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Yoshitaka Ushiku

Curriculum Vitae (in English, last update:19/11/2012)

News

10/18/2012
Receive the research fellowship for young scientists of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
10/03/2012
Won ... in Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2012 (ILSVRC2012), European Conference on Computer Vison 2012.
07/22/2012
Won ... in Photo Annotation and Retrieval, ImageCLEF 2012.
06/25/2012
Chosen an oral presentation (long paper, acceptance rate 20.2%) in ACM Multimedia 2012.
11/30/2011
Won the Special Prize on the Best Application of a Theoretical Framework (Best Application of a Theory Framework Spacial Prize) in ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2011.
08/23/2011
Chosen a finalist for ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge 2011.
08/07/2011
A new PROJECT PAGE FOR CAPTIONING MULTIMEDIA is available. Following papers are related to this project.
08/07/2011
Opened this page.

Biography

2009
BS of Engineering (The Univeresity of Tokyo)
2011
MA of Information Science and Technology (The University of Tokyo)

Affiliation

Intelligent Systems & Informatics Lab
Dept. of Mechano-Informatics
Grad School of Information Science & Technology, The University of Tokyo (Japan)

Contact

Papers

International Conference (refereed)

  1. Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Efficient Image Annotation for Automatic Sentence Generation. the 20th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM 2012), pp.549-558, 2012. (full paper, acceptance rate: 20.2%)
  2. Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Understanding Images with Natural Sentences. the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM 2011), Multimedia Grand Challenge, pp.679-682, 2011. (Special Prize on the Best Application of a Theoretical Framework) [pdf]
  3. Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Automatic Sentence Generation from Images. the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM 2011), pp.1533-1536, 2011. (short, acceptance rate: usually 30%) [pdf]
  4. Tatsuya Harada, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Yuya Yamashita, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Discriminative Spatial Pyramid. the 24th IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011), pp.1617-1624, 2011. (acceptance rate: 26.4%) [pdf]
  5. Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Improvement of Image Similarity Measures for Image Browsing and Retrieval Via Latent Space Learning between Images and Long Texts. the 14th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), pp.2365-2368, 2010. [pdf]

International Conference (unrefereed)

  1. Yoshitaka Ushiku, Hiroshi Muraoka, Sho Inaba, Teppei Fujisawa, Koki Yasumoto, Naoyuki Gunji, Takayuki Higuchi, Yuko Hara, Tatsuya Harada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi. ISI at ImageCLEF 2012: Scalable System for Image Annotation. the 3rd Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2012), pp.1-12, 2012

Domestic Journal (refereed, In Japanese)

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Domestic Conference (refereed, In Japanese)

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Domestic Conference (unrefereed, In Japanese)

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Awards

  1. 2012 First place in the fine-grained classification task, second place in the classification task. Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2012 (ILSVRC2012).
  2. 2011 Special Prize on the Best Application of a Theoretical Framework. ACM Mutlimedia Grand Challenge.
  3. 2011 Third place in the classification task, second place in the detection task. Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2011 (ILSVRC2011).
  4. 2010 Third place. Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2010 (ILSVRC2010).

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