Goto Laboratory   at Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University
   - Annex Site -

Last update: Aug 29, 2009

Introduction

Our laboratory is currently located at Cyberscience Center of Tohoku University in Japan, and a part of Ultra-Highspeed Information Processing Algorithms Laboratory.

The lab is also a member of the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) and of the Division of Mechanical Engineering. The lab is often identified by its conventional name "Goto Laboratory" at GSIS and the Division of Mechanical Engineering.

We specialize in Image Computing, Document Analysis and Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Computer Networks and Communications. For details, please visit the following websites.

• Research Topics at Goto Lab.
• Hideaki Goto's home page

This website, www.imglab.org, is used as an Annex Portal and Open Repository of our laboratory.

Projects

• OCRGrid.org  (Since Oct. 2005)
  - Developing a world-wide cooperative OCR web service system
• WeOCR Project  (Since Feb. 2005)
  - Web-enabled OCR system - an implementation of the OCRGrid above
• Project-O2  (Since 1997)
  - Open Source project for Document Analysis and Recognition
• Text-Tracking Wearable Camera System
  - Development of a wearable document recognition system, especially for the blind and the visually-impaired.
  
• Text Finder
  - Development of Text Capture and Scene Text Recognition methods for autonomous robots.
  
• Computer Vision for Network Security   (Dec. 2005)
• ... etc.

collaborative projects

• eduroam JP
  - R&D on WLAN roaming systems including eduroam
• UPKI Initiative (Japanese)
  - Development of Cyber Science Infrastructure (CSI) in Japan
• ... etc.

weekend projects :)

• NHocr - OCR engine for Japanese language (at Google Code)

Resources

• Open Database / Datasets