Cloud Service Infrastructure (CSI) Laboratory
Goto Laboratory at Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University

Last update: Apr. 23, 2025

Introduction

Our laboratory is currently located at Cyberscience Center of Tohoku University in Japan, and a part of Information Network Systems Laboratory.

The lab is also a member of the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS).

We specialize in Wireless Network Roaming, Identity Federation, Information Security, Cloud Services, Document Analysis and Recognition, Pattern Recognition, and Image Computing.

• Hideaki Goto's home page

• 2026年度研究室紹介スライド (PDF)
• Dear prospective MC/DC students from foreign countries
  (Applicants MUST check the position availability here.)

Projects

• Privacy-Aware Inter-Regional Data Sharing for Wi-Fi Roaming  (NICT project, 2024-2025)
  
• Beyond 5G Wi-Fi Roaming  (NICT project, 2021-2023)
  
• NGH Special Interest Group (NGHSIG)  (Since Jan. 31, 2017)
  - Developing a world-wide Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) infrastructure, partly in a collaborative work with the WBA.
  - Developing Cityroam (Secure Wi-Fi Roaming).
  
  - Developing off-campus eduroam services.

old projects (no longer active)

• OCRGrid Project  (Oct. 2005 - Dec. 2017)
  - Developing a world-wide cooperative OCR web service system
• WeOCR Project  (Feb. 2005 - Dec. 2017)
  - 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
• GakuNin - Academic Access Management Federation in Japan
• ... etc.

weekend projects :)

• NHocr - OCR engine for Japanese language (GitHub, Google Code (obsolete))
• Grab 'n' OCR - Camera-based Optical Character Recognition (OCR) utility ( Microsoft Store)
• Grab 'n' Read - Reading Assistant software helping blind/visually-impaired people to read signboards, leaflets, product labels, etc., using OCR and speech synthesis. ( Microsoft Store)

Resources

• Open Database / Datasets