Japan Long-Term Research Visit: Integrated Image Analysis and Visualization

该奖项将支持伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校协调科学实验室的Narendra Ahuja教授对日本进行为期9个月的长期访问，与大阪高级电信研究所（ATR）通信系统研究实验室的Fumio Kishino博士进行合作研究项目。他们将在综合图像分析和可视化领域进行研究。Ahuja教授目前的研究包括：1)整合各种图像线索中的信息，以获得三维（3D）解释；2)视觉上逼真而紧凑的场景描述。描绘的成功是由人类观察者从描绘中真实地感知到所需场景特征的程度来衡量的。岸野博士的研究也涉及图像解释和图像合成，但针对的是包含人类的图像。他们使用一系列与人体运动有关的图像线索来进行解读。他们还非常强调硬件实现和原型开发问题。研究人员将密切研究和比较这两种研究方式，并试图确定如何通过结合对方活动的相关优势来提高每个PI的研究效率。研究结果具有巨大的军事和商业潜力。改进的模拟器技术也可以作为机器人的科学研究工具，消除了在每个机器人实验室建造真正的移动机器人的需要。这些机器人买起来很贵，维护和编程更贵。Ahuja教授和Kishino博士都以富有成效和高质量的研究而闻名。同样，伊利诺伊大学和ATR都因其在计算机视觉和可视化领域的重要研究而在社区中受到尊重。预期这一合作努力将在正式协定终止后继续进行，并进一步预期这一双边努力将产生有用的出版物。

This award will support a nine month long-term visit by Professor Narendra Ahuja, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana, to Japan for a cooperative research project with Dr. Fumio Kishino, Communications Systems Research Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR) in Osaka. They will be undertaking research in the area of integrated image analysis and visualization. Professor Ahuja's current research includes 1) integration of the information present in diverse image cues for deriving a three-dimensional (3D) interpretation and 2) visually realistic and compact depiction of scenes. The success of a depiction is measured by the extent to which a human observer realistically perceives the desired scene characteristics from the depiction. Dr. Kishino's research is also concerned with both image interpretation and image synthesis, but for images that contain humans. They use a range of image cues related to human body motion in performing the interpretation. They also emphasize greatly the hardware implementation and prototype development issues. The researchers will closely study and compare the two lines of research, and attempt to determine ways in which each PI's research could be enhanced in effectiveness by incorporating the pertinent strengths of the other's activity. Results of the research could provide great military and commercial potential. Improved simulator technology could also be used as a scientific research tool in robotics, eliminating the need for real mobile robots to be built at every robotics laboratory. These robots are expensive to purchase and even more expensive to maintain and program. Both Professor Ahuja and Dr. Kishino are noted for very productive, high quality research. Likewise, both the University of Illinois and ATR are respected in the community for their significant research in the area of computer vision and visualization. It is expected that this collaborative effort will continue after the formal agreement has terminated, and it is further anticipated that useful publications will result from this bilateral effort.