Faculty

Akira Asano（浅野晃）, Professor: Various research topics!

Prof. Asano's Lab, Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University

Members

Seniors

Saya Itoh（伊藤沙弥） Controlling impression by shape and color
Chika Itoh（伊藤千佳） Effects of tone variation to impression in pictures
Momoa Oki（沖桃愛） Attractive CD jackets and colors
Hazuki Kagimoto（鍵本葉月） Vision ability decrement and color discrimination
Izumi Kitayama（北山泉美） Accent colors in color arrangements
Runa Sakamoto（坂本琉月） Coordinating food and colors of dishes and tables
Kai Tange（丹下魁） Influence of additional information to impression of music
Ryuki Tsuji（辻隆希） Characteriation of movie posters and flyers
Gohki Meigata（銘形剛希） About color vision variation and universal design
Shiho Fukuju（福壽志穂） Effect of colors to character discriminability from a distance
Kotoko Yamane（山根古都子） Personal color and color preferences
Yuki Nakagawa（中川裕喜） Colors in product design
Hiroki Tanaka（田中宏樹） "clarity" of colors

Juniors

Chihiro Umeda（梅田ちひろ）
Miyabi Ohnishi（大西都陽）
Chihiro Omura（小村千尋）
Miyu Kuramoto（倉本美優）
Kana Koyashiki（小屋敷香奈）
Chihiro Shibata（芝田千寿）
Rio Shibata（志村梨央）
Yuuka Seike（清家優花）
Mizuki Yamaguchi（山口光稀）
Souma Yoshida（吉田壮真）
Risa Ryosenan（了泉庵里紗）
Yohta Watanabe（渡邉陽太）
Yuya Kuroda（黒田裕也） (on leave in SY2024)

BA, to be assigned in Apr. 2025

Kota Okada（岡田　光太）
Shu Okuda（奥田　春羽）
Takuto Kondo（近藤　巧都）
Aruse Sato（佐藤　侑琉星）
Yuka Matsuda（松田　祐佳）
Maho Morikawa（森川　真帆）
Miu Watanabe（渡邉　美羽）
Guanming Yu（于　冠鳴）
Hanyadai Wang（王　涵雅黛）
Zuoyu Zhang（張　佐宇）
Sota Inohara（猪原　颯太）

Alumni

- Theses are written in Japanese.

MA, Mar. 2024

Xinyue Tang（唐心悦）: Influences of color and music to impressions on animation and movies

BA, Mar. 2024

Hinano Abe（阿部緋奈乃）: Dressing and acting of music fans for being recognized by stage artists
Fuka Inagaki（稲垣風香）: Effects of colors on the visibility of icons
Mitsuki Ohmaru（大丸美津妃）: Motivation and item color
Nagisa Okabe（岡部凪咲）: Influence of shape, color, and texture on visibility
Mizuki Kawai（河合瑞月）: Different perceptions of internet singers and idols and their popularity
Yu Shimada（島田侑）: Effects of color and shape on the perception of area
Miku Shimoda（下田実来）: Effect of colors in movie thumbnails
Kanon Jitosho（地頭所佳音）: Gender impression from colors, shapes, and fonts
Yui Tsujikawa（辻川ゆい）: Effect of background color on human facial expressions
Ayaka Terao（寺尾文伽）: Types of characterization and color in fiction stories
Wataru Maruyama（円山航）: Memorability of color compositions
Hisa Miyamae（宮前ひさ）: User interface design and perception of action on touch screens
Kaisei Watanabe（渡邊開世）: Visual margin preference and behavior

BA, Mar. 2023

Taichi Ariizumi（有泉太地）: Influences of colors to product packages
Mana Okabayashi（岡林茉那）: Colors of costume and personal characters
Genki Ogura（小倉元喜）: Influences of shapes to color impressions
Sohta Kawamoto（川本颯太）: Character recognition and colors of characters and backgrounds
Yasuko Sakai（坂井靖子）: Colors and brightness associated with characters' hair styles
Daichi Sasagawa（笹川大地）: Impressions in paintings and screen brightness
Sara Shibuya（渋谷紗良）: Conflicting attractiveness effects of shapes and colors
Midori Takemoto（竹本翠）: Association between lipstick color choice and psychological state
Momoka Yamawaki（山脇萌々華）: Effects of verbal explanation on impressions of musical works
Ayana Yoshida（吉田綾菜）: Relationship between the number of views and the gaze from the person in the thumbnail image in vocaloid videos
Yusuke Kawatsura（川面佑介）: Effects of background colors to estimation of action
Shiho Kadoguchi（門口詩歩） (quit on Oct. 2023): Costume and psychology, prefectural characteristics of color in Japan

BA, Mar. 2022

Arisa Izaki（井崎有紗）: Relationships between shapes and colors in drawing
Marimo Okamura（岡村茉莉百）: Harmony between contexts by shapes and colors
Yuria Kajimoto（梶本侑莉亜）: Recognition methods of objects - color, surface texture, and shape
Yuta Kasutani（粕谷勇太）: Object colors and human response time
Tomomi Kimura（木村智美）: Acceptance of colors in various situations
Yuki Kunitomo（国友佑樹）: Key transposition of music and visual impressions
Naoki Takahashi（髙橋尚希）: Sound effects and color impressions
Kenta Togo（藤後健太）: Effects of colors and surface texture to classiness of packages
Marina Nakamura（中村真梨奈）: How to get more subscribers of singers' movies on YouTube?
Michiko Nakamura（中村美智子）: Differences in color recognition and color names by Chinese characters between China and Japan
Yuto Fujii（藤井悠斗）: Relationships between categories and color arrangements in advertisements
Ayano Murashima（村島彩乃）: Relationships between onomatopes and colors in mangas
Nami Yamauchi（山内菜未）: Expressing concepts by shapes and colors
Azumi Yamakawa（山川あずみ）: Requirements of medical social workers
Renri Inoue（井上蓮里）: Differences of impressions in colors on packages of cosmetics in Japan and Korea

BA, Mar. 2021

Chika Ohara（大原智香）: Restriction on colors by common knowledge and meanings by colors
Moeko Ogawa（小川萌子）: Temporal variation of interference colors and human impressions
Takeru Kikuchi（菊池タケル）: Relationship between colors of characters and the short-term memory
Ayaka Shimura（志村綾香）: Psychological effect of red color in selection problems
Akari Shoji（庄司朱里）: Modern linguistic expression on colors
Yuna Sugihara（杉原夕菜）: Recent trends of color preferences on accessories
Rina Takahashi（高橋理菜）: Recognition of slight tilt of line objects
Mirei Takigawa（瀧川美鈴）: Shapes of eyewares and progress of technology viewed from historical and experimental studies
Yuma Tsuboi（坪井裕真）: Common impressions on colors associated with paired concepts
Rieko Nakanishi（中西里永子）: Relationship between impression of colors and situations
Nao Nishimura（西村菜桜）: Continuously varying color contrasts and color harmony / disharmony
Chisato Hiyama（桧山千紗都）: Trends of fonts in logotypes
Mari Fukui（福井鞠）: Difference between sympbols and reality on familiar items
Rina Matsushita（松下莉奈）: Relationships between recognitions by colors and by shapes
Jo Morikawa（森川丞）: Context effect on image recognition
Kasumi Yamauchi（山内夏澄）: Effect of hidden colors in clothes

BA, Mar. 2020

Nanomi Anzako（庵逧菜実）: Variation of color tones and human recognition of hues
Ayame Oimatsu（老松あやめ）: Influences of impressions of colors on movie editting
Mako Ohori（大堀真子）: Relationship between color and types of fear on package illustrations of horror movies
Kota Kido（木戸皓太）: Relationship between variations of the velocity of movies and human interests
Ayana Konoike（鴻池采奈）: Characteristics of guide maps for intuitive recognitions of geographical directions
Shiho Saito（齋藤志穂）: White as preferred color in Japanese culture
Junya Takashima（高島隼也）: Color attractiveness and geometrical adjacency
Misaki Takahashi（髙橋美咲）: Human behaviour caused by unusefulness
Natsumi Horiki（宝力なつみ）: Historical observation of colors in advertisement posters
Tomoka Minami（南朋花）: Influences of social assignment of colors to genders on personal color preferences
Hana Morihiro（森廣華）: Visual movements of objects and human responses
Shunsuke Yagi（八木駿輔）: Relationship between characters and colors on grapheme-color synesthesia
Kengo Yamamoto（山本謙吾）: Human recognition of regular polygons
Sasuke Nakata（中田流） (quit on Dec. 2018)

MA, Mar. 2017

Nguyen Hung An: Regularity and predictability of curves and human affectiveness
Ayana Deguchi（出口絢那）: Physiological and psychological reactions in preferences of colors

BA, Mar. 2017

Assigned in Apr. 2014

Mako Sunayama（砂山真子）: Relationships between visual, haptic, and mechanical characters on various white textile materials.

Assigned in Apr. 2015

Arata Akihisa（穐久新）: Color arrangements in illustrations and impressions
Keigo Kanetsuna（兼綱啓伍）: Extraction of trabeculi from mandibles in dental panoramic radiographs
Nana Shirogane（白銀奈々）: Temporal transition of chords and evoked colors
Sonoka Takada（高田苑佳）: Effect of densities of yarns and characteristics of materials to visual impressions of textiles
Shinji Tatsumi（巽真治）: Effect of temporal transition of color arrangements to human impressions
Misaki Maeda（前田美咲）: Perception of color saturation in photos — How humans find naturality of colors
Misaki Yamada（山田美紗季）: Human visual affection from the viewpoints of shapes and color assignments
Shin Yamamoto（山本慎）: Effect of disturbances of stimulus arrangements in visual search
Yuri Yoshii（吉井佑里）: Relationships between color categorizations and interests to colors

BA, Mar. 2016

Assingned in Apr. 2014

Michinaga Tanaka（田中道詠）: Effect of impression of music on visual expressions
Tohru Nakamae（中前徹）: Physiological responses to chromatic illumination
Shugo Mihara（三原脩吾）: Effect of colors on memorization of symbols
Masafumi Yoshimura（吉村雅史）: Influences of colors to human emotion — Does blue sky make humans lively?
Arika Nishiza（西座有香）: Dependance of colorization on skill of painting

BA, Mar. 2015

Assigned in Apr. 2012

Yoshiki Kitayama（北山慎基）: Can hate emotions to foods in blue be relieved?

Assigned in Apr. 2013

Ayana Deguchi（出口絢那）: Connection between colors and concepts
Nao Murakami（村上奈央）: Relationship between age estimates on skin and local variation of illumination

BA, Mar. 2014

Assigned in Apr. 2012

Ryoma Imae（今江亮馬）: Experimental tests on stroop effect — on perceptual elements on safety and danger
Nanae Ohkita（大北菜々恵）: Experimental research on relationships between colors and impressions
Yasunari Kanzawa（神澤泰成）: Analysis of texture images — utilization of the maximum particle size
Kohki Kirihara（切原光貴）: Analysis of texture images — utilization of image segments
Risa Hirota（廣田里紗）: Experimental research on visual feel of fabrics
Rika Watanabe（渡辺莉加）: Experimental research on relationships between colors and preferences of foods
Jin Zhao（金朝）: Analysis of texture images — utilization of restricted size means

Image Statistics Laboratory, Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University (- 2011)

I was in Hiroshima University from Apr. 1998 to Sep. 2011. The Ph.D. candidates who were left in Hiroshima Univ. after I had moved to Kansai Univ. belonged to Professor Takio Kurita's Lab, and I also supervised them.

Alumni (Ph.D.)

Xiaoying Guo （郭小英）(Entered to the Ph.D. course in Oct. 2010, and received Ph.D. in Sep. 2013): Modeling the perception of visual complexity of texture images and painting images.; (Currently, Associate Professor, Leader of the Computer Vision Research Group, School of Software Engineering, Shanxi University, China) [Web site]
Muthu Subash Kavitha (Entered to the Ph.D. course in Apr. 2009, and received Ph.D. in Jun. 2012): Automatic system for diagnosing osteoporosis based on dental panoramic radiographs using statistical classification techniques.; (Currently, JSPS research fellow, Kurita Lab., Hiroshima University [Researchgate])
Liang Li （李亮）(Entered to the Master course in Apr. 2006, and received Ph.D. in Mar. 2011): Texture Analysis Based on Human Visual Perception and Mathematical Morphology.; (Currently, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University) [Web site]
Febriliyan Samopa (Entered to the Ph.D. course in Oct. 2006, and received Ph.D. in Nov. 2009): Tooth Shape Measurement on Dental Radiographs for Forensic Personal Identification.; (Currently, Chair of the Departement of Information System, Faculty of Informatics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia) [Researchgate]
Agus Zainal Arifin (Entered to the Ph.D. course in Apr. 2004, and received Ph.D. in Mar. 2007): Development of Computer-Aided System for Diagnosing Osteoporosis Using Dental Panoramic Radiographs.; (Currently, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia) [Web site]
Yang Lei （楊磊）(Entered to the Ph.D. course in Apr. 2010, and quit the course in Sep. 2012): (Published paper) L. Yang, A. Asano, L. Li, C. Muraki Asano, and T. Kurita, "Multi-structural Texture Analysis Using Mathematical Morphology," IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, E95-A, 10, 1759-1767 (2012. 10).