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Dr. Motofumi Shishikura, an AIST Postdoctoral Researcher, received the 2nd Terao Young Researcher Award.
This award recognizes the following research presentation delivered at the 2026 Winter Meeting of the Vision Society of Japan.
Title: Comparing Object Representations in Convolutional Neural Networks and the Macaque IT Cortex
Authors: Motofumi Shishikura, Hoko Nakada, Ryusuke Hayashi
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The following paper has been published in IEEE Access.
Title: Motion Transfer-Enhanced StyleGAN for Generating Diverse Macaque Facial Expressions
Authors: Takuya Igaue, Catia Correia-Caeiro, Akito Yoshida, Takako Miyabe-Nishiwaki, Ryusuke Hayashi
IEEE Access, Vol. 14, pp. 95120-95136, 2026.
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Motofumi Shishikura received the Neuro2026 Excellence Award for the Training Session for Early-Career Scientists.
The awarded presentation is listed below.
Title: Population coding of global object shape along the macaque inferior temporal cortex
Authors: Motofumi Shishikura, Hoko Nakada, Ryusuke Hayashi
Neuro2026, Kobe International Conference Center, Japan, July 30, 2026.
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Motofumi Shishikura received the 2026 Paper Award of the Japan Neural Network Society.
The awarded paper is listed below.
Title: Local contour features contribute to figure-ground segregation in monkey V4 neural populations and human perception
Authors: Motofumi Shishikura, Itsuki Machida, Hiroshi Tamura, Ko Sakai
Neural Networks, Vol. 181, 106821, 2025.
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- Dr. Kazumi Kasahara, Principal Researcher, has joined our group as a new member.
- Dr. Honoka Nakata, an AIST Postdoctoral Researcher, received the 1st Terao Young Researcher Award.
This award recognizes the following research presentation delivered at the 2025 Summer Meeting of the Vision Society of Japan.
Title:Neural Responses in the Inferior Temporal Cortex of Macaque Monkeys to Images of Translucent Objects Generated Using Different Methods
Authors:Honoka Nakata, Aoi Fujimoto, Ken Matsuo, Keisuke Kawasaki, Shinya Nishida, Ryusuke Hayashi
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