Sotaro Kanazawa

Master's Student
The University of Tokyo
kanazawa-sotaro317 (at) is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

About Me

I am Sotaro Kanazawa, a second-year master’s student at the University of Tokyo. I conduct my research in the User Interface Research Group with Takeo Igarashi and I-Chao Shen. I also work with Shuhei Kurita at the National Institute of Informatics (NII). I am currently a visiting researcher in the Generative Intelligence Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, collaborating with Jun-Yan Zhu.

Research Interests

Computer Vision & Graphics
- 3D Perception
- Generative Model for Visual Content
Human-Computer Interaction for CV/CG

Selected 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.

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Research Experiences

Visiting Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University

January 2026 - Present
Adviser: Jun-Yan Zhu

Research Assistant, NII (National Institute of Informatics)

June 2025 - Present
Advisers: Shuhei Kurita and Satoshi Ikehata

Research Intern, Preferred Networks

August 2024 - September 2024
Adviser: Keita Higuchi

Work Experiences

ML Engineer, DubGuild

March 2024 - March 2025
Founding engineer at a speech AI startup, selected for MITOU Advanced 2024 ($100,000 grant).

Projects

Asagi

September 2024 - March 2025
Japanese vision-language model [project page].
Advisers: Kohei Uehara and Tatsuya Harada

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