Imari Sato

Imari Sato is a researcher affiliated with the Computational Imaging and Vision Laboratory at the National Institute of Informatics, associated with the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Dept. of Computer Science. Their research focuses on computational imaging and vision, including computer vision, computational photography, image analysis, reflectance analysis, and medical imaging. The lab develops physics-based models and algorithms for scene understanding, contributing to machine vision, robotics, computer graphics, and digital imaging. They seek postdoctoral researchers and graduate students interested in 3D analysis, hyperspectral imaging, and generative AI. The lab has published significant work at top conferences and utilizes advanced technologies such as photoacoustic imaging.

Sato Imari is a researcher at the National Institute of Informatics, focusing on computer vision, physics-based vision, illumination and reflectance analysis, and computational photography. Their work explores methods to acquire radiance distributions for integrating virtual objects into real scenes, analyze illumination from shadows, and enhance photographic aesthetics through color harmony. Imari also investigates spectral-spatial correlations for hyperspectral image restoration and develops techniques for uncalibrated photometric stereo with unknown reflectances. Research includes radiometric compensation in projector-camera systems and fast spectral reflectance recovery using DLP projectors. Their contributions span computational photography, illumination estimation, and vision-based image processing.