2024.3.5
Presentation by students at DEIM 2024
The four students of our group listed below gave presentation at the 16th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management（DEIM2024）. Yixin Zhang: “Analysis of visual characteristics of ingredients in recognition of images in recipe procedure instruction” Mamoru Yamakawa: “Evaluation of users’ follow action models based on real SNS data” Mizuki Hisatomi: “Grouping Web browser tabs into tasks” Akitaka Yamashita: “SNS user location estimation from rain data” Similarly to the several…
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2024.1.10
New Year Party (2024)
Happy New Year! We held our New Year’s party on January 10th, 2024. The venue was a Chinese restaurant in Mototanaka. With the deadlines for undergraduate and master’s theses at the end of January, it was time to start writing, and we checked on each other’s progress. At the same time, it was also a celebration for submitting the first drafts of our papers to be presented at DEIM from…
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2024.9.6
Presentation of the research by Mamoru Yamakawa at ACM HT 2023
Makoto Yamakawa presented his research findings at the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. This year, the conference was held in Rome. The current route from Japan to Europe looks like this because we can’t fly over Russia. This is one of the entrances to the conference venue. (Although we used a different entrance for this conference.) It is located right next to Piazza di Spagna and is sometimes…
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2023.3.27
Farewell Party (2023)
On March 23, 2023, we held a farewell party for the graduating members. This year, two members, Erina Yamakawa and Eisaku Yoshikawa, graduated from the lab. Unlike last year, we were able to hold a dinner gathering since the COVID-19 situation had stabilized. Last year, a mug printed with a seal of Professor Tajima’s face was given as a farewell gift. This year, to celebrate their graduation, they received original…
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2023.3.23
Eisaku Yoshikawa was awarded the best interactive presentation award at DEIM 2023
Eisaku Yoshikawa received the Best Interactive Award at the 15th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM 2023) for his presentation. This year, three presentations were selected for the top award out of 342 poster presentations. His research focuses on exclusion queries for image searches. Exclusion queries are widely used in general web search engines. For example, if someone wants to search for information about the animal “jaguar,” but…
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2023.3.8
Research presentation by students at DEIM 2023
Our lab members present their research every year at the Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM), a domestic forum held in early March. For the past three years, DEIM was held online due to COVID-19. However, DEIM 2023 marked the first partial in-person event in four years. Six students of our group gave presentations this year: Erina Yamakawa: “Similarity Measurement for Each Component Considering the Meaning of Triplets”…
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2022.11.18
Ruide Li and Shuhei Kobayashi gave presentation at IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT
Ruide Li and Shuhei Kobayashi presented their research at the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT). This year, the conference was held in a hybrid format in Niagara Falls, Canada. The place where we had breakfast had a great view of Niagara Falls. Although the event was hybrid, a significant number of participants joined online, and the number of in-person attendees was relatively small. As…
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2022.10.10
First In-Person Conference Presentation in Three Years: Zhang Yixin Presented at CEA++
Yixin Zhang presented her research at the International Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking, Eating, and Related Applications 2022 (CEA++2022). This workshop was held as part of ACM Multimedia Conference, one of the most prestigious international conferences in multimedia technology. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our lab had been unable to participate in in-person conferences for the past three years, making this our first in-person conference presentation in the three years….
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2022.3.26
Farewell Party (2022)
On March 24, 2022, we held a farewell party for the graduating members. Coincidentally, it fell on the same date as last year’s farewell party. This year, four members graduated from our lab: Masafumi Iwanaga, Hirotaka Nagashima, Youhei Yamada, and Ayato Watanabe. As in the previous year, we prioritized COVID-19 safety measures, so the farewell event was held without a group meal. All participants wore masks and used hand sanitizer…
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2022.3.3
Student gave presentation at DEIM 2022
The 14th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM 2022) was held online from February 27 to March 2, 2022. From our lab, five students presented their research. The presenters and their topics were as follows: Shuhei Kobayashi: [B24-4] Estimating Actual Support Based on Follower Structures in SNS Hirotaka Nagashima: [F31-3] Condition Recommendation Considering Both Conversions and Dropouts in Conditional Searches Youhei Yamada: [G31-5] A User Recommendation Method Considering…
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2022.2.18
Some Members and Alumni Had On-line Party
We had an online drinking party with three alumni, one current student, and partially with one faculty member. We hope that the day will soon come when alumni can casually visit us again, just like before. The photo below was taken when two alumni visited us in the past.
2021.12.6
Ayato Watanabe at IEEE HMData 2021
Ayato Watanabe presented his research findings at IEEE HMData 2021, a workshop affiliated with the IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2021. The title of his paper is “Spammer Detection Based on Task Completion Time Variation in Crowdsourcing,” which focuses on a method for detecting spammers in crowdsourcing services. Crowdsourcing, which allows an unspecified large number of workers to complete tasks via the internet, faces a common issue—some workers submit…
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2021.12.3
Yixin Zhang gave presentation at ACM Multimedia Asia
Yuexin Zhang presented her research findings at ACM Multimedia Asia, one of the international conferences on multimedia organized by ACM. The title of her paper is “MIRecipe: A Recipe Dataset for Stage-Aware Recognition of Changes in Appearance of Ingredients.” In recent years, many recipe datasets have been accumulated on websites such as Cookpad. These recipe datasets describe each step of the cooking process using text or a combination of text…
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