Welcome to the Ikenaga Laboratory. Researchers in Ikenaga Laboratory are all aiming for solving various kinds of image and video information systems\u2019 problems to access any information at “anytime” and “anywhere” with “safe” and “comfortable”.<\/p>\n
One of our lab\u2019s research groups focuses on automatic sports video analysis and pose estimation. Main purpose of this group is to automatically extract high-accurate and real-time data such as 3D player position and 3D posture from videos. Through various technique, we will build a visually automatic data acquisition system which can be helpful for TV content broadcasting and national team training.<\/p>\n
Another research group focuses on high frame rate and ultra-low delay computer vision system. We design highly parallel algorithms and implement them on FPGA to obtain a high processing speed of 1000 fps with the delay less than 1 ms. Applications like defect detection, corner and line detection of components will greatly improve production efficiency, let industry automatic and promote the development of Industry 4.0. Furthermore, video compression group mainly focus on H.266\/VVC. By coding and speeding up this standard, we are building next generation TV conference systems. The HDR group combine with semi-supervised learning or other convolution network, higher quality and more vividly video will be obtained.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Experimental scenery of video processing system<\/p><\/div>\n
Currently, there are 24 students in our laboratory. Even in the tough situation of coronavirus, we will have regular lab meeting and joint seminar. Students can not only fully discuss with Prof. Ikenaga and other lab members, but also brush up communication, presentation and writing skills. What\u2019s more, students in our lab can have regular meetings with professors from top universities like Tsinghua University, Nanjing University and so on. We also have chances to discuss with top companies\u2019 senior engineers, let us not only focus on research itself but also broaden the horizons of industry.<\/p>\n