A paper authored by Dr. Pengcheng Pan has been accepted for presentation at the 7th International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI 2026). He will give a poster presentation at the conference, which will be held in Madrid from October 14 to 16, 2026. The paper proposes a neural network model that applies active inference to gaze control for object recognition. […]
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Paper authored by Dr. Haifeng Zhang has been accepted for ICMI 2026
A paper authored Dr. Haifeng Zhang has been accepted for presentation at the 28th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026). He will give an oral presentation at the conference, which will be held in Naples from October 5 to 9, 2026. Inspired by the brain’s predictive processing theory, the paper proposes a neural network model for emotion estimation from […]
Read morePaper co-authored by Dr. Ruichen Li has been published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits
An article co-authored by Dr. Ruichen Li has been published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits. In collaboration with Dr. Sarune Savickaite at the University of Exter, we have reviewed relevant research on interoceptive perception in autism using VR and AI technologies. Sarune Savickaite, Ruichen Li, and Yukie Nagai, “Beyond Heartbeats: Re-thinking Interoception in Autism with VR and AI Approaches,” Frontiers […]
Read morePaper co-authored by Project Professor Yukie Nagai has been published in Research in Autism
An article co-authored by Project Professor Yukie Nagai has been published in Research in Autism. In collaboration with Dr. Makoto Wada and colleagues at the National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, the study used VR experiments to investigate difficulties with tool use in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). When the hand and rod were invisible and the rod […]
Read morePaper co-authored by Project Professor Yukie Nagai has been published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
An article co-authored by Project Professor Yukie Nagai has been published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. The study demonstrates that, by learning forward and inverse tasks in a shared latent space, a robot can perform the corresponding inverse task under novel conditions using only forward demonstrations. This work was conducted in collaboration with Prof. Emre Ugur and his colleagues. […]
Read moreProject Professor Yukie Nagai to Speak at the Nikkei Forum “Global Management Dialogue 2026”
Project Professor Yukie Nagai will speak at the Nikkei Forum “Global Management Dialogue 2026”, to be held at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo on November 10-11, 2026. Under the theme “Take Off: Toward a New Upward Trajectory,” she will discuss with business leaders from Japan and abroad how the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence may affect human knowledge and skills. Yukie […]
Read morePaper authored by Dr. Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela received the Best Paper Award at ACII 2026
The paper authored by Dr. Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela received the Best Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2026), held in Mexico from September 7 to 10, 2026. The study demonstrates how multimodal emotions are coordinated during dyadic interactions by independently estimating emotions from multiple sensory signals, including facial expressions, speech, […]
Read morePaper authored by Dr. Haifeng Zhang has been accepted for ICDL 2026
A paper authored by Dr. Haifeng Zhang has been accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2026), which will be held in Kyoto on September 15-18 2026. He will give a poster presentation and discuss how neurophysiological activities during face-to-face parent-child interactions co-regulate, and how individual differences in this co-regulation relate to children’s stress resilience. Haifeng […]
Read moreTwo papers authored by Dr. Von Ralph Dane M. Herbuela have been accepted for ACII 2026
Two papers authored by Dr. Von Ralph Dane M. Herbuela have been accepted for the 14th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2026). The papers will be presented orally at the conference, which will be held in Mexico from September 7, 2026. The presentations will discuss how affect is expressed through multimodal signals, such as facial expressions […]
Read moreInterview with Project Professor Yukie Nagai has been published on Hitachi Group’s Linking Society
An interview featuring Project Professor Yukie Nagai has been published on Hitachi Group’s Linking Society. Professor Nagai discusses “AI that is attuned to people” with Professor Shigeru Kitazawa, Director of the Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet) and Professor at Osaka University, and Dr. Akiko Obata of the Research & Development Group at Hitachi, Ltd. [Vol.1] The “Anger” That […]
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