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Welcome to the official page of the Computational Imaging Lab! This page provides educational and research updates in the field of computational imaging. It serves as a temporary research organization until Dr. Kawabata assumes his next academic position.

Latest News

  • Coming Soon!… Dr. Kawabata (Research Collaborator, Emerging Media Initiative, Kanazawa University) will participate in The 33rd International Display Workshops (IDW’26), held at ACT CITY Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu, Japan, from December 2 to 4, 2026, and is scheduled to give a presentation.
  • Coming Soon!… Dr. Kawabata will participate in the 41st Picture Coding Symposium of Japan / the 31st Image Media Processing Symposium (PCSJ/IMPS2026), held at Gotemba Kogen Hotel, Shizuoka, Japan, from November 16 to 18, 2026, and is scheduled to present two papers.
  • Coming Soon!… Dr. Kawabata will participate in The 9th Asia Color Association Conference (ACA 2026), held in Taipei City, Taiwan, from November 5 to 8, 2026, and is scheduled to give a presentation.
  • Coming Soon!… Dr. Kawabata will participate in the 2026 IEEE 15th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2026), held at Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan, from October 26 to 29, 2026, and is scheduled to present on October 27.
  • Coming Soon!… Dr. Kawabata is scheduled to participate and present at the IEICE Image Media Quality (IMQ) Technical Meeting held at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan, on October 23, 2026.
  • September 27… Dr. Kawabata participated in the 2026 Joint Conference of Hokuriku Chapters of Electrical and Information Societies (JHES2026), held online (hosted by JAIST) on September 26. He contributed to the conference management by serving as a Session Chair (G13. Image Recognition, Media Understanding, and Graphics 2).
  • September 26… Dr. Kawabata participated in the 2026 IEICE Society Conference held at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, on September 23-25, 2026, and gave a presentation on September 24.
    • Norifumi Kawabata,
      “A Fundamental Study on Neural Network Application for Complex Data Compression in Computer-Generated Holography,"
      Proc. of the 2026 IEICE Society Conference,
      A-15-10, p.196, Hokkaido University, September 2026 (in Japanese).
  • September 20… Dr. Kawabata participated in the Computational Color Imaging Workshop (CCIW2026), a satellite workshop within ICIP2026 (IEEE International Conference on Image Processing) held at Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland, from September 13 to 17, 2026, and gave a presentation on September 17.
    • Norifumi Kawabata,
      “Evaluating Total Variation Regularization for Denoising in Color Laparoscopic Imaging,"
      Computational Color Imaging Workshop Satellite workshop (CCIW2026) within (ICIP2026), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing,
      6 pages, Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland, September 2026.
  • September 5… Dr. Kawabata participated in the 25th Forum on Information Technology (FIT2026), held at Kitakyushu Science and Research Park from September 2 to 4, 2026, and presented in the Selected Papers Session on September 2.
    • Norifumi Kawabata,
      “A Study on Image Reconstruction from EEG in 3D CG Material Perception for Design Education DX,"
      Proc. of the 25th Forum on Information Technology (FIT2026), Graphics and Imaging,
      CI-006, pp.73–78, Kitakyushu Science and Research Park (The University of Kitakyushu, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Waseda University), September 2026 (in Japanese).
  • August 29… Dr. Kawabata participated in the 2026 ITE Annual Convention held at Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan, from August 26 to 28, 2026, and gave a presentation on August 28.
    • Norifumi Kawabata,
      “Generation of Accommodation and Vergence Fatigue-Relieving Content Using Video Generation AI and Preliminary Evaluation with Image Features,"
      Proc. of the 2026 ITE Annual Convention,
      21A-2, 2 pages, Kyushu Sangyo University, August 2026 (in Japanese).
  • August 10… Today, an international conference paper submitted by Dr. Kawabata was accepted to the 2026 IEEE 15th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2026).
  • August 7… Today, an extended abstract submitted by Dr. Kawabata was accepted to The 9th Asia Color Association Conference (ACA 2026).
  • July 31… Today, an extended abstract submitted by Dr. Kawabata was accepted to The 33rd International Display Workshops (IDW’26).
  • July 11… Dr. Kawabata attended The 41st International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC2026), held in Bangkok, Thailand, from July 7 to 10, 2026, and gave a presentation during the Oral Session on July 8.
    • Norifumi Kawabata,
      “A Study on Wavelet Multi-Resolution Analysis of Laparoscopic Image around Contrast Enhancement,"
      Proc. of The 41st International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC2026),
      Comp.1-4, 6 pages, Royal Orchid Sheraton Riverside Hotel Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2026.
  • June 27… Today, a paper submitted by Dr. Kawabata was accepted to the Computational Color Imaging Workshop (CCIW2026), a satellite workshop within ICIP2026, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.
  • June 24… Dr. Kawabata participated in the ITE Technical Committee on Media Engineering (ITE-ME) meeting held at the Tottori Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center on June 22 and 23, 2026, and presented the following paper on June 22:
    • Norifumi Kawabata,
      “A Study on Still Image Evaluation Methods in Quantum Information Space,"
      ITE Technical Report, Media Engineering,
      vol.50, no.17, ME2026-53, IST2026-30, pp.13–18, Tottori Prefectural Lifelong Learning Center, June 2026 (in Japanese).
  • May 22… Dr. Kawabata participated in the IEICE Image Media Quality (IMQ) Technical Meeting held at Kikai Shinko Kaikan Bldg., Tokyo, Japan on May 21, 2026, and gave the following presentation:
    • Norifumi Kawabata,
      “Ultra-Low Latency High-Quality 3DCG Avatar Generation Using StreamDiffusion and Real-Time Quality Assessment in Metaverse Space,"
      IEICE Technical Report, Image Media Quality,
      vol.126, no.31, IMQ2026-3, pp.11–16, Kikai Shinko Kaikan Bldg., May 2026 (in Japanese).
  • May 1… As of today, the international conference paper presented by Dr. Kawabata at The 32nd International Display Workshops (IDW’25), Workshop on 3D/Hyper-Realistic Displays and Systems (3D), Cognitive Science of 3D Systems, Special Topics of Automotive Displays (held on December 3-5, 2025) has been published as open access.
  • May 1… One conference proceeding was accepted to ITC-CSCC2026.
  • April 1… As of today, Dr. Kawabata has resumed his activities as the Principal Investigator of the Computational Imaging Lab. Concurrently, he has been appointed as a Research Collaborator at the Emerging Media Initiative, Kanazawa University.
  • (Until March 31, 2025) The page for the Computational Imaging Lab (2024) is available here.
  • (Until March 31, 2023) The page for the Computational Imaging Lab (2022) is available here.

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