Hiroharu Kato

Experience

Researcher, Preferred Networks, Inc. (Dec 2018 – Present)
Engineer, Sony Corp. (Apr 2014 – Nov 2018)

Education

Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (Oct 2016 – Sep 2020)
M.S. in Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (Apr 2012 – Mar 2014)
B.S. in Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Apr 2008 – Mar 2012)

Publications

Interactive Texture Segmentation of 3D Scanned Models Leveraging Multiview Automatic Segmentation
Koki Madono, Takeo Igarashi, Hiroharu Kato, Taisuke Hashimoto, Fabrice Matulic, Tsukasa Takagi, Keita Higuchi
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 2025
Rethinking Directional Parameterization in Neural Implicit Surface Reconstruction
Zijie Jiang, Tianhan Xu, Hiroharu Kato
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
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Multi-View Neural Surface Reconstruction with Structured Light
Chunyu Li, Taisuke Hashimoto, Eiichi Matsumoto, Hiroharu Kato
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2022
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Monocular Differentiable Rendering for Self-Supervised 3D Object Detection
Deniz Beker, Hiroharu Kato, Mihai Morariu, Takahiro Ando, Toru Matsuoka, Wadim Kehl, Adrien Gaidon
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
Paper
Differentiable Rendering: A Survey 200+ citations
Hiroharu Kato, Deniz Beker, Mihai Morariu, Takahiro Ando, Toru Matsuoka, Wadim Kehl, Adrien Gaidon
arXiv, 2020
Paper
Self-supervised Learning of 3D Objects from Natural Images
Hiroharu Kato, Tatsuya Harada
arXiv, 2019
Paper
Learning View Priors for Single-view 3D Reconstruction 100+ citations
Hiroharu Kato, Tatsuya Harada
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019
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Neural 3D Mesh Renderer 1400+ citations
Hiroharu Kato, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018
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Melody Generation for Pop Music via Word Representation of Musical Properties
Andrew Shin, Leopold Crestel, Hiroharu Kato, Kuniaki Saito, Katsunori Ohnishi, Masataka Yamaguchi, Masahiro Nakawaki, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada
arXiv, 2017
Paper
Visual Language Modeling on CNN Image Representations
Hiroharu Kato, Tatsuya Harada
arXiv, 2015
Paper
Image Reconstruction from Bag-of-Visual-Words 100+ citations
Hiroharu Kato, Tatsuya Harada
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014
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Visual Anomaly Detection from Small Samples for Mobile Robots
Hiroharu Kato, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Tatsuya Harada
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012
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