan Kansai Branch．

2011/09/22 Nishida (M2)，Yoshitake (M2) and Fukuzawa (M2) presented their research during the Information Processing Society of Japan Kansai Branch Meeting．

2011/09/22 Fujimoto (M2) and Kumagai (M2) presented their research during the Japanese VR Society Meeting．

2011/09/16 Keyaki (D1)，Fukuzawa (M2) and Yoshitake (M2) presented their research during the 14th Parallel and Distributed Database Mini Workshop (read more about it in our Blog - in Japanese)

2011/09/07 Prof. Kato was nominated to the CEDEC AWARDS 2011 (Programming, Development Environment)．

2011/09/05 The official blog of our Lab is now online.

2011/08/31 The student Yamada (M1) departured to Finland, Oulu University for an internship period.

2011/08/30 The student Matoba (M2) departured to Finland, Oulu University for an internship period.

2011/08/28 The student Matoba (M2) presented her research during the Japanese Society for Medical Virtual Reality Meeting (27/08)

2011/08/24 The students NIshida (M2)，Yoshitake (M2) and Fukuzawa (M2) will present their researches during the Information Processing Society of Japan Kansai Branch Meeting (22/09).

2011/08/24 The students Fujimoto (M2) and Kumagai (M2) will present their researches during the Japanese VR Society Meeting (20~22/09).

2011/08/24 The students Matoba (M2) and Yamada (M1) will go for an internship period in Finland, Oulu University.

2011/08/24 The internship student Brodrick Childs (MIT) has returned to his country on August 21st.

2011/08/10 We had the Lab's trip on August 10th and 11th.

2011/08/08 Summer Boot Camp was held on August 8th and 9th.

2011/08/06 Keyaki (D1) paticipated and made a presentation at studying group of SIGMOD2011.

2011/08/01 Keyaki (D1) made a presentation at iDB Workshop 2011.

2011/06/16 We held a technical tour in our Lab for participants of MVA 2011.

2011/06/08 Prof. Kato gave a lecture during the SSII 2011.

2011/06/07 We held a farewell party to Assistant Prof. Urainishi and a welcome party to the new internship student.

2011/06/07 One of the imd-lab members paticipated and made a presentation at ICDE2011.

2011/06/01 A new internship student, Brodrick Childs, has been assigned to our Lab.

2011/05/30 Assistant Prof. Uranishi was an invited lecturer during the Robot Engineering Seminar organized by the Japanese Robot Society.

2011/05/28 Our Lab showed some research demonstrations during NAIST Open Campus.

2011/05/19 We have published the homepage about the Blue sky science caravan.

2011/05/15 Assistant Prof. Ikeda has moved to University of Oulu, Finland, for a long term research period.

2011/04/18 We held a welcome party to the new members of our Lab.

2011/04/01 Assistant Prof. Makoto Fujisawa has moved to Tsukuba University. Assistant Prof. Ikeda, Assistant Prof. Uranishi and Assistant Prof. Yamamoto have joined our Lab.

2011/03/11 We held a farewell party to Dr. Ross Smith.

2011/03/01 Assistant Prof. Toshiyuki Amano has moved to Yamaga University.

2011/03/08 Tatsuya Hiramatsu's research paper won an award from The Human Interface Society.

2011/02/17 We held a farewell party for the staff and students leaving our Lab next month.

2011/01/17 We held a welcome party to Dr. Ross Smith (from University of South Australia).

2008/12/03 Mr. Makoto Yui (D3) received 4 Awards during the WebDB Forum 2008.

2008/09/26 Prof. Kato has received a Paper Award during the VRSJ Conference.

2008/09/23 Mr. Kenta Oku (D3) has receveid a Student Encouragament Award during the iDB2008.

2008/09/20 We organized a Photomosaic experience course during the Science and Technology program.

2008/09/07 We had a Lab's trip to Tomogashima (Wakayama Prefecture).

2008/08/25 We held NAIST Open Campus.

2008/08/03 The Assistant Professor Amano won the Best Demo Award during the Meeting on Pattern Recognition and Understanding 2008.

2008/07/23 We received students from Nishiyamato Gakuen School to experience research activity through the program SSH (Super Science High-School).

2008/06/30 We are accepting applications for the NAIST Summer Boot Camp 2008.

2008/06 Two of our students won the Distinguished Young Researcher Award during the jDBWS.

2008/05/25 Prof. Kato's research was exhibited during the e-mess Kanazawa 2008.

2008/05/15 On May 24th, our Lab will be opened for public visit during the NAIST Open Campus 2008.

2008/04/28 We held a welcome party for new Lab members.

2008/04/01 The assistant professor Prof. Nakajima was promoted to an associate professor at Kyoto Sangyo University. Our new assistant professor is Prof. Fujisawa.

2008/03 The student Mr. Michitoshi Yoshii (M2) has received the 2007 honorable award from The Institute of Electronic, Information and Communication Engineers.

2008/03/24 Mr.Reyn Nakamoto has received the Best Student Award (NAIST).

2008/03/07 We held farewell party.

2008/03/07 We held Spring Seminar.

2008/02/16 We held Open Campus.

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