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Morishima Lab
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A lab that uses CG and AI to generate and recognize human appearance and sound.
AboutAbout the lab
Applying physics to technology that serves human well-being
The Morishima Lab's research goal is to contribute to a safe and secure society, an enriched quality of life, and Japan's traditional culture through advanced technology.
Using physics and mathematics as tools, the lab works on digital signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction.
The lab places importance on not stopping at demonstrating technical capability, but on giving it concrete form as visible content and practically useful systems.
A distinguishing feature of this lab is that its ultimate target is directed toward human happiness and rich sensibility and culture.
Key terms
- Computer graphics
- Technology that creates pictures and video through computation. Also called CG
- Computer vision
- Technology that enables computers to read what appears in photos and video, as well as shapes and movements
- Deep learning
- A mechanism in which a neural network with many stacked layers learns features from a large number of examples
NewsLab news
A student won the VC Student Poster Award at Visual Computing
Two students won the Interactive Presentation Award at MIRU2026
A student won the Student Encouragement Award (Best New Direction category) from the Information Processing Society of Japan
A student won the Student Encouragement Award at the 88th National Convention of the Information Processing Society of Japan
A presentation from the lab won the Outstanding Research Presentation Award from the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
ResearchResearch themes
Using physics and mathematics as tools, the lab works on cutting-edge themes such as digital signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction. The research is currently carried out in five groups, and deep learning methods are incorporated into most of the themes.
*Illustrative imageHuman modeling
This team models human appearance in 3D and creates facial expression animation and virtual humans. PIFu, presented at the international conference ICCV in 2019, is regarded as a pioneer of later research on neural fields.
*Illustrative imageComputer vision and AI
This team works on the fundamentals of deep learning, generative AI, language processing, and countermeasures against deepfakes. It is in charge of the part that enables computers to handle video and language.
*Illustrative imageRendering and simulation
This team works on fast simulation of fluids and cloth, rendering that quickly produces photorealistic images, and theoretical modeling of polarization phenomena.
*Illustrative imageMusic and acoustics
This team works on sound source separation, which separates mixed sounds; automatic music transcription, which produces musical scores from performances; multimodal signal processing, which handles multiple types of signals together; and lip sync and lip reading.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorShigeo Morishima
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “DBW-Render glass scene, recreated in POV-Ray” Morn / CC0 (cropped)
- Human modeling: “3D wireframe of a man pushing a wheelbarrow statue 3D scan” Apinanaivot / CC0 (cropped)
- Computer vision and AI: “Ouster OS1-64 lidar point cloud of intersection of Folsom and Dore St, San Francisco” Daniel L. Lu / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Rendering and simulation: “Rendering techniques example, ray tracing, low quality, POV-Ray” KaiaVintr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Music and acoustics: “Spectrogram created from an Odia Wikipedia article recording” Subhashish Panigrahi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Ozawa Lab): “World First Hiperboloid structure named Shukhov Tower in Polibino” Arssenev / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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