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[Name]  KITAMOTO Asanobu

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[Date of birth] 
1969/4/9 (37 years old)
[Doctoral degrees] 
1997, Doctor of Engineering (University of Tokyo)
[Affiliation / Position] 
Associate Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division
[Room]  1913
[Telephone]  +81-3-4212-2578
[Facsimile]  +81-3-3556-1916
[E-mail]  kitamoto@nii.ac.jp
[Personal home page]  http://research.nii.ac.jp/~kitamoto/
[JST ReaD]  http://read.jst.go.jp/ddbs/plsql/KNKY_EG_24?code=1000226244
[Research fields] 
Image Analysis, Image Database Systems, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Meteoinformatics, Earth Science Databases, Digital Archive


<> Outline of current research
<> Education
<> Career
<> Awards
<> Teaching positions
<> Courses
<> Students
<> Academic societies
<> Public activities
<> Most important publications (Top 10)
<> Most important activities (Top 10)
<> Refereed publications, published books
<> Patents / softwares / other works
<> Other publications
<> Speeches and oral presentations
<> Competitive research funds


[Outline of current research] 

The analysis of huge amount of data continuously produced from the world and the acquisition of useful knowledge from data is growing its importance as an approach to solve problems in all disciplines. I focus on this long-term transition to "data-centric science" and aim at producing solutions from informatics point of view using image information processing and other technologies. In my research on meteoinformatics (informatics approach to meteorology), for example, I established the large-scale comprehensive database of typhoons, which is one of the largest in the world, and I am challenging such topics as data mining and information visualization from large datasets. I am also applying data-centric approaches to various disciplines such as earth science, cultural information, and biological information, and the outcome of those projects are largely accessible on Websites.

[Education] 

Mar 1992, B. Sc. from Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo

Mar 1994, M. Eng. from Electronic Engineering, Division of Engineering, University of Tokyo

Mar 1997, Dr. Eng. from Electronic Engineering, Division of Engineering, University of Tokyo

[Career] 

April 1997 - March 2000, Research associate, Systems division, National Center for Science Information Systems

April 2000 - March 2003, Research associate, Research center for testbeds and prototyping, National Institute of Informatics

June 2001, Visiting researcher, University of Nantes, France

April 2003 - March 2003, Research associate, Multimedia Information Research Division

April 2004 - March 2006, Associate Professor, Infrastructure Systems Research Division

April 2006 - Current, Associate Professor, Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division

April 2005 - Current, Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

[Awards] 

none

[Teaching positions] 

Teaching Assistant, School of Enginnering, Tokyo University of Technology (1994-1996)

Supervisor, NII Seminar (2001-2002)

[Courses] 

Probabilistic Models in Informatics (SOKENDAI, Winter Semester)

Introduction to Complex Science (SOKENDAI, Winter Semester)

[Students] 

Nigar Abbaszade (Research Student)

Rungwit Laichuthai (Internship Student)

[Academic societies] 

The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Member

Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Member

Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Member

Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ) Member

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Member

Japanese Society for Bioinformatics Member

IEICE Special Interest Group on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU), Special workshop for young researchers, Steering Committee

IEICE Special Interest Group on Image Engineering (IE), Technical Committee

IEICE Transactions Reviewer

Workshop of Information-Based Induction Sciences, Program Committee (2004-2005)

Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Program Committee (2004-2006)

[Public activities] 

The Toyo Bunko Fellow

Computer Graphic Arts Society Committee Member

Certified and Accredited Meteorologist, No. 5439

[Most important publications (Top 10)] 

  1. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Spatio-temporal Data Mining for Typhoon Image Collection", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 25-41, 2002-07

  2. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: Near Real-Time Aggregation, Recombination and Delivery of Typhoon-Related Information", Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth, pp. (CD-ROM), 2005-03

  3. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Image Classification Using Probabilistic Models that Reflect the Internal Structure of Mixels", Pattern Analysis and Applications, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 31-43, 1999-04

  4. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Area Proportion Distribution -- Relationship with the Internal Structure of Mixels and its Application to Image Classification", Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 57-76, 2000-05

  5. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Makiko ONISHI, Tomohiro IKEZAKI, Dominique DEUFF, Eka MEYER, Sonoko SATO, Takako MURAMATSU, Ryo KAMIDA, Takeo YAMAMOTO, Kinji ONO, "Digital Bleaching and Content Extraction for the Digital Archive of Rare Books", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL), pp. 133-144, 2006-04

  6. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "IMET: Image Mining Environment for Typhoon Analysis and Prediction", Multimedia Mining, Djeraba, C. (Eds.), pp. 7-24, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7247-3, 2002-11

  7. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Takeo YAMAMOTO, Sonoko SATO, Nigel COLLIER, Ai KAWAZOE and Kinji ONO, "Text Readability and Coreference Annotation across Heterogeneous Media for the Digital Archive of Rare Books", The Journal of the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 737-745, 2004-09 (in Japanese)

  8. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Interactive Image Browsing Using Queue-Based Genetic Algorithm", Journal of JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence), Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 728-738, 1998-09 (in Japanese)

  9. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Chance Discovery in Natural Phenomena", Information Technology for Chance Discovery -- Decision Making Support in the Era of Post Data Mining, Y. OSAWA (Eds.), pp. 43-56, Tokyo Denki University Press, ISBN 4-501-53640-3, 2003-09 (in Japanese)

  10. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Similarity-Based Image Retrieval Using a Graph Structure Representing Regional and Spatial Information", Doctoral Dissertation, Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1997-03 (in Japanese)

[Most important activities (Top 10)] 

  1. NII Public Lectures Coordinator, 2003 - Current, The annual planning of NII public lectures and the operation of each lecture.

  2. Digital Silkroads Collaboration, 2001.12 - current

  3. Research and Development Center for Scientific Information Resources (formerly Development Promotion Office Content Group) 2006.1 -- Current, Planning of NII services for the future.

  4. NII Open House, 2002 -- Two to three posters and demonstrations for each NII Open House.

  5. International Workshop for Academic Information Networks and Systems (WAINS), 1998 - 2001. 5th Workshop: Proceedings Editor, 6th Workshop: Local Organizing Chair and Proceedings Editor, 8th Workshop: Program Chair and Proceedings Editor

  6. Strategic Planning Office. 2004 - current.

  7. International and Research Cooperation Department, Dissemination Activities Room, 1998.10 - 2004.03, The planning of NII public lectures and other events.

[Refereed publications, published books] 

  1. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Prototyping Chirped Grating Tunable Distributed Feedback (DFB) Semiconductor Laser", Bachelor's Thesis, Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1992-03 (in Japanese)

  2. Nong CHEN, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Yoshiaki NAKANO, Kunio TADA, "Chirped Grating Tunable DFB Laser -- Novel Laser Diode with Broader Continuous Tuning Range", Proceedings of the SPIE 1979 International Conference on Lasers and Optoelectronics (ICLOE'92), pp. 347-350, 1992-10

  3. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Changming ZHOU and Mikio TAKAGI, "Similarity Retrieval of NOAA Satellite Imagery by Graph Matching", Proceedings of the SPIE 1908 Image Storage and Retrieval Systems, pp. 60-73, 1993-01

  4. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Similarity Retrieval of Natural Images by Integrating Spatial and Shape Information", Master's Thesis, Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1994-03

  5. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Retrieval of Satellite Cloud Imagery Based on Subjective Similarity", Proceedings of the 9th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA'95), pp. 449-456, 1995-06

  6. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Mixture Density Estimation Under the Existence of Mixels", Proceedings of the 1995 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'95), 1995-07

  7. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Fast Matching of Hierarchical Attributed Relational Graphs for an Application to Similarity-Based Image Retrieval", Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU'96), Vol. II, pp. 331-336, 1996-07 (in Japanese)

  8. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "A Stochastic Model of Mixels and Image Classification", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'96), Vol. B, pp. 745-749, IEEE, 1996-08

  9. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Similarity-Based Image Retrieval Using a Graph Structure Representing Regional and Spatial Information", Doctoral Dissertation, Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1997-03 (in Japanese)

  10. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Estimating the Area Proportions of Mixels Using Mixture Density Estimation with Mixel Densities", Transactions of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. J81-D-II, No. 6, pp. 1160-1172, 1998-06 (in Japanese)

  11. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Image Classification Method Using Probabilistic Models that Reflect the Internal Structure of Mixels", Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU'98), Vol. I, pp. 87-92, 1998-07 (in Japanese)

  12. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Image Classification Using a Stochastic Model that Reflects the Internal Structure of Mixels", Advances in Pattern Recognition (SPR'98) : Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1451, pp. 630-639, Springer, 1998-08

  13. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Interactive Image Browsing Using Queue-Based Genetic Algorithm", Journal of JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence), Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 728-738, 1998-09 (in Japanese)

  14. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Image Classification Method Using Area Proportion Density that Reflects the Internal Structure of Mixels", Transactions of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. J81-D-II, No. 11, pp. 2582-2597, 1998-11 (in Japanese)

  15. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Interactive Image Browsing Method Based on Evolutionary Computation", Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Intelligent Information Media, pp. 173-180, 1998-12 (in Japanese)

  16. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Area Proportion Distribution -- Relationship with the Internal Structure of Mixels and its Application to Image Classification", Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 57-76, 2000-05

  17. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "The Moments of the Mixel Distribution and Its Application to Statistical Image Classification", Advances in Pattern Recognition (SPR'00), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1876, Amin, A. and Ferri, F.J. and Inesta, J.M., and Pudil, P. (Eds.), pp. 521-531, Springer, 2000-08

  18. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Kinji ONO, "The Construction of Typhoon Image Collection and its Application to Typhoon Analysis", NII Journal, No. 1, pp. 7-22, 2000-12 (in Japanese)

  19. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Kinji ONO, "The Collection of Typhoon Data and the Construction of Typhoon Image Databases Under International Research Collaboration between Japan and Thailand", NII Journal, No. 2, pp. 15-26, 2001-03

  20. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "FCA: The Fractional Component Analysis", Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Information-Based Induction Sciences (IBIS 2001), pp. 297-302, 2001-08

  21. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Data Mining for Typhoon Image Collection", Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining, pp. 68-77, 2001-08

  22. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Spatio-temporal Data Mining for Typhoon Image Collection", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 25-41, 2002-07

  23. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Fractional Component Analysis (FCA) for Mixed Signals", Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02), Vol. 3, pp. 383-386, IEEE, 2002-08

  24. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Typhoon Analysis and Data Mining with Kernel Methods", Pattern Recognition with Support Vector Machines (SVM2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2388, Lee, S.W., and Verri, A. (Eds.), pp. 237-248, Springer, 2002-08

  25. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Evolution Map: Modeling State Transition of Typhoon Image Sequences by Spatio-temporal Clustering", Discovery Science (DS2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2534, Lange, S., Satoh, K., and Smith, C.H. (Eds.), pp. 283-290, Springer, 2002-11

  26. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "IMET: Image Mining Environment for Typhoon Analysis and Prediction", Multimedia Mining, Djeraba, C. (Eds.), pp. 7-24, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 1-4020-7247-3, 2002-11

  27. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Chance Discovery in Natural Phenomena", Information Technology for Chance Discovery -- Decision Making Support in the Era of Post Data Mining, Y. OSAWA (Eds.), pp. 43-56, Tokyo Denki University Press, ISBN 4-501-53640-3, 2003-09 (in Japanese)

  28. Takeo YAMAMOTO, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Sonoko SATO and Kinji ONO, "Digital Silkroad Document Library at NII: The Design of the Multilingual Annotation Support System", Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL2004), pp. 513-517, 2004-02

  29. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Sonoko SATO, Takeo YAMAMOTO and Kinji ONO, "Context Recombination for Digital Cultural Archives", Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT2004), pp. 105-119, 2004-03

  30. Ai KAWAZOE, Asanobu KITAMOTO and Nigel COLLIER, "Annotation of Coreference Relations among Linguistic Expressions and Images in Biomedical Articles", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2004), pp. 529-532, 2004-05

  31. Ai KAWAZOE, Asanobu KITAMOTO and Nigel COLLIER, "Managing the Semantics of Coreference Relations with Open Ontology Forge", Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (SemAnnot 2004), 2004-11

  32. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Remote Sensing", Digital Image Processing, M. Okutomi (Eds.), pp. 321-323, Computer Graphic Arts Society, 2004-07 (in Japanese)

  33. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Takeo YAMAMOTO, Sonoko SATO, Nigel COLLIER, Ai KAWAZOE and Kinji ONO, "Text Readability and Coreference Annotation across Heterogeneous Media for the Digital Archive of Rare Books", The Journal of the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 737-745, 2004-09 (in Japanese)

  34. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: Near Real-Time Aggregation, Recombination and Delivery of Typhoon-Related Information", Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth, pp. (CD-ROM), 2005-03

  35. Kinji ONO, Takeo YAMAMOTO, Toshiro KAMIUCHI, Frederic ANDRES, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Sonoko SATO, and Elham ANDAROODI, "Progress of the Digital Silk Roads Project", Progress in Informatics, No. 1, pp. 93-141, 2005-03

  36. H. Muljadi, Hideaki TAKEDA, Jiro ARAKI Shoko KAWAMOTO, Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Yoko MIZUTA, S.M. DEMIYA, S. SUZUKI, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Yasuyuki SHIRAI, Nobuyuki ICHIYOSHI, Takehiko ITOH, Takashi ABE, Takashi GOJOBORI, Hideaki SUGAWARA, Satoru MIYAZAKI, and Asao FUJIYAMA, "Semantic MediaWiki: a user-oriented system for integrated content and metadata management system", International Conference on WWW/Internet, 2005-10

  37. Masahiro NAGAI, Dominique DEUFF, Asanobu KITAMOTO, and Hiroshi KATO, "A Comparison between Two countries in Terms of Their School Teachers' Understanding of Research Methodologies in Educational Practices", Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), pp. 3529-3534, 2006-03

  38. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Makiko ONISHI, Tomohiro IKEZAKI, Dominique DEUFF, Eka MEYER, Sonoko SATO, Takako MURAMATSU, Ryo KAMIDA, Takeo YAMAMOTO, Kinji ONO, "Digital Bleaching and Content Extraction for the Digital Archive of Rare Books", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL), pp. 133-144, 2006-04

[Patents / softwares / other works] 

  1. Digital Typhoon, http://www.digital-typhoon.org/

  2. Digital Silk Roads, http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/

  3. Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books, http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/

  4. Eyes on the Typhoon, http://eye.tc/

  5. Typhoon Front, http://front.eye.tc/

[Other publications] 

  1. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Nong CHEN, Yoshiaki NAKANO and Kunio TADA, "Prototyping Broadband Tunable Distributed Feedback (DFB) Semiconductor Laser", Proceedings of the National Convention (Special workshop for students), IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers) , pp. 54, 1992-03 (in Japanese)

  2. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Changming ZHOU and Mikio TAKAGI, "Similarity Retrieval of NOAA Satellite Imagery with an Attributed Relational Graph", Proceedings of the 1993 Spring National Convention, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers) , Vol. D, pp. 522, 1993-03 (in Japanese)

  3. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Hermert Invariant Similarity Retrieval by Attributed Relational Graphs", Proceedings of the 1993 Autumn National Convention, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. D, pp. 296, 1993-09 (in Japanese)

  4. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Similarity Retrieval of Satellite Cloud Imagery Based on Optimization Principle", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. PRU94-49, pp. 15-22, 1994-10 (in Japanese)

  5. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Learning of Similarity-Based Retrieval Criteria using Genetic Algorithm", Proceedings of the 1995 Spring National Convention, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. D, pp. 296, 1995-03 (in Japanese)

  6. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Mixture Density Estimation under the Existence of Mixels", Proceedings of the 51th National Convention, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), Vol. 1, pp. 17-18, 1995-09

  7. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Mixture Density Estimation in the Presence of Mixels", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. PRU95-202, pp. 33-40, 1996-01 (in Japanese)

  8. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Calculation of Mixel Distribution Using FFT Convolution", Proceedings of the 1996 Spring National Convention, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. D, pp. 488, 1996-03 (in Japanese)

  9. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Learning Criteria for Similarity-Based Image Retrieval Using Simulated Breeding by Pipeline-Type Genetic Algorithms", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. HIP96-4, pp. 17-22, 1996-06 (in Japanese)

  10. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "3D Visualization of Meteorological Satellite Imagery Using Volume Rendering", Proceedings of the Annual Convention, The Institute of Television Engineers of Japan, pp. 114-115, 1996-07 (in Japanese)

  11. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Calculation of Mixel Area Proportions", Proceedings of the 1996 Autumn National Convention, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. D, pp. 382, 1996-09 (in Japanese)

  12. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Hierarchical Model as a Framework for Constructing Similarity-Based Image Retrieval Systems", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. PRMU97-58, pp. 25-32, 1997-07 (in Japanese)

  13. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Interactive Parameter Optimization for Similarity-Based Image Retrieval Using Pipeline-type Genetic Algorithm", Proceedings of the 55th National Convention, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), Vol. 2, pp. 457-458, 1997-09 (in Japanese)

  14. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Interactive Image Browsing Using Pipeline-type Genetic Algorithm", Workshop on Interactive Evolutionary Computation, pp. 31-36, 1998-03 (in Japanese)

  15. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Thresholding Methods Considering the Spatial Quantization of Imagery", Proceedings of the 1998 National Convention, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. D-12, pp. 36, 1998-10 (in Japanese)

  16. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Characteristics and Applications of Queue-Based Genetic Algorithm", Proceedings of the 57th National Convention, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), Vol. 2, pp. 376-377, 1998-10 (in Japanese)

  17. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Toward Content-Based Satellite Image Database Systems over the Network", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Academic Information Networks and Systems (WAINS), pp. 31-38, 1998-12

  18. Asanobu KITAMOTO and Mikio TAKAGI, "Image Classification Using Probabilistic Models that Reflect the Internal Structure of Mixels", Pattern Analysis and Applications, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 31-43, 1999-04

  19. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "A Maximum Likelihood Thresholding Method Considering the Effect of Mixels", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. PRMU99-166, pp. 7-14, 1999-12 (in Japanese)

  20. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "The Development of Typhoon Image Database with Content-Based Search", Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Advanced Informatics (AdInfo), pp. 163-170, 2000-03

  21. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Multiresolution Cache Management for Distributed Satellite Image Database Using NACSIS-Thai International Link", Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Academic Information Networks and Systems (WAINS), pp. 243-250, 2000-03

  22. Asanobu KITAMOTO, ""Digital Typhoon" -- Typhoon Analysis based on Artificial Intelligence Approach ", Technical Report of IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), Vol. CVIM123-8, pp. 59-66, 2000-09 (in Japanese)

  23. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Elliptical Shape Decomposition for Satellite Image Sequences of Typhoon Cloud Patterns", 2000 Autumn National Convention, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. D-12-2, pp. 189, 2000-09 (in Japanese)

  24. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "The Construction of Typhoon Information Database Using the Satellite Image Analysis of Typhoon Cloud Patterns", Proceedings of the 61th National Convention, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan), Vol. 2-3V-5, pp. 217-218, 2000-10 (in Japanese)

  25. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Enhancing the Quality of Typhoon Image Database Using NOAA AVHRR Data Received in Thailand", Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Academic Information Networks and Systems (WAINS), pp. 1-11, 2000-12

  26. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Interpretation of Typhoon Cloud Patterns by Holistic Analysis", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. PRMU2000-240, pp. 129-136, 2001-03 (in Japanese)

  27. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Analysis and Prediction of the Typhoon from an Informatics Perspective", Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Academic Information Networks and Systems (WAINS), pp. 43-52, 2001-10

  28. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Discovery of the Signs in Typhoon Image Collection", Technical Report of JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence), Vol. SIG-FAI-A103, pp. 19-26, 2002-01 (in Japanese)

  29. Kinji ONO, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Yusheng JI, Frederic ANDRES, "Final Report on the Construction of Distributed Earth Environment Databases over the Network", Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO), pp. 1327-1450, 2002-11 (in Japanese)

  30. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Content-based Retrieval System of Satellite Imagery over the Network: Typhoon Image Database Project", Project Report for the COE Program, pp. 103-108, National Center for Science Information Systems, 2000-03 (in Japanese)

  31. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Data Mining from the Multiple Alignment of Typhoon Image Sequences", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. PRMU2002-159, pp. 79-84, 2002-12 (in Japanese)

  32. Takeshi KURATA, Yoshio IWAI, Takahito KAWANISHI, Itaru KITAHARA, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Hiroshi MO, Hideo SAITO, "A Report on PRMU Young Researchers' Program 2002", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. PRMU2002-134, pp. 31-36, 2002-12 (in Japanese)

  33. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Remote Sensing: From Image Processing to Spatio-temporal Processing", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. PRMU2002-255, pp. 73-80, 2003-03 (in Japanese)

  34. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Mining and Searching for the Large-scale Collection of Typhoon Image Sequences", Proceedings of the 65th National Convention, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Special Track, Vol. 5, pp. 255-258, 2003-03 (in Japanese)

  35. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Typhoon Data Mining for Disaster Management", Japan-US Workshop on Annotation and Resource Discovery of Geographic Image Data, pp. (in press), 2003-03

  36. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "A Data Rearrangement Engine for Data Mining", Technical Report of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers), Vol. PRMU2003-78, pp. 19-24, 2003-09 (in Japanese)

  37. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Takeo YAMAMOTO, Sonoko SATO and Kinji ONO, "Reformulation of Contexts: A Design Concept for the Database of DSR Archive", Proceedings of the Nara Symposium for Digital Silk Roads, pp. 319-330, 2003-12

  38. Sonoko SATO, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Yoshinobu SHIBA, Issei Tanaka, Kinji ONO, and Takeo YAMAMOTO, "Multilingual DSR Document Archive: Digitization, Automatic Multilingual Indexing and Collaborative Thesaurus Construction", Proceedings of the Nara Symposium for Digital Silk Roads, pp. 145-149, 2003-12

  39. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Eric PLATON, Frederic ANDRES and Takeo YAMAMOTO, "NII Portal Sites for the Digital Silk Roads Project", Proceedings of the Nara Symposium for Digital Silk Roads, pp. 467-473, 2003-12

  40. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Conference Report: 20th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003) 8/21-8/24 and 9th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2003) 8/24-8/27 at Washington DC", Journal of JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence), Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 126, 2004-01 (in Japanese)

  41. Nigel COLLIER, Ai KAWAZOE, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Tuangthong Wattarujeekrit, Yoko MIZUTA, and Anthony MULLEN, "Integrating Deep and Shallow Semantic Structures in Open Ontology Forge", Special Interest Group on Semantic Web and Ontology, JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence) , Vol. SIG-SWO-A402-05, 2004-07

  42. Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Shoko KAWAMOTO, Yoko MIZUTA, H. Muljadi, S.M. DEMIYA, H. IWAMA, N. TAKEZAKI, Takehiko ITOH, Jiro ARAKI, Yasuhiko YOSHINARI, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Takashi GOJOBORI, Hideaki SUGAWARA, Satoru MIYAZAKI, Hideaki TAKEDA and Asao FUJIYAMA, "The Development of the New Generation Bio-portal: Toward the Dissemination of Genetics Using Web Services", 76th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan, No. 3C10, 2004-09 (in Japanese)

  43. Asao FUJIYAMA, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Hideaki TAKEDA Satoshi KOBAYASHI, S.M. DEMIYA, Yoko MIZUTA, H. Muljadi, S. SUZUKI, Shoko KAWAMOTO, Jiro ARAKI, Takehiko ITOH, Yasuhiko YOSHINARI, H. IWAMA, N. TAKEZAKI, Satoru MIYAZAKI, Takashi GOJOBORI, and Hideaki SUGAWARA, "Bio-portal: Development of biological knowledge and database retrieval system for Japanese", 27th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, No. 2PB-300, 2004-12 (in Japanese)

  44. Shoko KAWAMOTO, Jiro ARAKI, Takehiko ITOH, Yasuhiko YOSHINARI, Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Yoko MIZUTA, S.M. DEMIYA, H. Muljadi, S. SUZUKI, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Nigel COLLIER, Hideaki TAKEDA, Asao FUJIYAMA, "Creating the Comprehensive Online Japanese Biology Dictionary and Basic Ontology in Bio-portal Project", 27th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, No. 2PB-301, 2004-12 (in Japanese)

  45. Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Shoko KAWAMOTO, Yoko MIZUTA, H. Muljadi, S.M. DEMIYA, Yasuyuki SHIRAI, Nobuyuki ICHIYOSHI, Jiro ARAKI, Takehiko ITOH, Takashi ABE, Takashi GOJOBORI, Hideaki SUGAWARA, Satoru MIYAZAKI, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Hideaki TAKEDA, and Asao FUJIYAMA, "The New Generation Bio-portal: A Web site Usable for the Education of Biology", 52th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, No. E108, 2005-03 (in Japanese)

  46. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Content Management Systems for Information Aggregation on Emergency Events such as Natural Disasters", The 19th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, No. 3C3-02, 2005-06 (in Japanese)

  47. Jiro ARAKI, Shoko KAWAMOTO, Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Yoko MIZUTA, S.M. DEMIYA, H. Muljadi, Yasuyuki SHIRAI, Nobuyuki ICHIYOSHI, Takehiko ITOH, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Hideaki TAKEDA, and Asao FUJIYAMA, "Construction and Utilization of Ontologies in the BioPortal Project", The 19th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, No. 2D2-02, 2005-06 (in Japanese)

  48. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: Near Real-time Typhoon Databases from the Fusion of Heterogeneous Data Streams", Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU 2005), pp. DE-14, 2005-07 (in Japanese)

  49. Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Shoko KAWAMOTO, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Yoko MIZUTA, S.M. DEMIYA, H. Muljadi, S. SUZUKI, Takashi ABE, Jiro ARAKI, Yasuyuki SHIRAI, Takehiko ITOH, Takashi KONDO, Satoru MIYAZAKI, Takashi GOJOBORI, Hideaki SUGAWARA, Hideaki TAKEDA, and Asao FUJIYAMA, "The New Generation Bio-portal: A Web site Useful for the Education of Science", 69th Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan, No. P2-87, 2005-09 (in Japanese)

  50. Masahiro NAGAI, Dominique DEUFF, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Hiroaki KOSHIKAWA, and Hiroshi KATO, "Bilateral Comparison of the Recognition of School Teachers on the Methodology of Pragmatic Research", 21th National Convention of Japan Society for Educational Technology, pp. 375-376, 2005-09 (in Japanese)

  51. Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Shoko KAWAMOTO, Yoko MIZUTA, S.M. DEMIYA, H. Muljadi, S. SUZUKI, Takashi ABE, Jiro ARAKI, Yasuyuki SHIRAI, Takehiko ITOH, Takashi KONDO, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Satoru MIYAZAKI, Takashi GOJOBORI, Hideaki SUGAWARA, Hideaki TAKEDA, and Asao FUJIYAMA, "The New Generation Bio-portal: A Web site Useful for the Education of Science and Genetics", 77th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan, 2005-09 (in Japanese)

  52. Shoko KAWAMOTO, Jiro ARAKI, Satoru MIYAZAKI, Takashi ABE, Yasumasa SHIGEMOTO, Takashi GOJOBORI, Takehiko ITOH, Takeaki TANIGUCHI, Takashi KONDO, Yasuyuki SHIRAI, Nobuyuki ICHIYOSHI, Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Yoko MIZUTA, S.M. DEMIYA, H. Muljadi, S. SUZUKI, Yumi TSUKAMOTO, Shoko MOTOYAMA, Kazuko KUKITA, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Hideaki TAKEDA, Hideaki SUGAWARA, and Asao FUJIYAMA, " The Development of a Semantic Web-based Portal Site for a Biological Information with a Japanese User Interface", 28th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, 2005-12 (in Japanese)

  53. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Makiko ONISHI, Tomohiro IKEZAKI, Takako MURAMATSU, Dominique DEUFF, Eka MEYER, Sonoko SATO, Elham ANDAROODI, Takeo YAMAMOTO, and Kinji ONO, "Digital Silk Roads: A Digital Archive for Linking the Variety of Cultural Heritages", IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2005, pp. 121-128, 2005-12 (in Japanese)

  54. Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Shoko KAWAMOTO, Yoko MIZUTA, S.M. DEMIYA, H. Muljadi, S. SUZUKI, Takashi ABE, Jiro ARAKI, Yasuyuki SHIRAI, Takehiko ITOH, Takashi KONDO, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Satoru MIYAZAKI, Takashi GOJOBORI, Hideaki SUGAWARA, Hideaki TAKEDA, and Asao FUJIYAMA, "The New Generation Bio-portal: The R&D of a Web site Useful for the Education of Biology", 80th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Sciences Education of Japan, 2006-01 (in Japanese)

  55. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: Comprehensive Databases of Typhoons Integrating the Variety of Ground and Space Observation Data", 15th Seiken Forum, "Monitoring of Earth Environment from Space", pp. 49-50, 2006-03 (in Japanese)

  56. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: Toward the Hub of Typhoon Emergency Information Aggregated from Various Sources", NII International Workshop on Cyber Science Infrastructure, pp. 119-131, 2006-03

  57. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Vertical Earth: Databases for the Vertical Integration of the Layer Structure of the Earth System", Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2006, No. J157-P002, 2006-05 (in Japanese)

  58. H. Muljadi, Hideaki TAKEDA, Shoko KAWAMOTO, Jiro ARAKI, Satoshi KOBAYASHI, Asanobu KITAMOTO, S.M. DEMIYA, Yoko MIZUTA, Kazuko KUKITA, Takehiko ITOH, Yasuyuki SHIRAI, Takashi KONDO, Nobuyuki ICHIYOSHI, Takashi ABE, Takashi GOJOBORI, Satoru MIYAZAKI, Hideaki SUGAWARA, and Asao FUJIYAMA, "Semantic Wiki as a Light-Weight Metadata Management System", The 20th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, No. 3G2-5, 2006-06 (in Japanese)

  59. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "The Construction of the Digital Archive of Rare Books and the Application of Image Processing", Eizojoho Industrial, Vol. 38, No. 8, pp. 85-88, 2006-07 (in Japanese)

  60. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Numerical Computing by Open Source Software: GNU Scientific Library", Journal of JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence), Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 470-477, 2006-07 (in Japanese)

  61. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "URI Immunization to Elude Web Spam", NII Technical Report, No. NII-2006-010J, pp. 1-12, 2006-07 (in Japanese)

  62. Tomohiro IKEZAKI, Dominique DEUFF, Kinji ONO, Asanobu KITAMOTO and Makiko ONISHI, "Network-based Collaborative System for Digital Archives : ASPICO", 5th Forum on Information Technology, No. N-035, 2006-09 (in Japanese)

  63. Asanobu KITAMOTO, ""Digital Typhoon" and "Typhoon Front" - Typhoon Information Sites that Integrate Typhoon Data of the Past and Present", OHM, Vol. 93, No. 10, pp. 6-7, 2006-10 (in Japanese)

  64. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "URI Immunization: Eluding Spams in Participatory Systems", IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers) SIG of Web Intelligence and Interaction, No. WI2-2006-73, pp. 45-50, 2006-11 (in Japanese)

  65. Makiko ONISHI, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Tomohiro IKEZAKI, Dominique DEUFF, and Kinji ONO, "Establishment and Analysis of Paintings of Sixteen-Contemplation Database Using ASPICO as a Metadata Management System", IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2006, pp. 211-218, 2006-12 (in Japanese)

[Speeches and oral presentations] 

  1. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: From an Informatics Perspective", A seminar at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, 2002-08

  2. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Typhoon Research from an Informatics Viewpoint and Typhoon Image Data Mining", A colloquium of Meteorological Satellite Center, 2002-01

  3. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Typhoon Data Mining Using Cloud Images from Meteorological Satellites", A colloquium of Forecasting Department, Japan Meteorological Agency, 2001-09

  4. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Analysis and Prediction of Typhoon From Informatics Perspective", A Seminar at Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes (IRIN), University of Nantes, 2001-06

  5. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Knowledge Discovery from Very Large Scientific Databases: "Digital Typhoon" Project as a Case Study", Monthly Seminar, 2002-09

  6. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Open Annotation for Cultural Resources", A seminar on Metadata Mediated Browsing and Retrieval in Semantic Rich Image Collection, 2003-03

  7. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Meteoinformatics: Plan and Development", A colloquium of Forecasting Department, Japan Meteorological Agency, 2003-06

  8. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Context Recombination Engine (CORE): A Design Concept for Digital Archives", Workshop on Digital Libraries for Cultural Preservation, 2003-10

  9. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digitization of Rare Books and Documents", JSPS Asian Science Seminar (JASS04): Advanced Digital Technology-Assisted Cultural Archive and Preservation Along the Maritime Silk Roads, 2004-07

  10. Asanobu KITAMOTO, ""Digital Typhoon" Project: Towards the Mining of a Large-Scale Time-Series Image Database", Workshop on Scientific Computing, "Data Mining and Scientific Computing", 2004-10 (Invited)

  11. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "The Application of Ontology in Digital Silk Roads Project: Multilingual, Multimedia and Multidisciplinary Aspects", SIG-CRM International Workshop: Ontologies - Methods - Humanities - Informatics, 2004-12

  12. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "The Fundamental Concepts of Cultural Digital Archives", RADIT Seminar 2005, 2005-02

  13. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "The Architecture of Digital Archives", RADIT Seminar "Contents Creation and Management for Digital Silk Roads", 2005-11

  14. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: How the Comprehensive Database of Typhoons Could be Usable?", Tokyo Polytechnic University "The 21st Century COE program" Open Seminar, No.37, 2005-11 (Invited) (in Japanese)

  15. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Vertical Earth: A Plan toward the Database and Portal Site across the Vertical Structure of the Earth", Joint Seminar of the SIG of Space and Earth Information Science and the SIG of Large-Scale Databases, 2005-12 (Invited)

  16. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Tutorial: Basics of Image Analysis -- What is easy and what is difficult -- ", Cross Talk Among Young Researchers, Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center, Research Organization of Information and Systems, 2006-03 (in Japanese)

  17. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Databases of Geographic Information Resources and Their Interoperability", "Interoperability of Biological Information Resources," Seminar of National Institute of Genetics, 2006-03 (in Japanese)

  18. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: Typhoon Information Generated by Voluntary Information Sources at Many Places ", Workshop on "Evolution and Application of Sensor Networks", 2006-07 (in Japanese)

  19. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Scientific Information 2.0: Toward a Web Platform Shared by Both Amateurs and Professionals", A Colloquium of Applied Electromagnetic Research Center, NICT, 2006-09 (in Japanese)

  20. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: A Web Platform for Integrating Earth Science and Heterogeneous Data", Fourth Meeting, A Special Interest Group on Data Issues, SGEPSS, 2006-11 (in Japanese)

  21. Asanobu KITAMOTO, "Digital Typhoon: Information Infrastructure for Earth Information to Capture the Multi Facet Aspects of Global-Scale Storms", 19th Workshop, Grid Consortium Japan, 2007-02 (in Japanese)

[Competitive research funds] 

  (1) Grant in aid for scientific research

  • Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists (A) (1998-1999 : 2.4 million Yen) Content-based Image Retrieval of Satellite Image Database Based on the Hierarchical Model of Image Content Elements (10780252) (Principal Investigator)
  • Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists (A) (2000-2001 : 2.1 million Yen) The Morphological Analysis of Typhoons Using Meteorological Satellite Images and the Construction of Typhoon Image Databases (12780300) (Principal Investigator)
  • Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (2003-2004 : 3.8 million Yen) The Discovery of Signs on Typhoon Formation Using Data Mining into the Large-Scale Time-Series Image Collection of Typhoons (15700142) (Principal Investigator)
  (2) Public funding

  • Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO), Research Projects on the Development of Creative Telecommunication Technologies (1997-2002 : 9.4 million Yen), Development of Distributed Earth Environment Databases over the Internet (Investigator)
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), National Foundation Technologies (2006 : 5.0 million Yen), Data Integration & Analysis System (Investigator)
  (3) Others

  • Conference Travel Grants, The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF), 2002
  • Kayamori Foundation of Information Science Advancement, Research Grants (2002-2004 : 0.8 million Yen), Research on Knowledge Discovery about the Typhoon Based on Large-Scale Typhoon Image Databases (Principal Investigator)
  • The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications, Research Grants (2004-2005 : 1.0 million Yen), Database Systems for Collaborative and Instantaneous Organization of Disaster Information (Principal Investigator)