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Matsumoto Lab
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The lab explores the coexistence of humans and machines through five-senses information processing and robotics.
AboutAbout the lab
Human-friendly soft intelligent informatics, and understanding humans and life through machines.
The Matsumoto Lab studies systems and robot technologies for the coexistence of humans and machines, focusing on perceptual information processing related to the five senses, such as vision, hearing, and touch.
The lab has two goals: realizing Kansei informatics that gently supports people, and understanding humans and life from an interdisciplinary perspective spanning the sciences and humanities.
The lab also aims to pioneer "Mecha-Bio Frontier," which imitates the mechanisms of life with machines and explores the differences between living things and machines.
Key terms
- Perceptual information processing
- A field that deals with information related to the human five senses, such as vision, hearing, and touch.
- Mecha-Bio Frontier
- A field that imitates the mechanisms of life using mechanical and information systems, and explores the differences between living things and machines.
- ε-filter
- A type of nonlinear filter that removes noise from signals such as speech.
NewsLab news
A paper by a master's student on self-repairing robots has been accepted by IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
A paper by a graduated student on an aerially deployed portable modular-reconfigurable device has been accepted by Artificial Life and Robotics.
A paper by a graduated student on advance notice of motions for humanoid robots has been accepted by Artificial Life and Robotics.
A paper by a master's student on artificial skin has been accepted by Sensors.
A paper by a master's student on a spider-inspired disaster rescue robot has been accepted by IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
ResearchResearch themes
The Matsumoto Lab takes an interdisciplinary view that is not limited by the boundaries between the sciences and humanities, covering information, mechanics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and economics. It aims to understand life through mechanical systems and to develop fundamental technologies that help elderly and disabled people. Its research projects include balance control of humanoid robots, passive self-replication of hardware, feature extraction from face images, and noise removal from speech.
*Illustrative imageImage Processing and Computer Vision
The lab conducts research on image processing, such as feature extraction from face images and removal of impulse noise. It aims to deepen the understanding of how visual information works and to apply the results to image recognition systems and robot vision.
*Illustrative imageAcoustic Processing and Music Information Processing
The lab studies noise removal using a combination of piezoelectric elements and microphones and using time-frequency ε-filters, as well as miniaturization of microphone arrays using concentrated microphones. It hopes to apply the systems it develops to speech recognition systems and robot audition.
*Illustrative imageRobotics
Through research on humanoid robots and autonomous mobile robots, the lab studies the mechanisms of the human body itself and how robots can be useful to people.
*Illustrative imageHuman-Robot Interaction
The lab studies the relationship between humans and robots or computers, including how robots can interact with people safely and how to design robots that attract users' interest.
MembersFaculty
The Matsumoto Lab consists of faculty members, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorMitsuharu Matsumoto
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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: “2008 Robot Taiwan CSIST Intelligent Hazard Removing Robot” Rico Shen / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Image Processing and Computer Vision: “Image processing post otsus algorithm” Pikez33 / CC BY 1.0 (cropped)
- Acoustic Processing and Music Information Processing: “Laptop Microphone Array” Zvsmedia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Robotics: “Humanoid robot at Science Square Tsukuba” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
- Human-Robot Interaction: “Quori socially interactive robot platform IMG” Mary Mark Ockerbloom / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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