2026

Journal

• Kemeng Zhang, Hao-Lun Peng, Yoshihiro Watanabe: Impression-Guided Interactive Personalized Color Exploration Framework for Dynamic Projection Mapping Makeup, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, pp. 1–23, doi: 10.1080/10447318.2025.2599521 (2026)

Book

• Shin'ya Nishida, Ko Nishino: Shitsukan—Understanding and Manipulating Material and Quality Perception，Springer Nature, 2026. (Authored "12. Dynamic Projection of Shitsukan")

2025

Journal

• Hao-Lun Peng, Kengo Sato, Soran Nakagawa, Yoshihiro Watanabe: Perceptually-Aligned Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping by High-Speed Face-Tracking Method and Lens-Shift Co-Axial Setup, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2025.3527203 (2025)

Proceedings

• Yuki Urakawa, Yoshihiro Watanabe: Neural Inverse Rendering for High-Accuracy 3D Measurement of Moving Objects with Fewer Phase-Shifting Patterns, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.

2024

Journal

• Masahiko Yasui, Ryota Iwataki, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Projection Mapping with a Brightly Lit Surrounding Using a Mixed Light Field Approach, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VR 2024), Vol.30, No.5, DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2024.3372132 (2024)

Proceedings

• Langning Miao, Ryo Kakimoto, Kaoru Ohishi and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Improving Real-Time Near-Infrared Face Alignment With a Paired VIS-NIR Dataset and Data Augmentation Through Image-to-Image Translation, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2368-2374, doi: 10.1109/ICIP51287.2024.10648056, 2024.
• Ryoga Odawara, Minami Yamamoto, Yukio Kawano, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Kou Li: Physical and chemical composition optimization of CNT imagers for augmented reality non-destructive inspections, 9th Workshop on Nanocarbon Photonics and Optoelectronics, 2024.

2023

Journal

• Lihui Wang, Satoshi Tabata, Hongjin Xu, Yunpu Hu, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Dynamic depth-of-field projection mapping method based on a variable focus lens and visual feedback, Optics Express, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 3945-3953 (2023)

Proceedings

• Hao-Lun Peng, Shin'ya Nishida, and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Studying User Perceptible Misalignment in Simulated Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2023.
• Soran Nakagawa and Yoshihiro Watanabe: High-Frame-Rate Projection with Thousands of Frames Per Second Based on the Multi-Bit Superimposition Method, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2023.
• Nao Tsurumi, Kaoru Ohishi, Ryo Kakimoto, Fumihiko Tsukiyama, Hao-Lun Peng, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Yuji Masubuchi: Rediscovering your own beauty through a highly realistic 3D digital makeup system based on projection mapping technology, International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists (IFSCC), 2023.

Talks

• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Transforming Experience in Real World with Dynamic Projection Mapping, The 30th International Display Workshops (IDW 2023), 2023.12.8.
• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Augmented Real-world Interaction with High-speed Vision and Projection, The 6th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Control Engineering (IRCE 2023), 2023.8.5.

Patent

• YoshihiroWatanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Tokyo, Konosuke Kachi: MEASUREMENT DEVICE, MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, MEASUREMENTPROGRAM, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD, Patent No.: US 11,874,225B2, Jan. 16, 2024.

Exhibition

• COLOR MACHINE: Makeup simulator based on dynamic projection mapping，World Figure Skating Championships 2023, Mar 22, 2023 - Mar 26, 2023.
• COLOR MACHINE: Makeup simulator based on dynamic projection mapping，CES 2023，Jan 5, 2023 - Jan 8, 2023.

Media

• NIKKEI Asia, "Japan's Kose develops projection mapping simulator for makeup", 2023.1.29.

2022

Journal

• Takashi Nomoto, Wanlong Li, Hao-Lun Peng, and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Dynamic Multi-projection Mapping Based on Parallel Intensity Control, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 2125-2134, DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2022.3150488 (2022)

Proceedings

• Kengo Sato, Hiroki Terashima, Shin'ya Nishida, Yoshihiro Watanabe: E.S.P.: Extra-Sensory Puck in Air Hockey using the Projection-Based Illusion, SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 Emerging Technologies, 2022. Emerging Technologies Best Demo Award

Award

• Kengo Sato, Hiroki Terashima, Shin'ya Nishida, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Emerging Technologies Best Demo Award, SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, 2022.12.9. [Link]

Media

• Press release from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Intensity Control of Projectors in Parallel – A Doorway to an Augmented Reality Future, 2022.3.16.
• AZoSensors, High Speed Projector Brings Alternative Realities to Light, 2022.2.23.

2021

Journal

• Yuri Mikawa, Tomohiro Sueishi, Yoshihiro Watanabe and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Dynamic Projection Mapping for Robust Sphere Posture Tracking Using Uniform/Biased Circumferential Markers, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3111085.
• Asadang Tanatipuknon, Pakinee Aimmanee, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Ken T. Murata, Akihiko Wakai, Go Sato, Hoang Viet Hung, Kanokvate Tungpimolrut, Suthum Keerativittayanun, and Jessada Karnjana: Study on Combining Two Faster R-CNN Models for Landslide Detection with a Classification Decision Tree to Improve the Detection Performance, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 588-595 (2021)
• Hongjin Xu, Lihui Wang, Satoshi Tabata, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Extended depth-of-field projection method using a high-speed projector with a synchronized oscillating variable-focus lens, Applied Optics, Vol.60, Issue 13, pp. 3917-3924 (2021)
• Hao-Lun Peng and Yoshihiro Watanabe: High-Speed Dynamic Projection Mapping onto Human Arm with Realistic Skin Deformation, Applied Sciences, Vol.11, Issue 9, Article No. 3753 (2021)
• Masahiko Yasui, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Wide viewing angle with a downsized system in projection-type integral photography by using curved mirrors, Optics Express, vol. 29, No. 8, pp. 12066-12080 (2021)
• Yuji Yamakawa, Yugo Katsuki, Yoshihiro Watanabe and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Development of a High-Speed, Low-Latency Telemanipulated Robot Hand System, Robotics, Vol.10, Issue 1, Article No. 41 (2021)

Proceedings

• Sora Hisaichi, Kiwamu Sumino, Kunihiro Ueda, Hidenori Kasebe, Tohru Yamashita, Takeshi Yuasa, Uwe Lippmann, Petra Aswendt, Roland Höfling, and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Depth-Aware Dynamic Projection Mapping using High-speed RGB and IR Projectors, SIGGRAPH Asia Emerging Technologies, 2021.
• Uwe Lippmann, Petra Aswendt, Roland Höfling, Kiwamu Sumino, Kunihiro Ueda, Yoshihide Ono, Hidenori Kasebe, Tohru Yamashita, Takeshi Yuasa, Yoshihiro Watanabe: High-Speed RGB+IR Projector based on Coaxial Optical Design with Two Digital Mirror Devices, The 28th International Display Workshops, 2021.
• Weijun Mai and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Feature-Aided Bundle Adjustment Learning Framework for Self-Supervised Monocular Visual Odometry, 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
• Ray Asahina, Takashi Nomoto, Takatoshi Yoshida, and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Realistic 3D Swept-Volume Display with Hidden-Surface Removal Using Physical Materials, IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), pp.113-121, 2021.

Talks

• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Dynamic Projection Mapping, APMAR 2021, 2021.4.26.

Media

• Joint press release with Tokyo Institute of Technology and Japan Science and Technology Agency, In Good Light: A New High-Speed Projector with Visible and Infrared Capabilities, 2021.12.2
• Tokyo Tech, "The future of the virtual and the real - A talk with Chiharu Kodama (Art director and UI/UX designer)", 2021.9

2020

Proceedings

• Ray Asahina, Takashi Nomoto, Takatoshi Yoshida, and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Realistic Volumetric 3D Display Using Physical Materials, SIGGRAPH Asia 2020, Emerging Technologies, December 2020.
• Takashi Nomoto, Wanlong Li, Hao-Lun Peng, and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Dynamic Projection Mapping with Networked Multi-projectors Based on Pixel-parallel Intensity Control, SIGGRAPH ASIA Emerging Technologies, December 2020.
• Hao-Lun Peng and Yoshihiro Watanabe: High-Speed Human Arm Projection Mapping with Skin Deformation, SIGGRAPH ASIA Emerging Technologies, December 2020.
• Cheng Luo, Takashi Nomoto, Hao-Lun Peng, and Yoshihiro Watanabe: Crosstalk Reduction for Parallax Barrier Stereoscopic Display Based on High-speed Viewpoint Tracking and Projection, The 27th International Display Workshops, pp.451-454, 2020.
• Lihui Wang, Hongjin Xu, Satoshi Tabata, Yunpu Hu, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: High-Speed Focal Tracking Projection Based on Liquid Lens, SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies, 2020.
• Takashi Nomoto, Ryo Koishihara, and Yoshihiro Watanabe. Realistic Dynamic Projection Mapping Using Real-Time Ray Tracing, SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies, 2020.
• Yuri Mikawa, Tomohiro Sueishi, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Projection Mapping System To A Widely Dynamic Sphere With Circumferential Markers, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2020) (London, 2020.7.9)/(Oral Session), pp.1-6, 2020.
• Masahiko Yasui, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Projection-type integral 3D display using mirrors facing each other for a wide viewing angle with a downsized system, SPIE Photonics West 2020 (San Francisco, California, USA. 2020.02.05)/(Oral Session), 2020.
• Hongjin Xu, Lihui Wang, Satoshi Tabata, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa, An extended depth-of-field projection method using a high-speed projector with a synchronized oscillating variable focus lens, SPIE Photonics West 2020. (San Francisco, California, USA. 2020.02.05)/(Poster), 2020.

Talks

• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Visual Perception With Dynamic Projection Mapping, The 25th International Display Workshops, pp. 564-566, 2020.12.9.
• Yoshihiro Watanabe: High-Speed Projection for Augmenting the World, OPTICS & PHOTONICS International Congress 2020, 2020.4.24.

2019

Journal

• Taku Senoo, Yuji Yamakawa, Shouren Huang, Keisuke Koyama, Makoto Shimojo, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Leo Miyashita, Masahiro Hirano, Tomohiro Sueishi, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Dynamic Intelligent Systems Based on High-Speed Vision, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.31, No.1, pp.45-56 (2019)
• Yunpu Hu, Leo Miyashita, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa: Visual Calibration for Multiview Laser Doppler Speed Sensing, Sensors, Vol.19, No.3, Article No.582 (2019)
• Satoshi Tabata, Michika Maruyama, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa: Pixelwise Phase Unwrapping Based on Ordered Periods Phase Shift, Sensors, Vol.19, No.2, Article No.377 (2019)
• Masahiko Yasui, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Occlusion-robust Sensing Method by Using the Light-field of a 3D Display System toward Interaction with a 3D Image, Applied Optics, Vol.58, Issue 5, pp. A209-A227 (2019)

Proceedings

• Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa: High-Speed and High-Brightness Color Single-Chip DLP Projector Using High-Power LED-Based Light Sources, International Display Workshops (Sapporo, 2019.11.29), pp.1350-1352, 2019.

Talks

• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Rise of post reality by high-speed vision and projection, HUAWEI 3D Computer Vision and Graphics Workshop, 2019.11.22.
• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Shaping Reality Through Dynamic Projection Mapping (keynote), Nordic IOT Week, 2019.4.9.
• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Dynamic Projection Mapping for Augmented Material Perception, IEEE VR 2019, Tutorials "Hack Our Material Perception in Spatial Augmented Reality", 2019.3.22.

Media

• NHK World, Science View, The Leading Edge: Projection Mapping Evolving to New Heights, 2019.12.18

2018

Journal

• Leo Miyashita, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa: MIDAS Projection: Markerless and Modelless Dynamic Projection Mapping for Material Representation, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol.37, No.6, pp.196:1-196:12 (2018)
• Atsushi Nose, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Hironobu Katayama, Shuji Uehara, Masatsugu Kobayashi, Sayaka Shida, Masaki Odahara, Kenichi Takamiya, Shizunori Matsumoto, Leo Miyashita, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Izawa, Yoshinori Muramatsu, Yoshikazu Nitta, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Design and Performance of a 1 ms High-Speed Vision Chip with 3D-Stacked 140 GOPS Column-Parallel PEs, Sensors, Vol.18, No.5, Article No.1313 (2018)

Proceedings

• Yuri Mikawa, Tomohiro Sueishi, Yoshihiro Watanabe and Masatoshi Ishikawa: VarioLight: Hybrid Dynamic Projection Mapping Using High-speed Projector and Optical Axis Controller, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2018 Emerging Technologies, Article No. 17, 2018.
• Leo Miyashita, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Kenji Uehara, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa: Portable Lumipen: Dynamic SAR in Your Hand, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2018) (San Diego, 2018.7.26), 2018.
• Tomohiro Sueishi, Takuya Ogawa, Shoji Yachida, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa: High-Resolution Observation Method for Freely Swimming Medaka Using High-Speed Optical Tracking with Ellipse Self-Window, 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC2018) (Honolulu, 2018.7)/Poster, FrPoS-32.41, 2018.
• Hirofumi Sumi, Hironari Takehara, Shunsuke Miyazaki, Daiki Shirahige, Kiyotaka Sasagawa, Takashi Tokuda, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Norimasa Kishi, Jun Ohta and Masatoshi Ishikawa: Next-generation Fundus Camera with Full Color Image Acquisition in 0-lx Visible Light by 1.12-micron Square Pixel, 4K, 30-fps BSI CMOS Image Sensor with Advanced NIR Multi-Spectral Imaging System, Symposium on VLSI Technology (Hawaii, 2018.6.21), pp.163-164, 2018.
• Yunpu Hu, Leo Miyashita, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa: GLATUI: Non-intrusive Augmentation of Motion-based Interactions Using a GLDV, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems/Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '18) (Montreal, 2018.4.24), Paper No. LBW123, 2018.
• Akihiro Nakamura, Leo Miyashita, Yoshihiro Watanabe and Masatoshi Ishikawa: RIFNOM: 3D Rotaion-Invariant Features on Normal Maps, Eurographics, Posters (Delft, 2018.4.16-20), 2018.

Talks

• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Dynamic Projection Mapping Toward Post Reality (Invited), The 25th International Display Workshops, pp. 1200-1203, 2018.12.14.
• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Shaping reality through high-speed projection display (Invited), ACM ISS'18 International Workshop on Computational Augmented Reality Displays (CARD 2018), 2018.11.25.

Demonstration

• Yoshihiro Watanabe: Dynamic projection mapping fusing high-speed vision and projection technologies , The 25th International Display Workshops, Special Event: Projection Mapping , 2018.12.12-14.

Collaboration

• Tom Emrich, Nobumichi Asai, and Yoshihiro Watanabe: THE DEATH OF REALITY, AWE, 2018.5.30. [ link]

Media

• NHK World NEWSROOM TOKYO, Projecting Images onto a Moving Object, 2018.6.14
• Forbes, Why Augmented World Expo Is XR's Most Essential Conference, 2018.5.16