Join us at the Computer Vision Laboratory (CVL) at Osaka University!

We are always looking for self-motivated students who are interested in computer vision.
If you are interested in our research topic, please contact us anytime via

cvl-recruitment@mm.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

Our lab currently does not take “non-course students (研究生).” Please consider applying to the master’s or Ph.D. course.

We will hold a laboratory information session!

We are planning to hold a laboratory information session for students every month!
Internal students wishing to join our laboratory and students considering going on to outside schools are also welcome.

Please contact us via a special form at “For visitor.”

Research topics

We actively study a wide range of topics in computer vision, including the following. (For the list of publications, please refer to our Publications page.)

• 3D computer vision (recent publications include Ashida et al., ECCV2024; Santo et al., CVPR2024; Cao et al., CVPR2023; Enomoto et al., TPAMI 2022)
• Appearance representation and generation (Narumoto et al., ECCV2024; Zhou et al., SIGGRAPH2024)
• Optimization (Li et al., IJCV 2022; Li et al., ICCV2021 Oral; Iwata et al., ECCV2020)
• Plant vision (Liu et al., WACV2025; Doi et al., ACCV2020; Toda and Okura, Plant Phenomics 2019; Isokane et al., CVPR2018)

Our staff and lab members fully support your academic life.

We’re actively recruiting Ph.D. students!

Financial Support

We hire Ph.D. students as research assistants (RA) and provide financial support.

How to join us

Undergraduate Program

We are with the Information Systems Engineering Course of the Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, School of Engineering, Osaka University. If you are a student in the course, there is an option to join us in the third or fourth grade of the undergrad study.

Graduate Program

Our lab is with the Department of Multimedia Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University. For the master’s course, we take students who pass the general entrance exam that takes place in August. Please consult our school’s website for further information about the exam.

For the Ph.D. course, please contact us at cvl-recruitment (at) mm.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp.