Scene text recognition via dual character counting-aware visual and semantic modeling network Reviewed International journal

@Ke Xiao, Anna Zhu, Brian Kenji Iwana, Cheng-Lin Liu

Science China Information Sciences   67 ( 3 )   139101:1 - 139101:1   2024.2

Using Motif-Based Features to Improve Signal Classification with Temporal Neural Networks Reviewed International journal

@Karthikeyan Suresh, Brian Kenji Iwana

Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR)   2023.11

Few shot font generation via transferring similarity guided global style and quantization local style Reviewed International journal

Wei Pan, Anna Zhu, Xinyu Zhou, Brian Kenji Iwana, Shilin Li

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)   2023.10

Contour Completion by Transformers and Its Application to Vector Font Data Reviewed International journal

#Yusuke Nagata, Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   2023.8

FETNet: Feature erasing and transferring network for scene text removal Reviewed International journal

Guangtao Lyu, Kun Liu, #Anna Zhu, Seiichi Uchida, Brian Kenji Iwana

Pattern Recognition   2023.8

Vision Conformer: Incorporating Convolutions into Vision Transformer Layers Reviewed International journal

Brian Kenji Iwana, @Akihiro Kusuda

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   2023.8

Deep attentive time warping Reviewed International journal

#Shinnosuke Matsuo, Xiaomeng Wu, Gantugs Atarsaikhan, Akisato Kimura, Kunio Kashino

Pattern Recognition   136   2023.4

Classification of Polysemous and Homograph Word Usages using Semi-Supervised Learning

#Sangjun Han, Brian Kenji Iwana, Satoru Uchida

Annual Conference of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP)   2023.3

Text Style Transfer based on Multi-factor Disentanglement and Mixture Reviewed International journal

Anna Zhu, Zhanhui Yin, Brian Kenji Iwana, Xinyu Zhou, Shengwu Xiong

ACM Multimedia   2022.10

Dynamic Data Augmentation with Gating Networks for Time Series Recognition Reviewed International journal

#Daisuke Oba, Brian Kenji Iwana, #Shinnosuke Matsuo

International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)   2022.8

On Mini-Batch Training with Varying Length Time Series Reviewed International journal

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)   2022.5

Learning the micro deformations by max-pooling for offline signature verification Reviewed International journal

#Yuchen Zheng, Brian Kenji Iwana, Muhammad Imran Malik, Sheraz Ahmed, Wataru Ohyama, Seiichi Uchida

Pattern Recognition   118   108008   2021.10

Attention to Warp: Deep Metric Learning for Multivariate Time Series Reviewed International journal

#Shinnosuke Matsuo, Xiaomeng Wu, #Gantugs Atarsaikhan, Akisato Kimura, Kunio Kashino, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   2021.9

Using Robust Regression to Find Font Usage Trends Reviewed International journal

#Kaigen Tsuji, Seiichi Uchida, Brian Kenji Iwana

ICDAR Workshop on Machine Learning   2021.9

Towards Book Cover Design via Layout Graphs Reviewed International journal

#Wensheng Zhang, #Yan Zheng, #Taiga Miyazono, Seiichi Uchida, and Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   2021.9

Font Style that Fits an Image -- Font Generation Based on Image Context Reviewed International journal

#Taiga Miyazono, #Daichi Haraguchi, Seiichi Uchida, and Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   2021.9

An Empirical Survey of Data Augmentation for Time Series Classification with Neural Networks Reviewed International journal

Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida

PLOS ONE   2021.7

Tunable U-Net: Controlling image-to-image outputs using a tunable scalar value Reviewed International journal

#Seokjun Kang, Seiichi Uchida, Brian Kenji Iwana

IEEE Access   2021.7

Self-Augmented Multi-Modal Feature Embedding Reviewed International journal

#Shinnosuke Matsuo, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)   2021.6

Time Series Data Augmentation for Neural Networks by Time Warping with a Discriminative Teacher Reviewed

Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)   2021.1

Complex image processing with less data—Document image binarization by integrating multiple pre-trained U-Net modules Reviewed International journal

106   107577   2021.1

Neural Style Difference Transfer and Its Application to Font Generation Reviewed

#Gantugs Atarsaikhan, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS)   2020.10

What is the Reward for Handwriting? --- Handwriting Generation by Imitation Learning Reviewed

#Keisuke Kanda, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)   2020.9

Negative Pseudo Labeling using Class Proportion for Semantic Segmentation in Pathology Reviewed

#Hiroki Tokunaga, Brian Kenji Iwana, Yuki Teramoto, Akihiko Yoshizawa, and Ryoma Bise

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)   2020.8

Effect of Text Color on Word Embeddings Reviewed

#Masaya Ikoma, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS)   2020.7

Guided neural style transfer for shape stylization Reviewed International journal

#Gantugs Atarsaikhan, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

PLOS ONE   15 ( 6 )   e0233489   2020.6

Character-independent font identification Reviewed

#Daichi Haraguchi, #Shota Harada, Yuto Shinahara, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS)   2020.6

ACMU-Net: Advanced Cascading Modular U-Nets incorporated Squeeze and Excitation Blocks Reviewed

#Seokjun Kang, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS)   2020.6

Few-Shot Text Style Transfer via Deep Feature Similarity Reviewed International journal

Anna Zhu, Xiongbo Lu, Xiang Bai, Seiichi Uchida

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing   2020.5

Benchmarking Deep Learning Models for Classification of Book Covers Reviewed International journal

@Adriano Lucieri, @Huzaifa Sabir, @Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, @Syed Tahseen Raza Rizvi, Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida, Andreas Dengel, and Sheraz Ahmed

Springer Nature Computer Science   1 ( 139 )   1 - 16   2020.4

学校教育における演劇的手法を取り入れた表現教育 : 中学生を対象とした教育実践を事例に Reviewed

九州地区国立大学教育系・文系研究論文集   6 ( 1/2 )   2020.3

Time series classification using local distance-based features in multi-modal fusion networks Reviewed International journal

Brian Kenji Iwana and Seiichi Uchida

Pattern Recognition   97   107024   2020.1

DTW-NN: A novel neural network for time series recognition using dynamic alignment between inputs and weights Reviewed International journal

Brian Kenji Iwana, Volkmar Frinken, and Seiichi Uchida

Knowledge-Based Systems   188   104971   2020.1

Implementation and evaluation of classes incorporating drama approach methods for interactive learning in a primary school setting Reviewed

#Yirong Zhao and Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI)   4007 - 4014   2019.11

Explaining Convolutional Neural Networks using Softmax Gradient Layer-wise Relevance Propagation Reviewed

Brian Kenji Iwana, #Ryohei Kuroki, Seiichi Uchida

ICCV Workshops   4176 - 4185   2019.10

Mining the Displacement of Max-pooling for Text Recognition Reviewed International journal

#Yuchen Zheng, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

Pattern Recognition   93   558 - 569   2019.9

Capturing Micro Deformations from Pooling Layers for Offline Signature Verification Reviewed

#Yuchen Zheng, Wataru Ohyama, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   1111 - 1116   2019.9

Deep Dynamic Time Warping: End-to-End Local Representation Learning for Online Signature Verification Reviewed

Xiaomeng Wu, Akisato Kimura, Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida, and Kunio Kashino

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   1103 - 1110   2019.9

Modality Conversion of Handwritten Patterns by Cross Variational Autoencoders Reviewed

#Taichi Sumi, Brian Kenji Iwana, Hideaki Hayashi, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   407 - 412   2019.9

Selective Super-Resolution for Scene Text Images Reviewed

#Ryo Nakao, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   401 - 406   2019.9

On the Ability of a CNN to Realize Image-to-Image Language Conversion Reviewed

#Kohei Baba, Seiichi Uchida, and Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   448 - 453   2019.9

Cascading Modular U-Nets for Document Image Binarization Reviewed

#Seokjun Kang, Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   675 - 680   2019.9

Dynamic Weight Alignment for Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks Reviewed

Brian Kenji Iwana and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)   3827 - 3831   2019.5

How do Convolutional Neural Networks Learn Design? Reviewed

@Shailza Jolly, Brian Kenji Iwana, #Ryohei Kuroki, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)   1085 - 1090   2018.8

Discovering Class-Wise Trends of Max-Pooling in Subspace Reviewed

#Yuchen Zheng, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)   98 - 103   2018.8

Introducing Local Distance-based Features to Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks Reviewed

Brian Kenji Iwana, Minoru Mori, Akisato Kimura, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)   92 - 97   2018.8

Contained Neural Style Transfer for Decorated Logo Generation Reviewed

#Gantugs Atarsaikhan, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Seiichi Uchida

International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS)   2018.4

Font Creation Using Class Discriminative Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks Invited Reviewed International journal

Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR)   232 - 237   2017.11

Component Awareness in Convolutional Neural Networks Reviewed

Brian Kenji Iwana, #Letao Zhou, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   394 - 399   2017.11

Neural font style transfer Reviewed

#Gantugs Atarsaikhan, Brian Kenji Iwana, Atsushi Narusawa, Keiji Yanai, and Seiichi Uchida

51 - 56   2017.11

Globally Optimal Object Tracking with Complementary Use of Single Shot Multibox Detector and Fully Convolutional Network Reviewed

#Jinho Lee, Brian Kenji Iwana, #Shota Ide, Hideaki Hayashi, and Seiichi Uchida

Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT)   110 - 112   2017.7

Efficient temporal pattern recognition by means of dissimilarity space embedding with discriminative prototypes Reviewed International journal

Brian Kenji Iwana, Kaspar Riesen, Volkmar Frinken, and Seiichi Uchida

Pattern Recognition   64   268 - 276   2017.4

A Robust Dissimilarity-Based Neural Network for Temporal Pattern Recognition Reviewed

Brian Kenji Iwana, Volkmar Frinken, and Seiichi Uchida

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)   265 - 270   2016.10

A further step to perfect accuracy by training CNN with larger data Reviewed

Seiichi Uchida, #Shota Ide, Brian Kenji Iwana, and Anna Zhu

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)   405 - 410   2016.10

Detecting text in natural scene images with conditional clustering and convolution neural network Reviewed International journal

Anna Zhu, Guoyou Wang, Yangbo Dong, and Brian Kenji Iwana

Journal of Electronic Imaging   24 ( 5 )   053019   2015.9

Tackling Temporal Pattern Recognition by Vector Space Embedding Reviewed

Brian Kenji Iwana, Seiichi Uchida, Kaspar Riesen, and Volkmar Frinken

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)   816 - 820   2015.8

Vision Conformer: Incorporating Convolutions into Vision Transformer Layers International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)  2023.8 

On Mini-Batch Training with Varying Length Time Series International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)  2022.5 

Font Style that Fits an Image -- Font Generation Based on Image Context International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)  2021.9 

Time Series Data Augmentation for Neural Networks by Time Warping with a Discriminative Teacher International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)  2021.1 

What is the Reward for Handwriting? --- Handwriting Generation by Imitation Learning International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)  2020.8 

Effect of Text Color on Word Embeddings International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS)  2020.6 

Explaining Convolutional Neural Networks using Softmax Gradient Layer-wise Relevance Propagation International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops  2019.10 

Selective Super-Resolution for Scene Text Images International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)  2019.9 

Modality Conversion of Handwritten Patterns by Cross Variational Autoencoders International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)  2019.9 

Dynamic Weight Alignment for Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)  2019.5 

Dynamic Weight Alignment for Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)  2019.5 

Capturing Micro Deformations from Pooling Layers for Offline Signature Verification International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)  2018.8 

Introducing Local Distance-based Features to Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks International conference

Brian Kenji Iwana

International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR)  2018.8 

Reviewer International contribution

Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition  （ Montreal Canada ） 2022.8

Program Committee International contribution

International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems  （ La Rochelle France ） 2022.5

Reviewer International contribution

Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision  （ Waikoloa UnitedStatesofAmerica ） 2022.1

Screening of academic papers

Role(s)： Peer review

2022

Program Committee International contribution

Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition  （ Lausanne Switzerland ） 2021.9

Program Committee International contribution

ICDAR Workshop on Machine Learning  （ Lausanne Switzerland ） 2021.9

Springer Nature Computer Science International contribution

2021.8 - 2032.7

Program Committee International contribution

AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence  （ Vancouver Canada ） 2021.2

Program Committee International contribution

Int. Conf. on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition  （ Dortmund Germany ） 2020.9

Program Committee International contribution

International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems  （ Online (originally Wuhan) China ） 2020.5

Screening of academic papers

Role(s)： Peer review

2020

Program Committee International contribution

ICDAR Workshop on Machine Learning  （ Sydney Australia ） 2019.9

Screening of academic papers

Role(s)： Peer review

2019

Session Chair

Joint Workshop on Machine Perception and Robotics  （ Fukuoka Japan ） 2018.10

Reviewer International contribution

Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition  （ Beijing China ） 2018.8

Program Committee International contribution

International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems  （ Vienna Austria ） 2018.4

Program Committee International contribution

ICDAR Workshop on Machine Learning  （ Kyoto Japan ） 2017.11

SLS Biological Data Processing (English version)

2021.4 - 2021.6   Spring quarter

Fundamentals of Computer Systems A/B

2020.10 - 2021.3   Second semester

SLS Biological Data Processing (English version)

2019.4 - 2019.6   Spring quarter

ISEE Pattern Recognition (English version)

2019.4 - 2019.6   Spring quarter