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Usami Laboratory

Join and Collaboration

Information for students considering joining Usami Laboratory and for companies or research institutions interested in collaboration.

For Students

Usami Laboratory welcomes students interested in image processing, computer vision, and machine learning. Students work on defining research questions, implementation and experiments, reading papers, and presenting their results.

What We Value
  • Learning and thinking independently
  • Trying difficult problems without avoiding failure
  • Collaborating with laboratory members
  • Communicating research results outside the laboratory
Skills You Can Develop
  • Programming in Python, C++, and related tools
  • Theory and implementation of machine learning and deep learning
  • Reading and writing research papers
  • Conference presentation skills
  • Planning and managing research projects
Joining Process
  1. 1

    Laboratory visit

    Visit the laboratory to learn about the atmosphere and research topics.

  2. 2

    Submit your preference

    Submit your laboratory preference according to the department procedure.

  3. 3

    Assignment and theme discussion

    After assignment, we begin discussing possible research themes.

Visit and Consultation

To arrange a laboratory visit or discuss joining the laboratory, please email the following information.

  • Name
  • Affiliation, department, and year
  • Research fields of interest
  • Candidate dates and times for a visit
Contact by email

For Collaboration

We collaborate with companies and research institutions on image analysis, computer vision, machine learning, and LLM evaluation. We discuss the technical problem and available data to define a research project.

Collaboration Areas
  • Medical image analysis, including lesion detection and segmentation
  • Visual inspection and quality control
  • Action recognition and anomaly detection
  • Image generation and data augmentation
  • Physics-based image understanding and sensing
  • Reliability testing for LLM-based evaluation
Collaboration Process
  1. 1

    Initial contact

    Please contact us with a brief description of your technical problem.

  2. 2

    Discussion and proposal

    We discuss the problem and propose possible research approaches.

  3. 3

    Contract and research start

    After completing the university procedures and contract, the research starts.

Contact

For collaborative research inquiries, please send the following information by email.

  • Organization and department
  • Contact person
  • Problem overview
  • Contact information
Contact by email