Publications - LY Corporation R&D

JOURNAL (INTERNATIONAL)
Leveraging Screen-Integrated Speakers for Hand-Pose Recognition in Mobile Interfaces: Kaori Ikematsu*, Kunihiro Kato* (Tokyo University of Technology), *co-1st authors; International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI); December 23, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Omni-CityMood: Vision-based Urban Atmosphere Perception from Every Angle: Yuki Kubota (Institute of Science Tokyo), Kota Tsubouchi, Soto Anno (Institute of Science Tokyo), Kaito Ide (Institute of Science Tokyo), Masamichi Shimosaka (Institute of Science Tokyo); The 33rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025); December 22, 2025

JOURNAL (DOMESTIC)
BodSockets：スマホソケット型インタフェースを用いたスマートフォンの背面領域を活用した操作手法の提案: 日下部完 (北海道大学), 池松香, 坂本大介 (北海道大学), 小野哲雄 (京都橘大学); 情報処理学会論文誌ジャーナル (IPSJ Journal); December 15, 2025

WORKSHOP (INTERNATIONAL)
CAVIARES: Corpus for Audio-Visual Expressive Voice Agent: Jinsheng Chen (The University of Tokyo), Yuki Saito (The University of Tokyo), Dong Yang (The University of Tokyo), Naoko Tanji (The University of Tokyo), Hironori Doi, Byeongseon Park, Yuma Shirahata, Kentaro Tachibana, Hiroshi Saruwatari (The University of Tokyo); 2025 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2025); December 09, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Learning Disentangled Document Representations Based on a Classical Shallow Neural Encoder: Yuro Kanada (Shizuoka university), Sumio Fujita, Yoshiyuki Shoji (Shizuoka university); The 27th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence (iiWAS 2025); December 08, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
A Provable Approach for End-to-End Safe Reinforcement Learning: Akifumi Wachi, Kohei Miyaguchi, Takumi Tanabe, Rei Sato, Youhei Akimoto (University of Tsukuba, RIKEN AIP); The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025); December 05, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Improved Regret Bounds for Gaussian Process Upper Confidence Bound in Bayesian Optimization: Shogo Iwazaki; The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025); December 05, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Enhancing Freehand VR Interaction Using Fingertip Deformation on User Performance: Kosuke Morimoto (Meiji University), Nobuhito Kasahara (Meiji University), Shota Yamanaka, Homei Miyashita (Meiji University), Keita Watanabe (Meiji University); The 31st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2025); December 04, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Gaussian Process Upper Confidence Bound Achieves Nearly-Optimal Regret in Noise-Free Gaussian Process Bandits: Shogo Iwazaki; The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025); December 04, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Tunnels vs. Wires: A Comparative Analysis of Two 3D Steering Tasks in Virtual Environments: Mohammadreza Amini (Concordia University), Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (Simon Fraser University), Shota Yamanaka, Hai-Ning Liang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Anil Ufuk Batmaz (Concordia University); The 31st ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2025); December 04, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Offline Guarded Safe Reinforcement Learning for Medical Treatment Optimization Strategies: Runze Yan (Emory University), Xun Shen (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), Akifumi Wachi, Sebastien Gros (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Anni Zhao (Emory University), Xiao Hu (Emory University); The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025); December 03, 2025

WORKSHOP (DOMESTIC)
VR環境におけるレイキャストによるオブジェクトの選択成功率推定ツールの提案: 奥野達也 (明治大学), 清水春翔 (明治大学), 笠原暢仁 (明治大学), 本間大一優 (明治大学), 山中祥太, 宮下芳明 (明治大学); 第33回インタラクティブシステムとソフトウェアに関するワークショップ (WISS 2025); December 03, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Preliminary Study on the Effects of On-Screen Tactile Feedback on Virtual Joystick Interaction: Kaoru Shirane (University of Tsukuba), Riku Tsunoda (University of Tsukuba), Hiroki Matsuda (University of Tsukuba), Yuto Wada (University of Tsukuba), Takumi Masuda (University of Tsukuba), Tomohiro Honda (University of Tsukuba), Kaori Ikematsu, Buntarou Shizuki (University of Tsukuba); The 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI 2025); November 28, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Reducing Perceived Waiting Time with Peripheral Visual Motion: Directional and Device-Specific Effects: Kenjiro Ogawa (Meiji University), Satoshi Nakamura (Meiji University), Shota Yamanaka, Ryota Nakamura (Meiji University); The 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI 2025); November 28, 2025

CONFERENCE (DOMESTIC)
ウェアラブルUWBの時系列CIRを用いた呼吸推定: 芝塚育大 (東京科学大学情報理工学院情報工学系), 藤重凱人 (東京科学大学情報理工学院情報工学系), 坪内孝太, 西山勇毅 (東京科学大学情報理工学院情報工学系), 下坂正倫 (東京科学大学情報理工学院情報工学系); 情報処理学会ユビキタスコンピューティングシステム研究会 (IPSJ SIGUBI); November 19, 2025

JOURNAL (INTERNATIONAL)
Transfer Effects of Long-Term and High-Frequency Web Service Use on Target-Pointing Performance: Shota Yamanaka, Hiroaki Taguchi; The Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI); November 13, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Effect of Model Merging in Domain-Specific Ad-hoc Retrieval: Taiga Sasaki (Hyogo University), Takehiro Yamamoto (Hyogo University), Hiroaki Ohshima (Hyogo University), Sumio Fujita; The 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025); November 10, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Just One is Enough: An Existence-based Alignment Check for Robust Japanese Pronunciation Estimation: Hayate Nakano, Nobuhiro Kaji; The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025); November 09, 2025

CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
Predicting Cross-lingual Trends in Microblogs: Satoshi Akasaki; The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025); November 05, 2025

JOURNAL (DOMESTIC)
再構成型概念マップを用いたプロジェクトリスク予防法: 林直也, 渡邉弘大 (広島大学大学院先進理工系科学研究科), 林雄介 (広島大学大学院先進理工系科学研究科), 平嶋宗 (広島大学大学院先進理工系科学研究科); 人工知能学会論文誌 (JSAI); November 01, 2025