In this conference, I has made a presentation on "A Labanotation Editing Tool for Description and Reproduction of Stylized Traditional Dance Body Motion" and was honored to receive the 2011 Bursary Award, for young researchers, from the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Therefore, I would like to thank Prof. Hachimura and the GCOE program with all of you directly and indirectly giving me comments and suggestions in my research so that my research paper was qualified.

約 70名の参加者には大学生や学外関係者も多く，各講演者の発表を真剣に聞き入っていた．特に，Daniel Thalmann教授の文化遺産のVRや群衆シミュレーションのプレゼンは最先端のもので，その映像に多くの人が見入っているのが印象的であった．ま た，Christopher Bellaci氏の「アバター」を始めとする映画製作やゲーム制作の紹介より，モーションキャプチャの現実的な問題が投げかけられた．国内外において今後 のネットワークの広がりにも期待できるシンポジウムとなった．

• Visualization and Measurement of Acceleration of real Yamahoko Parade for Virtual Yamahoko Parade System, presented Dr. Woong Choi.
• Description and Reproduction of Noh Body Motion by Using Labanotation, presented by Worawat Choensawat
• Similarity-based Image Retrieval System with a Function of Inferring User's Intentions, presented by Shuhei Takehisa

References: 

http://www.jinmoncom.jp/sympo2010/index.html

1. “Virtual Yamahoko Parade in Virtual Space”, presented by Prof. Kozaburo Hachimura (Oral).
2. “Data Filtering with Minimal Bounding Envelope for Similarity Retrieval of Motion Capture Data”, presented by Worawat Choensawat (Poster).

References:

http://limu.ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp/MPR2010/index.html

During September 13-14 2010, the BUAA-Ritsumeikan Workshop on Computer Science and Technology 2010 was held in Beijing, China. Professor Hachimura, as a keynote speaker, presented a topic of “Collaboration between IT and the Humanities”.

On the second day of the workshop, three students of our Laboratory presented their works as follows:

1. “Generation of Emotional Dance Steps for Virtual Dance Collaboration”, presented by Seiya Tsuruta.
2. “Description and Reproduction of Stylized Traditional Dance Body Motion by Using Labanotation”, presented by Worawat Choensawat.
3. “Extraction of Painter’s Signature from Ukiyoe Wood-block Printings”, presented by Kunihiko Oohara.
   

 2010年7月25日～29日，LA Convention Centerにて開催されたSIGGRAPH 2010に参加した．この国際会議では，“Virtual Yamahoko Parade in Virtual Kyoto”と題して研究発表を行った．

今回の派遣は，日本学術振興会「組織的な若手研究者等海外派遣プログラム」(大航海プログラム)，立命館大学・ＧＣＯＥ日本文化DH若手研究者助成金の助成を受けた．

デジタルアーカイブ技術研究班

崔雄

　　　

　2010年7月11日～16日，オーストラリアの Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center  にて開催された “The 27^th International Congress of Applied Psychology” に参加しました．

　この国際会議は4年に1度開かれ，今年の参加・発表者数は3200人以上にもなった大規模なものです．

　21分野（分科会）ある内の Applied Cognitive Psychology の分野で，“Impressions from point-light displays of dance expressions: Differences in dance experience of observers” と題して，研究発表を行いました．

　なお，今回の派遣は，日本学術振興会「組織的な若手研究者等海外派遣プログラム」（大航海プログラム）の助成を受けました．

理工学研究科　デジタルアーカイブ技術研究班

鹿内菜穂

I’m going to talk about my journey in Singapore, financial supported by Daikokai Program, Ritsuemeikan University. My purpose is to present my research paper in the Nicograph International Conference 2010, organized by Japanese Society of Art and Science. This conference was held in the Furama Riverfront during June 18-19, 2010. On the conference days, there are 25 papers and 19 posters as well as three invited speakers.

The conference started with Prof.Adrian David Cheok, who is currently the Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore. His talk introduced the project aiming to develop new types of human communications and entertainment environments which can increase support for multi-person multi-modal interaction and remote presence. He gave an exciting example like a mother trying to assist her daughter’s cooking while both had been living apart together.

On the end of first day, the second invited speakers are Prof. Naoko  Tosa and Ryohei Nakatsu, who are from Kyoto University and National University of Singapore, respectively. They showed their research of customizing and animating the traditional Japanese paintings. Their project becomes an application on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

My presentation is in the third session, named CG animation. I talked about Realistic Expression of Body Motion and Environments in Laban Editor, which is one part of my dissertation. Of course, I was glad to present my work here; however, the talk is slightly limited to 12 minutes so as to allow a couple questions.

Last but not least, Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, who is the third invited speaker, gave a talk about her great achieved projects relating mixed reality, modeling techniques, clothing simulation, etc.  One of her works, Virtual Life in Pompeii much impressed me.

Worawat Choensawat 

 2010年6月17日～21日，Singaporeにて開催されたNICOGRAPH 2010 に参加した．この国際会議では，“Virtual Yamahoko Parade in Virtual Environment” と題して研究発表を行った．
今回の派遣は，日本学術振興会「組織的な若手研究者等海外派遣プログラム」(大航海プログラム)，立命館大学・ＧＣＯＥ日本文化DH若手研究者助成金の助成を受けた．

デジタルアーカイブ技術研究班

崔雄

Within this three day of the workshop, I have an opportunity to discuss with and listen to many researcher works. Most of the researchers are from Japan since this workshop was organized by IEEJ. There are 110 participates and more than 80 presenters including oral and poster presentations. Among the presenters, three oral presentations including myself were done by researchers from Ritsumeikan University.

My presentation topic is "Improved Segmentation of Motion Capture Data Using SMOTE". In this presentation, I introduced a new method for increasing the accuracy of an automatic segmentation of a long dance motion into unit motions. SMOTE, Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique, increases the classification accuracy of using neural networks in case of the training set including the minority class.

In this workshop, I have a great experience not only to conduct my ongoing researches but also to create a social network from professors, researches, Ph.D. students. Moreover, the experience in France is remarkable. Nice is a wonderful French Riviera city with a gorgeous coastline, beautiful traditional style houses and very modern city. This was my first visited to European country which gave me the opportunity to experience foods, cultures, life styles and many things which I never experience before.

I would like to thank all people in GCOE program that support my research and Professor Kozabura Hachimura, who is my supervisor.    

P.S If anyone plans for shopping in France, please beware that your favorite's shops maybe close on Sunday since most of the shop is close on Sunday.

Worawat, CHOENSAWAT

今回の派遣は，日本学術振興会「組織的な若手研究者等海外派遣プログラム」(大航海プログラム)，立命館大学・ＧＣＯＥ日本文化DH若手研究者助成金の助成を受けた．

デジタルアーカイブ技術研究班

崔雄