Sota Kato, Ph.D

Sota Kato, Ph.D

Computer vision
Pattern recognition
Edge and Mobile AI

Sota Kato加藤 聡太

I am a researcher in computer vision and machine learning, currently working at K2I. I received my Ph.D. in Engineering from Meijo University. My research interests center on the challenges and applications of real-world data in deep learning across diverse domains. My past work includes image recognition in cell biology and medical imaging, as well as learning under class imbalance. More recently, I have been exploring real-time models for low-TOPS hardware and methods for leveraging knowledge from foundation models and other large-scale models.

  • Computer Vision
  • Edge AI
  • Foundation Models
  • Imbalanced Learning
  • Medical Imaging
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Research

Edge AI

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REMODE: REal-time Monocular 3D Object Detection on Edge Devices

REMODE: REal-time Monocular 3D Object Detection on Edge Devices

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Sota Kato

Lite-HRNet Plus: Fast and Accurate Facial Landmark Detection

Lite-HRNet Plus: Fast and Accurate Facial Landmark Detection

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) · 2023

Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta, Yuhki Hatakeyama, Yoshinori Konishi

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Foundation Model Adaptation

Generalized SAM: Efficient Fine-Tuning of SAM for Variable Input Image Sizes

Generalized SAM: Efficient Fine-Tuning of SAM for Variable Input Image Sizes

Computational Aspects of Deep Learning (ECCV Workshop) · 2024

Sota Kato, Hinako Mitsuoka, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Imbalanced Learning

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Enlarged large margin loss

Enlarged large margin loss

IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) · 2023

Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta

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MSE loss with outlying label

MSE loss with outlying label

Arxiv · 2021

Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Medical Imaging

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Adaptive t-vMF dice loss for medical image segmentation

Adaptive t-vMF dice loss for medical image segmentation

Computers in Biology and Medicine (IF=7.7) · 2023

Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Expanded tube attention for tubular structure segmentation

Expanded tube attention for tubular structure segmentation

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IF=3.0) · 2023

Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Classification and visual explanation for COVID-19 pneumonia

Classification and visual explanation for COVID-19 pneumonia

Scientific Reports (IF=4.9) · 2022

Sota Kato

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Biological Imaging

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One-shot and partially-supervised cell image segmentation using small visual prompt

One-shot and partially-supervised cell image segmentation using small visual prompt

Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analysis (CVPR Workshop) · 2023

Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Automatic enhancement preprocessing for segmentation of low quality cell images

Automatic enhancement preprocessing for segmentation of low quality cell images

Scientific Reports (IF=5.0) · 2024

Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Cell segmentation by image-to-image translation using multiple different discriminators

Cell segmentation by image-to-image translation using multiple different discriminators

International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS) · 2020

Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Others

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Semantic Segmentation by Semi-Supervised Learning Using Time Series Constraint

Semantic Segmentation by Semi-Supervised Learning Using Time Series Constraint

International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) · 2023

Takahiro Mano, Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Improvement of Vision Transformer Using Word Patches

Improvement of Vision Transformer Using Word Patches

International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) · 2023

Ayato Takama, Sota Kato, Satoshi Kamiya, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Pitching classification and habit detection by V-Net

International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) · 2020

Sota Kato, Kazuhiro Hotta

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Experience

  1. Feb 2025 – Present K2I Ltd. Research Engineer
  2. Apr 2024 – Jan 2025 SenseTime Japan Ltd. Research Engineer
  3. Apr 2023 – Mar 2024 JSPS Research Fellowship (DC2)
  4. Apr 2021 – Mar 2023 Special Assistant Faculty of Science and Engineering, Meijo University

Education

  1. Apr 2021 – Mar 2024 Ph.D. (Doctor of Engineering) Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Meijo University
  2. Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 M.Eng. (Master of Engineering) Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Meijo University
  3. Apr 2015 – Mar 2019 B.Eng. (Bachelor of Engineering) Faculty of Engineering, Meijo University

Contact

For inquiries, collaborations, or further information, please feel free to reach out.

Emailkato@k2i-jp.com Private mailsoutakuchoco@gmail.com Old mail150442030@ccalumni.meijo-u.ac.jp