Takehiro Tawara (Dr.-Eng.)

Contacts:
Functionality Simulation and Information Team (FSIT),
VCAD System Research Program,
RIKEN
2-1, Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
E-mail: takehirotwr[_at_]riken.jp

Academic Degree

2006.11	Ph.D. in Computer Science (Dr.-Eng.) at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken, Germany
2000.03	M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Aizu, Japan
1998.03	B.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Aizu, Japan

Education

2000.07 – 2004.02	Computer Graphics Group at the Max-Planck Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany
1998.04 – 2000.03	Information System, Computer Science Department at the University of Aizu, Japan
1994.04 – 1998.03	Computer Software, Computer Science Department at the University of Aizu, Japan
1991.04 – 1994.03	Kakogawa-Higashi High School, Hyogo, Japan

Professional Experience

Full-time

2006.04 – Present	Research Scientist at RIKEN, Japan Department: Functionality Simulation and Information Team (FSIT) Research theme: Volume Visualization, Augmented Reality, GPU Rendering
2005.04 – 2006.03	Research Scientist at RIKEN, Japan Department: Product Performance Simulation Team (PPST) Research theme: Mesh Repairing, Numerical Grid Generation, Real-Time Rendering
2004.03 – 2005.03	Research Scientist at the University of Tokyo, Japan Department: Intelligent Modeling Laboratory (IML) Research theme: Pre-Post Processing of Fluid Simulation, Global Illumination Rendering

Part-time

2007.04 – Present	Part-time Lecturer at the Toyo University, Japan Department: Computational Science and Engineering Class: Programming Exercise B
2004.11 – 2005.03	Visiting Researcher at RIKEN, Japan Department: Product Performance Simulation Team (PPST)
1998.04 - 2000.03	Research Assistant at the University of Aizu, Japan

Teaching Experience

2007.04 – Present	Part-time Lecturer at the Toyo University, Japan Department: Computational Science and Engineering Class: Programming Exercise B
1996.04 - 1998.03	Teaching Assistant at the University of Aizu, Japan Class: Computer Graphics

Fellowship

2000.07 – 2004.02

International Max-Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS), Saarbruecken, Germany

Award

2000	University President Award at the University of Aizu

Grant

2009.04 – 2011.03

KAKENHI (a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B))
No.: 21700126
Research representative: Takehiro Tawara
Research theme: ”Volume Visualization System Using Augmented Reality”
Amount: 2,470,000 Yen

2004.07 – 2007.06

NEDO Industrial Technology Research Aid Project (Young Scientists Grant)
No.: 04A33023
Research representative: Kenji Ono
Research partaker: Yutaka Ohtake, Xiaoyang Mao, Minoru Shirazaki, Takehiro Tawara, Hiroshi Terashima, Chiemi Watanabe
Research theme: ”Fusion of Voxel Based Physics Simulation and Organic CAE Framework Using Shape Manipulation API Represented by Implicit Function and Advanced Visualization”
Amount: 34,684,000 Yen

Research Interests

Global Illumination

Scientific Visualization

Have fun with a stereo image!

Augmented Reality

Book Chapter

Chapter Interactive Volume Segmentation and Visualization in Augmented Reality,
Takehiro Tawara, RIKEN,
In the book Handbook of Augmented Reality Technologies and Applications,
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Borko Furht,
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA,
Springer, July, 2011 (to appear).
http://www.cse.fau.edu/~borko/HandbookofAugmentedReality.html

Invited Talks

Takehiro Tawara,
Natural 3D Interaction Using Mixed Reality,
CG Lunch, MPI Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany, October 29, 2009.

Takehiro Tawara,
A User Interface for 3D Manipulation Using Augmented Reality,
Canon Co. Ltd., Simomaruko, September 2, 2009.

Takehiro Tawara, Karol Myszkowski, Kirill Dmitriev, Vlastimil Havran, Cyrille Damez and Hans-Peter Seidel,
Exploiting Temporal Coherence in Global Illumination,
Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG 2004), Budmerice, Slovakia, ACM, New York, 2004, 23-33.

Ph.D Dissertation

Efficient Global Illumination for Dynamic Scenes,
Takehiro Tawara,
Supervisor: Dr. habil. Karol Myszkowski,
Reviewers: Dr. habil. Karol Myszkowski, Prof. Dr. Xavier Pueyo, Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Seidel,
Ph. D. Dissertation of the University of Saarland, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany, 2006.
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Publications

	Takehiro Tawara, Kenji Ono, A Framework for Volume Segmentation and Visualization Using Augmented Reality, IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2010 Poster, Waltham, Massachusetts USA, March 20-21, 2010. Abst PDF Poster PDF
	Takehiro Tawara, Kenji Ono, Direct 3D Manipulation for Volume Segmentation Using Mixed Reality, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Poster, Yokohama, Japan, December 16–19, 2009.
	Takehiro Tawara, Kenji Ono, An Application of Photo Realistic Water Surface Interaction Using Mixed Reality, The 6th Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS 09), Karlsruhe, Germany, November 5–6, 2009. PDF
	俵丈展, 小野謙二, 複数の伝達関数を用いた流体シミュレーションのボリュームレンダリング, 第22回数値流体力学シンポジウム, 東京, December 17–19, pp 177, 2008. PDF
	俵丈展, 大規模流体解析のためのプリ・ポストシステム開発, 理研シンポジウム VCADシステム研究2008, 和光市, 埼玉, November 6–7, pp 90–91, 2008.
	Okita Kohei, Takehiro Tawara, Kenji Ono, Shape Representation by Singed Distance Function for Immersed Boundary Method, 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM8) / 5th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2008), Venice, Italy, June 30 – July 4, 2008.
	Kenji Ono, Takehiro Tawara, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Cartesian Grid Generation Towards Large-Scale Practical Flow Simulations, APCOM'07 in conjunction with EPMESC XI, Kyoto, JAPAN, December 3–6, 2007.
	沖田浩平, 俵丈展, 小野謙二, 熱流体解析と可視化:陰関数で表現された形状を用いた流れのシミュレーションとボリュームレンダリング, 理研シンポジウム VCADシステム研究 2007, 和光市, 埼玉, October 17–18, 2007.
	Takehiro Tawara and Kenji Ono, Fast Large Scale Voxelization using a Pedigree, The 10th ISGG Conference on Numerical Grid Generation, FORTH, Crete, Greece, September 16–20, 2007. PDF
	俵丈展 and 小野謙二, 大規模ボクセルデータの高速生成アルゴリズム, 第20回数値流体力学シンポジウム, 名古屋市, 愛知, December 18–20, 2006. PDF
	白崎実, 小野謙二, 俵丈展, 大竹豊, 寺島洋史, 茅暁陽, 陰関数形状表現にもとづくボクセル解析のためのCAEフレームワーク, 日本機械学会流体工学部門講演会, 2006.
	小野謙二, 俵丈展, 吉川広幸, 次世代可視化システムのプラットホーム, 第33回可視化情報シンポジウム, 2005.
	Takehiro Tawara, Karol Myszkowski and Hans-Peter Seidel, Efficient Rendering of Strong Secondary Lighting in Photon Mapping Algorithm, Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2004, University of Bournemouth, UK, IEEE, Los Alamitos, 2004, 174-178. PDF
	Takehiro Tawara, Karol Myszkowski and Hans-Peter Seidel, Exploiting Temporal Coherence in Final Gathering for Dynamic Scenes, Computer Graphics International (CGI 2004), Crete, Greece, IEEE, Los Alamitos, 2004, 110-119. PDF
	Takehiro Tawara, Karol Myszkowski, Kirill Dmitriev, Vlastimil Havran, Cyrille Damez and Hans-Peter Seidel, Exploiting Temporal Coherence in Global Illumination, Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG 2004), Budmerice, Slovakia, ACM, New York, 2004, 23-33. PDF
	Takehiro Tawara, Karol Myszkowski and Hans-Peter Seidel, Localizing the Final Gathering for Dynamic Scenes using the Photon Map, Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization VMV 2002, Erlangen, Germany, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka GmbH, Berlin, 2002, pp.69-76. PDF
	Karol Myszkowski, Takehiro Tawara and Hans-Peter Seidel, Using Animation Quality Metric to Improve Efficiency of Global Illumination Computation for Dynamic Environments, Proceedings of 7th SPIE Conference Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, San Jose, USA, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Washington, 2002, pp.187-196.
	Karol Myszkowski, Takehiro Tawara, Hiroyuki Akamine and Hans-Peter Seidel, Perception-Guided Global Illumination Solution for Animation Rendering, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2001): Conference Proceedings, Los Angeles, USA, August, 12-17, ACM, New York, 2001, pp.221-230. PDF
	Karol Myszkowski, Przemyslaw Rokita and Takehiro Tawara, Perception-Based Fast Rendering and Antialiasing of Walkthrough Sequences, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp.360-379, 2000. PDF
	Karol Myszkowski, Przemyslaw Rokita, Takehiro Tawara, Perceptually-Informed Accelerated Rendering of High Quality Walkthrough Sequences, Proceedings of the 10th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, (Also, in the book Rendering Techniques'99 edited by D. Lischinski and G. W. Larson, Springer Wien, 1999), pp.13-26, Granada - Spain, June 21 - 23, 1999.
	Karol Myszkowski, Takehiro Tawara, Visualization of Complex Lighting Patterns in Interactive Applications, Proceedings of Advanced Computer Systems 98, (Szczecin, Poland), ISBN 83-87362-11-5, pp.92-98, Nov. 19-20, 1998.