Yusuke Uchida

About

Yusuke Uchida, Ph.D.
AI Research Engineer
AI System Dept., DeNA Co., Ltd.

Research Interests

• Deep learning for image recognition and its architecture
• Large-scale image retrieval
• Approximate nearest neighbor search
• Content-based video copy detection

Education

The University of Tokyo

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Information Science and Technology (Oct. 2013 - Sep. 2016)
• Thesis: "Extended Inverted Index and Fisher Kernel Approaches for Binary Local Feature-based Image Retrieval." [pdf]

Kyoto University

• Master of Science (M.S.) in Informatics (Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2007)
• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematical Science (Apr. 2001 - Mar. 2005)

Academic Awards

• Young Researcher's Award, IEICE PRMU, 2017. [link]
• Best Paper Award, ACM ICMR'17, 2017. [link]
• Best Paper Award, IAPR ACPR'13, 2013. [link]
• Technology Promotion Award, ITE, 2013. [link]
• Young Researcher's Award, IPSJ FIT'11, 2011. [link]
• Young Researcher's Award, IEICE General Conference'10, 2010. [link]

Academic Committee

• IEICE PRMU committee member (2016-)
• MIRU area chair (2017-)
• Journal of JSAI editorial committee member (2018-)
• SSII committee member (2018-)
• ACM ICMR'18 financial chair (2018)

Publications

Journals

• Y. Nagai, Y. Uchida, S. Sakazawa, and S. Satoh, "Digital Watermarking for Deep Neural Networks," in IJMIR, 2018.
• Y. Matsui, Y. Uchida, H. Jegou, S. Satoh, "A Survey of Product Quantization," in ITE Trans. on MTA, 2018. [link]
• Y. Uchida, S. Sakazawa, and S. Satoh, "Adaptive Substring Extraction and Modified Local NBNN Scoring for Binary Feature-based Local Mobile Visual Search without False Positives," in ITE Trans. on MTA, 2017. [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, S. Sakazawa, and S. Satoh, "Image Retrieval with Fisher Vectors of Binary Features," in ITE Trans. on MTA, 2016. [pdf]
• S. Kasamwattanarote, Y. Uchida, and S. Satoh, "Query Bootstrapping: A Visual Mining based Query Expansion," in IEICE Trans. on Information and Systems, Vol. E99D, No. 2, 2016.
• Y. Uchida and S. Sakazawa, "Large-Scale Image Retrieval as a Classification Problem," in IPSJ Trans. on CVA, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1130-1139, 2013. [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, K. Takagi, and S. Sakazawa, "Optimized Codebook Construction and Assignment for Product Quantization-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search," in IPSJ Trans. on CVA, vol. 4, pp. 108-118, 2012. [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, K. Takagi, and R. Kawada, "Quantization-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Optimized Multiple Residual Codebooks," in IEICE Trans. on Information and Systems, Vol. E94D, No. 7, pp. 1510-1514, 2011.
• Y. Uchida, S. Sunahara, E. Itakura, H. Masuyama, S. Kasahara, and Y. Takahashi, "Proactive Retransmission and Buffer Management for Layered Video Transmission over Wireless Channel," in IEICE Trans. on Information and Systems, Vol. E91B, No. 9, pp. 2897-2906, 2008.

Conferences

• H. Honda, T. Kato, and Y. Uchida, "Enhanced Two-stage Multi-Person Pose Estimation," in Proc. of ECCV Workshop, 2018.
• K. Hamada, K. Tachibana, T. Li, H. Honda, and Y. Uchida, "Full-body High-resolution Anime Generation with Progressive Structure-conditional Generative Adversarial Networks," in Proc. of ECCV Workshop, 2018. [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, Y. Nagai, S. Sakazawa, and S. Satoh, "Embedding Watermarks into Deep Neural Networks," in Proc. of ICMR, 2017. (best paper award) [pdf]
• K. Matsuzaki, Y. Uchida, S. Sakazawa, and S. Satoh, "Geometric Verification Using Semi-2D Constraints for 3D Object Retrieval," in Proc. of ICPR, 2016. (oral) [pdf]
• K. Matsuzaki, Y. Uchida, S. Sakazawa, and S. Satoh, "Local Feature Reliability Measure Using Multiview Synthetic Images for Mobile Visual Search," in Proc. of ACPR, 2015. [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, S. Sakazawa, and S. Satoh, "Binary Feature-based Image Retrieval with Effective Indexing and Scoring," in Proc. of GCCE, 2014. (oral) [pdf]
• Y. Uchida and S. Sakazawa, "Image Retrieval with Fisher Vectors of Binary Features," in Proc. of ACPR, 2013. (best paper award) [pdf]
• Y. Uchida and S. Sakazawa, "Accurate Feature Matching and Scoring for Re-ranking Image Retrieval Results," in Proc. of ICME, 2013. [pdf]
• Y. Nagai, Y. Uchida, E. Myodo, and S. Sakazawa, "A Color Transformation Method Based on Color Theme That Takes Constraints on Color Ratio and Spatial Coherence into Consideration," in Proc. of ICIP, 2013.
• Y. Uchida, K. Takagi, and S. Sakazawa, "Ratio Voting: A New Voting Strategy for Large-Scale Image Retrieval," in Proc. of ICME, 2012. (oral) [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, K. Takagi, and S. Sakazawa, "An Alternative to IDF: Effective Scoring for Accurate Image Retrieval with Non-parametric Density Ratio Estimation," in Proc. of ICPR, 2012. [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, K. Takagi, and S. Sakazawa, "Fast and Accurate Content-Based video Copy Detection Using Bag-of-Global Visual Features," in Proc. of ICASSP, 2012. [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, M. Agrawal, and S. Sakazawa, "Accurate Content-Based Video Copy Detection with Efficient Feature Indexing," in Proc. of ICMR, 2011. (oral) [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, K. Takagi, and S. Sakazawa, "KDDI Labs at TRECVID 2011: Content-Based Copy Detection," in Proc. of TRECVID, 2011. [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, S. Sakazawa, M. Agrawal, and M. Akbacak, "KDDI Labs and SRI International at TRECVID 2010: Content-Based Copy Detection," in Proc. of TRECVID, 2010. [pdf]
• Y. Uchida, M. Hashimoto, and R. Kawada, "Fast and Robust Content-Based Copy Detection Based on Quadrant of Luminance Centroid and Adaptive Feature Comparison," in Proc. of ICIP, 2010. (oral) [pdf]

Others

• Y. Uchida, "Local Feature Detectors, Descriptors, and Image Representations: A Survey," in arXiv:1607.08368. [pdf]