Takuma Yagi
Senior Researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Tsukuba, Japan
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Top SchoolTakuma Yagi is a Senior Researcher at AIST with a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo and a decade of experience focused on first-person vision, video understanding, and hand-object interaction recognition. His work blends rigorous academic research—recently including a visiting scholar stint at CMU Robotics Institute—with applied projects developed during roles at The University of Tokyo and internships such as Microsoft Research Asia. Known for a playful approach to action recognition (self-described as "an apprentice to an action recognition comedian" on GitHub), he brings curiosity and creativity to technical problems. Based in Tsukuba, he publishes regularly and maintains an up-to-date project hub at artilects.net, bridging cutting-edge research with practical implementations.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at 東京工業大学Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information and Communication Engineering, Department of Information Science and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information and Communication Engineering, Department of Information Science and Technology at 東京大学
Japanese, English
Github Skills (20)
localization9
computer-vision8
react8
cudnn8
css8
chainer8
pytorch7
javascript7
cupy7
deep-learning7
python7
cuda7
gpu6
machine-learning6
caffe6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
takumayagi/mllogger
Mar 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
takumayagi/fpl
May 2018 - Jul 2022
Code/data of the paper "Future Person Localization in First-Person Videos" (CVPR2018)
Contributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 4 years 2 months
pytorchpersondeep-learningvideoscomputer-vision
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