I'm a first-year PhD student working at MPRG (Yamashita Lab). My research focuses on Autonomous Driving, ADAS. I am interested in technologies for safe autonomous driving systems using computer vision and vision and language. I am also looking for research internships and study abroad opportunities.

News

March 2025

Paper accepted at ICLR Workshop 2025

A multi-agent system with dynamic knowledge integration has been accepted at ICLR Workshop 2025.

July 2024

Paper accepted at IEEE ITSC 2024

A dataset extension method for linguistic explanation of traffic risk due to road structure has been accepted at IEEE ITSC 2024.

Education

2024—Present

Chubu University

Ph.D.,Department of InformationEngineering

Advisor: Prof. Takayoshi Yamashita and Prof. Hironobu Fujiyoshi

2022—2024

Chubu University

M.E.,Department of InformationEngineering

Advisor: Prof. Takayoshi Yamashita and Prof. Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Thesis: Potential Risk Localization using Single Monoculer Camera

2020—2022

Chubu University

B.E., Department of InformationEngineerin

Advisor: Prof. Tohgoroh Matsui

Thesis: Failure Cause Analysis of Automotive Parts Using Machine Learning

Publications

CVPR Workshops 2024

Potential Risk Localization via Weak Labeling out of Blind Spot

Kota Shimomura, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi

2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2024

Human-like Guidance by Generating Navigation Using Spatial-Temporal Scene Graph

Hayato Suzuki, Kota Shimomura, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Shota Okubo, Nanri Takuya, Wang Siyuan

IEEE 26th ITSC 2023

Human-like Guidance with Gaze Estimation and Classification-based Text Generation

Masaki Nambata, Kota Shimomura, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi

CVPR Workshops 2023

Potential Risk Estimation with Single Monocular Camera

Kota Shimomura, Hiroki Adachi, Tsubasa Hirakawa, Takayoshi Yamashita, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Yuji Yasui

Experience

Summer 2024 - Present

Part-time Researcher Elith Co., Ltd.

Engaged in research on Autonomous Driving, ADAS, and multi-agent systems

Summer 2024

Research Intern Elith Co., Ltd.

Participated in a project on improving the accuracy of tracking algorithms and explaining traffic risks in driving scenes using VLM

Summer 2022

Research Intern Honda R&D Co., Ltd.

Participated in a project on improving the accuracy of autonomous driving systems using reinforcement learning