TAKURO YONEZAWA

Awards

1. [A54]Best Presentation Award: Sayaka Ishizaki, Haru Terashima, Tahera Hossain, Miwako Hosoda, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Manami Takahashi, Naomi Sugimoto, and Takuro Yonezawa, "Mechanisms Underlying Social Isolation and Loneliness from the Perspectives of Mobility and Motility: Implications for Primary Prevention Based on a Community Resident Survey," 119th IPSJ Mobile Computing and New Social Systems Research Meeting (2026). (in Japanese)
2. [A53]Encouragement Presentation Award: Haru Terashima, Kota Tsubouchi, Shuji Yamaguchi, Naoki Tamura, Kazuyuki Shoji, Nobuo Kawaguchi, and Takuro Yonezawa, "Urban Space Modeling Considering User-Specific Mobility Contexts Based on Large-Scale Human Mobility Data," 119th IPSJ Mobile Computing and New Social Systems Research Meeting (2026). (in Japanese)
3. [A52]Yamashita SIG Research Award: Kazuyuki Shoji, Haru Terashima, Naoki Tamura, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "DiverCityMeter: A Method for Quantifying Urban Diversity through Life-Pattern Analysis Using Large-Scale Mobility Data," recommended by the IPSJ Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and New Social Systems (2025). (in Japanese)
4. [A51]3rd Prize Winner: Haru Terashima, Naoki Tamura, Kazuyuki Shoji, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Multi-City Next Location Prediction through Mobility-Derived Multi-Pattern Transfer Learning", ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2025 (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025) GISCUP
5. [A50]3rd Prize Winner: Yuki Mori, Shun Takagi, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Soccer Player Tracking Using Multiple Features for ID Switch Correction in Fixed-View Videos", The 8th International ACM Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Oct 2025
6. [A49]2nd Prize Winner: Tahia Tazin, Tahera Hossain, Keiko Yamashita, Tamaki Kinoshita, Benjamin Tag, Shintaro Oyama, Takuro Yonezawa, Flora Salim, "Feel the Pain: An Interpretable Multimodal Approach for Physiological Signal-Based Pain Detection", The Fifth International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP 2025) in conjunction with ACM ICMI, 2025
7. [A48]Best Paper Award: Yuki Mori, Kazuma Kano, Yusuke Asai, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "A Multi-Camera Tracking Method for Logistics Warehouses Considering Wide-Angle Camera Image Distortion," 115th IPSJ Mobile Computing and New Social Systems Research Meeting. (in Japanese)
8. [A47]1st Prize Winner: Haru Terashima, Shun Takagi, Naoki Tamura, Kazuyuki Shoji, Tahera Hossain, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi. "Time-series Stay Frequency for Multi-City Next Location Prediction using Multiple BERTs", ACM SIGSPATIAL 2nd HuMob Challenge Workshop, 2024
9. [A46]Best Demonstration Award: Ryuto Usami, Kisho Watanabe, Yuki Gushi, Shuto Tsutsui, Yoshiki Watanabe, Kazuma Kano, Yuya Aikawa, Kaiya Shimura, Nozomi Hayashida, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Remote 3D Scanning with VR and Robotic Arm", ACM UbiComp2024
10. [A45]Best Paper Award: Kazuyuki Shoji, Haru Terashima, Naoki Tamura, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "DiverCityMeter: A Method for Quantifying Urban Diversity through Life-Pattern Analysis Using Large-Scale Mobility Data," 112th IPSJ Mobile Computing and New Social Systems Research Meeting. (in Japanese)
11. [A44]Best Poster Presentation Award: Naoto Ichikawa, Shin Katayama, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Manami Takahashi, Naomi Sugimoto, Jin Nakazawa, and Takuro Yonezawa, "Development of a Health Marketing Method to Alleviate and Prevent Social Isolation and Loneliness: A Community Activity Matching System Based on Body Composition Data Using Generative AI," Health Communication Week 2024. (in Japanese)
12. [A43]Special Theme Session Award: Kazuma Kano, Keisuke Higashiura, Koki Takigami, Kohei Yamaguchi, Yoshiteru Nagata, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Hybrid Positioning Using Deep-Learning-Based PDR and BLE Beacons," IEICE Human Communication Group Symposium 2023, December 13, 2023. (in Japanese)
13. [A42]Best Paper Award: Daiki Kohama, Yoshiteru Nagata, Kazushige Yasutake, Kenta Urano, Shin Katayama, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Panoramic Ceiling Image Synthesis Method Prioritizing Fixture Outlines Using an Omnidirectional Camera", The 14th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU2023)
14. [A41]1st prize winner: Haru Terashima, Naoki Tamura, Kazuyuki Shoji, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Human Mobility Prediction Challenge: Next Location Prediction using Spatiotemporal BERT", ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 Workshop HuMob 2023, pp.1-6
15. [A40]Best Demonstration Award: Yoshiki Watanabe, Nozomi Hayashida, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi, "360 Robot Hand Interaction for Group Telepresence with MetaPo", The 14th International Conference on the Internet of Things
16. [A39]Best Paper Award and Best Presentation Award: Daiki Kohama, Yoshiteru Nagata, Kazushige Yasutake, Kenta Urano, Shin Katayama, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "A Ceiling Panoramic Image Synthesis Method Considering Fixture Outlines Using an Omnidirectional Camera," Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO 2023), July 2023. (in Japanese)
17. [A38]Best Paper Award: Kazuyuki Shoji, Shunsuke Aoki, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Area Characterization Based on Large-Scale User Stay Information and Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19," IPSJ Journal, Vol. 62, No. 10, pp. 1644–1657. (in Japanese)
18. [A37]Best Presentation Award: Naoki Tamura, Kazuyuki Shoji, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Analysis and Application of Additive Compositionality in Area Distributed Representations Based on Large-Scale Stay Data," 107th IPSJ Mobile Computing and New Social Systems Research Meeting (MBL). (in Japanese)
19. [A36]Interactive Presentation Award (Audience Vote): Yoshiki Watanabe, Nozomi Hayashida, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Robot-Hand Interaction in MetaPo, a Robotic Meta-Portal Enabling Communication between Heterogeneous Spaces," IPSJ Interaction 2023, Interactive Presentation, Premium Presentation. (in Japanese)
20. [A35]Noguchi Award: Nozomi Hayashida, Hironori Shimosato, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Even When We Are Apart, We Are Together! An XR Communication System for Wheelchairs," IPSJ Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO 2022), June 2022. (in Japanese)
21. [A34]IPSJ/IEEE Computer Society Young Computer Researcher Award: Takuro Yonezawa, "Outstanding Research on Sensing and Application Platform for Urban Computing," January 2022. (in Japanese)
22. [A33]Best Presentation Award and Best Paper Award: Tomoki Choya, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Shunsuke Aoki, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Time-Series Pedestrian-Flow Prediction Using a Transformer Model," Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO 2021), July 2021. (in Japanese)
23. [A32]Best Presentation Award and Best Paper Award: Takuto Yoshida, Kenta Urano, Shunsuke Aoki, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "A Study of Heading Estimation Considering Spatiotemporal Acceleration Information," Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO 2021), July 2021. (in Japanese)
24. [A31]Best Presentation Award and Best Paper Award: Naoki Tamura, Kenta Urano, Shunsuke Aoki, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "A Synthetic Pedestrian-Flow Data Generation Method Based on Large-Scale Urban Mobility Histories," Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO 2021), July 2021. (in Japanese)
25. [A30]Best Paper Award: Yuta Toide, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Shunsuke Aoki, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "A Study of Deep-Learning-Based Human Position Estimation Using Infrared Grid Sensors," Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO 2021), July 2021. (in Japanese)
26. [A29]Grand Prize: Shin Katayama, Takuro Yonezawa, Tadashi Okoshi, Jin Nakazawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "Implementation of a Text-Based Dialogue System with Emotion Regulation," Human Informatics Society Oral Session, December 2020. (in Japanese)
27. [A28]Best Paper Award: Takuro Yonezawa, Mina Sakamura, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Jin Nakazawa, "Civic Crowdsensing through Location-aware Virtual Monsters",22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCII 2020), Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-24 July 2020
28. [A27]Yamashita SIG Research Award: Kenta Urano, Kei Hiroi, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "A Study of BLE Indoor Position Estimation for Large-Scale Events Using LSTM," recommended by the IPSJ Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and Pervasive Systems, 2020. (in Japanese)
29. [A26]Noguchi Award: Kenta Urano, Kei Hiroi, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "An LED Lighting Device That Senses and Visualizes Heart-Pounding Excitement," IPSJ Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO 2020), June 2020. (in Japanese)
30. [A25]Best Paper Award: Kenta Urano, Kei Hiroi, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi, "End-to-End BLE Indoor Location Estimation Method using LSTM", The 12th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking, pp.--, Nepal, 2019
31. [A24]Yamashita SIG Research Award: Takuro Yonezawa, Tomotaka Ito, and Jin Nakazawa, "SOXFire: An XMPP-Based Urban Sensor Information Distribution Platform," IPSJ SIG Technical Report on Mobile Computing and Pervasive Systems (MBL), 2018-MBL-88(8), pp. 1–8, recommended by the IPSJ Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and Pervasive Systems. (in Japanese)
32. [A23]Best Paper Award: Takuto Yoshida, Junto Nozaki, Kei Hiroi, Katsuhiko Kaji, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "A Deep-Learning-Based Walking-Speed Estimation Method for Gait-Robust PDR," IPSJ SIG Technical Report on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UBI), 2019-UBI-63(3), pp. 1–7, August 19, 2019, ISSN 2188-8698. (in Japanese)
33. [A22]Best Presentation Award: Kenta Urano, Kei Hiroi, Takuro Yonezawa, and Nobuo Kawaguchi, "A Study of BLE Indoor Position Estimation for Large-Scale Events Using LSTM," 91st IPSJ Mobile Computing and Pervasive Systems Research Meeting, 2019. (in Japanese)
34. [A21]Honorable Mention Award: Yuuki Nishiyama, Takuro Yonezawa, Anind K. Dey, Jin Nakazawa, Denzil Ferreira (2018). Senbay: A Platform for Instantly Capturing, Integrating, and Restreaming of Synchronized Multiple Sensor-Data Stream. In ACM MobileHCI’18 (Demo), Barcelona.
35. [A20]Best Paper Award: Takuro Yonezawa, Tomotaka Ito, Mina Sakamura (Keio University), Koh Takeuchi, Futoshi Naya, Naonori Ueda (NTT), and Jin Nakazawa (Keio University), "Improving Operational Efficiency and Urban Understanding through Participatory Sensing by Municipal Employees," IPSJ Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO 2018), pp. 320–329, June 2018. (in Japanese)
36. [A19]Student Encouragement Award: Makoto Kawano, Takuro Yonezawa, Tomoki Tanimura (Keio University), Rodger Lea (Lancaster University), and Jin Nakazawa (Keio University), "CityFlow: An Intelligent Urban Development Environment for Machine-Learning Systems in Highly Distributed Edge Environments," 59th IPSJ Ubiquitous Computing Systems Research Meeting. (in Japanese)
37. [A18]Best Paper Award: Takuro Yonezawa, Tomotaka Ito, Yin Chen, and Jin Nakazawa, "SOXFire: An XMPP-Based Urban Sensor Information Distribution Platform," IPSJ SIG Technical Report on Mobile Computing and Pervasive Systems (MBL), 2018-MBL-88(8), pp. 1–8. (in Japanese)
38. [A17]Student Encouragement Award: Yui Kakino, Makoto Kawano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Jin Nakazawa, "A Stroke Detection and Scoring Method for Helping Elementary School Students Acquire Basic Calligraphy Posture," Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2018. (in Japanese)
39. [A16]Excellence Award: Yusuke Yamada, Makoto Kawano, Takuro Yonezawa, and Jin Nakazawa, "People Counting from High-Resolution Images Using Deep Learning," Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2018. (in Japanese)
40. [A15]Yamashita SIG Research Award: Mina Sakamura, Takuro Yonezawa, Tadashi Okoshi, Jin Nakazawa, and Hideyuki Tokuda, "Lokemon: A Participatory Sensing Method Mediated by Location-Aware Virtual Monsters," IPSJ Ubiquitous Computing Systems Research Meeting, Vol. 2017-UBI-54, pp. 1–8, 2017, recommended by the IPSJ Special Interest Group on Ubiquitous Computing Systems. (in Japanese)
41. [A14]Digital Practice Paper Award: Jin Nakazawa, Yin Chen, Takuro Yonezawa, Tadashi Okoshi, and Hideyuki Tokuda, "Smartening Fujisawa City Using a Universal Sensor Network and Garbage Trucks," IPSJ Digital Practice, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 244–252, 2017. (in Japanese)
42. [A13]Best Paper Award: Mina Sakamura, Takuro Yonezawa, Tadashi Okoshi, Jin Nakazawa, and Hideyuki Tokuda, "Lokemon: A Participatory Sensing Method Mediated by Location-Aware Virtual Monsters," IPSJ Ubiquitous Computing Systems Research Meeting, Vol. 2017-UBI-54, pp. 1–8, 2017. (in Japanese)
43. [A12]1st Prize Winner: Mina Sakamura, Takuro Yonezawa, Tadashi Okoshi, Jin Nakazawa, and Hideyuki Tokuda, “Lokemon: Location-Specific Monsters as a Sensor”, ACM The 22nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking 2016 Mobile App Contest, 2016
44. [A11]High-Precision Positioning Society Project Award: Tokyo Monsters, Tokyo Station Area Attraction Enhancement Service Creation Ideathon and Hackathon, organized by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, 2016. (in Japanese)
45. [A10]Young Researcher Encouragement Award: Yuuki Nishiyama, Takuro Yonezawa, Jin Nakazawa, and Hideyuki Tokuda, "Senbay: A Smartphone-Based Sensor-Integrated Video Recording, Sharing, and Analysis Platform for Promoting Activity," IEICE Technical Committee on Ambient Intelligence and Sensor Networks, Vol. 115, No. 162, ASN2015-29, pp. 49–54, 2015. (in Japanese)
46. [A9]Best Poster Award: Masaki Ogawa, Takuro Yonezawa, Yuuki Nishiyama, Jin Nakazawa, Hideyuki Tokuda, “A Robot Control System for Video Streaming Services by Using Dynamic Encoded QR Codes”, IEEE The Eight International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking, Hakodate City, Japan, Jan.2015
47. [A8]Best Poster Award: Takafumi Kawasaki, Taisei Uchikoshi, Takeshi Iwamoto, Takuro Yonezawa, Jin Nakazawa, and Hideyuki Tokuda, "A Method for Detecting Worn Road Markings Using Vehicle-Mounted Cameras," IPSJ Special Interest Group on Multimedia Communication and Distributed Processing, 22nd Workshop on Multimedia Communication and Distributed Processing. (in Japanese)
48. [A7]Best Paper Award: Naohiro Isokawa, Yuuki Nishiyama, Tadashi Okoshi, Takuro Yonezawa, Jin Nakazawa, Kazunori Takashio, and Hideyuki Tokuda, "Aqua Mapping: An Interaction System with Ornamental Fish through an Aquarium," 46th IPSJ Ubiquitous Computing Systems Research Meeting, 2015-UBI-46(5), pp. 1–8, May 4, 2015. (in Japanese)
49. [A6]Best Paper Award: Hiroki Nozaki, Yutaro Kyono, Masaki Ogawa, Takuro Yonezawa, Jin Nakazawa, Kazunori Takashio, and Hideyuki Tokuda, "Flying Display: A Flying Public Display System," 42nd IPSJ Ubiquitous Computing Systems Research Meeting, 2014-UBI-42(10), pp. 1–7. (in Japanese)
50. [A5]Best Paper Award: Yuuki Nishiyama, Tadashi Okoshi, Takuro Yonezawa, Jin Nakazawa, Kazunori Takashio, Hideyuki Tokuda, “Towards Health Exercise Behavior Change for Teams Using Life-logging”, 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (IEEE Healthcom 2014), pp.397-403
51. [A4]Yamashita SIG Research Award: Takuro Yonezawa and Hideyuki Tokuda, "Control Manually: Enhancing Communication and Dramatic Effects through an Audience-Cooperative Live Performance System," 35th IPSJ Ubiquitous Computing Systems Research Meeting, 2012-UBI-35(8), pp. 1–8, 2012, recommended by the IPSJ Special Interest Group on Ubiquitous Computing Systems. (in Japanese)
52. [A3]Best Paper Award: Takuro Yonezawa and Hideyuki Tokuda, "Control Manually: Enhancing Communication and Dramatic Effects through an Audience-Cooperative Live Performance System," 35th IPSJ Ubiquitous Computing Systems Research Meeting, 2012-UBI-35(8), pp. 1–8, 2012. (in Japanese)
53. [A2]IBM Ph.D Fellowship Award: Takuro Yonezawa, 2009
54. [A1]Best Paper Award: Takuro Yonezawa, Hiroshi Sakakibara, Jin Nakazawa, Kazunori Takashio, and Hideyuki Tokuda, "A Method for Associating Everyday Objects with Sensor Nodes," IPSJ SIG Technical Report on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UBI), 2007(14(2007-UBI-013)), pp. 179–186. (in Japanese)