Takashi Amesaka
07041690957 | athm2606@yahoo.ne.jp | Yokohama, Kanagawa

Experience
Keio University | Yokohama, Kanagawa
Researcher | 04/2023 - Present
Research assistant
JSPS | Yokohama, Kanagawa
Research Fellow | 04/2023 - Present
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research fellowship. Enrolled at Keio University.
JSPS | Tsukuba, Ibaraki
Research Fellowship | 04/2021 - 03/2023
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research fellowship. One paper in IMWUT within the term.

SkillsProgramming, Python, Machine Learning, Wearable Computing Pilot Study

Education
University of Tsukuba | Tsukuba, IbarakiWearable Computing | 03/2023
Ph.D. (Engineering)Research Group Director’s Award, Research Group of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
Meikeikai Award, General Incorporated Association
Preliminary Doctoral Dissertation Report of the Research Group https://note.com/ipsj/n/n0bb97746cfce?sub_rt=share_pw
Hokkaido University | Sapporo, Hokkaido
Computer Science and Engineering | 03/2020
Received Master's Degree

AwardsIPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, IPSJ, 2023., Best Paper Award (IPSJ SIGUBI 64, 77), Best Paper Award/Best
Presentation Award (IPSJ DICOMO 2022)

Grant（Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows(PD) “Establishing a Micro Gesture Input Method for Healable Devices” 2023.042026.03
4,680,000
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows(DC2) “Robust Active Acoustic Sensing Method and Its Application to Garment
Interface” 2021.04-2023.03 ¥1,500,000
Tateishi Science and Technology Foundation(Research Grant (C)) “Establishment of smart device method forsportswear using acoustic sensing” 2021.04-2023.03 ¥1,000,000）￥
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Media
“Hand gesture input using earphone “sound leakage” developed by University of Tsukuba and Hokkaido University”. IT MediaNews /“”
https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2301/05/news025.html「イヤフォンの 音漏れ を利用したハンドジェスチャー入力 筑波大と北海道大が開発」

Interests
Research on wearable computers. In particular, acoustic sensing and hearables (smart earbuds).

Publications
Journal
1. Takashi Amesaka, Hiroki Watanabe, Masanori Sugimoto, and Buntarou Shizuki.
Gesture Recognition Method Using Acoustic Sensing on Usual Garment,
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Vol. 6, No. 2, Article
41, 2022. [ACM]2. Takashi Amesaka, Hiroki Watanabe, and Masanori Sugimoto.
Ear Canal Transfer Function-based Facial Expression Recognition,
Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 61, No. 8, pp.1333-1342, 2020.
International Conference
1. Takashi Amesaka, Hiroki Watanabe, Masanori Sugimoto, Yuta Sugiura, and Buntarou Shizuki.
User Authentication Method for Hearables Using Sound Leakage Signals,
In Proceedings of ISWC 2023, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 2023 (to appear)
2. Takashi Amesaka, Hiroki Watanabe, and Masanori Sugimoto.
Facial Expression Recognition Using Ear Canal Transfer Function,
In Proceedings of ISWC 2019, London, UK, pp.1-9, 2019. [ACM]Others
Teaching Experiences
Hokkaido University International Student TutorsHokkaido University, Department of Information Science and Engineering "Information Science and EngineeringExperiments I & IICommittee
SIG UBI Steering Committee Members (2023- )Review
The ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
Conference Service
Interaction-IPSJ 2024 web committee