Chihiro Nakatani

Ph.D student at Toyota Technological Institute, advised by Prof. Norimichi Ukita at IIM Lab. I make video understandable at the level of groups, not individuals.

Learned without exhaustive activity labels, for team sports footage and embodied agents.
First-author papers at CVPR, ICCV, and CVIU.

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Chihiro Nakatani

Education

2023/04 – Present
Ph.D in Engineering — Toyota Technological Institute Department of Electronics and Information Engineering
On leave 2024/04–2024/09 for a full-time internship at the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
2021 – 2023
Master of Engineering — Toyota Technological Institute Graduated at the top of the class
2018 – 2021
Faculty of Engineering — Toyota Technological Institute Early admission to graduate school
– 2018
Asahigaoka High School

Selected Publications

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Awards & Grants

2026
JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2)
2025
JST ASPIRE Kyoto Workshop Poster Award
2024
International travel grant — Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
2024
Int'l Conference Research Presentation Award — IEEE Nagoya Branch
2024
International exchange grant — Tateishi Science & Technology Foundation
2023
SICE Outstanding Student Award
2023
Scholarship — Toyoaki Scholarship Foundation (2023–2026)
2018
Scholarship — Toyota Scholarship Foundation (2018–2021)

Work Experience

Sportip, Inc.

AI Research Engineer
Tokyo, Japan · 2026/05–2026/07 · Full-time internship (on-site)

Playbox

AI Research Engineer
Remote · 2025/10–2026/03 · Part-time · Tech blog

Idiap Research Institute

Visiting Researcher
Martigny, Valais, Switzerland · 2025/04–2025/06 · On-site
🎉 CVPRW 2026 accepted  ·  Study abroad journal (note)

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

Sport Analyst
Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido, Japan · 2024/04–2024/09 · Full-time internship (on-site)

OptFit Corporation

Server Side Engineer
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · 2020/03–2020/08 · Part-time

Activate Data Corporation

Machine Learning Engineer
Remote, 2019 · Part-time

Professional Activities

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