Kazuto Nakashima
Kyushu University
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Email: k nakashima@ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Homepage: https://kazuto1011.github.io

Experience
Assistant Professor
Kyushu University, March 2023–Present
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kyushu University, April 2021–February 2023
Research Fellow (PD)The Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, January–March 2021
Research Fellow (DC2)The Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, April 2019–December 2020
Research Assistant
Kyushu University, April 2018–March 2019
Research InternNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, October–December 2017
Research AssistantCenter for Co-Evolutional Social Systems, Kyushu University, April–September 2017
Research Intern
Toshiba Corp R&D Center, August–September 2015

Education
Ph.D., Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Kyushu University, April 2017–December 2020
Advisor: Prof. Ryo Kurazume
Thesis: Multimodal Visual Perception for Real-World Scene Parsing
M.E., Information Science and Electrical Engineering
Kyushu University, April 2015–March 2017
Advisor: Prof. Ryo Kurazume
B.E., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Kyushu University, April 2013–March 2015
Advisor: Prof. Ryo Kurazume

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2Teaching ExperienceLaboratory of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
School of Engineering, Kyushu University, 2023–Present
Teaching AssistantFaculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, 2015–2017
Part-Time Lecturer
Kyushu Electric College, 2015–2017

Publications
Journal Articles
Jeongho Ahn, Kazuto Nakashima, Koki Yoshino, Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume. “Learning ViewpointInvariant Features for LiDAR-Based Gait Recognition”. IEEE Access, 2023
Kazuto Nakashima, Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume. “Lifelogging Caption Generation via Fourth-Person
Vision in a Human–Robot Symbiotic Environment”. ROBOMECH Journal, 2020
Yumi Iwashita, Kazuto Nakashima, Joseph Gatto, Shoya Higa, Norris Khoo, Ryo Kurazume, AdrianStoica. “Virtual IR Sensing for Planetary Rovers: Improved Terrain Classification and Thermal Inertia
Estimation”. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) with IROS presentation, 2020
Oscar Martinez Mozos, Kazuto Nakashima, Hojung Jung, Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume. “Fukuoka
Datasets for Place Categorization”. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Vol.38, No.5, 2019
Kazuto Nakashima, Hojung Jung, Yuki Oto, Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume, Oscar Martinez Mozos.
“Learning Geometric and Photometric Features from Panoramic LiDAR Scans for Outdoor Place Categorization”. Advanced Robotics, Vol.32, No.14, 2018

Conference Proceedings
Kazuto Nakashima and Ryo Kurazume. “LiDAR Data Synthesis with Denoising Diffusion ProbabilisticModels”. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
Kazuto Nakashima, Yumi Iwashita, and Ryo Kurazume. “Generative Range Imaging for Learning Scene
Priors of 3D LiDAR Data”. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023
Kazuto Nakashima and Ryo Kurazume. “Learning to Drop Points for LiDAR Scan Synthesis”. IEEE/RSJInternational Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
Yumi Iwashita, Kazuto Nakashima, Sir Rafol, Adrian Stoica, and Ryo Kurazume. “MU-Net: Deep
Learning-based Thermal IR Image Estimation from RGB Image”. IEEE Workshop on Perception Beyond
the Visible Spectrum (in conjunction with CVPR), 2019
Yumi Iwashita, Kazuto Nakashima, Adrian Stoica, and Ryo Kurazume. “TU-Net and TDeepLab: Deep
Learning-based Terrain Classification Robust to Illumination Changes, Combining Visible and ThermalImagery”. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), 2019
Kazuto Nakashima, Yumi Iwashita, Akihiro Kawamura, and Ryo Kurazume. “Fourth-person Captioning: Describing Daily Events by Uni-supervised and Tri-regularized Training”. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2018

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Yumi Iwashita, Adrian Stoica, Kazuto Nakashima, Ryo Kurazume, and Jim Tørresen. “Virtual Sensors
Determined through Machine Learning”. World Automation Congress (WAC), 2018
Kazuto Nakashima, Seungwoo Nham, Hojung Jung, Yumi Iwashita, Ryo Kurazume, and Oscar Martinez Mozos. “Recognizing Outdoor Scenes by Convolutional Features of Omni-directional LiDARScans”. IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), 2017
Yuta Horikawa, Asuka Egashira, Kazuto Nakashima, Akihiro Kawamura, and Ryo Kurazume. “Previewed Reality: Near-Future Perception System”. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotsand Systems (IROS), 2017
Ryo Kurazume, Yoonseok Pyo, Kazuto Nakashima, T. Tsuji, and Akihiro Kawamura. “Feasibility Studyof IoRT Platform “Big Sensor Box””. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2017
Kazuto Nakashima, Julien Girard, Yumi Iwashita, and Ryo Kurazume. “Automatic Houseware Registration System for Informationally-Structured Environment”. IEEE/SICE International Symposium on
System Integration (SII), 2016
Kazuto Nakashima, Yumi Iwashita, Yoonseok Pyo, Asamichi Takamine, and Ryo Kurazume. “FourthPerson Sensing for a Service Robot”. IEEE International Conference on Sensors, 2015
Yumi Iwashita, Kazuto Nakashima, Yoonseok Pyo, and Ryo Kurazume. “Fourth-Person Sensing for
Pro-active Services”. International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (EST), 2014

Research Grants
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2023–2025
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2020–2024
Research Start Program
Kyushu University, 2022
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC2/PD)
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2019–2020

Awards & Scholarships
Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2/PD)
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2019–2021
Best Poster Presentation Award
The 14th Joint Workshop on Machine Perception and Robotics (MPR), 2018
Doctoral Scholarship
Kyushu University, 2017–2018
Overseas Internship Program
Funded by Kyushu University for the internship at NASA JPL, 2017

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4MIRU Student Incentive AwardThe 20th Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU), 2017
Finalist of Best Service Robotics Paper AwardIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017
Repayment Exemption for Outstanding Achievements
JASSO Category I Graduate Student Scholarship, 2015–2017

Last updated: March 22, 2024