About
I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Tokyo, working on visual environment understanding with a focus on camera-based localization. My research aims to develop visual perception systems that enable robots to reliably understand their surroundings and navigate autonomously in complex real-world environments.Interests
RoboticsLocalizationSpatial AIComputer VisionMachine Learning
Selected Papers
CubeDVO: Cubemap-Spherical Deep Visual Odometry for a Monocular 360-Degree Camera
Taisei Ando, Junwoon Lee, Takuya Igaue, Kohtaro Nakamura, Mitsuru Shinozaki, Toshihiro Kitajima, Qi An, and Atsushi Yamashita
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 9543-9550, 2026.
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Efficient Distortion Mitigation in Equirectangular Images for Two-View Pose Estimation
Taisei Ando, Junwoon Lee, Mitsuru Shinozaki, Toshihiro Kitajima, Qi An, and Atsushi Yamashita
International Journal of Automation Technology, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 226-236, May 2025.
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Honors
- Partial Repayment Exemption for Outstanding Achievement, Type 1 Graduate Scholarship
Jul. 2026, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) - Graduate School Research Encouragement Award
Feb. 2026, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE) - Excellent Presentation Award
Dec. 2025, The 26th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2025), The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) - Best Paper Award
Oct. 2024, The 24th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2024) - Fellowship
Oct. 2024 - Present, International Graduate Program of Innovation for Intelligent World, The University of Tokyo - Scholarship
Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2026, Satomi Scholarship Foundation