Timeline (2021)

This page shows 2021 updates to the website as well as publication records. View the full timeline.

Updates

December 7, 2021
Will lead the featured session titled R&D for Anime Production: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects and also serve as the Real-Time Live! Chair at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021.
September 4, 2021
Participated in the German anime and manga convention Connichi and presented in the panel session "How Academics Contribute to Anime's Future" — glad to be in Germany (virtually), my country of birth!
June 17, 2021
Presented Past, Present, and Future of Storyboarding in Japanese Animation in the Anime session of SAS 2021. This is the first full-length oral presentation as Arch Research!
May 19, 2021
Served as an Associate Chair for the EIST subcommittee and the Student Research Competition Co-chair at ACM CHI 2021. Congratulations to the winners (see the bottom of the Awards page)!
March 16, 2021
Gave an invited talk titled "Creativity Support for People with Diverse Technical Background" and presented a poster on the ongoing project for Japanese animation storyboards from Arch Research at ISID 2021, which got one of the Best Poster Awards!

Awards

October 13, 2021
IEEE VL/HCC '21 Best Short Paper Award for the co-authored Roly-poly short paper
March 17, 2021
ISID '21 Best Poster Award

Invited Talks

September 4, 2021
March 15, 2021
ISID 2021, "Creativity Support for People with Diverse Technical Background"

New Projects

Guided Optimization for Image Processing Pipelines

"Guided optimization" provides programmers a set of valid optimization options and interactive feedback about their current choices, which enables them to comprehend and efficiently optimize the image processing code without the time-consuming process of trial-and-error in traditional text editors.

2021VL/HCC '21Co-authoredLive IDE

Publications

Guided Optimization for Image Processing Pipelines

2021VL/HCC '21IEEE VL/HCC '21 Best Short Paper Award
Yuka Ikarashi, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Tsukasa Fukusato, Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi
Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

Past, Present, and Future of Storyboarding in Japanese Animation

2021SAS '21Griffith
Jun Kato, Ryotaro Mihara, Nao Hirasawa
Society for Animation Studies 2021 Conference: Animated Energies

Research on Anime Storyboards for Individual and Collaborative Creativity

2021ISID '21ISID '21 Best Poster AwardGriffith
Jun Kato, Ryotaro Mihara Mihara, Kazuya Murata, Kenta Hara, Nao Hirasawa