TETSUYA KAKUTA

Tetsuya Kakuta, Ph.D.

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BIOGRAPHY

1. 1979 Born in Aomori, Japan.
2. 2002 B.E. degree in Architecture, Kyoto University.
3. 2009 Ph.D. of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo.
4. 2009 Project Research Associate of Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo
5. 2011 Adjunct instructor of Nara Women's University
6. 2008-2016 CEO of AsukaLab Inc.
7. 2016- Freelance

PRIZE

• GOOD DESIGN AWARD (2019)
• Communicity Competition General Highest Award (2019)
• Asian Entrepreneurship Award 2013 Finalist
• Adopted on IPA Exploratory IT Human Resources Project 2008 (The MITOH Program).
• Digital Art Awards 2007, Grand Prix in the interactive category.
• Digital Architecture/Graduate Design Competition 2007, Grand Prix.
• Third Digital Content Symposium 2007, Funai Prize.
• 11th TORAY Digital Creation Awards 2006, Screening Committee's Encouragement Award.
• OPUS DESIGN AWARD 2006, Prize.
• Microsoft Fellowship 2005.
• Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2002, Prize.
• Students-Designed Birdhouses Competition 2001, Silver prize.

LECTURE / EXHIBITION

• Invited Talk for ISMAR2015 UrbanAR Workshop, Oct. 3, 2015.
• Ars Electronica campus08, Sep. 2008.
• ICC "Emergencies!" exhibition, Jul.-Sep. 2007.

WORKS

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Tetsuya Kakuta, Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi Ikeuchi, "Virtual Asukakyo: Real-time Soft Shadows in Mixed Reality using Shadowing Planes", Chapter 22 in "Digitally Archiving Cultural Objects", Katsushi Ikeuchi and Daisuke Miyazaki editors, Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Nov. 2007, pp.457-471.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

• Lu Boun Vinh, Tetsuya Kakuta, Rei Kawakami, Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi Ikeuchi, "Foreground and Shadow Occlusion Handling for Outdoor Augmented Reality", Proc. Int. Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2010), Oct. 2010.
• Tetsuya Kakuta, Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi Ikeuchi, "Development and Evaluation of Asuka-Kyo MR Contents with Fast Shading and Shadowing",Proc. Int. Society on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM 2008), Oct. 2008, pp.254-260.
• Tetsuya Kakuta, Lu Boun Vinh, Rei Kawakami, Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi Ikeuchi, "Detection of Moving Objects and Cast Shadows Using a Spherical Vision Camera for Outdoor Mixed Reality", ACM Symp. on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2008), Oct. 2008, pp.219-222.
• Tetsuya Kakuta, Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi Ikeuchi, "Virtual Asukakyo: Development and Evaluation of Asuka-Kyo MR Contents", Proc. 2008 ASIAGRAPH, Jun. 2008, p.291.
• Tetsuya Kakuta, Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi Ikeuchi, "Real-time Soft Shadows in Mixed Reality using Shadowing Planes", Proc. IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Application (MVA2007), May. 2007, pp.195-198.
• Tetsuya Kakuta, Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi Ikeuchi, "Shading and Shadowing of Architecture in Mixed Reality", Proc. Int. Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR2005), Oct. 2005, pp.200-201.
• Tetsuya Kakuta, Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi Ikeuchi, "Virtual Kawaradera: Fast Shadow Texture for Augmented Reality", Proc. Int. Society on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM 2004), Nov. 2004. pp.141-150.