KITAMOTO Asanobu

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Name
KITAMOTO Asanobu
URL
http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/~kitamoto/
Affiliation
National Institute of Informatics
Section
Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division
Job title
Associate Professor
Degree
Doctor of Engineering
Other affiliation
The Graduate University for Advanced StudiesJapan Science and Technology Agency
Twitter ID
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Dr. Asanobu KITAMOTO earned Ph.D. in Engineering from University of Tokyo in 1997. He then worked for National Center for Science Information Systems, which was later reorganized to National Institute of Informatics, where he now serves as associate professor. His research interests include image information processing, earth environmental informatics, and digital archives of cultural heritage. His work on e-Science and e-Culture also produced several popular websites, which has been attracting a large number of professional and general users to obtain academic and scientific data.

Career

 
Apr 2004
 - 
Today
Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics
 
Oct 2009
 - 
Mar 2013
JST PRESTO Researcher
 
Apr 1997
   
 
Research Associate, National Center for Science Information Systems
 

Academic Societies

 
 

Prizes

 
Mar 2013
Electrical Japan, Softbank Telecom Award, Open Data Promotion Consortium
 
Mar 2013
Electrical Japan, Excellence Award, Visualization Division, Committee of LOD Challenge
 
Dec 2012
311 Memories, 16th Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Recommended Works, Agency for Cultural Affairs
 
Nov 2011
CSIS Days 2011 Best Presentation Award, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo
 
Nov 2010
Best Paper Award, Euromed 2010
 

Papers

 
Near real-time characterisation of urban environments: a holistic approach for monitoring dengue fever risk areas
Muhammad Shahzad Sarfraz, Nitin Kumar Tripathi, Asanobu KITAMOTO
International Journal of Digital Earth   6(3)    Apr 2013   [Refereed]
Lessons Learned from Data Management Activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011
KITAMOTO Asanobu
Data Science Journal   12 WDS105-WDS108   Mar 2013   [Refereed]
Groundwork for a TEI-Based Digital Genetic Archive of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
Mikio FUSE, Asanobu KITAMOTO
IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2012   143-150   Dec 2012   [Refereed]
Monitoring of meteorological events through the integration and retrieval of massive multimedia data
KITAMOTO Asanobu
Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers   66(11) 907-912   Nov 2012   [Invited]
Embroidery Modeling and Rendering
Xinling Chen, Michael McCool, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Stephen Mann
Proceedings of the 38th Graphics Interface conference 2012      May 2012   [Refereed]

Misc

 
Digital Typhoon: Typhoon information in the age of big data - integration and analysis of big data toward the real-time recognition and understanding of meteorological phenomena
KITAMOTO Asanobu
Image Laboratory   24(4) 17-22   Apr 2013   [Invited]
Digital Typhoon: Integration and Analysis of Large-scale Data for the Real-time Recognition and Understanding of Meteorological Phenomena
KITAMOTO Asanobu
Technical Report of IEICE   111(222) 5-5   Oct 2011   [Invited]
Data Integration and Visualization for Multi‐Disciplinary Disaster‐related Data after Tohoku Earthquake 2011
Asanobu KITAMOTO
The 1st ICSU World Data System Conference      Sep 2011
Digital Silk Road: Toward Digital Survey of Dunhuang Mogao Caves"
Asanobu KITAMOTO, Makiko ONISHI, Yoko NISHIMURA, Kinji ONO
2011 Dunhuang Forum: International Conference on Cultural Heritages and Digitization      Aug 2011   [Invited]
Digital Silk Road : Reviving Silk Road Using Massive Geospatial Data
KITAMOTO Asanobu
2011 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (JAFOE)      Jun 2011   [Invited]

Conferences

 
Impact of Historical Databases on Silk Road Studies
Asanobu KITAMOTO, Yoko NISHIMURA
DSR International Symposium 2013 - Telling the History of Silk Road from Data   Feb 2013   
Integration of Survey Results on Kara-Khoja based on the Criticism of Maps
Yoko NISHIMURA, Asanobu KITAMOTO
DSR International Symposium 2013 - Telling the History of Silk Road from Data   Feb 2013   
Contribution of Data-Centric Science to Societal Benefit Areas - Toward Better Actions in Agriculture, Biodiversity, and Disasters [Invited]
KITAMOTO Asanobu
International Symposium on Global Knowledge Circulation -Designing Integrated Social Infrastructure   Dec 2012   
Bayesian TV: The Design of Crisis Information Media
KITAMOTO Asanobu
Second Symposium of "Synthesis of Knowledge for Information Oriented Society"   Dec 2012   
Possibility of Real-time Sharing of Operational Pictures Based on the Integration of Sensor Data and Social Media [Invited]
KITAMOTO Asanobu
Symposium on Revolutionary Mobility and Sensing - Special Interest Group "Human Probe" of IEICE   Nov 2012   

Bibliography

 
Historical GIS Perspective in Japan - Landscape Reconstruction, Environment and Regional Structure
Yoko NISHIMURA, Asanobu KITAMOTO (Part:Contributor, 『乾隆京城全図』と古写真を用いた北京古景観の再現)
Bensei Shuppan   Mar 2012   
Multimedia Mining
Djeraba, C. (Eds.)
Kluwer Academic Publishers   Nov 2002   ISBN:1-4020-7247-3

Works

 
KITAMOTO Asanobu   Database   Jan 2012 - Today
KITAMOTO Asanobu   Web Service   Nov 2011 - Today
KITAMOTO Asanobu   Artistic Activity   Oct 2011 - Today
KITAMOTO Asanobu   Artistic Activity   Jul 2011 - Today
KITAMOTO Asanobu   Database   Mar 2011 - Today
KITAMOTO Asanobu, OGATA Hisato   Artistic Activity   Sep 2012

Research Projects (Competitive Research Funds)

 
Earth Environmental Information Integration Program
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT): Initiatives on Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change
Project Year: Apr 2011 - Mar 2016    Investigator(s): KITAMOTO Asanobu
Digital Typhoon: Typhoon Images and Information
MEXT: Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results (Database)
Project Year: Apr 2013 - Mar 2014    Investigator(s): KITAMOTO Asanobu
National Institute of Informatics Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books
MEXT: Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results (Database)
Project Year: Apr 2012 - Mar 2013    Investigator(s): KITAMOTO Asanobu
Coastal ocean prediction for Thailand by integrating database technology into simulation
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT): Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers)
Project Year: Nov 2010 - Oct 2012    Investigator(s): KITAMOTO Asanobu
Typhoon Imagination : Development of Online Game for Disaster Reduction with Multiple Evaluation Cycles Synchronizing with the Real World
Hayao Nakayama Foundation for Science & Technology and Culture: Research Grants
Project Year: Apr 2011 - Mar 2012    Investigator(s): KITAMOTO Asanobu