Takuma Yagi, Ph.D.



Takuma Yagi

Takuma Yagi, Ph. D.
Research Scientist, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

I am a Research Scientist at Artificial Intelligence Research Center, AIST.
I got my Ph.D. degree at the University of Tokyo in 2022, advised by Prof. Yoichi Sato.
I'm especially interested in developing intelligent systems that perceives and understand our world and using them to make our life better.

Email: takuma.yagi[at]aist.go.jp
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Resarch Interests

Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Human Behavior Understanding

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Selected Publications

Please visit Projects and Full Publication List for further details.
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FineBio: A Fine-Grained Video Dataset of Biological Experiments with Hierarchical Annotation
Takuma Yagi, Misaki Ohashi, Yifei Huang, Ryosuke Furuta, Shungo Adachi, Toutai Mitsuyama, and Yoichi Sato.
EPIC Workshop@CVPR2023
[preprint][data & code]
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Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives.
Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Lorenzo Torresani, Kris Kitani, Jitendra Malik, ..., Takuma Yagi, ..., Michael Wray
Preprint
[preprint][website]
Fine-grained Affordance Annotation for Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Videos
Zecheng Yu, Yifei Huang, Ryosuke Furuta, Takuma Yagi, Yusuke Goutsu, and Yoichi Sato.
WACV 2023, EPIC Workshop@CVPR2022
[preprint][proceedings]
Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video
Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Eugene Byrne, Zachary Chavis, Antonino Furnari, Rohit Girdhar, ..., Takuma Yagi, ... Jitendra Malik.
CVPR 2022 (Oral)
[project page] [paper]
Object Instance Identification in Dynamic Environments
Takuma Yagi, Md. Tasnimul Hasan, and Yoichi Sato.
In Tenth International Workshop on Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC@CVPR22), Extended Abstracts.
[paper] [preprint] [code]
Hand-Object Contact Prediction via Motion-Based Pseudo-Labeling and Guided Progressive Label Correction
Takuma Yagi, Md. Tasnimul Hasan, and Yoichi Sato.
BMVC 2021
[paper & talk] [preprint] [data & code]
GO-Finder: Registration-Free Wearable System for Assisting Users in Finding Lost Objects via Hand-Held Object Discovery
Takuma Yagi, Takumi Nishiyasu, Kunimasa Kawasaki, Moe Matsuki, and Yoichi Sato.
IUI 2021 (Long Paper), TiiS'22
[Preprint] [Paper] [Video] [Presentation]
Future Person Localization in First-Person Videos
Takuma Yagi, Karttikeya Mangalam, Ryo Yonetani, and Yoichi Sato.
CVPR 2018 (Spotlight)
[Preprint] [Paper] [Data & Code]

Work Experience

Apr. 2023 - Present, Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Research Scientist at Computer Vision Research Team
Apr. 2023 - Present, Cooperative Research Fellow, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Cooperative Research Fellow at Sato Laboratory
Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2023, Project Researcher, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Analysis of biochemical experiment videos at Sato Laboratory
Oct. 2022 - Mar. 2023, Visiting Researcher, Nihon University
Research on Human-Agent Interaction at Osawa Laboratory
Sep. 2018 - Dec. 2018, Microsoft Research Asia
Research Internship at Media Computing Group. Advisor: Dr. Xun Guo
Jun. 2017 - Mar. 2018, Dwango Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Curriculum supervisor/lecturer at Neuro-Inspired COmputing To AI School (NICO2AI School)
Dec. 2015 - Jan. 2016, Datasection.Inc
Machine Learning Engineer
Mar. 2014 - Mar. 2015, Datasection.Inc
Java/Javascript Engineer

Education

2022 Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
  Advisor: Prof. Yoichi Sato
  Thesis: Hand-Object Interaction Mining from First-Person Videos
2019 M.S. in Information and Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
  Advisor: Prof. Yoichi Sato
  Thesis: Future Person Localization in First-Person Videos
2017 B.E. in Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  Advisor: Prof. Koichi Shinoda
  Thesis: Patch-based Human Action Recognition from Video via Disrciminative Feature Mining

Awards

Aug. 2021 MIRU Presentation Award
Mar. 2019 Department Chair's Award for Excellent Master Thesis, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, the University of Tokyo

Grants

Oct. 2022 - Mar. 2025 JST ACT-X AI powered Research Innovation / Creation, 6,000,000 JPY
Oct. 2022 - Mar. 2024 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, 2,200,000 JPY
Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2022 JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (JSPS DC2), 800,000 JPY
2019 JASSO Scholarship for Top 10% Excellent Master Students from Japan Student Services Organization, 2,112,000 JPY
Jul. 2018 - Jun. 2023 Masason Foundation Full Member
2018 The NEC C&C Foundations: Grants for Attendees at International Conference, 200,000 JPY
Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2018 Toyota/Dwango Scholarship for Advanced Artificial Intelligence Researcher, 1,200,000 JPY

Services

Reviewer

IJCV, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACCV, ICRA

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