Last Update on Oct.20, 2003

 Research Topics and Main Publications

New View Synthesis from Multiple Images

  1. S.YaguchiCH.Saito, Arbitrary Viewpoint Video Synthesis from Multiple Uncalibrated Cameras, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B (Accepted)
  2. H.Todoroki, H.Saito, Light field rendering with omni-direction camera, Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP2003), Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.5150, 124, Jul.2003
  3. Kenkichi Kobayashi, Hideo Saito, High-Resolution Image Synthesis from Video Sequence by Light Field, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.15, No.3, pp.254-262, 2003.
  4. M.Kimura, H.Saito, T.Kanade, Stereo Matching between Three Images by Iterative Refinement in PVS, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E86-D, No.1, pp.89-100, Jan.2003.
  5. N. Inamoto, H. Saito, Intermediate View Generation of Soccer Scene from Multiple Views , International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2002), Aug. 2002
  6. N. Inamoto, H. Saito, Fly Through View Video Generation of Soccer Scene, International Workshop on Entertainment Computing (IWEC2002), May 2002
  7. S.Yaguchi, H.Saito, Arbitrary Viewpoint Video Synthesis from Uncalibrated Multiple Cameras, WSCG'2002 - the 10-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision'2002, Feb.2002.
  8. H.Saito, M.Kimura, S.Yaguchi, N.Inamoto, View Interpolation of Multiple Cameras Based on Projective Geometry, Prceedings of International Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Understanding for Visual Information Media, pp.57-62, Jan.2002
  9. Hideo Saito, Arbitrary View Video Generation from Multiple Camera System, 2001 International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications, Vol.2, 672-675, July 2001.
  10. Makoto Kimura, Hideo Saito, "Interpolation of Three Views Based on Epipolar Geometry", Proceedings of SPIE Vol.4310 (Visual Communication and Image Processing 2001), pp.218-227, January 2001.
  11. S. Yaguchi, H.Saito, "Arbitrary View Image Generation from Multiple Silhouette Images in Projective Grid Space", Proceedings of SPIE Vol.4309 (Videometrics and Optical Methods for 3D Shape Measurement), pp.294-304, January 2001.

Virtualized Reality

  1. H.Saito, S.Baba, T.Kanade, Appearance-Based Virtual View Generation From Multicamera Videos Captured in the 3-D Room, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, vol.5, no.3, pp.303-316,September 2003.
  2. I. Kitahara, Y.Ohta, H.Saito, S.Akimichi, T.Ono, T.Kanade, Recording Multiple Videos in a Large-scale Space for Large-scale Virtualized Reality, The 8th International Display Workshops, Nagoya, Oct.2001
  3. I. Kitahara, H.Saito, S.Akimichi, T.Ono, Y.Ohta, T.Kanade, Large-scale Virtualized Reality, IEEE Computer Society Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2001 -Technical Sketch-
  4. Shigeyuki Baba, Hideo Saito, Sundar Vedula, Kong Man Cheng, Takeo Kanade, Appearance-Based Virtual View Generation for Fly Through in a Real Dynamic Scene, Proceedings of the Joint EUROGRAPHICS and IEEE TVCG Symposium on Visualization May 29-31, 2000, pp.179-188.
  5. Hideo Saito, Shigeyuki Baba, Makoto Kimura, Sundar Vedula, Takeo Kanade, Appearance-Based Virtual View Generation of Temporally-Varying Events from Multi-Camera Images in the 3D Room, Second International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM99), October 4-8, 1999, pp.516-525.
  6. Makoto Kimura, Hideo Saito, Takeo Kanade, 3D Voxel Construction Based on Epipolar Geometry, 1999 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP99), October 25-28, 1999, Vol. III, pp.135-139.
  7. H. Saito, S. Baba, M. Kimura, S. Vedula, T. Kanade, "Appearance-Based Virtual View Generation of Temporally-Varying Events from Multi-Camera Images in the 3D Room", Computer Science Technical Report, CMU-CS-99-127, April 1999. ( Post Script) ( PDF )
  8. T.Kanade, P.W.Rander, S.Vedula, H.Saito, "Virtualized Reality: Digitizing a 3D Time-Varying Event As Is and in Real Time", International Symposium on Mixed Reality(ISMR99), pp41-57, Yokohama, Japan, March 1999.
  9. Hideo Saito, Takeo Kanade, " Shape Reconstruction in Projective Grid Space from Large Number of Images", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ( CVPR'99 ), Fort Collins, CO, June 1999.
  10. T.Kanade, H.Saito, S.Vedula, "The 3D Room: Digitizing Time-Varying 3D Events by Synchronized Multiple Video Streams", Robotics Institute Technical Report, CMU-RI-TR-98-34, December 1998.
  11. S.Vedula, P.W.Rander, H.Saito, T.Kanade, "Modeling, Combining, and Rendering Dynamic Real-World Events from Image Sequences", Proc. 4th Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM98), Vol.1, pp.326-332, Gifu, Japan, November 1998.

Augumented Reality

  1. Shinichiro Hirooka, Hideo Saito, Displaying Digital Documents on Real Paper Surface with Arbitrary Shape, The Second International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR03), Oct.2003.
  2. Naho Inamoto, Hideo Saito, Immersive Observation of Virtualized Soccer Match at Real Stadium Model, The Second International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR03), Oct.2003.
  3. Shunsuke Harasaki, Hideo Saito, Virtual object overlay onto uncalibrated camera images for augmented reality, Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol.34, Issue 5, pp. 47-55, May 2003.
  4. Shunsuke Harasaki, Hideo Saito, Virtual Object Overlay onto Uncalibrated Camera Image Sequence Enabling Tracking of Natural Features, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.15, No.3, pp.263-270, 2003.
  5. S. Harasaki, H. Saito, Vision-based overlay of a virtual object into real scene for designing room interior, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX, SPIE Conference 4572, Boston, Oct. 2001.

Sports Analysis via Multiple View Camera System

  1. S.Iwase, H.Saito, Tracking soccer players based on homography among multiple views, Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP2003), Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.5150, 33, Jul.2003
  2. S. Iwase, H. Saito, Tracking Soccer Player Using Multiple Views, IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA02), pp.102-105, Nara, Dec.2002
  3. Keisuke Matsumoto, Satoshi Sudo, Hideo Saito, Shinji Ozawa, "Optimized Camera Viewpoint Determination System for Soccer Game Broadcasting", IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA00), pp. 115-118, November 2000

3D Shape Modeling/Rendering from Multiple Images

  1. Hideo Saito, Kazuko Omata and Shinji Ozawa, Recovery of shape and surface reflectance of specular object from relative rotation of light source, Image and Vision Computing, Volume 21, Issue 9, 1 September 2003, Pages 777-787
  2. H.Saito, S. Kamijima, Factorization Method Using Interpolated Feature Tracking via Projective Geometry, The 14th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC2003), Sep.2003.
  3. M.Kimura, H.Saito, 3D Reconstruction Based on Epipolar Geometry, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E84-D, No.12, pp.1690-1697, Dec.2001
  4. D. Iso, H. Saito, S. Ozawa, Three-dimensional shape reconstructing system from multiple view images using octree and silhouette, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX, SPIE Conference 4572, Boston, Oct. 2001
  5. K. Yoshida, H. Saito, Three-dimensional shape model reconstruction from multiple view range images and color images, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX, SPIE Conference 4572, Boston, Oct. 2001
  6. S. Kamijima, H. Saito, Three-dimensional reconstruction of environment using factorization method and EPI analysis, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX, SPIE Conference 4572, Boston, Oct. 2001
  7. H. Yamano, H. Saito, Robot motion tracking system with multiple views, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX, SPIE Conference 4572, Boston, Oct. 2001
  8. Makoto Kimura, Hideo Saito, "3D Reconstruction Based on Epipolar Geometry", IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA00), pp.578-581, November 2000.
  9. Kenji Nakamura, Hideo Saito, Shinji Ozawa, Generation of 3D model with super resolved texture from image sequence, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 8-11, 2000.
  10. Hideo Saito, Super resolving texture mapping from multiple view images for 3D model construction, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 8-11, 2000.
  11. Taichi Sato, Hideo Saito, and Shinji Ozawa, 3D Shape Recovery of Non-Convex Object from Rotation, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR00), September 3-8, 2000.
  12. Kenji Nakamura, Hideo Saito, Shinji Ozawa, 3D Reconstruction of Book Surface Taken from Image Sequence, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR00), September 3-8, 2000.
  13. H.Saito, K.Omata, S.Ozawa, "Recovery of Shape and Surface Reflectance of Specular Object from Rotation of Light Source", Second International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM99), Ottawa, Oct 4-8, 1999, pp.526-535
  14. S. Kirihara and H. Saito, "Shape Modeling from Multiple View Images Using GAs", ACCV'98, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1352, Vol.II, pp. 448-454, January 1998.
  15. H. Saito and M. Mori, " Object Modeling from Multiple Images Using Genetic Algorithms", 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. IV, pp.669-673, Wien, 1996.8.
  16. H. Saito, H. Kawamura, and M. Nakajima, "3D Shape Measurement of Underwater Objects Using Motion Stereo", 21th International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation, , Orlando, pp.1231-1235, Nov.1995.
  17. H. Saito, N. Tsunashima, "Superquadrics Parameter Estimation from Shading Images Using Genetic Algorithm", 20th International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation, Bologna, Vol. 2, pp.978-983, Sept. 1994. (3rd Best Paper Award)
  18. H. Saito and N. Tsunashima, "Estimation of 3D Parameteric Models from Shading Image Using Genetic Algorithms", 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, pp.668-670, Oct. 1994.

Human Face/Hand Image Processing

  1. K.Abe, H.Saito, S.Ozawa, Virtual 3-D Interface System via Hand Motion Recognition from Two Cameras, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol.32, No.4, pp.536-540, 2002
  2. Kiyofumi Abe, Hideo Saito, Shinji Ozawa, "3-D drawing system via hand motion recognition from two cameras", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 8-11, 2000
  3. H.Saito, A.Watanabe, S.Ozawa, " Face Pose Estimating System based on Eigen Space Analysis", International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP99), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999
  4. T. Minagawa, H. Saito and S. Ozawa, "Face-Direction Estimating System Using Stereo Vision", IECON97, New Orleans, 1997.
  5. Suzuki, K.; Saito, H.; Ozawa, S., Estimation of face orientation from shading images, Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Part C, vol.117-C, no.10, p. 1377-83, 1997 [in Japanese]
  6. Y. Suzuki, H. Saito, and S. Ozawa, "Extraction of the Human Face from Natural Background Using GAs", 1996 IEEE TENCON -Digital Signal Processing Applications-, Vol.1, pp.221-226, Perth, 1996.11.
  7. Kenichi Nirei, Hideo Saito, Masaaki Mochimaru, and S. Ozawa, "Human Hand Tracking from Binocular Image Sequences", 22th International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation, pp.297-302, Taipei, 1996.8.

Shape Analysis and Rendering of Book Surface

  1. K. Kobayashi, H.Saito, "High-resolution Image Generation from Video Image Sequence by Light Field", Proceedings of SPIE Vol.4309 (Videometrics and Optical Methods for 3D Shape Measurement), pp.318-327, January 2001.
  2. M. Kashimura, T.Nakajima, N.Onda, H.Saito, S.Ozawa, "Practical Introduction of Image Processing Technology to Digital Archiving of Rare Books" , Internationa Conference on Signal Processing Application Technology (ISPAT98), Toronto, Oct., 1999
  3. Seong Ik Cho; Saito, H.; Ozawa, S., Shape recovery of book surface using two shade images under perspective condition, Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Part C, vol.117-C, no.10, pp. 1384-90, 1997
  4. S.I.Cho, H. Saito, and S. Ozawa, "Divide-and-conquer Strategy in Shape from Shading Problems", IEEE CVPR97, pp. 413-419, Puerto Rico, June 1997.

Shape Recovery and Evaluation of Skin Surface

  1. J.Wang, H.Saito, S.Ozawa, T.Yamashita, T.Kuwahara, M.Takahashi, Surface Extraction of Dermo-epidermal Surface from 3-D Volumetric Images of Human Skin International, Journal of Image and GraphicsCSpecial Issue on@3D Vision and Medical Image Processing, Vol. 3 No. 4, 2003.
  2. Yoshinao Takemae, Hideo Saito, Shinji Ozawa, "The evaluating system of human skin surface condition by image processing", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 8-11, 2000
  3. T.Yamada, H.Saito, S.Ozawa, 3D Reconstruction of Skin Surface from Image Sequence, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E83-D No.7, July, 2000, pp.1415-1421.
  4. T.Yamada, H.Saito, S.Ozawa, "3D Reconstruction of Skin Surface from Image Sequence", IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA98), Chiba, Japan, November 1998.
  5. A. Matsumoto, H. Saito, and S. Ozawa, "3-D Reconstruction of Skin Surface from Photometric Stereo Images with Specular and Inter Reflections", The 4th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision (ICARCV'96), Vol.2, pp.778-782, Singapore, Dec.1996.
  6. H. Saito, Y. Somiya, and S. Ozawa, "Shape Reconstruction of Skin Surface from Shading Images Using Simulated Annealing", ACCV95, Singapore, Vol.III, pp.348-352,Dec.1995.

Image Blur Correction

  1. T. Sato, H. Saito, S. Ozawa, Masatosi Komatsu, Akira Kobayashi, and Motohisa Sato , Motion Blur Correction of License Plate Images on Running Vehicle, Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan C, Vol.117-C, No.6, pp.777-784, 1997.[in Japanese]
  2. S. Hashimoto and H. Saito, "Restoration of shift variant blurred image estimating the parameter distribution of point-spread function", Systems and Computers in Japan, vol.26, no.1, p. 62-72, 1995.
  3. H. Saito and M. Nakajima, "Shift Variant Blind Deconvolution for Blurred Binary Image", 4th International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology, San Fransisco, pp.732-739, Sept. 1993.

Application of Genetic Algorithms

  1. H. Shiraki and H. Saito, " An Interactive Image Retrieval System Using Genetic Algorithms", International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia '96 (VSMM '96), pp. 257-261, Gifu, 1996.9.
  2. Hideo Saito, and Masayuki Mori, "Application of genetic algorithms to stereo matching of images", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol.16, pp.815-821, 1995.
  3. N. Kobayashi and H. Saito, "Halftoning Technique Using Genetic Algorithm", 1994 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, Adelaide, Vol.5, pp. 105-108, April 1994.
  4. H. Saito and N. Kobayashi, "Evolutionary Computation Approaches to Halftoning Algorithm", The First IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Orlando, Vol.2, pp.787-791, June 1994.
  5. H. Saito and K. Usami, "Shape from Shading Using Genetic Algorithm", 1993 International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation, Hawaii, pp.1620-1625, Nov. 1993.

Computer Tomography

  1. H. Kawamura, H. Saito, K. Yuasa, Y. Yuge, and M. Nakajima, "High-Speed Imaging System of Luminous Intensity Distribution of Plasma Using Light Emission CT", Optics Communication, Vol.119, pp.197-206, Aug. 1995.
  2. H. Saito, K. Fujita, and M. Nakajima, "Magnetic Field Imaging by CT Technique - ROI Reconstruction System-", Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol.24, No.5, pp.93-103, 1993.
  3. H. Saito, H. Hatanaka, and M. Nakajima, "Motion Image Reconstruction of Luminous Intensity Distribution of Plasma Using Light Emission Computed Tomography", 1992 International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, Instrumentation, and Automation, pp.1608-1612, Nov. 1992.
  4. H. Saito, R. Kusaba, M. Nakajima, and S. Yuta, "Magnetic Field Imaging by CT Technique", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. MAG-23, No.5, pp.2587-2589, Sept. 1987
  5. H. Saito, A. Miyamoto, T. Morozumi, S. Yuta, and M. Nakajima, "Reconstruction of Magnetic Flux Density as Vector Quantity by CT Technique", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol.IM-38, No.2, pp.415-420, Apr. 1989.
  6. H. Saito, F. Saito, S. Yuta, and M. Nakajima, "High Speed Data Collection System for Magnetic Field Imaging by CT Technique", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol.IM-39, N0.5, pp.739-744, Oct., 1990.
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