ASPIRE Camp

Professor Iwai and PhD students Hiroki Kusuyama, Masaki Takeuchi, Kohei Miura, and Thanapong Sommart participated in a research retreat of the JST ASPIRE project, “Establishing an international collaborative research network on human and spatial augmentation,” held in Karuizawa for three days starting March 12, 2026. During the retreat, they had intensive research discussions and exchanges with leading researchers in the fields of XR, HCI, and computer vision.

Their presentation titles were as follows:

• Hiroki Kusuyama: Shadowless projection mapping with large-format Fresnel lens
• Masaki Takeuchi: Enhancing Material Appearance in Projection Mapping
• Kohei Miura: Exploring thermal contact potentials for Hand–Object Interaction refinement
• Thanapong Sommart: Target Image Adaptation in Projection Mapping using Learnable Contrast and Brightness