Sotaro Kanazawa | The University of Tokyo

About Me

Sotaro Kanazawa (金澤爽太郎) is a second-year master’s student at the University of Tokyo. He conducts his research at the User Interface Research Group with Takeo Igarashi and I-Chao Shen. He also works with Shuhei Kurita at the National Institute of Informatics (NII).

Research Interests

Computer Vision & Graphics
- 3D Vision
- Graphic Design Generation
Human-Computer Interaction for CV/CG

Publications

IUI

User-Guided Correction of Reconstruction Errors in Structure-from-Motion

Improve 3D reconstruction from Structure-from-Motion (SfM) through user guidance. Internship project at Preferred Networks, Inc.

Sotaro Kanazawa, Jinyao Zhou, Yuta Kikuchi, Sosuke Kobayashi, Chunyu Li, Fabrice Matulic, Takeo Igarashi, Keita Higuchi

ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2025.

PDF Blog

SIGGRAPH Asia

Generating Font Variations Using Latent Space Trajectory

Sotaro Kanazawa, I-Chao Shen, Yuki Tatsukawa, Takeo Igarashi

ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2024.

Poster

Projects

Asagi

September 2024 - March 2025
Japanese vision-language model [project page].

DubGuild

March 2024 - March 2025
AI-assisted software for anime dubbing [project page]. Project under MITOU Advanced (未踏アドバンスト) 2024 ($100,000 grant).