Advanced Information Processing Div.

Human olfactory interface for recording odor and reproducint it

	Assoc. Prof. Hiroya TAKAMURA
	Room：　Ｒ2-814    TEL：+81-(0)45-924-5295    E-mail：takamura(at)pi.titech.ac.jp    *Please replace "(at)" with "@".    http://lr-www.pi.titech.ac.jp

• Section       Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
• Objective
  ・Elucidation of the mathematical structure of human languages
  ・Development of language processing framework
• Current Topics
  ・Sentiment analysis of text
  ・Text summarization
  ・Word sense disambiguation
  ・Mathematical representation of sense
  ・Mathematical model of language
  *Outline of Research Activities（PDF）

Sentences are selected out of numerous documents and the summary will be generated.

Information Processing and Recognition

	Prof. Manabu OKUMURA
	Room：　R2-720    TEL：+81-(0)45-924-5067    E-mail：oku(at)pi.titech.ac.jp    *Please replace "(at)" with "@".    http://lr-www.pi.titech.ac.jp

• Section          Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, 
                     Computer-Assisted Language Learning
• Objevtive     Development of the technique of natural language processing and application systems
• Current Topics 
  ・Incremental Language Understanding Model (Robust Semantic and Discourse Processing)
  ・Automated Text Summarization 
  ・Development of Communication Assistive　Technology for People with Disabilities
  ・Animation Control through Natural Language Understanding
  ・Text Mining from the text data on the WWW.
  ・Statistical/Machine Learning-Based Natural Language Processing
  *Outline of Research Activities（PDF）

Collecting, Monitoring, and Mining CGM (Consumer Generated Media)

	Assoc. Prof. Natsue YOSHIMURA
	Room：R2-810   TEL：+81-(0)45-924-5086    E-mail：yoshimura(at)pi.titech.ac.jp   *Please replace "(at)" with "@".    http://www.cns.pi.titech.ac.jp/Klab/

• Section        Biosignal processing, Human interfaces
• Objectives    Neural decoding of brain activities and its applications
• Current Topics 
  ・Decoding of motor, language, and emotional information using electroencephalography(EEG)
  ・Decoding brain states from functional magnetic resonance imaging
  ・Brain machine interfaces / Brain computer interfaces
  *Outline of Research Activities

A power assist robot controlled by EMG signals estimated from EEG signals

Human Interface

	Prof. Makoto　SATO
	Room：R2-514　　    TEL：+81-(0)45-924-5050    E-mail：msato(at)pi.titech.ac.jp    *Please replace "(at)" with "@".    http://sklab-www.pi.titech.ac.jp/blog/

• Section        Human Interface
• Objective     Perceptual information processing and multi-modal Human interface
• Current Topics 
  ・Virtual reality
  ・Development of haptic display "SPIDAR" 
  ・Human-scale virtual environment with multi-modal interaction
  ・Computer vision
  ・Image processing
  *Outline of Research Activities（PDF）

３D Spatial Interface Device for Human-Computer Interaction, SPIDAR

	Assoc. Prof. Shoicｈi HASEGAWA
	Room：R2-624　　    TEL：＋81-（0）45-924-5049    E-mail：hase(at)pi.titech.ac.jp    *Please replace "(at)" with "@".    http://haselab.net/en

• Section        Human Interface
• Objective     Robotics, simulation and modeling for human interface and virtual reality.
• Current Topics 
  ・R&D of real-time physics simulator
  ・R&D of soft robots made of fabrics
  ・Modeling and rendering for haptics
  ・Motion and behavior generation for characters and robots
  ・Sensory feedback for motor skills
  *Outline of Research Activities（PDF）

Real-time physics simulation and motion generation	Soft staffed robot soft to bone and its mechanism
Real-time FEM for haptic display of material feeling