Wataru Ikeda (池田 航)

International Conferences

2025

• Wataru Ikeda, Masashi Hatano, Ryosei Hara, Mariko Isogawa, "Event-based Egocentric Human Pose Estimation in Dynamic Environment", ICIP, 2025. (acceptance rate 39.6%) [Project Page]
• Ryosei Hara, Wataru Ikeda, Masashi Hatano, Mariko Isogawa, "EventEgoHands: Event-based Egocentric 3D Hand Mesh Reconstruction", ICIP, 2025. (acceptance rate 39.6%) [Project Page]

Domestic Conferences

2026

• Ryotaro Ishida, Wataru Ikeda, Ryosei Hara, Akemi Kobayashi, Satoki Kimura, Mariko Isogawa, "Robust Impact Timing Estimation in Sports under Low-Light and Occluded Conditions", The 4th Sports Informatics Research Conference, UEC Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Mar 4, 2026. Oral paper
• Wataru Ikeda, Ryosei Hara, Hiroyuki Deguchi, Masashi Hatano, Ryosuke Hori, Hideo Saito, Mariko Isogawa, "3D Human Body and Hand Shape Reconstruction Using Event Cameras", The 40th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, G Messe Gunma, Gunma, Japan, Jun 2026 (to appear). Organized session oral paper

2025

• Wataru Ikeda, Masashi Hatano, Ryosei Hara, Mariko Isogawa, "Event-based Egocentric Human Pose Estimation in Dynamic Environment", The 28th Symposium on Sensing via Image Information MIRU2025, KICC, Kyoto, Japan, Jul 31, 2025. Oral paper with review (selected as top 34.5%)
• Ryosei Hara, Wataru Ikeda, Masashi Hatano, Mariko Isogawa, "EventEgoHands: Event-based Egocentric 3D Hand Mesh Reconstruction", The 28th Symposium on Sensing via Image Information MIRU2025, KICC, Kyoto, Japan, Jul 31, 2025. Oral paper with review (selected as top 34.5%)
• Ryotaro Ishida, Wataru Ikeda, Ryosei Hara, Akemi Kobayashi, Satoki Kimura, Mariko Isogawa, "Impact Timing Estimation in Batting Using an Event Camera", Sports Informatics and Technology (SIT), Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan, Aug 1, 2025. Oral paper

2024

• Wataru Ikeda, Mariko Isogawa, "D-EventEgo: Egocentric 3D Human Pose Estimation Using Event Camera in Dynamic Environment", The 27th Symposium on Sensing via Image Information MIRU2024, Kumamoto Castle Hall, Kumamoto, Japan, Aug 7, 2024.
• Ryosei Hara, Wataru Ikeda, Mariko Isogawa, "3D Human Hand Shape Estimation Using Event Camera under Dynamic Background", The 27th Symposium on Sensing via Image Information MIRU2024, Kumamoto Castle Hall, Kumamoto, Japan, Aug 7-8, 2024.

2023

• Wataru Ikeda*, Hiroyuki Deguchi*, Ryosuke Hori, Mariko Isogawa, Hideo Saito, "EventPointMesh in Realtime: Real-time 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation Using Only Event Information", The 26th Symposium on Sensing via Image Information MIRU2023, Act City Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, Jul 26-27, 2023.

* Equal contribution

Grants & Scholarships

Grants (Non-repayable)

• Fujiwara Scholarship Fund (Sep 2025 – Mar 2026): ¥500,000/year
• Keio-BOOST (Sep 2025 – Mar 2027): ¥3,600,000/year + ¥300,000 research fund

Loans (Repayable)

• JASSO Type I Scholarship (Apr 2024 – Sep 2025): ¥88,000/month

Internships

NEC Corporation

【Aug 2024 - Sep 2024】

• Research Internship
• Improving spatiotemporal prediction accuracy in world models
• Reference articles
• "World Model" Further Evolves: Robot AI Technology that Adapts to Environments and Makes Precise Movements

CyberAgent, Inc.

【Jul 2024 - Aug 2024】

• AI Business Division, Extreme Prediction AI Team - Data Science
• Improving inference accuracy for advertising effectiveness using video input (Deep Learning, Python, GCP)
• Reference articles
• Revolutionizing AI-based Creative Production: Launch of "Extreme Prediction AI" with Performance-based Pricing
• AI/Data Technology Map (pdf), Extreme Prediction AI

Lightblue Co., Ltd.

【Mar 2022 - May 2024】

• Image processing (Object detection, OCR, Deep Learning, PyTorch)
• Video processing (Gaze estimation, Deep Learning, PyTorch)
• AWS (Lambda, EC2, SageMaker, ECS, DynamoDB etc.)
• Edge AI computing (NVIDIA Jetson etc.)
• LLM (OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI Service etc.)
• Web development (Vue, React, TypeScript)
• Teams app development (FastAPI, Python)

Freelance Work

【Jun 2023 - Oct 2025】
AI implementation and improvement in IT, marketing, pharmaceutical, and real estate sectors

• Demand forecasting (Regression models, Time series models, LightGBM, Ensemble methods)
• Data analysis (Principal component analysis, Cosine similarity, Co-occurrence matrix, Granger causality test, Basic statistical analysis)
• Web application and API development for prediction models and data analysis (Streamlit, Google Cloud Run)
• Azure Chat web development (Next.js, TypeScript)
• Image processing (Deep Learning, Instance Segmentation)
• Image generation (Deep Learning, Diffusion Models, Azure Machine Learning)
• Zenn book writing collaboration
  • Quick Start Chatbot【ChatGPT / Python】 (500+ likes)
  • Quick Start Prompt Engineering【LangChain / ChatGPT】 (1000+ likes)

Qualifications

• Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination (Mar 2021)
• Certified Expert of Image Processing Engineers (May 2022)