• Name: Norimichi Ukita
  • Affiliation: Graduate School of Engineering, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan (TTI-J).
  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: +81 52 809 1832
  • E-mail: ukita AT toyota-ti.ac.jp
  • Date of Birth: Oct. 16, 1973.
  • Hometown: Okayama, Japan.
  • Educational experience
    • 1992: Graduated from Okayama Hosen High School
    • 1996: Graduated from Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University
    • 1998: Received Master of Engineering degree from Department of Information Technology, Graduate School of Engineering, Okayama University
    • 2001: Received Doctoral degree in Informatics from Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Prof. Takashi Matsuyama Lab.)
  • Professional experience
    • 2001.10: Assistant Professor at Department of Information Processing, Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Prof. Masatsugu Kidode Lab.)
    • 2002.11-2006.03: Research associate of Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) (Supervisor: Prof. Shinji Tomita)
    • 2007.04-2016.09: Associate Professor at Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
    • 2007.12-2009.12: Visiting Research Scientist, the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (Supervisor: Prof. Takeo Kanade)
    • 2011.04-2017.03 Visiting Research Scientist, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
    • 2016.10-2017.03 Visiting Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
    • 2017.04-2022.03: Guest Professor at Cyber Media Center, Osaka University
    • 2016.10-: Professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan (TTI-J)
    • 2019.09-: Adjunct Professor in Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
  • Degree
    • 2001: Ph.D degree in Informatics from Kyoto University,
      Title: Real-Time Cooperative Multi-Target Tracking by Communicating Active Vision Agents (Abstract)
  • Awards
    • 1999: Excellent Paper Award of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
    • 2011: Senior membership, IEICE
    • 2012: Distinguished service award of ISS, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
    • 2015: Distinguished reviewer award of ISS, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)
    • 2016: Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (MIRU 2016)
    • 2017: Outstanding Contribution in Evaluation (MIRU 2017)
    • 2018: Senior membership, IPSJ
    • 2018: Winner (1st place) in NTIRE 2018 challenge on image super-resolution (CVPR Workshop)
    • 2018: 1st place in PIRM 2018 perceptual SR challenge (ECCV Workshop)
    • 2019: Best poster award in International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2019)
    • 2019: Honorable Mention Awards in NTIRE 2019 challenge on video super-resolution and video-deblurring (CVPR Workshop)
    • 2019: Honorable Mention Award in NTIRE 2019 challenge on image enhancement (CVPR Workshop)
    • 2019: Runner-Up Award in AIM 2019 challenge on extreme super-resolution (ICCV Workshop)
    • 2020: Outstanding reviewer (ACCV2020)
    • 2021: Best practical paper award in International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2021)
    • 2023: BEST STUDENT POSTER AWARD 2nd Place (HPC Asia 2023)
    • 2024: Senior membership, IEEE
  • Research Interests
    • Computer Vision
      • Cooperative Distributed Vision
      • Target (multiple moving objects) tracking
      • Posture/shape analysis of human/clothing
      • Vision-based computer interface
  • Professional activities
    • Editorial board member: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2024.6-)
    • Editorial board member: Computer Vision and Image Understanding (2016.9-)
    • Editor-in-chief: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (2015.5-2017.5)
    • Associate Editor-in-chief: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (2013.5-2015.5)
    • General chair: International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications 2021
    • General chair: International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications 2019
    • Program chair: Sixth International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning 2022
    • Program chair: IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications 2017
    • Technical Event chair: International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications 2023
    • Local organizing chair: Second International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning 2018
    • Publication chair: IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications 2015
    • Demo and industrial Liaison Chair: International Conference on 3D Vision 2014
    • Award co-chair and Local arrangement chair: IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications 2013
    • Local arrangement chair: IAPR Conference on Machine Vision and Applications 2011
    • Local organizing member: First International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning 2017
    • Organizing committee: IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications 2005,2007,2009
    • Planning Group Member of Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium 2017
    • Co-chair of Planning Group Member of Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium 2014
    • Planning Group Member of Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium 2013
    • Area chair: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023, 2024, 2025
    • Area chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2025
    • Area chair: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024
    • Area chair: International Conference on 3D Vision 2021, 2022
    • Area chair: International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance 2019
    • Senior Program committee: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022, 2023, 2024
    • Senior Program committee: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2020
    • Program committee: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022
    • Program committee: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021
    • Program committee: European Conference on Computer Vision 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, 2022
    • Program committee: British Machine Vision Conference 2017, 2018
    • Program committee: International Conference on 3D Vision 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
    • Program committee: Asian Conference on Computer Vision 2006,2012,2014,2016
    • Program committee: IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2013,2015,2017
    • Program committee: Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) 2009,2010,2013,2015,2019
    • Program committee: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras 2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015
    • Program committee: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology 2006,2007,2008,2009
    • Program committee: International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning 2020
    • Member: IEEE Computer Society, IEICE, IPSJ