Mutsumi WatanabeProfessor

Areas of Research Interest: Computer Vision Robot Vision Pattern Analysis Recent Representative Publications: M. Watanabe, Adaptive Decomposition of Dynamic Scene into Object-based Distribution Components based on Mixture Model Framework, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E88-D(4), 758 - 766, 2005.4. M. Watanabe, Adaptive decomposition of dynamic scene into object-based components based on Mixture Gaussian Model framework, Proc. of 10th Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision (FCV 2004), 287 - 292, 2004.2. A. Maki, M. Watanabe and C.S. Wiles, Geotensity: Combining Motion and Lighting for 3D Surface Reconstruction, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 48(2), 75-90, 2002. 9. H. Nakai, K. Ishihara, Y. Miyake and M. Watanabe, Non-restrictive Visual Respiration Monitoring, Proc. of 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2000), 647 - 651, 2000.9. Y. Miyake, K. Ishihara, M. Watanabe, H. Nakai and A. Araki, Non-Restrictive Visual Sensing System for Monitoring of Respiration Patterns Based on Image Processing, Proc. of First China-Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on Medical Informatics (CJKMI’99), 1999.10. M. Watanabe, N. Takeda and K. Onoguchi, Moving Obstacle Recognition by Optical Flow Pattern Analysis for Mobile Robots, Advanced Robotics, 12(8), 791 - 816,　1999.8. A. Maki, M. Watanabe and C.S. Wiles, Geotensity: Combining Motion and Lighting for 3D Surface Reconstruction, Proc. of 6th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’98 (ICCV), 1053 - 1060, 1998. 1. M. Watanabe, N. Takeda and K. Onoguchi, A Moving Object Recognition Method by Optical Flow Analysis, Proc. of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’96), 528 - 533, 1996.8. Academic Degrees: Ph.D. (Osaka University, Japan, 1997) M.E. (University of Tokyo, Japan, 1981) B.E. (University of Tokyo, Japan, 1979) Career: Kagoshima University：　2000 -- Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation：　1981--2000 Academic Society: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Information Processing Society of Japan Robotics Society of Japan Institute of Image Information and Television Engineering Institute of Systems, Control and Information Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan