Research

1. Robotic agents

   1. Multi-agent systems
      Multi-agent action planning.

   2. Robot vision
      Autonomous navigation - obstacle avoidance
      3D environment map generation
      Integrated color- and depth-image segmentation
   3. Robot vision framework
      

2. Computer vision in HCI (Human-computer interface)

   1. Hand pose and gesture recognition
      

   2. The recognition of hand-holded objects
      

3. Pattern recognition. Image analysis

   1. Pattern features (ICA, PCA)
      
   2. Steganography/watermarking for image authentication in ICAO travel documents
      
   3. Pattern recognition framework
      

4. Image analysis in ITS (intelligent transportation systems)

   1. ITS architecture

      

   2. Image analysis of traffic scenes

      

   3. Image analysis for driver assistance

      

5. Speech recognition

   

   

6. Auditory scene analysis

   

7. Blind source extraction and deconvolution

8. Blind source separation (BSS)

   Fundamental research in ICA (independent component analysis) and blind separation of sources (BSS) at RIKEN (prof. Andrzej Cichocki)