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May 01, 2026 2026年5月1日	Chi Zhang joined our lab as a Specially Appointed Researcher. Welcome!
Feb 21, 2026 2026年2月21日	Our paper is accepted to CVPR2026! Daichi Yashima, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda, Komei Sugiura, “ReMoRa: Multimodal Large Language Model based on Refined Motion Representation for Long-Video Understanding”, CVPR2026. arXiv
Feb 01, 2026 2026年2月1日	Our paper is accepted to ICRA2026! Tomoya Yoshida, Shuhei Kurita, Taichi Nishimura, Shinsuke Mori, “Developing Vision-Language-Action Model from Egocentric Videos”, ICRA2026. arXiv
Sep 27, 2025 2025年9月27日	Our paper is accepted to ACMMM2025! Mahiro Ukai, Shuhei Kurita, Nakamasa Inoue, “STATUS Bench: A Rigorous Benchmark for Evaluating Object State Understanding in Vision-Language Models”, ACMMM2025. paper
Jun 26, 2025 2025年6月26日	Three papers are accepted to ICCV2025! Kanoko Goto, Takumi Hirose, Mahiro Ukai, Shuhei Kurita, Nakamasa Inoue, “Referring Expression Comprehension for Small Objects”, paper. Jungdae Lee, Taiki Miyanishi, Shuhei Kurita, Koya Sakamoto, Daichi Azuma, Yutaka Matsuo and Nakamasa Inoue, “CityNav: A Large-Scale Dataset for Real-World Aerial Navigation”, paper. Shunsuke Yasuki, Taiki Miyanishi, Nakamasa Inoue, Shuhei Kurita, Koya Sakamoto, Daichi Azuma, Masato Taki, Yutaka Matsuo, “GeoProg3D: Compositional Visual Reasoning for City-Scale 3D Language Fields”, paper.
Jun 17, 2025 2025年6月17日	Our paper is accepted to IROS2025! Yuta Irisawa, Tomoaki Yamazaki, Seiya Ito, Shuhei Kurita, Ryota Akasaka, Masaki Onishi, Kouzou Ohara, Ken Sakurada, “Low-Latency Privacy-Aware Robot Behavior guided by Automatically Generated Text Datasets”, IROS2025. paper.
Mar 08, 2025 2025年3月8日	Our paper is accepted to CVPR2025 Highlight! Tomoya Yoshida, Shuhei Kurita, Taichi Nishimura, Shinsuke Mori, “Generating 6DoF Object Manipulation Trajectories from Action Description in Egocentric Vision”, CVPR2025. project, arXiv.
Jan 23, 2025 2025年1月23日	Two papers are accepted to NAACL2025! Eri Onami, Taiki Miyanishi, Koki Maeda, Shuhei Kurita, “LegalViz: Legal Text Visualization by Text To Diagram Generation”, paper. Keito Sasagawa, Koki Maeda, Issa Sugiura, Shuhei Kurita, Naoaki Okazaki, Daisuke Kawahara, “Constructing Multimodal Datasets from Scratch for Rapid Development of a Japanese Visual Language Model”, paper.
Jun 30, 2024 2024年6月30日	Two papers are accepted to IROS2024! Daichi Azuma, Taiki Miyanishi, Shuhei Kurita, Koya Sakamoto and Motoaki Kawanabe, Answerability Fields: Answerable Location Estimation via Diffusion Models, IROS 2024. Koya Sakamoto, Daichi Azuma, Taiki Miyanishi, Shuhei Kurita and Motoaki Kawanabe, Map-based Modular Approach for Zero-shot Embodied Question Answering, IROS 2024.
Feb 21, 2024 2024年2月21日	Two papers are accepted to LREC-COLING2024! Eri Onami, Shuhei Kurita, Taiki Miyanishi, Taro Watanabe, JDocQA: Japanese Document Question Answering Dataset for Generative Language Models Chieko Nishimura, Shuhei Kurita and Yohei Seki, Text360Nav: 360-Degree Image Captioning Dataset for Urban Pedestrians Navigation
Oct 08, 2023 2023年10月8日	Two papers are accepted to EMNLP2023 findings! Koki Maeda, Shuhei Kurita, Taiki Miyanishi, Naoaki Okazaki, Query-based Image Captioning from Multi-context 360° Images Shunya Kato, Shuhei Kurita, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi, ARKitSceneRefer: Text-based Localization of Small Objects in Diverse Real-World 3D Indoor Scenes
Sep 22, 2023 2023年9月22日	Our paper is accepted to NeurIPS2023 Datasets and Benchmarks track! Taiki Miyanishi, Fumiya Kitamori, Shuhei Kurita, Jungdae Lee, Motoaki Kawanabe, Nakamasa Inoue, CityRefer: Geography-aware 3D Visual Grounding Dataset on City-scale Point Cloud Data
Jul 20, 2023 2023年7月20日	Our paper is accepted to ICCV2023! RefEgo: Referring Expression Comprehension Dataset from First-Person Perception of Ego4D Shuhei Kurita, Naoki Katsura and Eri Onami Update: [arXiv paper] [code] available!
Apr 01, 2023 2023年4月1日	I become a research scientist in the RIKEN-AIP LIAT team, Japan.
Feb 01, 2023 2023年2月1日	We will obtain JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research(A)) （科研費国際共同研究強化（Ａ））from Japan, starting from April, 2023!
Oct 10, 2022 2022年10月10日	We will make the follwing two presentations at COLING2022 conference! Shuhei Kurita, Hiroki Ouchi, Kentaro Inui and Satoshi Sekine, Iterative Span Selection: Self-Emergence of Resolving Orders in Semantic Role Labeling. Keisuke Shirai, Atsushi Hashimoto, Taichi Nishimura, Hirotaka Kameko, Shuhei Kurita, Yoshitaka Ushiku and Shinsuke Mori, Visual Recipe Flow: A Dataset for Learning Visual State Changes of Objects with Recipe Flows. Thank you to my co-authors!!
Mar 02, 2022 2022年3月2日	Our paper is accepted to CVPR2022! ScanQA: 3D Question Answering for Spatial Scene Understanding Daichi Azuma(), Taiki Miyanishi(), Shuhei Kurita(), Motoaki Kawanabe. (): equally contributed Thank you to my co-authors!!
Mar 01, 2022 2022年3月1日	My research grant proporal for JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists in Japan is acceped!
Aug 26, 2021 2021年8月26日	Our paper is accepted to EMNLP2021 Findings! Co-Teaching Student-Model through Submission Results of Shared Task Kouta Nakayama, Shuhei Kurita, Akio Kobayashi, Yukino Baba and Satoshi Sekine.
Jan 12, 2021 2021年1月12日	Our paper at NYU visiting with Prof. Kyunghyun Cho is accepted to ICLR2021! Shuhei Kurita and Kyunghyun Cho Generative Language-Grounded Policy in Vision-and-Language Navigation with Bayes’ Rule. OpenReview
Nov 24, 2020 2020年11月24日	I am selected as a JST PRESTO “Trustworthy AI” reseach project member from December! (~3.5 years, ~40M yens.) I will delightedly work with many researchers in and out of PRESTO!
Jan 09, 2020 2020年1月9日	Thank you for Prof. Kyunghyun Cho and many NYU people, I start my co-working with Cho at NYU from this January. If you are at NYU or NY, I’m so happy to work with you. Feel free to reach me!
Oct 02, 2019 2019年10月2日	Our paper “Reconstructing neuronal circuitry from parallel spike trains” has been published from Nature Communications! Ryota Kobayashi, Shuhei Kurita, Anno Kurth, Katsunori Kitano, Kenji Mizuseki, Markus Diesmann, Barry J. Richmond & Shigeru Shinomoto. paper
May 14, 2019 2019年5月14日	Our paper “Multi-Task Semantic Dependency Parsing with Policy Gradient for Learning Easy-First Strategies,” (Long) has been accepted to ACL2019! paper
Apr 01, 2019 2019年4月1日	I received Ph.D. of Informatics from Kyoto University on March 25, 2019! Now I join the Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN, Nihombashi, Tokyo with Prof. Satoshi Sekine. I am adapted to JST ACT-I Research Projects Acceleration Phase (2019.4-2021.3).