Yoshihide Sawada （澤田 好秀）
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Education

• Mar. 2007: BS of Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Mar. 2009: MS of Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Mar. 2013: Ph.D. of Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology

Work Experience

• Apr. 2009 - Mar. 2010: Software Engineer at Omron
• Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2013: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow (DC2)
• Apr. 2013 - Jun. 2020: Staff Researcher at Panasonic
• Nov. 2018 - Jan. 2020: Visiting Researcher at Montreal University and Mila
• Jul. 2020 - Apr. 2024: Principal Investigator/Research Manager at Aisin
• Apr. 2023 - : Adjunct Lecturer at Aichi Sangyo University
• May 2024 - : Senior Researcher at Matsuo Institute

Research interests

• Computer Vision
  
• Deep Learning
  
• Spiking Neural Networks
  
• Medical Image Analysis
  
• Materials Informatics
  

Awards

• Outstanding Performance Award (Aisin), 2022
• Outstanding Research Award from Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU), 2021
• Research Award from Information Processing Society of Japan, 2017
• Finalist of Amazon robotics challenge (6th place), computer vision adviser, 2017
• Engineering division award (Panasonic Automotives), 2016
• Best poster award in IAPR international conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), 2015
• Research award from Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology (JAMIT), 2008, 2011, and 2012
• Research award from Medical Imaging workshop, 2012
• Vice-president prize from Nagoya Institute of Technology, 2011 and 2012
• Repayment exemption for students with excellent grades (Scholarship) from Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), 2009

Reviewed Journals

1. Ryuji Saiin, Tomoya Shirakawa, Sota Yoshihara, Yoshihide Sawada, Hiroyuki Kusumoto
   Spike Accumulation Forwarding for Effective Training of Spiking Neural Networks
   Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024
2. Takashi Furuya, Satoshi Okuda, Kazuma Suetake, Yoshihide Sawada
   Convergences for Minimax Optimization Problems over Infinite-Dimensional Spaces Towards Stability in Adversarial Training
   Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024
3. Kazuma Suetake, Takuya Ushimaru, Ryuji Saiin, Yoshihide Sawada
   Synaptic Interaction Penalty: Appropriate Penalty Term for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
   Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024
4. Kazuma Suetake, Shin-ichi Ikegawa, Ryuji Saiin, Yoshihide Sawada
   S3NN: Time step reduction of spiking surrogate gradients for training energy efficient single-step spiking neural networks
   Neural Networks, 2023
5. Yoshihide Sawada and Keigo Nakamura
   Concept Bottleneck Model with Additional Unsupervised Concepts
   IEEE Access, 2022 [code]
6. Shin-ichi Ikegawa, Ryuji Saiin, Yoshihide Sawada, Naotake Natori
   Rethinking the role of normalization and residual blocks for spiking neural networks
   Sensors, 2022
7. Yoshihide Sawada, Koji Morikawa, Mikiya Fujii
   Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks for Inorganic Chemical Compositions
   Chemistry Letters, 2021 [code]
8. Nobuhiro Hayashi, Yoshihide Sawada, Kei Ujimoto, Syunta Yamaguchi, Yoshikuni Sato, Takahiro Miki, Toru Nakada, Toshiaki Iba
   Diagnosis of Sepsis by AI-Aided Proteomics Using 2D Electrophoresis Images of Patient Serum Incorporating Transfer Learning for Deep Neural Networks
   Applied Sciences, 2021
9. Fusataka Kuniyoshi, Takuya Funatomi, Hiroyuki Kubo, Yoshihide Sawada, Yumiko O Kato, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa
   Visibility Enhancement by Integrating Refocusing and Direct-Global Separation with Contact Imaging
   International Journal of Computer Vision, 2019
10. Frans J Rodenburg, Yoshihide Sawada, Nobuhiro Hayashi
    Improving RNN Performance by Modelling Informative Missingness with Combined Indicators
    Applied Sciences, 2019
11. Yoshihide Sawada, Yoshikuni Sato, Toru Nakada, Shunta Yamaguchi, Kei Ujimoto, Nobuhiro Hayashi
    Improvement in Classification Performance Based on Target Vector Modification for All-Transfer Deep Learning
    Applied Sciences, 2019 [code]
12. Yoshihide Sawada, Kazuki Kozuka
    Whole layers transfer learning of deep neural networks for a small scale dataset
    International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, 2016 [code]

Reviewed Conferences/Workshops

1. Masakazu Tobeta, Yoshihide Sawada, Ze Zheng, Sawa Takamuku, Naotake Natori
   E2Pose: Fully Convolutional Networks for End-To-End Multi-Person Pose Estimation
   IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), oral, 2022 [code]
2. Yoshihide Sawada, Luca Rigazio, Koji Morikawa, Masahiro Iwasaki, Yoshua Bengio
   Disentangling Controllable and Uncontrollable Factors by Interacting with the World
   Deep RL Workshop NeurIPS, poster, 2018 [code]
3. Yumiko Kato, Yoshihide Sawada, Fusataka Kuniyoshi, Hiroyuki Kubo, Takuya Funatomi, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa
   Development of lensless microscopy for observing 3D structure of cultured cells
   PacificRim NanoMedicine Symposium 2018
4. Yoshihide Sawada, Yoshikuni Sato, Toru Nakada, Kei Ujimoto, Nobuhiro Hayashi
   All-Transfer Learning for Deep Neural Networks and its Application to Sepsis Classification
   22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2016), poster, 2016 [code]
5. Yoshikuni Sato, Yoshihide Sawada, Toru Nakada, Tadayoshi Nonoyama, Masafumi Kubota, Yusuke Koie, Masaki Yasutake, Osamu Yamamura
   Long-time Sensor Data Analysis for Estimation of Physical Capacity
   22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI2016), poster, 2016
6. Yoshihide Sawada, Taichi Sato, Hideto Motomura
   Reconstructed-based super resolution method for virtual slide based on glass slide with image sensor
   Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), oral, 2015
7. Yoshihide Sawada, Kazuki Kozuka
   Transfer learning method using multi-prediction deep Boltzmann machines for a small scale dataset
   14th IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), poster, 2015 (Best Poster Award) [code]
8. Hideto Motomura, Taichi Sato, Yoshihide Sawada, Yasuhiko Adachi, Hiroyuki Mori, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Yutaka Hirose,
   Digital Microscope using Electronic Präparat
   Pathology Visions, poster, 2014
9. Yoshikuni Sato, Kazuki Kozuka, Yoshihide Sawada, Masaki Kiyono
   Learning Multiple Complex Features Based on Classification Results
   International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), poster, 2014
10. Hidekata Hontani, Yuto Tsunekawa, Yoshihide Sawada
    Accurate and Robust Registration of Nonrigid Surface Using Hierarchical Statistical Shape Model
    The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), poster, 2013
11. Yoshihide Sawada, Hidekata Hontani
    Determination of the Graphical Model Structure Representing the Conditionally Independency
    International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia (IFMIA), oral, 2012
12. Yoshihiro Tsutsumi, Yoshihide Sawada, Hontani Hidekata
    GPU Acceleration of Non-Rigid Registration for Organ Segmentation
    International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia (IFMIA), poster, 2012
13. Yuki Yaguchi, Takamichi Matsuno, Sawada Yoshihide, Hontani Hidekata
    Robust non-rigid ICP with statistical shape model
    International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia (IFMIA), poster, 2012
14. Hidekata Hontani, Takamiti Matsuno, Yoshihide Sawada
    Robust nonrigid ICP using outlier-sparsity regularization
    The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), poster, 2012
15. Yoshihide Sawada, Hidekata Hontani
    A Study on Graphical Model Structure for Representing Statistical Shape Model of Point Distribution Model
    International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), poster, 2012
16. Yoshihide Sawada, Hidekata Hontani
    A comparison study of inferences on graphical model for registering surface model to 3D image
    International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI), poster, 2011
17. Yoshihide Sawada, Takafumi Oku, Hidekata Hontani, Jin Wu, Tohoru Takeda, Yorihisa Watanabe
    Improved Detection of Tumors in FDG-PET/CT Images Based-on Single-Class Classifier
    International Forum on Medical Imaging in Asia (IFMIA), oral, 2009
18. Hidekata Hontani, Yoshihide Sawada
    Stability evaluation of a classifier for detecting abdominal tumors in FDG-PET/CT images
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), poster, 2008
19. Shuhei Nita, Yoshihide Sawada, Hidekata Hontani, Tadanori Fukami, Tatsuya Yuasa, Takao Akatsuka, Jin Wu, Tohoru Takeda, Noboru Oriuchi, Keigo Endo, Yorihisa Watanabe
    Malignant tumor detection from PET/CT images for CAD system
    Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS), poster, 2007
20. Yoshihide Sawada, Shuhei Nitta, Hidekata Hontani, Tadanori Fukami, Tetsuya Yuasa, Takao Akatsuka
    Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Reducing False Positives in Lymphoma Extraction
    Asian Forum on Medical Imaging 2007 (Japan session), oral, 2007

Preprints (Including duplicates)

1. Yoshihide Sawada, Ryuji Saiin, Kazuma Suetake
   Magic for the Age of Quantized DNNs
2. Naoki Hayashi, Yoshihide Sawada
   Upper Bound of Bayesian Generalization Error in Partial Concept Bottleneck Model (CBM): Partial CBM outperforms naive CBM
3. Fusataka Kuniyoshi, Yoshihide Sawada
   Can Transformers Predict Vibrations?
4. Takashi Furuya, Satoshi Okuda, Kazuma Suetake, Yoshihide Sawada
   Convergences for Minimax Optimization Problems over Infinite-Dimensional Spaces Towards Stability in Adversarial Training
5. Ryuji Saiin, Tomoya Shirakawa, Sota Yoshihara, Yoshihide Sawada, Hiroyuki Kusumoto
   Spike Accumulation Forwarding for Effective Training of Spiking Neural Networks
6. Naoki Hayashi, Yoshihide Sawada
   Bayesian Generalization Error in Linear Neural Networks with Concept Bottleneck Structure and Multitask Formulation
7. Kazuma Suetake, Takuya Ushimaru, Ryuji Saiin, Yoshihide Sawada
   Spiking Synaptic Penalty: Appropriate Penalty Term for Energy-Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
8. Yoshihide Sawada, Keigo Nakamura
   C-SENN: Contrastive Self-Explaining Neural Network
9. Yoshihide Sawada, Keigo Nakamura
   Concept Bottleneck Model with Additional Unsupervised Concepts [code]
10. Shin-ichi Ikegawa, Ryuji Saiin, Yoshihide Sawada, Naotake Natori
    Rethinking the role of normalization and residual blocks for spiking neural networks
11. Kazuma Suetake, Shin-ichi Ikegawa, Ryuji Saiin, Yoshihide Sawada
    S2NN: Time Step Reduction of Spiking Surrogate Gradients for Training Energy Efficient Single-Step Neural Networks
12. Yoshihide Sawada, Koji Morikawa, Mikiya Fujii
    Study of Deep Generative Models for Inorganic Chemical Compositions [code]
13. Jordan Hoffmann, Louis Maestrati, Yoshihide Sawada, Jian Tang, Jean Michel Sellier, Yoshua Bengio
    Data-Driven Approach to Encoding and Decoding 3-D Crystal Structures [code]
14. Yoshihide Sawada
    Disentangling Controllable and Uncontrollable Factors of Variation by Interacting with the World [code]
15. Yoshihide Sawada, Yoshikuni Sato, Toru Nakada, Kei Ujimoto, Nobuhiro Hayashi
    All-Transfer Learning for Deep Neural Networks and its Application to Sepsis Classification [code]

Invited Talks

1. Yoshihide Sawada
   Study of Contact Imaging for Medical Application
   The Ninth International Workshop on Image Media Quality and its Applications (IMQA), 2018

Media

1. Making artificial intelligence more transparent, nature portfolio

Granted Patents

1. Yumiko Kato, Yoshihide Sawada, Taichi Sato, Kiyotaka Tsuji
   Culture state determination based on direction-dependent image information
   US11674889
2. Yoshihide Sawada, Koji Morikawa, Toru Nakada
   Material information output method, material information output device, material information output system, and program
   JP2020030638
3. Yoshihide Sawada, Yoshikuni Sato, Toru Nakada
   Learning apparatus, identifying apparatus, learning and identifying system, and recording medium
   US11023806, JP6814981
4. Yoshikuni Sato, Yoshihide Sawada, Toru Nakada
   Motor function estimation information generation apparatus, motor function estimation system, motor function estimation information generation method, motor function estimation method and storage medium
   US10892055
5. Toru Okino, Shota Yamada, Yutaka Hirose, Yoshihisa Kato, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Manabu Kamoshida, Hideto Motomura, Yoshihide Sawada
   Electronic prepared slide, solid state imaging element, and electronic prepared slide assembly method
   US10837896, JP6692097, CN107110772
6. Yumiko Kato, Yoshihide Sawada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, Takuya Funatomi,Hiroyuki Kubo
   Image generating apparatus and image generating method
   US10607316, CN107645625
7. Yoshihide Sawada, Taichi Sato, Hideto Motomura
   Image processing device, image processing method, image display device, and computer program
   JP6624369
8. Yoshihide Sawada, Yoshikuni Sato, Toru Nakada
   Display control apparatus, display control method, and recording medium
   US10467750
9. Hideto Motomura, Mohamed Sahim Kourkoss, Yoshihide Sawada, Toshiya Mori, Masanaga Tsuji
   Driving assistance method and driving assistance device, driving control device, vehicle, and driving assistance program using such method
   JP6575818, CN108885836
10. Taichi Sato, Yoshihide Sawada, Hideto Motomura
    Image output device, image transmission device, image reception device, image output method, and non-transitory recording medium
    JP6562253
11. Yutaka Hirose, Yoshihisa Kato, Hiroyuki Mori, Taichi, Sato, Yoshihide Sawada, Tsuyoshi Tanaka
    Socket, adaptor, and assembly jig having a movable portion with a rotation axis slidably connected to a wall portion that upwardly extends from a bottom plate
    US10256572, JP6551835, CN105388606
12. Yumiko Kato, Yoshihide Sawada, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, Takuya Funatomi, Hiroyuki Kubo, Fusataka Kuniyoshi
    Image generation apparatus and image generation method
    US10382678, CN108535853
13. Yumiko Kato, Yoshihide Sawada, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, Takuya Funatomi, Hiroyuki Kubo, Fusataka Kuniyoshi
    Image generation apparatus and image generation method
    US10379336, JP6739060
14. Yumiko Kato, Taichi Sato, Yoshihide Sawada
    Image generation device, image generation method, recording medium, and processing method
    US10295525, JP6739061, CN107203034
15. Yumiko Kato, Taichi Sato, Yoshihide Sawada
    Image generation apparatus, image generation method, storage medium, and processing method
    US10191265, JP6765057
16. Taichi Sato, Yoshihide Sawada, Yasuhiko Adachi, Hideto Motomura
    Image acquisition device, image forming system, and image forming method
    US10241315, JP6004245, JP6004245, AU2015351876
17. Yumiko Kato, Taichi Sato, Yoshihide Sawada
    Image generation device, image generation method, recording medium, and method for generating an in-focus image based on feature points
    US10182185, JP6799821, CN107205113
18. Yumiko Kato, Yoshihide Sawada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, Hiroyuki Kubo
    Image generating system, image generating method, and image generating apparatus
    US10168523, CN106950687
19. Yoshihide Sawada, Kazuki Kozuka
    Transfer learning apparatus, transfer learning system, transfer learning method, and recording medium
    JP6435581, US10832128
20. Yasuhiko Adachi, Yoshihide Sawada, Yoshikuni Sato, Hideto Motomura
    Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image sensor
    US9438793, JP5789765, CN105247852, EP3007432
21. Taichi Sato, Yoshihide Sawada, Hideto Motomura
    Image output device, image transmission device, image reception device, image output method, and non-transitory recording medium
    US10048485
22. Yoshihide Sawada, Yasuhiko Adachi, Taichi Sato, Hideto Motomura
    Image processing apparatus, method for processing image, and recording medium
    US9990709
23. Yoshihide Sawada, Taichi Sato, Hideto Motomura
    Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image display system, and storage medium
    US9824189
24. Yutaka Hirose, Yoshihisa Kato, Hiroyuki Mori, Taichi, Sato, Yoshihide Sawada, Tsuyoshi Tanaka
    Socket, adaptor, and assembly jig wherein an imaging device and an object are sandwiched by base members
    US9799992, JP6739070, CN105388606
25. Hideto Motomura, Mohamed Sahim Kourkoss, Yoshihide Sawada, Toshiya Mori, Masanaga Tsuji
    Information processing system, information processing method, and program
    US10759446, JP6074553, CN107531244, EP3272611
26. Taichi Sato, Yoshihide Sawada, Yasuhiko Adachi, Hideto Motomura
    Image acquisition device, image forming system, and image forming method
    US10241315, JP6004245, AU2015351876
27. Yasuhiko Adachi, Yoshihide Sawada, Yoshikuni Sato, Hideto Motomura
    Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image sensor
    US9438793, JP6265153, CN105247852, EP3007432

Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM)
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• IEEE journal of biomedical and health information (J-BHI)
• IEEE Communications Letters
• IEEE Access
• International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
• International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (IJMLC)
• Machine Learning
• Computational Intelligence
• Geo-Spatial Information Science
• The Imaging Science Journal
• npj Computational Materials
• Scientific Reports
• Applied Sciences, Symmetry, Computers (MDPI)
• IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2022, 2024)

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