Motoki Kimura
Computer Vision Research Engineer at GO Drive Inc. (formerly DeNA → GO Inc.)
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMotoki Kimura is a computer vision research engineer with 12 years of experience building and deploying deep learning models for resource-constrained, real-time systems across automotive, satellite, and in-vehicle applications. He blends research-driven development with production pragmatism—specializing in model optimization, quantization, and hardware-aware acceleration for on-device inference. His work includes camera- and map-based ego-localization with probabilistic state estimation and satellite imagery analysis for land cover, cloud segmentation, and object detection. Motoki has a strong competition pedigree, earning top prizes (over USD 50K) in solo international challenges including NASA-sponsored and SpaceNet events, which sharpen his algorithmic instincts under pressure. Trained in aeronautics and environmental science at the University of Tokyo, he brings a systems-level perspective that ties physical dynamics to perception algorithms. Off-duty he’s a Toy Poodle enthusiast, revealing a detail-oriented personality that shows up both in model tuning and in canine appreciation.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Japanese, English
Github Skills (82)
torchscript10
python10
tensorflow-lite10
deep-learning10
instance-segmentation10
quantization10
tflite10
object-tracking10
udp10
convolutional-neural-networks10
onnx10
openpifpaf10
yolov810
image-matching10
lstm10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
motokimura/3d-pose-baseline-pytorch
May 2020 - May 2020
A simple baseline for 3d human pose estimation in PyTorch
Contributions:42 commits, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 9 days
3dhuman-pose-estimationpytorch3d-pose-estimation
motokimura/VisDrone_PyTorch_YOLOv3
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
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