Last update: Apr. 23, 2025
English / Japanese

Hideaki GOTO (Ph.D.)

Associate Professor,
Research Division on Information Network Systems,
Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University

Additional posts:

• Visiting Associate Professor,
  National Institute of Informatics (Apr 2008-)

Individual Data, Publication List at researchmap.

Recent business trips abroad :)  

• 2025: Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Petaling Jaya, Bangkok, planned>> Taipei, Brighton, Toronto, Paris
• 2024: Rennes, Sydney/Melbourne, Paris, Dublin (twice), Christchurch
• 2023: Singapore, Lisbon, Tirana, Turin, Madrid, Paris, Prague
• 2021-2022: No trip due to COVID-19.
• 2020: Singapore, Vienna, cancelled>> Stockholm, Chicago, Madrid, etc.
• 2019: Hong Kong, Prague, Atlanta, Tallinn, Milwaukee, Putrajaya, Sydney, Frankfurt, London, Auckland, Noisy-le-Grand/Paris
• 2018: Vienna, Singapore, Vienna, Trondheim, Auckland, Barcelona, London, Berlin, Riga, Auckland
• 2017: Singapore, Vienna, Linz, Torino, Hague, New York, Christchurch
• 2016: Atlanta, Prague, Linz, Hong Kong, Phoenix, New York, Knoxville (US)
• 2015: Porto, Taichung, Kuala Lumpur, Quebec City, Budapest, Loughborough (UK), Bangkok
• and more before

Portal of Goto Lab. -- https://www.imglab.org/

Dear prospective MC/DC and undergraduate students
(Applicants MUST check the position availability here.)

Research areas

1. Image Processing and Image Recognition/Understanding Algorithms
   (Hough Transform, etc.)
2. Document Layout Analysis
   • A tiny project for open source code; Project-O2
3. Character Recognition
4. Wireless network and roaming systems
5. Identity federation
6. Network Security / Information Security
7. High-speed algorithms for image recognition
8. Distributed Computing / Grid Computing
9. Design and construction of Educational Computer Systems

Projects

• NGH Special Interest Group (Since Jan. 31, 2017) : Development of Passpoint/NGH infrastructure
• eduroam - World-wide Wi-Fi roaming access service (Operation, research and development of eduroam JP)
• ocrgrid.org  (Oct. 2005 - Dec. 2017)
• WeOCR Project  (Feb. 2005 - Dec. 2017)
• Project-O2  (Since 1997)
• Computer Vision for Network Security   (Dec. 2005)
• ... etc.

• GakuNin - Academic Access Management Federation in Japan
• UPKI Initiative (Japanese)

• trackpeer : Peer Tracking Agent
• WeOCR - Web-enabled OCR
• NHocr - the Japanese OCR

• GitHub
• Google Code

Repository

• Open Database / Datasets