Research

Ongoing Research

Automotive Edge AI

2024/8-

AI Communication TMC

Research on edge AI for AD/ADAS.

Representative topics
  • Hierarchical edge AI: research on applying hierarchical edge AI to automotive systems
    • Hierarchical Edge AI for Cooperative Driving DOIAAM PDF
  • ATLAS: anomaly detection using local AI
    • Autonomous Transport with Localized AI Support Program

Video Transmission and Quality Assessment for Vehicles

2023/11-

Video Communication TMC

Research on video-transmission quality for vehicles and on remote monitoring.

Representative topics
  • Real-time VQA: research on real-time quality assessment for remote-driving video
    ACM MHV figure on real-time video quality assessment in remote driving
    Adapted from Field Data Evaluation and Prototype Implementation for Real-Time Video Quality Assessment in Remote Driving, CC BY 4.0. Cropped/resized for this site.
    • Field Data Evaluation and Prototype Implementation for Real-Time Video Quality Assessment in Remote Driving DOIPDFCC BY
  • Remote-monitoring environment: research on monitoring systems and evaluation environments for autonomous vehicles (joint work with Hokkaido Information University)
    • HORUS Monitor: Proposal of a Remote Monitoring System for Autonomous Vehicles Using Head-Mounted Displays URL

V2X Communication

2025/8-

Communication TMC

Research on V2X communication under high-mobility conditions.

Representative topics
  • OTFS receiver design: research on receivers robust to rapid Doppler fluctuations during vehicle passing (joint work with Nagoya University)
    • OTFS Receiver with Dual-Branch Processing for Fractional Doppler Mitigation in V2X Counter-Approaching Scenarios Details

Past Research

Wide-area Private Wireless Communication in the VHF Band

2015/4-2024/3

Communication Kyoto Univ.

Research on wide-area private wireless communication in the VHF band.

Representative topics

Private Wireless Communication for Mobile Relay Program Production

2020/9-2023/8

Communication NHK

Research on private wireless communication for mobile relay programs and remote production.

Representative topics
  • Improving transmission performance of mobile relay FPUs: research on improved compensation and adaptive transmission control using machine learning
    • Machine Learning-based Compensation Methods for Weight Matrices of SVD-MIMO DOIPDF
  • Mobile transmission experiments with relay FPUs: research on wireless transmission for mobile relay programs with automatic switching of total modulation orders
    • Field Experiment with FPUs for Mobile Relay Programs with Auto-switching of Total Modulation Orders DOIPDF

Media Analytics for Program Production Support

2017/5-2020/8

AI NHK

Research on program production support using SNS analysis and computer vision.

Representative topics
  • SNS analysis: social media analysis for news gathering and program production support
    W-NUT figure on tweets classification
    Adapted from Classification of Tweets about Reported Events Using Neural Networks, CC BY 4.0. Cropped/resized for this site.
    • Classification of Tweets about Reported Events Using Neural Networks DOIPDFCC BY
  • Campaign-poster detection: computer vision for detecting election posters in broadcast material
    • Campaign Posters Detection for TV Program Production PDF