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Manabe-Yata Lab
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The lab measures shape, color, and gloss from images and merges the real with the virtual.
AboutAbout the lab
Measuring with images and merging with the virtual
The Manabe-Yata Lab studies methods for measuring the shape, color, and gloss of objects using images.
It works on 3D shape measurement, measurement and modeling of color and gloss, image recognition of color and material appearance, and mixed reality, which merges real and virtual objects.
The lab also applies these measurement technologies to the digital archiving of cultural properties and other objects.
Key terms
- Mixed reality
- A technology that overlays computer-generated objects on a real scene so that they appear to be actually there
- Evolutionary computation
- A computational method that searches for good solutions by imitating biological evolution (crossover, mutation, and selection)
- Photometric consistency
- Reflecting the lighting of the real environment on a virtual object so that it blends in naturally with reality
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Student Excellent Presentation Award at the Winter Annual Convention of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
A master's student received the Best Student Paper Award at the international workshop KJCCS 2024
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the measurement of the shape, color, and gloss of objects using images. It also models color and gloss, and works on image recognition, mixed reality, and the digital archiving of cultural properties using measurement technologies.
*Illustrative image3D image measurement
The lab studies methods for measuring the 3D shape of objects made of various materials using images.
*Illustrative imageImage measurement of color and gloss
The lab studies methods for measuring the surface color and gloss of objects using images and modeling them.
*Illustrative imageImage recognition of color and material appearance
This research applies neural networks and evolutionary computation to enable computers to recognize color and material appearance in the same way humans do.
*Illustrative imageMixed reality
This research aims to merge the real world and virtual objects without any sense of incongruity. The lab aims to develop mixed reality technologies based on physical models, such as photometric consistency, which reflects real-world lighting on virtual objects.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Manabe-Yata Lab are faculty and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorYoshitsugu Manabe
- Assistant ProfessorNoriko Yata
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “VIUscan handheld 3D scanner in use” Creative Tools from Halmdstad, Sweden / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- 3D image measurement: “Intel Realsense depth camera D435” Marc Auledas / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Image measurement of color and gloss: “2024 X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Photo 2 (1)” Jacek Halicki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Image recognition of color and material appearance: “Adapted Lens on Mirrorless Camera (side view)” Hallo3800 / CC0 (cropped)
- Mixed reality: “Reality check ESA384313” European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo (cropped)
- Related lab (Kubo Lab): “Rendering techniques example, path tracing, realistic, Blender Cycles” KaiaVintr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Shiraki-Umezawa Lab): “Voxon founder Gavin Smith and VX1 Display” Haggispizza / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Imaizumi Lab): “JPEG compression Example” JJ Harrison, side-by-side comparison by Ibrahim.ID / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Computer Networks and Security Lab (Takashi Imaizumi)): “312 Adelaide Street - 6th floor server room ( )” Mike Beltzner / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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