Research

A) Cybersecurity - child abuse material detection (Project "APAKT")

1. CSAM classification in images
2. Low-level circular action detection in video
3. Skeleton-based human action and -interaction classification in video
4. Speaker classification (age, emotion) in audio signals

B) Video surveillance systems (Project "BIOWIZ")

C) Robotic agents

1. Multi-agent systems (Project "SwarmItFix")
   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 (Project "RobRex")
   

D) HCI (Human-computer interface) (Project "NPC" and other)

1. Hand pose and gesture recognition
   

2. The recognition of hand-holded objects
   

E) Pattern recognition. Image analysis

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

F) Traffic scene video and ITS (intelligent transportation systems)

1. ITS architecture

   

2. Image analysis of traffic scenes

   

3. Image analysis for driver assistance

   

G) Speech analysis

1. Speech recognition

   

   

2. Auditory scene analysis

   

H) Blind source separation

1. Blind source extraction and deconvolution

2. Blind source separation (BSS)

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