Risa Shinoda
I am an Assistant Professor at the Yoichi Sato Lab, University of Tokyo.
I completed my Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering at Kyoto University in 2025, and my M.S. (2022) and B.S. (2020) in the same department.
Research interests:
- CV for Animals
- CV for Agriculture
- Vision and Language
- Multimodal Learning
News
- I have been selected for JST ACT-X (Life and Information).
- One co-authored paper has been accepted to EMNLP 2026 (Main).
- Our BioVITA has been selected as a CVPR 2026 Highlight.
- One first-author paper has been accepted to CVPR 2026 (Main).
- One first-author paper has been accepted to ICASSP 2026.
- Two co-authored papers have been accepted to WACV 2026.
- Two of my first-author papers have been accepted to ICCV 2025.
- I contributed a chapter, “CV for Earth,” to the Japanese book CV最前線.
- I gave an invited talk at the IRL Workshop at ECCV 2024.
- Our ECCV paper was selected for an Oral presentation (Strong Accept ×3).
Publications
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Do Egocentric Video-Language Models Capture Both Hand- and Object-Centric Cues?
arXiv preprint, July 2026
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MES-Bench: A Benchmark for Multimodal Elaborative Simplification and Comprehensibility Evaluation in Language Learning
CVPR Workshop (CV4Edu), June 2026
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Physically Plausible Human-Object Interaction Generation via Attribute Classifier Guidance
PhysHuman, CVPR Workshops (CVPRW), 2026 Oral
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Talking with Actionbits: A Part-Enhanced VLM for Action and Interaction Recognition in Animals
Sensors 26(6), March 2026
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Zero-shot Hierarchical Plant Segmentation via Foundation Segmentation Models and Text-to-image Attention
WACV 2026
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Interaction-via-Actions: Cattle Interaction Detection with Joint Learning of Action-Interaction Latent Space
WACV 2026
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GaussianPlant: Structure-aligned Gaussian Splatting for 3D Reconstruction of Plants
arXiv preprint, December 2025
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Masks-to-Skeleton: Multi-View Mask-Based Tree Skeleton Extraction with 3D Gaussian Splatting
Sensors, July 2025
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Transformer-based Ripeness Segmentation for Tomatoes
Smart Agricultural Technology (Elsevier), Feb 2023
Experience & Education
Experience
- 2025.04–2025.11University of Osaka, Matsushita Lab — Project Assistant Professor
- 2023.11–2025.03OMRON SINIC X — Research Internship
- 2023.04–2025.06Tokyo Institute of Technology, Shinoda Lab — Research Assistant
- 2022.07–2025.03AIST, Computer Vision Team — Research Assistant
- 2022.04–2022.06Microsoft Japan — Customer Support Engineer
- 2021.04–2024.10Money Forward — Software Engineer Intern
- 2021.09Microsoft Japan — Full-Time Intern, Customer Support Engineer
- 2021.01–2021.03Rakuten — Data Scientist Internship
- 2018.09–2018.10CyberAgent — Business Intern, DRAFT 2018 Winner
Education
- 2025Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering — Kyoto University
- 2022M.S., Agricultural Engineering — Kyoto University
- 2020B.S., Agricultural Engineering — Kyoto University
Awards & Grants
- JST ACT-X (Life and Information), 2026
- Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, 2025 ¥2,730,000
- Kakusei Project, AIST, 2024 ¥3,000,000
- Student Encouragement Award, MIRU2024, 2024
- Student Encouragement Award, MIRU2023, 2023
- Young Researcher Award, ViEW, 2022
- JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2), 2022
- JST Pioneering Research Program, 2022–2025
- DoGS Travel Grant, Kyoto University, 2022 ¥355,000