[English | Japanese]

Yoshihiro Kanamori

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Assistant Professor
Non-numerical Processing Algorithm Laboratory (NPAL),
Department of Computer Science (College of Media Arts, Science and Technology),
Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering,
University of Tsukuba

Adddres: Tennoudai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan
Office: #828 of Bldg. F, Institutes of Engineering Sciences [map]
Phone/Fax: +81.29.853.5724
E-mail: kanamori(AT)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any requests/questions.

News

"The Magic of Computer Graphics: Rendering" will be published from AK Peters
An excellent book, written by Ms. Noriko Kurachi, that introduces the recent progress of computer graphics and the related fields will be published this summer, around the same time as SIGGRAPH 2010. The book includes not only high-quality technical descriptions reviewed by the leading researchers in the world but also the stories of the background and practical use for each technical topic, which makes this book very precious in the research of computer graphics and unique among the world. Therefore, I hereby recommend this book.

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Lectures: (Please see the Japanese page)

Research interests:

Computer graphics, real-time rendering, visual simulations and geometric modeling.

Projects:

GPU-based Fast Ray Casting for a Large Number of Metaballs (Project)
Published in Eurographics 2008, Crete, Greece.
Hardware-accelerated Deformations Using Moving Least-Squares
Hole-filling for Point-based Rendering
Hardware-accerelated Radiosity for Point-sampled Geometry

Publications:

Journals:

  1. Witawat Rungjiratananon, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Napaporn Metaaphanon, Yosuke Bando, Bing-Yu Chen, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Animating Strings with Twisting, Tearing and Flicking Effects", Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (to appear).
  2. Satoshi Iizuka, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui: "An Efficient Modeling System for 3D Scenes from a Single Image", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications [PDF] [Movie] (to appear).
  3. Satoshi Iizuka, Yuki Endo, Jun Mitani, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Yukio Fukui: "An Interactive Design System for Pop-Up Cards with a Physical Simulation," The Visual Computer (Proc. of Computer Graphics International 2011), Volume 27, Numbers 6-8, 605-612, 2011.
  4. Yoshihiro Kanamori, Zoltan Szego, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Deterministic Blue Noise Sampling by Solving Largest Empty Circle Problems," Journal of IIEEJ, Vol.40, No.1, pp. 6-13, 2011-1. [PDF] [Project]
  5. Witawat Rungjiratananon, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Chain Shape Matching for Simulating Complex Hairstyles," Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 29, Issue 8, pages 2438-2446, 2010-12. [PDF], [Movie]
  6. Simon Heinzle, Johanna Wolf, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Tim Weyrich, Tomoyuki Nishita, Markus Gross: "EWA Motion Blur", Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics 2010), Vol.29, No.2, pp.733-742, 2010-5.
  7. Makoto Ohta, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Deformation and fracturing using adaptive shape matching with stiffness adjustment," Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (Proc. of Computer Animation and Social Agents 2009), Vol. 20, Issue 2-3, pp. 365-373, 2009-6. [PDF], [Movie1, Movie2]
  8. Witawat Rungjiratananon, Zoltan Szego, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Real-time Animation of Sand-Water Interaction," Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Pacific Graphics 2008), Vol. 27, No. 7, pp. 1887-1893. [PDF], [Movie]
  9. Yoshihiro Kanamori, Zoltan Szego, Tomoyuki Nishita: "GPU-based Fast Ray Casting for a Large Number of Metaballs," Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics 2008), Vol. 27, ISSUE 2, No. 3, pp. 351-360, 2008 (CG Internatinal Award at NICOGRAPH 2010). [PDF] [PPT] [Movie] [BibTex] [Project]
  10. Yoshihiro Kanamori, Shigeo Takahashi, Tomoyuki Nishita: "An Effcient Up-Sampling Method for Filling Holes on Point-sampled Surfaces," Journal of IIEEJ, Vol.36,No.4, pp.354-361, 2007-7. [PDF (In Japanese)]

International:

  1. Yoshihiro Kanamori, Takeshi Nishikawa, Yonghao Yue, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Visual Simulation of Bubbles in Carbonated Water," NICOGRAPH International 2012, 2012-7 (to appear).
  2. Witawat Rungjiratananon, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Napaporn Metaaphanon, Yosuke Bando, Bing-Yu Chen, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Twisting, Tearing and Flicking Effects in String Animations", In Proc. of Motion In Games, , pages 192-203, 2011-11 (Best Paper Award).
  3. Hiroki Watanabe, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui: "An Image-based Hair Styling System Using Layered Texture Pieces", In Proc. of Pacific Graphics 2011, pages 7-12, 2011-09.
  4. Masaki Hirose, Jun Mitani, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Yukio Fukui: "An Interactive Design System for Sphericon-based Geometric Toys using Conical Voxels", In Proc. of Smart Graphics 2011, pages 37-47, 2011-7.
  5. Yuki Endo, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui: "Weathering effects with geometric details for images," In Proc. of Computer Graphics International 2011, 2011-6.
  6. Yoshihiro Kanamori, Nguyen Huu Cuong, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Local Optimization of Distortions in Wide-Angle Images Using Moving Least-Squares", In Proc. of SCCG (Spring Conference on Computer Graphics), pp. 77-82, 2011-4. [PDF] [PPT]
  7. Witawat Rungjiratananon, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Elastic Rod Simulation by Chain Shape Matching with Twisting Effect," SIGGRAPH Asia sketch, 2010.
  8. Naoya Tsuruta, Jun Mitani, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Yukio Fukui: "A CAD system for drawing origami diagrams combined with a prediction of folding processes," In Proc. of 5OSME (5th International Conference on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education), 2010-7.
  9. Yuki Endo, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui: "An Interactive Design System for Water Flow Stains on Outdoor Images," In Proc. of smart graphics 2010, 2010-6.
  10. Zoltan Szego, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Blue Noise Sampling via Delaunay Triangulation," IEVC2010 (IIEEJ Image Electronics and Visual Computing Workshop 2010), 2010-3 (Best Presentation Award).
  11. Nguyen Huu Cuong, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Shape Deformations Using Moving Least-Squares with Topology-Aware Distance Metric," IEVC2010 (IIEEJ Image Electronics and Visual Computing Workshop 2010), 2010-3.
  12. Yoitsu Takahashi, Noriya Hayashimoto, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui, Seiichi Nishihara: "Generating a shoe last shape using Laplacian deformation". VRCAI 2009: 273-274.
  13. Yoshihiro Kanamori, Eiji Takaoki, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Eccentric Radial Basis Functions and Applications," SIGGRAPH 2008 Talk.
  14. Witawat Rungjiratananon, Yoshihiro Kanamori, Tomoyuki Nishita: "Simulation of Interactions Between Fluids and Granular Materials with Wetting Effects," Proc. of NICOGRAPH International 2008.
  15. Yoshihiro Kanamori, "GPU-based Fast Rendering of Metaballs," The 5th Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Computer Graphics, Oct, 2007.
  16. Yoshihiro Kanamori, Tomoyuki Nishita: "A Novel Upsampling Method for Hole-Free Rendering of Point-Sampled Geometry," Proc. Pacific Graphics 2005, pp.45-47, 2005-10.

Domestic: (Please see the Japanese page)

Theses:

  1. Doctral dissertation: "A Study on Efficient Sampling and Fast Rendering of Point-based Implicit Surfaces,", Marchi, 2009.
  2. Master thesis: "An Efficient Up-Sampling Method for Filling Holes on Point-sampled Surfaces and Its Applications," March, 2006.
  3. Bachelor thesis: "A Hemicube Radiosity Method for Point-sampled Models," March, 2004.

Professional Service:

  1. Financial Chair of NICOGRAPH International 2012
  2. Program Committee of SCCG 2011

Personal Info:

Last modified: May 2, 2012.