Citizenship Japanese

Takaaki Kuratate

Email:kuratate@atr.jp,kuratate0@https://www.360docs.net/doc/6d6108232.html,

Date of Birth:November27,1966

Place of Birth:Osaka,Japan

Place of legal domicile:Tottori Prefecture

Citizenship:Japanese

Work Address

ATR Human Information Science Laboratories 2-2-2Hikaridai Seika-cho

Soraku-gun,Kyoto616-0288Japan

Tel:+81(774)95-1046

Fax:+81(774)95-2647

Home Address and Phone

1-2-2-103Kabuto-dai,Kizu-cho Soraku-gun,Kyoto619-0224Japan Tel&Fax:+81(774)71-9020

Education

June2004Nara Institute of Science and Technology,Nara,Japan,Doctor of engineering,specializing in Com-puter Graphics,Animation,and Image processing at the Arti?cial Intelligence Laboratories.

March1991University of Electro-Communications,Tokyo,Japan,Master of engineering,specializing in Plasma Physics,Quantum Physics,Laser Science and Computational Physics at the Institute for Laser Science.

March1989University of Electro-Communications,Tokyo,Japan,Bachelor of Engineering at the Department of Engineering Physics.

Professional Experience

Apr00-present,ATR-Human Information Science Laboratories,Researcher(formally ATR-ISD).My research focuses on creating a realistic speech-synchronized face animation system with various speaker data,and also on creating a large scale3D face database to obtain the characteristics of face deformation,identi?cation and classi?cation.

Apr97-Mar00,ATR-Human Information Processing Laboratories,Loaned Researcher from TOSHIBA.Worked on speech-synchronized face animation system.Based on the work from the TOSHIBA project(below),created a basic 3D face animation system controlled by a small set of parameters which is used in several perceptual experiments by collaborators.

Jan92-Mar00,TOSHIBA Kansai Research Laboratory,Researcher.Worked on various research projects in image coding,computer vision,network communication and computer graphics.My work included inventing a new image coding algorithm in1994which became a part of TOSHIBA’s proposal to MPEG4standardization in1997.In 1995,our group developed TOSHIBA’s?rst face animation system.My paper about cloud visualization was selected as a ?ne work at NICOGRAPH paper contest in1995.

Apr91-Dec91,TOSHIBA Research and Development Center,Researcher.Worked on topics in speech coding and image processing.My major project was overhauling TOSHIBA’s original speech coding simulation program ADP-CELP and converting it into C from FORTRAN.This C program became the base for TOSHIBA’s CELP-related speech coding simulation in the following several years.

Thesis Publications

Takaaki Kuratate,“Talking Head Animation System Driven by Facial Motion Mapping and a3D Face Database”, PhD thesis,Graduate School of Information Science,Nara Institute of Science and Technology,Ikoma,Nara,JAPAN, June2004,NAIST-IS-DT0061204.

Takaaki Kuratate,“Analysis of atomic processes in aluminum plasma produced by the irradiation of KrF laser”(in Japanese),Master’s thesis,Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry,University of Electro-Communications,Chofu, Tokyo,JAPAN,February1991,8934015.

Journal Publications

Takaaki Kuratate and Keisuke Kinoshita,“Real-time talking head system based on principal component analysis”(in Japanese),Journal of the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan,V ol.34,No.4,pp.336–343,2005.

Takaaki Kuratate,“3D face modeling from photographs and expression estimation for animation using a3D face database”(in Japanese),Journal of the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan,V ol.34,No.4,pp.344–355, 2005.

Takaaki Kuratate and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Analysis and synthesis of talking faces by facial motion mapping”(in Japanese),Journal of the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan,V ol.32,No.4,pp.355–368,2003.

Kevin Munhall,Jeff Jones,Daniel Callan,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Visual prosody and speech intelligibility:Head movement improves auditory speech perception”,Psychological Science,V ol.15,No.2,pp.133–137, 2004.

Andrea Santi,Philip Servos,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,Takaaki Kuratate,and Kevin Munhall,“Perceiving biological motion:Dissociating visible speech from walking”,Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience,V ol.15,No.6,pp.800–809,2003.

Hani Camille Yehia,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Linking facial animation,head motion,and speech acoustics”,Journal of Phonetics,V ol.30,No.3,pp.555–568,2002.

Christian Kroos,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Video-based face motion measurement”,Journal of Phonetics,V ol.30,No.3,pp.569–590,2002.

Refereed Conference Publications

Takaaki Kuratate and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Estimating3D face expression postures for animation from pho-tographs using a3D face database”,Symposium on Computer Animation(SCA2004),Poster&demo session,pp.22–23, 2004.

Takaaki Kuratate,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,and Hani Yehia,“Cross-subject face animation driven by facial motion mapping”,Proceedings of10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering(CE2003):Advanced Design, Production and Management Systems,pp.971–979,2003.

Takaaki Kuratate,Saeko Masuda,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“What perceptible information can be implemented in talking head animations”,IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(RO-MAN2001),pp.430–435,2001.

Takaaki Kuratate,Kevin G.Munhall,Philip E.Rubin,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,and Hani C.Yehia,“Audio-visual synthesis of talking faces from speech production correlates”,Proceedings of6th European Conference on Speech Com-munication and Technology(EuroSpeech99),3:1279–1282,1999.

Takaaki Kuratate,Hani Yehia,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Kinematics-based synthesis of realistic talking faces”, Proceedings of A VSP’98-International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing,pp.185–190,1998.

Yosuke Bando,Takaaki Kuratate,and Tomoyuki Nishita,“A simple method for modeling wrinkles on human skin”, Paci?c Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications,pages166–175,2002.

Christian Kroos,Saeko Masuda,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Towards the facecoder:Dynamic face synthesis based on image motion estimation in speech”,ISCA Conference on Auditory and Visual Speech Processing A VSP2001,pp.24–29,2001.

Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,Christian Kroos,Takaaki Kuratate,Kevin Munhall,Philip Rubin,and Hani Yehia,“Build-ing talking heads:Production based synthesis of audiovisual speech”,Humanoids2000First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots,2000.

Hani Yehia,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Using speech acoustics to drive facial motion”,The14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences(ICPhS99),1:631–634,1999.

Eric Vatikiotis-Batesonc,Takaaki Kuratate,Miyuki Kamachi,and Hani C.Yehia,“Facial deformation parameters for audiovisual synthesis”,Proceedings of A VSP’99(Auditory-Visual Speech Processing),pp.118–122,1999.

Refereed Conference Publications(Domestic)

Takaaki Kuratate,“Estimation of3D face expressions from front and side view photographs using a3D face database”(in Japanese),Proceedings of Visual Computing/Graphics&CAD Joint Symposium,pp.61–66,2004.

Takaaki Kuratate,Guillaume Vignali,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Building a large scale3D face database and applying it to face animation”(in Japanese),Proceedings of Visual Computing/Graphics&CAD Joint Symposium, pp.105–110,2003.

Takaaki Kuratate,Hani Yehia,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Speech synchronized facial animation estimated by the linear combination of the principal components”(in Japanese),Proceedings of Visual Computing/Graphics&CAD Joint Symposium,pp.115–120,1998.

Takaaki Kuratate,Natsuko Matsuda,and Kaoru Suzuki,“A study on the visualization of the evolution of clouds,from varying view points”(in Japanese),Proceedings of11th NICOGRAPH paper contest,pp.151–160,1995. Conference Publications

Takaaki Kuratate,“Statistical analysis and synthesis of3D faces for auditory-visual speech animation”,Proceedings of A VSP’05(Auditory-Visual Speech Processing),pp.131–136,2005.

Takaaki Kuratate and Keisuke Kinoshita,“Real-time talking head system controlled by a small set of principal com-ponents and head motion”,ATR Symposium on the Cross-modal Processing of Face and V oice,pp.25–26,2005.

Takaaki Kuratate,Hani Yehia,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Facial defromation from improved gestual parameters”, The Sixth ATR Symposium on Face and Object Recognition,pages143–144,1999.

Takaaki Kuratate,Hani Yehia,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Facial animation from3D kinematics and principal component analysis”,The?fth ATR Symposium on Face and Object Recognition,pages87–88,1998.

Kevin Munhall,Christian Kroos,Takaaki Kuratate,Jorge Lucero,M.Pitermann,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,and Hani Yehia,“Studies of audiovisual speech perception using production-based animation”,Proceedings of the6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing,III:7–10,2000.

Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,Takaaki Kuratate,Kevin Munhall,and Hani Yehia,“The production and perception of a realistic talking face”,Proceedings of LP’98,Item order in Language and Speech2,pp.439–460,2000.

Hani Yehia,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Facial animation and head motion driven by speech acoustics”,The5th International Seminar on Speech Production,pages265–268,2000.

Christian Kroos,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Listen to the face-measuring the face kinematics of speech from video sequences”,The5th International Seminar on Speech Production,pages341–344,2000.

Kevin Munhall,Jeff Jones,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Prosodic and segmental cues in audiovi-sual speech perception”,The Sixth ATR Symposium on Face and Object Recognition,pages119–120,1999.

Hani Yehia,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Using speech acoustics to drive facial motion”,The Sixth ATR Symposium on Face and Object Recognition,pages137–138,1999.

Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,Takaaki Kuratate,Kevin Munhall,and Hani Yehia,“Making speech production perceptible”, The Sixth ATR Symposium on Face and Object Recognition,pages129–130,1999.

Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,Takaaki Kuratate,and Hani Yehia,“Kinematics-based synthesis of realistic talking faces”, The?fth ATR Symposium on Face and Object Recognition,pages53–54,1998.

Invited Conference Publications

Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,Takaaki Kuratate,Kevin Graham Munhall,and Philip Rubin,“Task constraints on robot realism:The case of talking heads”,IEEE Int.Workshop on Robot-Human Interaction(RO-MAN2000),pp.352–357, 2000.

Book Chapter Publications

Takaaki Kuratate,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,and Hani Camille Yehia,“Estimation and animation of faces using fa-cial motion mapping and a3D face database”,In John Clement and Murray Marks,editors,“Computer-graphic facial reconstruction,chapter17.Elsevier Academic Press,2005”,

Article Publications

Takaaki Kuratate and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Talking faces”(in Japanese),ATR Journal,33:6–7,1998. Domestic Conference Publications

Takaaki Kuratate and Keisuke Kinoshita,“Real-time talking head system based on a3D face database”(in Japanese), IIEEJ Visual Computing Workshop2004in Shirahama,2004.

Takaaki Kuratate,Kevin Hsu,and Marcia Riley,“Creating speaker speci?c3D lip models using3D range data”(in Japanese),Information Processing Society of Japan SIG Technical Report,2004-CG-114:19–24,Feb.2004.

Takaaki Kuratate,“Estimation of face expressions from neutral3D faces using3D face database”(in Japanese), Information Processing Society of Japan SIG Technical Report,2004-CG-114:13–18,Feb.2004.

Takaaki Kuratate,Christopher Atkeson,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Principal component based lip contour extrac-tion from head-mounted camera and cross-subject animation”(in Japanese),Information Processing Society of Japan SIG Notes,2000-CG-100:79–84,2000.

Takaaki Kuratate,Hani Yehia,and Eric Vatikotis-Bateson,“Extraction of principal componnents from3D faces and synthesis of talking faces”(in Japanese),IEICE HIP/PRMU Technical Meeting on Face and Gesture Recognition,HIP99-37:25–30,1999.

Takaaki Kuratate and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“A study for the computer animation application by principal compo-nent analysis”(in Japanese),IIEEJ Visual Computing Workshop’98in Toba,1998.

Takaaki Kuratate,Fr′e d′e rique Garcia,Hani Yehia,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Speech synchronized facial animation driven by orofacial points”(in Japanese),IIEEJ Visual Computing Workshop’98in Fukuoka,1997.

Takaaki Kuratate,Fr′e d′e rique Garcia,Hani Yehia,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Speech synchronized facial animation generated by via point analysis”(in Japanese),IEICE Technical Report,PRMU97-138:69–76,1997.

Takaaki Kuratate,Fr′e d′e rique Garcia,Hani Yehia,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Facial animation based on3D kine-matics”(in Japanese),Information Processing Society of Japan(IPSJ)SIG Notes,97-CG-87:31–36,1997.

Takaaki Kuratate,Natsuko Matsuda,and Kaoru Suzuki,“A trial of the visualization system of evolutional clouds”(in Japanese),IIEEJ Visual Computing Workshop’96in Sapporo,November1996.

Takaaki Kuratate,Natsuko Matsuda,and Kaoru Suzuki,“A study on the visualization of the evolution of clouds,from varying view points”(in Japanese),IIEEJ Visual Computing Workshop’95in Hiroshima,1995.

Keisuke Kinoshita and Takaaki Kuratate,“Real-time talking head system based on principal component analysis”(in Japanese),IEICE Technical Report HIP2004-63-72,V ol.104,No.525,pp.47–52,2004.

Yosuke Bando,Takaaki Kuratate,and Tomoyuki Nishita,“Simulation of facial expression with winkles”,Information Processing Society of Japan SIG Notes,2001-CG-105:27–32,2001.

Christian Kroos,Takaaki Kuratate,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Losing track?video-based measurement of facial motion”,IEICE HIP/PRMU Technical Meeting on Face and Gesture Recognition,HIP99-36:19–24,1999.

Eiji Tanaka,Takaaki Kuratate,and Kazuhiro Fukui,“Dynamic face detection and application using an active-camera system”(in Japanese),154th IIEEJ meeting,(5),November1996.

Natsuko Matsuda,Takaaki Kuratate,and Kaoru Suzuki,“A prototype of interactive system for cloud motion visu-alization”(in Japanese),Information Processing Society of Japan(IPSJ)SIG Notes(Graphics and CAD),81-6:31–36, 1996.

Kaoru Suzuki,Osamu Yamaguchi,Kazuhiro Fukui,Eiji Tanaka,Takaaki Kuratate,and Natsuko Matsuda,“A multi-modal humanoid user interface(mmHUI)an experimental narration agent(Rachel)”(in Japanese),IPSJ SIG Notes (Human Interface),69-7:47–53,1996.

Domestic Annual Meeting Publications

Takaaki Kuratate,“Application of3D face database:Estimation of3D face from pro?le silhouette line”(in Japanese), Journal of Japanese Academy of Facial Studies,V ol.3,No.1,pp.160,2003.

Takaaki Kuratate,Saeko Masuda,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Analysis of a large scale3D face database for speech synchronized face animation”(in Japanese),Proceedings of Fall Meeting of Acoustc Society of Japan(ASJ),3-3-10:523–524,2001.

Takaaki Kuratate,Fr′e d′e rique Garcia,Hani Yehia,and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Facial animation from3D kinematics”(in Japanese),Proceedings of Fall meeting of Acoustical Society of Japan(ASJ),1-P-10,Sep.17,1997.

Takaaki Kuratate,Kenshi Dachiku,and Katsumi Takahashi,“A study of moving region coding”(in Japanese),Pro-ceedings of Spring Meeting of the Institute of Electronics,Information and Communication Engineers(IEICE),pp.D–327, 1994.

Yurie Nishino,Miyuki Kamachi,Keisuke Kinoshita,and Takaaki Kuratate,“Validity of face motion information in talking head animation”(in Japanese),Journal of Japanese Academy of Facial Studies,V ol.5,No.1,pp.168,2005.

Eiji Tanaka,Takaaki Kuratate,and Kazuhiro Fukui,“Trial experiment of the active-camera system for education between remote places-active detection of speaker by image and voice”(in Japanese),53th annual meeting of IPSJ, 1996.

Natsuko Matsuda,Takaaki Kuratate,and Kaoru Suzuki,“Visualization of the evolution of clouds,from varying view points”(in Japanese),Proceedings of Spring Meeting of the Institute of Electronics,Information and Communication Engineers(IEICE),pp.D–668,1995.

Patents(U.S.patents only)

Hani Yehia,Takaaki Kuratate,Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson,“Method and system for integrated audiovisual speech coding at low bitrate”,U.S.patent,Patent No.6675145.

Noboru Yamaguchi,Toshiaki Watanabe,Takashi Ida,Takaaki Kuratate,“Video coding and video decoding appara-tus”,U.S.patent,Patent No.6567561,No.6546138,No.6353684,No.6343156,No.6330364,No.6307967,No.6292585, No.6088486.

Noboru Yamaguchi,Toshiaki Watanabe,Takashi Ida,Takaaki Kuratate,“Video coding and video decoding apparatus according to a reduction ratio setting information signal”,U.S.patent,Patent No.6339620,No.6330284.

Noboru Yamaguchi,Toshiaki Watanabe,Takashi Ida,Takaaki Kuratate,“Video coding and video decoding apparatus for changing a resolution conversion according to a reduction ratio setting information signal”,U.S.patent,Patent No.6154495.

Noboru Yamaguchi,Toshiaki Watanabe,Takashi Ida,Takaaki Kuratate,“Video coding and video decoding apparatus for enlarging a decoded alpha-map signal in accordance with a reduction ratio setting information signal”,U.S.patent, Patent No.6130913.

Noboru Yamaguchi,Toshiaki Watanabe,Takashi Ida,Takaaki Kuratate,“Video coding and video decoding apparatus for reducing an alpha-map signal at a controlled reduction ratio”,U.S.patent,Patent No.5883678.

Kenshi Dachiku,Shogo Yamaguchi,Kazuo Ozeki,Katsumi Takahashi,Mitsunori Omokawa,Takaaki Kuratate,“Video encoder using global motion estimation and polygonal patch motion estimation”,U.S.patent,Patent No.5592228. Related Research Output/Contract Research

Cooperative product development,“Emotional face visualization technique driven by EEG analysis results”for Brain Functions Lab.,Inc.(Kawasaki,Japan),2005-2006

System product,“Real-time Talking head animation system”for NTT Communication Science Laboratories(Atsugi, Japan),2005-2006.

Contract research,“Real-time visualization techiniques of smoke and frame for computer graphics applications”for TOSHIBA TESCO Co.(Kawasaki,Japan),1996.

Awards

Recipient of a?ne work paper prize for11th NICOGRAPH paper contest in Nov.1995.

Recipient of an excellent presentation prize for114th IPSJ Graphics&CAD SIG meeting in June2004. Professional Activities

Member of ACM SIGGRAPH,Information Processing Society of Japan(IPSJ),Acoustics Society of Japan(ASJ)and Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan(IIEEJ).

Committee member of IIEEJ Visual Computing Working Group(Nov.1997-present,current chairman is Prof.To-moyuki Nishita).

Miscellaneous

Programming and Scripting languages:C,C++,Pascal,Fortran77,COBOL,BASIC,Assembler(Z80,8086),awk, sed,perl,csh,Tcsh,Bourne shell.

Programming Environment:OpenGL,OpenInventor,VRML,IRIS GL,X-Windows,MATLAB

Applications:Adobe Photoshop,Premier,Illusrator,MicroSoft PowerPoint,Word,Excel,FileMaker,Canvas,LaTeX, Operating Systems:Unix:IRIX,OSF1,Solaris,SunOS,Linux,MacOS X,MachTen,Cygwin;Other:VMS,RSX-11, CP/M,MS-DOS,Mac OS(6-9),Windows95/98/NT/2000/XP

References

?Prof.Masatsugu Kidode

Department of Information Processing,Graduate school of Information Science

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

8916-5Takayama-cho,Ikoma-shi,Nara,630-0101,JAPAN

Tel:+81-743-72-5260,Fax:+81-743-72-5269

E-mail:kidode@is.naist.jp

http://ai-www.aist-nara.ac.jp/people/prof/kidode.html

?Prof.Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson

Department of Linguistics

University of British Columbia

E-270,1866Main Mall

Vancouver,British Columbia,V6T1Z1,CANADA

Tel:+1-604-822-6288,Fax:+1-604-822-9687

E-mail:evb@interchange.ubc.ca

http://www.his.atr.jp/～bateson/

?Prof.Kevin G.Munhall

Department of Psychology

Queen’s University

62Arch Street,Kingston,Ontario,K7L3N6,CANADA

Tel:+1-613-533-6012,Fax:+1-613-533-2499

E-mail:munhall@psyc.queensu.ca

http://pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca/faculty/munhall/munhall.html

http://psyc.queensu.ca/～munhallk/02a kevin.htm

?Prof.Christopher G.Atkeson

Robotics Institute

Carnegie Mellon University

5000Forbes Avenue,Pittsburgh,PA,15213,USA

Tel:+1-412-681-8354

E-mail:cga@https://www.360docs.net/doc/6d6108232.html,

https://www.360docs.net/doc/6d6108232.html,/～cga/

?Prof.Tomoyuki Nishita

Department of Complexity Science and Engineering,Graduate School of Frontier Sciences University of Tokyo

5-1-5Kashinoha,Kashiwa-shi,Chiba,277-8561,JAPAN

Tel:+81-4-7136-3942,Fax:+81-4-7136-3943

email:nis@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

http://nis-lab.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/～nis/