[Affilication]
　Associate professor at Faculty of Global Media Studies, Komazawa University
　in Tokyo, Japan
　Visiting researcher at School of Product Design, University of Canterbury
　in Christchurch, New Zealand

[About me]
　Member of ACM and IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan)
　PhD of Engineering.
　MY research includes a variety of topics related to multimedia processing and interactive system.
　My primary research theme is interaction technology focusing on music.
　I am particularly interested in musical melodies, and recently I have been conducting research on interfaces and machine learning techniques related to microtones, aiming to enhance musical expression.
　In addition to music, I am also conducting research on other digital content, such as videos and images.
　Certified as "Super Creator" from Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan) on MITOH Program 2012.
　Research intern at Microsoft Research Redmond (summer of 2014).

[Research themes]
　"Melody Generation with Quantum Computing,"
　"Interface/Machine Learning Techniques Related to Microtones,"
　"Melody Modeling," "Automatic Generation of Music Video,"
　"Identification of Person Name in Music Video Content Using Face Recognition, Vocal Activity Detection, etc.,"
　"Automated DJ," and "Average-Music Generation"
　Keywords: Microtonal Music, Machine Learning for Music, Multimedia Processing, Integration of Audio and Video Processing, Content Analysis, Interactive System
　See more at [Projects]

[Contact]
　Mail: thirai at komazawa.ac.jp
　Twitter: @TatsunoriHirai (in Japanese)
　Facebook: /tatsunori.hirai.3

News

12/9/2023

Received a best presentation award from IPSJ SIGMUS.

3/4/2023

Became an visiting researcher at University of Canterbury.

1/4/2023

Promoted to an associate professor at Komazawa University.

10/10/2019

Received Yamashita SIG Research Award from IPSJ.

1/7/2019

1 poster presentation at SIGGRAPH 2019.

20/11/2017

1 poster presentation at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2019.

1/4/2019

Promoted to a lecturer at Komazawa University.

1/4/2016

Became an assistant lecturer at Komazawa University.

12/17/2015

Received a PhD degree from Waseda University.

11/11/2015

3 Paper presentation at MMM2016 (1/4/2016-1/6/2016).

11/11/2015

1 Paper presentation at ACE2015 (11/16/2015-11/19/2015).

6/11/2015

2 Paper presentation at SMC2015 (7/30/2015-8/1/2015).

11/14/2014

Paper presentation at ACE2014 (11/14/2014).

8/31/2014

Participated to internship at Microsoft Research (6-8/2014).

5/30/2014

New webpage has opened.

05/31/2013

Received GCAD award from IPSJ SIG-GCAD.

04/30/2013

Certified as "Super Creator" on MITOH Program 2012.

04/01/2013

Adopted as Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1) by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).