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Katsurada Lab
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A media-processing lab that studies speech, images, and language from multiple perspectives.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding people through voice, facial expressions, and brain waves.
The Katsurada Lab conducts research on artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and neuroscience, centered on the processing of media such as speech, music, images, and natural language.
It focuses in particular on speech synthesis, speech recognition, and machine lip reading based on articulatory movements, the movements of the lips and tongue when a person speaks.
The lab is divided into groups for speech information processing, facial image processing, and artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The lab encourages its members to present at conferences in Japan and abroad.
Key terms
- Articulatory movements
- Movements made when speaking, such as opening and closing the lips and moving the tongue back and forth. Because they occur inside the body, recording them requires specialized equipment.
- Machine lip reading
- Technology that enables a computer to recognize what a person is saying from their lip movements.
- EMA
- Electromagnetic articulography: a device that measures, with high precision and speed, the positions of coils about 2 mm in size attached to the tongue and lips.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab uses deep learning and multimodal information processing to analyze diverse human signals such as voice, facial expressions, and brain waves, and works on technologies that let humans and machines interact more naturally. It consists of a speech information processing group, a facial image processing group, and an artificial intelligence and machine learning group.
*Illustrative imageSpeech research using articulatory movements
The lab focuses on articulatory movements, the movements of the lips and tongue, and conducts research such as synthesizing speech from data recorded with EMA and MRI. It also has its sights on developing support systems for people who have difficulty speaking.
Reading speech from lip movements
Centered on machine lip reading, which recognizes what is being said from lip movements, the lab conducts deep learning research including multimodal speech recognition and speech synthesis from lip reading.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping AI technologies that do not yet exist
Aiming to develop technologies that current artificial intelligence cannot yet achieve, the lab pursues a wide range of research, including game agents, dialogue systems, natural language processing, and brain wave analysis.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Katsurada Lab are faculty and students at the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate levels.As of 2026
- ProfessorKoichi Katsurada
- Associate ProfessorHidefumi Omura
- Assistant ProfessorHiroki Higuchi
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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: “Andrea Electronics PureAudio Speech Development Kit ( )” Gareth Halfacree from Bradford, UK / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Speech research using articulatory movements: “Studio microphone with pop-shield crop” Galak76 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Developing AI technologies that do not yet exist: “4x4-circle-template TAI 4-2023” Scientists led by me at the University of Notre Dame on behalf of the US Federal Government / Public domain (cropped)
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