AOKI MEDIA SENSING LABORATORY
From seeing.
To intelligence.
See, understand, predict, and act. Through computer vision and AI, we explore a future in which people and intelligent systems work together.
COMPUTER VISION & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEKEIO UNIVERSITY, YOKOHAMA
01 / LATEST UPDATES
NewsFrom the lab
Research, achievements, and life in the lab.
- We have launched Aoki Lab’s Instagram!
- [Award] Shintaro Shiba Receives the 39th “Pioneering Originality Advanced Technology Award” Sankei Shimbun Prize
- A paper was accepted at Interspeech 2026 (Keio × LY Corporation, M2 Manabe)
- Mr. Manabe wins the IMDS Best Scientific Paper Award at ICPR 2026!
- Two papers were accepted to ICIP 2026
- Accepted to ECCV 2026 & Released Code, Pretrained Models, and Dataset (Joint research with ZOZO NEXT)
Earlier updates
- Received the Audience Award at SSII2026
- Selected for 3 Spotlight Presentations at SSII2026!
- A paper was accepted to ICPR 2026 (M2 Manabe)
- Two papers were accepted at CVPR 2026 (D2 Shibata, M2 Kohyama)
- Updated the laboratory member information for the 2026 academic year.
- The Department-hosted Laboratory Information Session Materials Have Been Released (10/28)
- Research results on event cameras presented at ICCV 2025!
- In the fall semester of 2025, two new PhD students have joined.
- We held the 2025 summer camp!
- The results of joint research between KOSÉ Corporation and Aoki Laboratory have been announced in a news release!
- The schedule for the placement briefing session (Open Lab) for third-year students of the department has been decided.
- Two oral presentations at MIRU2025 received the Student Encouragement Award (D2 Torimi, M1 Manabe)
- The results of joint research with NTT and Isogawa Laboratory were accepted for an oral presentation at MIRU2025 and received the MIRU Excellent Award! (Primary author: D1 Shibata)
- Third-year doctoral student Go Otani received the JSPE Young Researcher Award.
- The member information for the 2025 academic year has been updated.
- A paper was accepted at ICPR2024 (Kolkata, India) by D2 Shikin Kan.
- Presentation materials for the department-hosted laboratory briefing session on Tuesday, 10/28 have been published
- The joint research results of the Department of Information Engineering Isogawa Laboratory and NTT have been accepted for BMVC 2024.
- We presented two research achievements at ECCV 2024 (D3 Ishikawa, D2 Otani).
- The thesis of Haruya Ishikawa, a doctoral candidate, has been accepted for an oral presentation at IROS 2024!
- The paper by M1 Kai Kohyama was accepted to the CVPR2024 Workshop CV4MR.
- Master’s first-year student Yuto Shibata received the IPSJ Yamashita Memorial Research Award.
- Shintaro Shiba, a doctoral student, received the JSPS Ikushi Prize and three other awards.
- PhD student Yasufumi Kawano was awarded the Research Encouragement Award by the Japan Society for Precision Engineering.
- The doctoral thesis of Shintaro Shiba has been accepted for publication in the highly prestigious journal TPAMI!
- Seiji Hirosawa, a doctoral student, won the Best Award at an international conference (IACSS2023)!
- Regarding the Orientation Sessions for Prospective Laboratory Members for the 2024 Academic Year
- Faculty of Science and Technology Softball Tournament 2023, First Round Victory!
- We made three research presentations at SSII2023 (M2 Marina Vert, Fumito Yamadate, Yu Takenaka).
- Presented research on surgical phase recognition at CARS2023 (M2 Taichi Kobayashi).
- Presented research on acoustic signal pose estimation at CVPR 2023 (M1 Yuto Shibata)
- Received the Best Academic Award at SSII2022 (Yoshiteru Nagasaki, Yasushi Kawano)
- SSII2023 Audience Award Winner! (Yuu Takenaka, M2)
- Naoki Akimoto obtained a PhD (Engineering) degree for his research on image generation.
- New Logo for Aoki Lab Completed!
- ViEW2022 Best Paper Award Odawara Prize Winner (D4 Shintaro Shiba)
- A paper was accepted at CAD4MED in SITIS2022. (M2 Reina Ishibashi)
- A paper was accepted at BMVC 2022. (D3 Jun Nagata)
- Information for students wishing to join the laboratory in the 2023 academic year (3rd-year Department students) has been posted.
- We held the Aoki Lab summer camp for the first time in three years.
- At the 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Face Studies, the presentation of joint research results with KOSÉ Corporation was awarded the ‘Koshimizu Prize.’ (OB Obikin-kun, M1 Tagawa-kun)
- At MIRU2022, the joint research with NTT received the MIRU Frontier Award. (Jo Kawashima, Yuto Shibata)
- A paper was accepted at ECCV 2022. (D3 Shintaro Shiba)
- A research paper by Yuto Matsuo, a second-year master’s student, was accepted at ICIP2022.
- Naoki Akimoto, a second-year doctoral student (D2), had his submitted paper accepted at CVPR 2022!
- Two research papers were accepted at CARS 2022 (Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2022).
- The student team from the Aoki Laboratory won the Best Award at the Sports Data Analysis Competition organized by the Sports Data Science Division of the Japanese Statistical Society!
- Master’s student Ryosuke Fujii received the Encouragement Award at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Medical Imaging Technology.
- The research results of M2 student Kogure have been accepted for the AAAI 2022 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data (AIBSD 2022).
- Seiji Hiromasa received the Young Researcher Encouragement Award at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biomechanics!
- Updated the member list to include new members.
- Online Laboratory Information Sessions for Prospective 2022 Entrants
- Professor Aoki gave a keynote speech at the international conference IICAIET2021.
- Our paper was accepted at the CVPR 2021 Workshop on Beyond Fairness (M2 student Shunsuke Kogure).
- At SSII2021, two students from the Aoki Media Sensing Laboratory received the Audience Award!
- At SSII2021, we presented seven research papers.
- At DIA2021, Mr. Kawano, a fourth-year undergraduate student, received the Research Encouragement Award.
- Fast Soft Color Segmentation (CVPR 2020) was featured in ITmedia News.
- A paper was accepted at ICIP 2020 (M2 Makoto Kasai).
- The research achievements list has been updated to the latest version.
- Research laboratory member information for the 2020 academic year has been updated.
- The collaborative research results with the Faculty of Medicine and Space Vision have been commercialized.
- Our paper was accepted at CVPR2020 in Seattle (acceptance rate 22%, Naoki Akimoto, M2).
- We will present research results on domain adaptation at the Vision Technology for Practical Use Workshop (ViEW2019). This is a joint research achievement with Konica Minolta. (M2 Shun Obikin)
- A paper on estimating functional attributes of objects has been accepted for the international conference on robotics ICAR2019. (M1 Yuji Ishikawa)
- A paper on domain adaptation for medical images was accepted for oral presentation at the ipaMCA workshop@ACPR2019. (M2 Shun Obikin)
- The results of joint research with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation were presented at CEATEC 2019. (M1 student Takuya Kobayashi)
- A member of Aoki Lab was featured in an interview with current students of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University. (M1 Masato Kasai)
- The laboratory seminar will be open to students wishing to join in the 2020 academic year.
- A paper was accepted at WACV2020 (first round review). (M2 Atsushi Nagata)
- At CCSE2019, a lecture on sports video analysis technology by Panasonic and the Aoki Media Sensing Laboratory was held.
- An article on joint research results with DENSO IT Laboratory, “High-speed QR Code Recognition Technology Using Event Cameras,” was published in the Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun (printed edition on July 2, 2019).
- An article on sports AI was published in the Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (Vol.34, No.4).
- We have started joint research with Sen Corporation, which provides internet photo services.
- We will present seven research results at the Image Sensing Symposium (SSII2019).
- A paper was accepted for an oral presentation at MVA2019. (M2 Seiya Ishikawa)
- A paper was accepted at ICIP2019. (M2 Naoki Akimoto)
- With new members joining, activities for the 2019 academic year have started.
- In the 2018 academic year, six master’s students graduated. We look forward to their success in society!
- At the 2018 undergraduate graduation ceremony, Masato Kasai received the Fujiwara Award, and Yuji Ishikawa received the Outstanding Graduation Thesis Presentation Award!
- At the Dynamic Image Processing Practical Workshop (DIA2019) in Kitakyushu, we will present four research results.
- We will present 7 works at Keio Techno-mall. We look forward to seeing you at our booth!
- Professor Aoki gave a keynote lecture at KISTEC Innovation Hub 2018.
- We presented our research results on Super Pixel Segmentation at ICIP2018 in Athens, Greece.
- The paper by Naoki Akimoto, an M1 student, was accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018.
- The schedule for this year’s Aoki Media Sensing Laboratory Open Lab has been announced!
- Assistant Professor Akizuki will present the research results on Tactile Logging at the BMVC Workshop VIBE2018.
- Professor Aoki made a live appearance on Tokyo FM to talk about Sports x AI!
- Two international students gave research presentations at the Summer Seminar 2018 at Nishiura Onsen.
- The Aoki Media Sensing Laboratory website has been renewed.
- B4 Masato Kasai won the MIRU2018 Young Researchers Program Best Interdisciplinary Survey Award.
- Naoki Kato, a second-year master’s student, received the Student Encouragement Award at MIRU2018.
- Tomoyuki Suzuki, a second-year master’s student, presented a paper at CVPR 2018.
- At SSII 2018, three presentations were made from the Aoki Media Sensing Laboratory.
- Naoki Kato, an M1 student, received the Numata Memorial Paper Award from the Japan Society of Precision Engineering.
- Ryosuke Kurose, M1, received the IWAIT2018 Best Paper Award.
02 / ABOUT THE LABIntelligence.
Intelligence.
In the real world.
Laboratory Overview
At Keio University Aoki Media Sensing Laboratory, we conduct research on AI that works effectively in the real world. We consistently handle the entire flow from sensing through images and video — 'seeing' the real world with sensors, 'understanding' it with AI, 'predicting' with world models, and finally 'acting' through robots and machines. We actively advance research in computer vision, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence systems. Our main research themes include 'Edge AI' using new vision sensors such as event cameras and lightweight AI, 'Physical AI' for understanding and generating human and robot motions, 'Multimodal AI' that integrates images, language, and sound to understand the world, and 'Field AI' delivering these technologies to the fields of space, sports, fashion, and medical care. Our ability to handle everything from sensor principles to actual hardware is a distinctive strength of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
The main protagonists of the laboratory are the students. Our diverse members, including doctoral students, working professionals pursuing doctorates, and international students, actively engage in research autonomously while leveraging their individual creativity and personalities in lively discussions. Based on a spirit of practical learning, we collaborate with companies and universities both domestically and internationally to address real-world challenges, aiming to create new concepts, technologies, and value. Let us together pioneer a future where humans and AI coexist.
03 / RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
All research themesResearchOur focus
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Edge AI
RESEARCH DIRECTIONNew vision sensors and lightweight AI extend the possibilities of sensing.
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Physical AI
RESEARCH DIRECTIONUnderstanding and generating human and robot motion connects intelligence to action.
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Multimodal AI
RESEARCH DIRECTIONImages, language, and sound come together to build a richer understanding of the world.
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Field AI
RESEARCH DIRECTIONBringing research into practice across space, sports, fashion, and medicine.
JOIN OUR LABYour curiosity.
Your curiosity.
Our next discovery.
Explore future technologies through original ideas and active discussion.