WATANABE, Mutsumi

Professor

Department of Information and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering
Kagoshima University
1-21-40, Korimoto, Kagoshima, 890-0065, Japan

Email: mutty@ics.kagoshima-u.ac.jp 

Areas of Research Interest:

  • Computer Vision
  • Robot Vision
  • Pattern Analysis

Recent Representative Publications:

  • M. Watanabe,
    Adaptive Decomposition of Dynamic Scene into Object-based
    Distribution Components based on Mixture Model Framework,
    IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E88-D(4), 758 - 766, 2005.4.
  • M. Watanabe,
         Adaptive decomposition of dynamic scene into object-based components
      based on Mixture Gaussian Model framework,
      Proc. of     10th Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision
     (FCV 2004), 287 - 292, 2004.2    .
  • A. Maki, M. Watanabe and C.S. Wiles,
    Geotensity: Combining Motion and Lighting for 3D Surface Reconstruction,
    International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 48(2), 75-90, 2002. 9.
  • H. Nakai, K. Ishihara, Y. Miyake and M. Watanabe,
    Non-restrictive Visual Respiration Monitoring,
    Proc. of     15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2000),
    647 - 651, 2000.9.
  • Y. Miyake, K. Ishihara, M. Watanabe, H. Nakai and A. Araki,
    Non-Restrictive Visual Sensing System for Monitoring of Respiration Patterns
    Based on Image Processing, Proc. of     First China-Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on
    Medical Informatics (CJKMI’99), 1999.10.
  • M. Watanabe, N. Takeda and K. Onoguchi,
    Moving Obstacle Recognition by Optical Flow Pattern Analysis for Mobile Robots,
    Advanced Robotics, 12(8), 791 - 816,　1999.8.
  • A. Maki, M. Watanabe and C.S. Wiles,
    Geotensity: Combining Motion and Lighting for 3D Surface Reconstruction,
    Proc. of 6th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’98 (ICCV), 1053 - 1060, 1998. 1.
  • M. Watanabe, N. Takeda and K. Onoguchi,
    A Moving Object Recognition Method by Optical Flow Analysis, 
    Proc. of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’96),
    528 - 533, 1996.8.

Academic Degrees:

  • Ph.D. (Osaka University, Japan, 1997)
  • M.E. (University of Tokyo, Japan, 1981)
  • B.E. (University of Tokyo, Japan, 1979)

Career:

  • Kagoshima University：　2000 --
  • Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation：　1981--2000

Academic Society:

  • The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
  • Information Processing Society of Japan
  • Robotics Society of Japan
  • Institute of Image Information and Television Engineering
  • Institute of Systems, Control and Information
  • Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan

Last Updated: May 31, 2006