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2025

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Masatoshi Okutomi is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of computer science and engineering, with a significant emphasis on computer vision and pattern recognition as well as related subfields.

Their work spans multiple subfields of study including aerospace engineering, media technology, artificial intelligence, and computer graphics and computer-aided design. The main topics addressed in their research encompass advanced vision and imaging, image enhancement techniques, advanced image processing techniques, optical measurement and interference techniques, robotics and sensor-based localization, image and signal denoising methods, and advanced image and video retrieval techniques.

They have contributed extensively to scholarly literature, with recent notable papers including:

  • "Long-Term Visual Localization Revisited" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • "Single Image Deraining Network with Rain Embedding Consistency and Layered LSTM" (2022), published in 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • "Monochrome and Color Polarization Demosaicking Based on Intensity-Guided Residual Interpolation" (2021), published in IEEE Sensors Journal
  • "Polarimetric Multi-View Inverse Rendering" (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • "CNN-Based Classification of Degraded Images With Awareness of Degradation Levels" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Yusuke Monno, Masayuki Tanaka, Sho Suzuki, Yizhou Li, and Wonjik Kim. These partnerships have resulted in a substantial number of co-authored publications.

Masatoshi Okutomi has published in various venues, with a concentration of work appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Electronic Imaging
  • Journal of Electronic Imaging
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • IEEE Sensors Journal

Best Publications

  • A stereo matching algorithm with an adaptive window: theory and experiment

    T. Kanade;M. Okutomi

  • A multiple-baseline stereo

    M. Okutomi;T. Kanade

  • Benchmarking 6DOF Outdoor Visual Localization in Changing Conditions

    Torsten Sattler;Will Maddern;Carl Toft;Akihiko Torii

  • A locally adaptive window for signal matching

    Masatoshi Okutomi;Takeo Kanade

  • 24/7 place recognition by view synthesis

    Akihiko Torii;Relja Arandjelovic;Josef Sivic;Masatoshi Okutomi

  • Single-Image Noise Level Estimation for Blind Denoising

    Xinhao Liu;Masayuki Tanaka;Masatoshi Okutomi

  • Visual Place Recognition with Repetitive Structures

    Akihiko Torii;Josef Sivic;Toma Pajdla;Masatoshi Okutomi

  • InLoc: Indoor Visual Localization with Dense Matching and View Synthesis

    Hajime Taira;Masatoshi Okutomi;Torsten Sattler;Mircea Cimpoi

  • Revisiting the PnP Problem: A Fast, General and Optimal Solution

    Yinqiang Zheng;Yubin Kuang;Shigeki Sugimoto;Kalle Astrom

  • Visual Place Recognition with Repetitive Structures

    Akihiko Torii;Josef Sivic;Masatoshi Okutomi;Tomas Pajdla

  • Noise level estimation using weak textured patches of a single noisy image

    Xinhao Liu;Masayuki Tanaka;Masatoshi Okutomi

  • Method for creating high resolution color image, system for creating high resolution color image and program creating high resolution color image

    Masatoshi Okutomi;Tomomasa Goto

  • Practical low-rank matrix approximation under robust L 1 -norm

    Yinqiang Zheng;Guangcan Liu;Shigeki Sugimoto;Shuicheng Yan

  • Are Large-Scale 3D Models Really Necessary for Accurate Visual Localization?

    Torsten Sattler;Akihiko Torii;Josef Sivic;Marc Pollefeys

  • A Practical One-Shot Multispectral Imaging System Using a Single Image Sensor

    Yusuke Monno;Sunao Kikuchi;Masayuki Tanaka;Masatoshi Okutomi

  • Residual interpolation for color image demosaicking

    Daisuke Kiku;Yusuke Monno;Masayuki Tanaka;Masatoshi Okutomi

  • Precise sub-pixel estimation on area-based matching

    M. Shimizu;M. Okutomi

  • Long-Term Visual Localization Revisited.

    Carl Toft;Will Maddern;Akihiko Torii;Lars Hammarstrand

  • Precise subpixel estimation on area‐based matching

    Masao Shimizu;Masatoshi Okutomi

  • Beyond Color Difference: Residual Interpolation for Color Image Demosaicking

    Daisuke Kiku;Yusuke Monno;Masayuki Tanaka;Masatoshi Okutomi

  • InLoc: Indoor Visual Localization with Dense Matching and View Synthesis

    Hajime Taira;Masatoshi Okutomi;Torsten Sattler;Mircea Cimpoi

  • Are Large-Scale 3D Models Really Necessary for Accurate Visual Localization?

    Akihiko Torii;Hajime Taira;Josef Sivic;Marc Pollefeys

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Sivic
Josef Sivic Czech Technical University in Prague
Tomas Pajdla
Tomas Pajdla Czech Technical University in Prague
Yinqiang Zheng
Yinqiang Zheng National Institute of Informatics
Torsten Sattler
Torsten Sattler Czech Technical University in Prague
Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University
Marc Pollefeys
Marc Pollefeys ETH Zurich
Hajime Asama
Hajime Asama University of Tokyo
Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Yoshizumi Miyoshi Nagoya University
Ryuho Kataoka
Ryuho Kataoka National Institute of Polar Research
Satoshi Tadokoro
Satoshi Tadokoro Tohoku University

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