Kentaro Toyama

I graduated from the Computer Science Department at Yale University in May, 1998. I am now at Microsoft Research (MSR). For links to work since 1998, please see my MSR homepage.

Mailing Address

15127 NE 24th St. #333

Redmond, WA 98052

U. S. A.

Office Address

Microsoft Corporation

One Microsoft Way

Redmond, WA 98052-6399

U. S. A.

office: (425) 706-9853

fax: (425) 936-7329 (public FAX -- name should be clear)

Permanent Address

6866 SW 89th Terrace

Miami, FL 33156-1563

U. S. A.

phone: (305) 661-8193

e-mail

kentoy(a)microsoft.com

Publications

• If at First You Don't Succeed...(44kB), a paper that was presented at AAAI-'97, Providence, RI, August, 1997.
• Handling Tradeoffs Between Precision and Robustness with Incremental Focus of Attention for Visual Tracking (435kB), a paper presented at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation, Cambridge, MA, November 8-11, 1996.
• Incremental Focus of Attention for Robust Visual Tracking (1.6MB) (with Greg Hager), a longer version of a paper presented at CVPR '96. We demonstrated a working system at the CVPR '96 Demo Program.
• Feature-Based Visual Servoing and its Application to Telerobotics (639kB) (with Greg Hager and Gerhard Grunwald), a chapter from Selections of the Int'l Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1995.
• Tracker Fusion for Robustness in Visual Feature Tracking (1.4MB) (with Greg Hager), a paper presented at Photonics East '95, Philadelphia, PA, October 23-26, 1995. This was published in SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 2589.
• Tracking Occluding Contours of Unfamiliar Objects without Distraction (2.0MB) (with Greg Hager), a paper presented at IROS '95, Pittspurgh, PA, August 6-10, 1995.
• Tracking Occluding Contours of Unfamiliar Objects without Distraction (1.5MB) (with Greg Hager), a longer version of the above, as a technical report.
• Interview with Drew McDermott, published in the September, 1996 edition of Crossroads: The ACM Student Magazine
• My .bib file: publication data in bibtex format.

Research

• Incremental Focus of Attention, a framework for fast, robust visual tracking.
• XVision, a portable, "real-time," visual tracking system, written primarily by my advisor, Greg Hager.
• Tracking contours without distraction. Old research.

Miscellaneous Stuff

• Yale Shotokan Karate Club
• The Surfball is a 3-D input device that allows users to intuitively control movement in 3-D environments.