2024年12月3日
Research Presentation by Yixin Zhang at ACM Multimedia Asia 2024
Yixin Zhang of our research group gave presentation at ACM Multimedia Asia 2024. This presentation focused on ingredient recognition from images in recipe data that describe cooking procedures. Recipe data consists of a sequence of descriptions for each cooking step. As a result, the image for each step often contains ingredients that also appeared in previous steps. However, because recipes can include branching and merging steps, ingredients do not always…
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Eisaku Yoshikawa of our group gave presentation at ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) 2024. The presentation focused on “exclusion queries” in image retrieval. In this context, exclusion queries refers to the queries to search for images related to “A” but not to “B,” similar to how Web search engines interpret queries like “A -B.” In recent years, automatic image captioning (automatic generation of text descriptions of images) has…
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2024年5月17日
Presentation by Hirotaka Nagashima at WWW Conference 2024
Hirotaka Nagashima from our group gave a presentation at The Web Conference 2024. The presentation was about identification of descriptions that indicate the “expiration time of information value.” For example, suppose a text includes phrases like those below. “Please submit application by 17:00 tomorrow. “Live streaming starting 19:00 tonight!” The informational value of such a text must largely decrease after the time described in these descriptions. Therefore, if we can…
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2024年3月5日
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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2023年3月23日
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年3月8日
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年10月10日
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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