Masao Yokota, Ph. D.


 

Professor

email: yokota@fit.ac.jp
phone: +81-92-606-5897
office: B-806

office hour: Tuesday 14:00-16:00.

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  I am a professor for informatics at Fukuoka Institute of Technology. My research interests focus on AI, especially, on integrated multimedia understanding by robots as 'natural' as by humans. For this purpose, I have proposed 'Mental Image Directed Semantic Theory (MIDST)' based on a hypothesis that natural language understanding in humans is omnisensory mental image processing. MIDST has been provided with an omnisensory mental image model and a formal language so called 'Lmd (Language for Mental image Description)'. This formal language has been already implemented on several versions of the intelligent system IMAGES whose last version is the integrated multimedia understanding system IMAGES-M. Recently, I have been the leader of the project titled 'Automatic Linguistic Understanding of Human Action Data' funded by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT).
 
     
  Interests:  
   
  Knowledge representation as mental image description
Integrated multimedia understanding
Spatiotemporal knowledge formalization as natural semantics
Human mind model for robotics
   
  Research Projects:  
   
  FIT project Spatiotemporal Inference
FIT project Distributed Intelligent Robot Networking (DIRN)
FIT project Cross-media Operations
FIT project Natural Language Understanding in Humans
MEXT project Automatic Linguisitic Understanding of Human Action Data
   
  Teaching:  
   
  Information Media Science for undergraduates
Multimedia Information Processing for undergraduates
Advanced Multimedia Engineering for graduates
   
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