Welcome to Automation & Knowledge Laboratory!
Automation & Knowledge Laboratory started in April 2020.
We are developing a robot system that can recognize the real world and learn intelligent behavior through machine learning.
News
- Jun. 2025: Our paper "Zero-Shot Peg Insertion: Identifying Mating Holes and Estimating SE(2) Poses with Vision-Language Models" was accepted to IROS'25!
- Jun. 2025: Two papers were accepted to MVA'24!
- Jun. 2025: Our paper "EED: Embodied Environment Description through Robotic Visual Exploration" was accepted to the 6th Embodied AI workshop at CVPR 2025!
- Aug. 2024: Our paper "OP-Align: Object-level and Part-level Alignment for Self-supervised Category-level Articulated Object Pose Estimation" was accepted to ECCV'24 oral presentation!
- Aug. 2024: Our paper got MIRU Excellent Student Paper Award. Congrats Haru Kondoh!
- May 2024: Two papers were accepted to ICRA'24 Workshop!
- Apr. 2024: Our paper "A Framework for Training Larger Networks for Deep Reinforcement Learning" was accepted to Machine Learning!
- Jan. 2024: Our paper "Tactile Estimation of Extrinsic Contact Patch for Stable Placement" was accepted to ICRA'24!
- Dec. 2023: Our paper "Linking Vision and Multi-Agent Communication through Visible Light Communication using Event Cameras" was accepted to AAMAS'24!
- Dec. 2023: Our paper "Egocentric Human Activities Recognition with Multi-modal Interaction Sensing" was accepted to IEEE Sensors!
- Jul. 2023: Our paper "Multi-Agent Visual Coordination using Optical Wireless Communication" was accepted to IEEE RA-L!
- Jul. 2023: Our paper "DAC: Disentanglement-and-Calibration Module for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Classification" was accepted to IEEE Access!
- Jun. 2023: We got first place in SoundSpaces Challenge in the Embodied AI Workshop in CVPR'23!
- Jun. 2023: Our paper "Multi-goal Audio-visual Navigation using Sound Direction Map" was accepted to IROS'23!
- Jun. 2023: Our paper "Point Anywhere: Directed Object Estimation from Omnidirectional Images" was accepted to SIGGRAPH'23 Poster!
- Apr. 2023: Our paper "Multi Event Localization by Audio-Visual Fusion with Omnidirectional Camera and Microphone Array" was accepted to CVPRW'23!
- Jan. 2023: Our paper "Cross-Level Distillation and Feature Denoising for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Classification" was accepted to ICLR'23!
- Jan. 2023: Our paper "H-SAUR: Hypothesize, Simulate, Act, Update, and Repeat for Understanding Object Articulations from Interactions" was accepted to ICRA'23!
- Oct. 2022: Our paper "EvIs-Kitchen: Egocentric Human Activities Recognition with Video and Inertial Sensor data" was accepted to MMM'23!
- Feb. 2022: Two papers were accepted to ICRA'22!
- Dec. 2021: Our paper "Unsupervised Learning of Image Segmentation Based on Differentiable Feature Clustering" got the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Japan Student Journal Paper Award. Congrats Wonjik Kim!
- Apr. 2021: Asako Kanezaki was awarded the Research Encouragement Award of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers!
- Mar. 2021: Our paper "Unsupervised Learning of Image Segmentation Based on Differentiable Feature Clustering" got the Telecom Technology Student Award. Congrats Wonjik Kim!
- Dec. 2020: Our paper "Incremental Multi-view Object Detection from a Moving Camera" was accepted to ACM Multimedia Asia 2020!
- Nov. 2020: Our paper "Deep Reactive Planning in Dynamic Environments" was accepted to CoRL'20!
- Jul. 2020: Our paper of "Unsupervised Image Segmentation" was accepted to IEEE TIP!
- Jul. 2020: Our paper of "Efficient Exploration in Constrained Environments" was accepted to IEEE IROS'20!
- Apr. 2020: I started my own laboratory at Tokyo Institute of Technology as an associate professor!