Kazuto Nakashima, PhD

I am an Associate Professor at Kyushu University, affiliated with the Department of Interdisciplinary Informatics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. My current research is primarily based at the Human-Centered Robotics Lab, with some projects carried out in collaboration with the Real-World Informative Robotics Lab. I received my PhD from Kyushu University in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Ryo Kurazume. My research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision and robotics, with a particular focus on 3D scene understanding and human–robot interaction. For more information, please see my curriculum vitae, research, and publications.
Email:
kazuto (at) ieee (dot) org
Affiliation:
Department of Interdisciplinary Informatics / Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan
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News #
Feb 2026
One paper accepted to
ICRA 2026
Nov 2025
Six papers accepted to
SII 2026
Jun 2025
Papers accepted to SMC 2025 and CASE 2025
Jan 2025
One paper accepted to ICRA 2025
Dec 2024
Received the Award for Outstanding Young Researchers from
SICE SI
Dec 2024
New preprint is out
Nov 2024
Two papers accepted to SII 2025
Nov 2024
Promoted to Associate Professor!
Oct 2024
New preprint on gait recognition is out
Sep 2024
One paper accepted to SSSR 2024
Selected Publications #
DRUM: Diffusion-based Raydrop-aware Unpaired Mapping for Sim2Real LiDAR Segmentation
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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2026
Vienna, Austria
Acceptance rate: 38.0%
Vienna, Austria
Acceptance rate: 38.0%
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2025
Atlanta, USA
Acceptance rate: 38.7%
Atlanta, USA
Acceptance rate: 38.7%
LiDAR Data Synthesis with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models
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Website Paper arXiv Code Demo Slide Poster
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Website Paper arXiv Code Demo Slide Poster
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2024
Yokohama, Japan
Acceptance rate: 44.8%
Yokohama, Japan
Acceptance rate: 44.8%
Generative Range Imaging for Learning Scene Priors of 3D LiDAR Data
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Website Paper arXiv Code Slide Poster
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Website Paper arXiv Code Slide Poster
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV),
2023
Waikoloa, USA
Acceptance rate: 40.6%
Waikoloa, USA
Acceptance rate: 40.6%
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
2021
Online
Acceptance rate: 45.5%
Online
Acceptance rate: 45.5%