Journal
  • I. Sato, T. Okabe, Y. Sato,Appearance Sampling of Real Objects for Variable Illumination,”  Int. J. Computer Vision, 2007. [pdf]
  • I. Sato, M. Hayashida, F. Kai, Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, “Fast Image Synthesis of Virtual Objects in a Real Scene with Natural Shadings,” J. Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol. 36, Issue 14, pp. 102-111, December 2005. [pdf]
  • K. Ikeuchi,, M. Sakauchi, H. Kawasaki, and I. Sato, "Constructing Virtual Cities by Using Panoramic Images," Int. J. Computer Vision, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 237-247, March 2004.
  • I. Sato, Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Illumination from shadows," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 290-300, March 2003. [pdf]
  • I. Sato, Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Acquiring a Radiance Distribution to Superimpose Virtual Objects onto a Real Scene," IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-12, January-March 1999. [pdf]
  • Y. Sato, I. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "3D Shape and Reflectance Morphing," J. Systems and Computers in Japan, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 28-38, March 1998.
  • Y. Sato, I. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Object Shape Morphing with Intermediate Reflectance Properties," Int. J. Shape Modeling,, Vol. 3, Nos. 1&2, pp. 91-106, 1997. [pdf]

Conference
  • S. Han, Y. Matsushita, I. Sato, T. Okabe, and Y. Sato, "Camera Spectral Sensitivity Estimation from a Single Image under Unknown Illumination by using Fluorescence", to appear in Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012) June 2012.
  • I. Sato, T. Okabe, and Y. Sato, “Bispectral Photometric Stereo”, to appear in Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012) June 2012.
  • M. Nishiyama, T. Okabe, I. Sato, Y. Sato, “Aesthetic Quality Classification of Photographs Based on Color Harmony,” Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011) June 2011.
  • C. Zhang and I. Sato, “Separating Reflective and Fluorescent Components of An Image,” Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2011) June 2011 [Best student paper honorable mention award].
  • M. Shimano, G. Cheung, and I. Sato, "Adaptive Frame and QP Selection for Temporally Super-Resolved Full-Exposure-Time Video," Proc. International Conference on Production Research (ICPR 2011), 2011.
  • M. Shimano, G. Cheung, and I. Sato, "Compression usin self-similarity based temporal super-resolution for full-exposure-time video," to appear in Proc. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2011), May 2011.
  • M. Shimano, T. Okabe, I. Sato, and Y. Sato, "Video temporal super-resolution based on self-similarity," Proc. Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2010), November 2010.
  • H. Shuai, I. Sato , T. Okabe, and Y. Sato, "Fast spectral reflectance recovery using DLP projector", Proc. Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2010), November 2010.
    [Best student paper award].
  • M. Nishiyama, T. Okabe, Y. Sato, and I. Sato, “Sensation-based Photo Cropping,” Proc. the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2009, pp. 669-672, October 2009.
  • T. Okabe, I. Sato, and Y. Sato, “Attached Shadow Coding: Estimating Surface Normals from Shadows under Unknown Reflectance and Lighting Conditions,” Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2009), pp.1693-1700, October 2009.
  • I. Sato, T. Okabe, Q. Yu, and Y. Sato, “Shape Reconstruction Based on Similarity in Radiance Changes under Varying Illumination,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV07)pp. 1-8, October 2007.
  • M. Ashdown, T. Okabe, I. Sato, and Y. Sato, “Robust Content-Dependent Photometric Projector Compensation,” Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems, pp. 60-67, June 2006 [Best paper award].
  • M. Shimano, K. Nagao, T. Okabe, I. Sato, Y. Sato, “Face Recognition Under Varying Illumination Based on MAP Estimation Incorporating Correlation Between Surface Points”, Proc. Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2006), January 2006.
  • I. Sato, T. Okabe, Y. Sato, K. Ikeuchi, “Using Extended Light Sources for Modeling Object Appearance under Varying Illumination”, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV05), pp. 325-332, October 2005. [pdf]
  • T. Okabe, I. Sato, and Y. Sato, "Spherical Harmonics vs. Haar Wavelets: Basis for Recovering Illumination from Cast Shadows", Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR04), pp.I-50-57, June 2004. [pdf]
  • I. Sato, T. Okabe, Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Appearance Sampling for Obtaining a Set of Basis Images for Variable Illumination," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV03), pp. 800-807, October 2003. [pdf]
  • I. Sato, Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Stability Issues in Recovering Illumination Distribution from Brightness in Shadows," Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR01), pp. II-400-407, December 2001. [pdf]
  • K. Ikeuchi, Y. Sato, K. Nishino, R. Sagawa, T. Nishikawa, T. Oishi, I. Sato, J. Takamatsu, and D. Miyazaki, "Modeling Cultural Heritage through Observation," Proc. IEEE First Pacific-Rim Conf.  Multimedia, Sydney, December 2000.
  • I. Sato, Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Illumination Distribution from Brightness in Shadows: Adaptive Estimation of Illumination Distribution with Unknown Reflectance Properties in Shadow Regions," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV99), pp. 875-882, September 1999. [pdf]
  • I. Sato, Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Ilumination Distribution from Shadows," Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR99), pp. 306-312, June 1999. [pdf]
  • I. Sato, Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "A Method for Estimating Illumination Distribution of a Real Scene Based on Soft Shadows," Proc. Int. Conf. Advanced Multimedia Content Processing, pp. 47-61, November 1998.
  • Y. Sato, I. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "3D shape and reflectance morphing" Proceedings of International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications `97, pp. 234-242, Aizu, Japan, March 1997.

Workshops

  • M. Ashdown, T. Okabe, I. Sato, Y. Sato, “Robust Content-Dependent Photometric Projector Compensation,” Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems, pp. 60-67, June 2006. [Paper and Slides]
  • D. Wang, I. Sato, T. Okabe, and Y. Sato, “Photometric Compensation in a Projector-Camera System based on the Properties of the Human Vision System,” Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems, June 2005.
  • K. Oka, I. Sato, Y. Nakanishi, Y. Sato, and H. Koike, "Interaction for Entertainment Contents Based on Direct Manipulation with Bare Hands," Proc. IFIP Int. Workshop on Entertainment Computing, pp. 391-398, May 2002.
  • Y. Sato, H. Koike, Y. Nakanishi, T. Okabe, K. Oka, I. Sato, and T. Fujii, "EnhancedDesk", Conference Abstracts and Applications of ACM SIGGRAPH 2001, pp. 118, August 2001.
  • K. Ikeuchi, Y. Sato, K. Nishino, and I. Sato, "Photometric Modeling for Mixed Reality," Proc. Int. Symposium on Mixed Reality '99, pp. 147-163, March 1999.
  • T. Kim, K. Hong, I. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Enhanced Augmented Reality with Shadows in Naturally Illuminated Environments", Proc. IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, pp. 27-30, November 2000.
  • I. Sato, Y. Sato, and K. Ikeuchi, "Acquiring a Radiance Distribution to Superimpose Virtual Objects onto a Real Scene,"Proc. IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, pp. 19-22, November 1998.