Kohei Uehara's Website
About me
I am Kohei Uehara (上原 康平), an Assistant Professor at Machine Intelligence Lab, the University of Tokyo. I am advised by Prof. Tatsuya Harada. My research interest focuses on machine learning across vision and language.Current Positions
- Assistant Professor, Machine Intelligence Lab., Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo
- Part-Time Researcher, Accessibility Lab., Miraikan (The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation)
- Visiting Researcher, Machine Intelligence for Medical Engineering Team, RIKEN
Education
- April 2020 - March 2023 : Ph. D. student, Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. (Advisor: Prof. Tatsuya Harada)
- April 2018 - March 2020 : Master’s student, Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. (Advisor: Prof. Tatsuya Harada)
- April 2014 - March 2018 : Undergraduate student, Mechano-Informatics, The University of Tokyo. (Advisor: Prof. Tatsuya Harada)
Publications
Journal and International Conference
- NEW Kohtaro Tanaka, Kohei Uehara, Lin Gu, Yusuke Mukuta, Tatsuya Harada. Content-Specific Humorous Image Captioning Using Incongruity Resolution Chain-of-Thought. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL Findings), 2024
- Kohei Uehara and Tatsuya Harada. Learning by Asking Questions for Knowledge-Based Novel Object Recognition. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2024 [Paper] [Project Page]
- Kohei Uehara and Tatsuya Harada. K-VQG: Knowledge-aware Visual Question Generation for Common-sense Acquisition. WACV, 2023. [Paper] [Project Page]
- Kohei Uehara, Nan Duan, Tatsuya Harada. Learning to Ask Informative Sub-Questions for Visual Question Answering. 5th Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop (CVPR 2022, Workshop), 2022. [Paper]
- Kohei Uehara†, Yusuke Mori† (†equal contribution), Yusuke Mukuta and Tatsuya Harada. ViNTER: Image Narrative Generation with Emotion-Arc-Aware Transformer. The 1st International Workshop on Multimodal Understanding for the Web and Social Media (WWW 2022, Workshop), 2022. [Paper]
- Kohei Uehara, Tatsuya Harada. Unsupervised Keyword Extraction for Full-sentence VQA. First International Workshop on Natural Language Processing Beyond Text with EMNLP 2020 (NLPBT2020), 2020. [Paper]
- Sho Maeoki, Kohei Uehara, Tatsuya Harada. Interactive Video Retrieval with Dialog. CVPR 2020 Workshop on Multimodal Learning, 2020. [Paper]
- Kohei Uehara, Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos, Yoshitaka Ushiku and Tatsuya Harada. Visual Question Generation for Class Acquisition of Unknown Objects. The 15th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV2018), 2018. [Paper]
Domestic Conference
- 森 友亮†, 上原康平† († equal contribution), 原田達也. 視覚・言語融合 Transformer モデルによる画像からの物語文生成. CAI+CAI first workshop（言語処理学会第27回年次大会 ワークショップ）, 2021. [Paper]
Others
- NEW Masaki Kuribayashi, Kohei Uehara, Allan Wang, Daisuke Sato, Simon Chu, Shigeo Morishima. Memory-Maze: Scenario Driven Benchmark and Visual Language Navigation Model for Guiding Blind People. arXiv, 2024. [Paper]
- Kohei Uehara, Nabarun Goswami, Hanqin Wang, Toshiaki Baba, Kohtaro Tanaka, Tomohiro Hashimoto, Kai Wang, Rei Ito, Takagi Naoya, Ryo Umagami, Yingyi Wen, Tanachai Anakewat, Tatsuya Harada. Advancing Large Multi-modal Models with Explicit Chain-of-Reasoning and Visual Question Generation. arXiv, 2024. [Paper]
Competitions
- The 5th place in the Visual Question Answering (VQA) Challenge 2018 in CVPR2018. Mikihiro Tanaka, Atsuhiro Noguchi, Kohei Uehara, Lisa Kawai, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada [competition page]
Lectures
- Intelligent Informatics - Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, June 6, 2024
Invited Talks
- Kohei Uehara, Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos, Yoshitaka Ushiku and Tatsuya Harada. Visual Question Generation for Class Acquisition of Unknown Objects. FIT, 2019. [Program]
- Kohei Uehara, Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos, Yoshitaka Ushiku and Tatsuya Harada. Visual Question Generation for Class Acquisition of Unknown Objects. MIRU, 2019. [Program]
- Kohei Uehara, Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos, Yoshitaka Ushiku and Tatsuya Harada. Visual Question Generation for Class Acquisition of Unknown Objects. PRMU, 2019. [Program]
Work Experiences
- April 2023 - Current: The University of Tokyo, Assistant Professor
- April 2021 - July 2021: NVIDIA, Research Internship
- February 2019 - April 2019 : LINE Corporation, Machine Learning Engineer, Part time job
- August 2018 : Mercari, Inc. Machine Learning Engineer Internship
Grants & Fellowships
- January 2021 - December 2021 : Microsoft Research Asia Collaborative Research for Ph.D. Student 2021 (D-CORE 2021)
- April 2020 - March 2023 : Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1)
Professional Activities
- Reviewer : ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, WACV, etc.
Links
Google Scholar Citations
last update: June 14, 2024