MovieMap related publications

360CityArena: A Realistic Virtual Urban Navigation Benchmark for Embodied Agents

Kenta Watanabe, Atsuyuki Miyai, Mizuki Takenawa, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Toshihiko Yamasaki

ECCV 2026

to appear

Realistic Virtual Flood Experience System Using 360° Videos and 3D City Models Constructed from Building Footprints

Tatsuro Banno, Koki Kawada, Mizuki Takenawa, Masatoshi Denda, Kiyoharu Aizawa

International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR2026) pp. 2867 - 2871

June 16-19,2026, https://doi.org/10.1145/3805622.3810434

360CityGML: Realistic and Interactive Urban Visualization System Integrating CityGML Model and 360° Videos

Tatsuro Banno, Mizuki Takenawa, Leslie Wöhler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE VR2026

Session 3, Mar.21-25, 2026, Daegu, Korea

360CityGML: Realistic and Interactive Urban Visualization System Integrating CityGML Model and 360° Videos

Tatsuro Banno, Mizuki Takenawa, Leslie Wöhler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics

vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 2420-2426, Feb. 2026, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2025.3623130

Building and Evaluating a Realistic Virtual World for Large Scale Urban Exploration from 360° Videos

Mizuki Takenawa, Naoki Sugimoto, Leslie Wöhler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer

Vol. 85, Article No.149 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-026-21340-4

Visual Attention and Cognitive Effects of Facial Anonymization in 360°Videos

Leslie Wöhler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

Frontiers. Virtual Reality

Sec. Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour, Volume 6, 11pages, 2025, 29 August 2025, doi: 10.3389/frvir.2025.1610627.

Analyzing Viewer Perception of Generative AI-Based Editing in 360° Images Across Display Modalities

Leslie Wöhler, Takubon Son, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

ACM CHI 2025 Late Breaking Work

7pages, Apr. 26- May.1, 2025, Yokohama

Building a Realistic Virtual World from 360˚ Videos for Large Scale Urban Exploration

Kiyoharu Aizawa

Noth East Asia Standard Forum (NEASF) 2025

Jul. 22, 2025, Online

Entity-NeRF: Detecting and Removing Moving Entities in Urban Scenes

Takashi Otonari, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR2024),

pp.20892-20901, June 17-21, 2024, Seattle, USA

Investigating the Perception of Facial Anonymization Techniques in 360°Videos

Leslie Wöhler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

ACM Trans. Applied Perception

Volume 21 Issue 4, Article No.16, Pages 1 - 17
https://doi.org/10.1145/3695254

Building a Realistic Virtual World from 360˚ Videos for Large Scale Urban Exploration (Keynote)

Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE Int. Conf. Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP)

Dec. 10, 2024, Waseda

360RVW: Fusing Real 360◦ Videos and Interactive Virtual Worlds

Mizuki Takenawa, Naoki Sugimoto, Leslie Wöhler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

ACM Multimedia 2023, pp. 9379 - 9381

Oct.29-Nov.2, 2023, Ottawa, doi.acm.org/doi=3581783.3612670

Building Real World Metaverse using 360º Videos (Invited)

Kiyoharu Aizawa

Special Lectures by Metaverse Industrial Leaders, IDW2023

Dec.5 2023

Field-of-View IoU for Object Detection in 360°images

Miao Cao, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE Trans. Image Processing

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, doi: 10.1109/TIP.2023.3296013. Vol.34, pp. 6813-6822, Print ISSN: 1057-7149, Online ISSN: 1941-0042

Saliency-Based Multiple Region of Interest Detection From a Single 360° Image.

Yuuki Sawabe, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE ACCESS

vol. 10, pp. 89124-89133, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3200486.

Non-uniform Sampling Strategies for NeRF on 360° images

Takashi Otonari, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

BMVC2022

12pages, Nov. 21-24, 2022, London UK

Dual-ERP Representation for Object Detection in 360°Images

Miao Cao, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa,

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2022

16-19, Oct. 2022, pp.2016-2020, Bordeaux, France
10.1109/ICIP46576.2022.9898063

Movie Map for Virtual Exploration in a City (invited paper)

Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEICE Trans. Information and Systems

pp.38-45, Vol. E105-D No.1, Jan. 2022

360° Single Image Super Resolution Via Distortion-Aware Network And Distorted Perspective Images

Akito Nishiyama, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2021

TEC-4.10, 5pages, Sep.19-22, 2021

Movie Map and Beyond – Exploring in a City (keynote)

Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE Int. Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) 2021

Nov. 30, 2021

Virtual Exploration in a City -- Renovation of Movie Map (Keynote Talk)

Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia Big Data (BigMM) 2021

Nov. 16, 2021

Intersection Prediction from Single 360°Image via Deep Detection of Possible Direction of Travel

Naoki Sugimoto, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2021)

12pages, 22nd - 25th November 2021, Online

Building Movie Map - A Tool for Exploring in a City - and its Evaluations

Naoki Sugimoto, Yoshihito Ebine, Kiyoharu Aizawa

ACM Multimedia 2020

pp 3330–3338, 12-16 Oct. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1145/3394171.3413881

Urban Movie Map for Walkers : Route Views Synthesis by using 360◦ Videos

Naoki Sugimoto, Toru Ohkubo, Kiyoharu Aizawa

ACM ICMR2020 (International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval)

June 2020 Pages 502–508 https://doi.org/10.1145/3372278.3390707

Walker’s Movie Map: Route View Synthesis Using Omni-directional Videos

Naoki Sugimoto, Yuko Iinuma, Kiyoharu Aizawa

ACM Multimedia, Technical Demo and Video Program, 2019

October 21-25, Nice, France doi: 10.1145/3343031.3350587

Identification of Buildings in Street Images using Map Information

Masanori Ogawa, Kiyoharu Aizawa,

IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP),

MP.PD.5, Sep.22-25, Taipei, Taiwan 10.1109/ICIP.2019.8803066

Billboard Saliency Detection in Street Videos for Adults and Elderly

O. Krishna, K.Aizawa

IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP),

pp.2326-2330 ,October 7-10, 2018, Athens, Greece

Scale Drift Correction of Camera Geo-Localization using Geo-Tagged Images

Kazuya Iwami, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa

ECCV Workshop CVRSUAD　（Computer Vision for Road Scene Understanding and Autonomous Driving)

Sep.14, 2018　10.1007/978-3-030-11009-3_16

Signboard Salency Detection in Street Videos

Onkar Krishna, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Saskia Reimerth

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

pp.1917-1921, Apr. 15-20, 2018, Calgary, Canada

適応的なサンプリングを用いた全天球ストリートビュー動画のためのハイパーラプス映像の生成手法

小川将範，山崎俊彦，相澤清晴オガワマサルヤマサキトシヒコアイザワキヨハル

電子情報通信学会 論文誌Dロンブンシ

Vol. J101-D, No.7, pp.1052-1060 July 2018, Mar. 2018 DOI:10.14923/transinfj.2017JDP7080

Hyperlapse Generation of Omnidirectional Videos by Adaptive Sampling based on 3D Camera Positions

Masanori Ogawa, Toshihiko Yamasaki, and Kiyoharu Aizawa

IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP),

pp.2124-2128, September 17-20, 2017, Beijing, China