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Usami Laboratory

People

Faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and alumni of Usami Laboratory.

Faculty

Faculty member leading the laboratory.

  • Hiroyasu Usami

    Hiroyasu UsamiSenior Assistant Professor Ph.D. in Engineering

    Expertise: computer vision, artificial intelligence, cloud computing

    Research themes: medical image processing, 3D shape reconstruction, edge-cloud cooperative architectures

Master’s students (M2)

Second-year master’s students working toward their theses.

  • Kento Tsunogai

  • Hiroki Tominari

  • Wataru Hashizume

Master’s students (M1)

First-year master’s students developing their research and preparing conference presentations.

  • Ayato Tsuboi

  • Keisuke Hara

Undergraduates (B4)

Fourth-year undergraduate students working on graduation research.

  • Keima Izuhara

  • Ryouga Umemura

  • Atsuki Kawaguchi

  • Manato Kikuta

  • Jin Nakane

  • Yuri Yokochi

Undergraduates (B3)

Third-year undergraduate students learning research fundamentals.

  • Mikio Adachi

  • Sana Okada

  • Masato Okada

  • Rento Kato

  • Yuito Kojima

  • Ryosuke Sakaguchi

  • Kai Suzuki

  • Hayato Tanaka

  • Kanta Tsubaki

  • Masato Nakano

  • Haruki Hamanaka

  • Rai Fukuchi

  • Kouki Mizuguchi

  • Hibiki Yamauchi

Alumni

Former students who completed or graduated from the laboratory.

2025

Completed

  • Koichiro Tajima

    Master thesis: linear-complexity optimization through sparse graph construction and design of physics-informed STGNNs for building IoT applications

Graduated

  • Yuui Ito

    Bachelor thesis: visualization of retrieval behavior in fully local RAG and its effect on generated-answer quality

  • Nayuta Shimotsuji

    Bachelor thesis: stabilizing automatic educational question generation based on self-consistency in chain-of-thought reasoning

  • Fuuma Sugiura

    Bachelor thesis: construction and evaluation of a raindrop-removal dataset for rear-view vehicle cameras using geometric-optics simulation

  • Ayato Tsuboi

    Bachelor thesis: toward shape and reflectance estimation under natural illumination using polarization observations

  • Keisuke Hara

    Bachelor thesis: real-scale shape reconstruction by single-image self-supervised inverse rendering using light-source privileged information

  • Kai Yamada

    Bachelor thesis: functional heartburn classification using multimodal deep learning with endoscopic images and clinical information

2024

Graduated

  • Daito Suzuki

    Bachelor thesis: feature engineering using spatial information and traffic data analysis

  • Kento Tsunogai

    Bachelor thesis: server-load forecasting optimization through lagged regressors and AR-Net integration in NeuralProphet

  • Hiroki Tominari

    Bachelor thesis: improving medical image segmentation accuracy through diffusion-model data augmentation

  • Yuki Nakashima

    Bachelor thesis: communication-traffic prediction model combining spatial and temporal dependencies

  • Wataru Hashizume

    Bachelor thesis: removing misestimated skeletons for environment-robust pose estimation

  • Kokona Hattori

    Bachelor thesis: GAN-based IBS diagnosis support through image translation, data augmentation, and inference stabilization

  • Riho Hibino

    Bachelor thesis: digitizing handwritten medical data using OCR and AI for efficient data management

  • Shugo Yamasaki

    Bachelor thesis: design and evaluation of a highly available distributed cloud infrastructure using BGP and Kubernetes

2023

Graduated

  • Koichiro Tajima

    Bachelor thesis: low-power CDN using LSTM and edge computing

  • Mizuki Doi

    Bachelor thesis: automatic IMT region extraction in carotid ultrasound images

  • Yuto Hayashi

    Bachelor thesis: dynamic node scaler for a Kubernetes-based edge computing platform

  • Reiya Fukuoka

    Bachelor thesis: purpose-oriented prompts for image generative AI

  • Daiki Yamazaki

    Bachelor thesis: image-caption error correction using MiniGPT-v2 with object-recognition models

2022

Completed

  • Haruki Yamane

    Master thesis: sample-region extraction in biomass ash dissolution image data using time-series information