Yokoya

Naoto

Naoto Yokoya

Yokoya Naoto

横矢

横矢直人

University of Tokyo

東京大学

hyperspectral

ハイパースペクトル

remote sensing

リモートセンシング

pattern recognition

パターン認識

data fusion

データ融合

Current position

Naoto Yokoya is a professor with the Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Information Science at the University of Tokyo, co-running Machine Learning and Statistical Data Analysis Laboratory. He is the team director of the Geoinformatics Team at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP).

His research interests include image processing, data fusion, and machine learning for understanding remote sensing images, with applications to disaster management and environmental monitoring.

He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), and ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (P&RS).

Featured publications

Z. Liu, Z. Cheng, and N. Yokoya, ”Neural hierarchical decomposition for single image plant modeling,” Proc. CVPR, 2025.
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J. Song, H. Chen, W. Xuan, J. Xia, and N. Yokoya, ”SynRS3D: A synthetic dataset for global 3D semantic understanding from monocular remote sensing imagery,” Proc. NeurIPS D&B Track (spotlight), 2024.
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Z. Liu, Y. Li, F. Tu, R. Zhang, Z. Cheng, and N. Yokoya, ”DeepTreeSketch: Neural graph prediction for faithful 3D tree modeling from sketches,” Proc. CHI, 2024.
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W. Gan, H. Xu, Y. Huang, S. Chen, and N. Yokoya, ”V4D: Voxel for 4D novel view synthesis,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023.
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J. Xia, N. Yokoya, B. Adriano, and C. Broni-Bediako, ”OpenEarthMap: A benchmark dataset for global high-resolution land cover mapping,” Proc. WACV, 2023.
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Education

2013 Mar. D.Eng. | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | The University of Tokyo | Japan
2010 Sep. M.Eng. | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | The University of Tokyo | Japan
2008 Mar. B.Eng. | Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | The University of Tokyo | Japan

Experience

2025 Apr-present Professor | The University of Tokyo | Japan
2023 Apr.-present Team Director | RIKEN | Japan
2022 Dec-2025 Mar. Associate Professor | The University of Tokyo | Japan
2020 May-2022 Nov Lecturer | The University of Tokyo | Japan
2018 Jan.-2023 Mar. Unit Leader | RIKEN | Japan
2019 Apr.-2020 Mar. Visiting Associate Professor | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology | Japan
2015 Dec.-2017 Nov. Alexander von Hunboldt Research Fellow | DLR and TUM | Germany
2013 Jul.-2017 Dec. Assistant Professor | The University of Tokyo | Japan
2013 Aug.-2014 Jul. Visiting Scholar | National Food Research Institute (NFRI) | Japan
2012 Apr.-2013 Jun. JSPS Research Fellow | The University of Tokyo | Japan

Award

Funai Academic Award (2024).
Young Scientists’ Award, MEXT (2024).
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Geosciences (2022, 2023, 2024).
1st place in the 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest.
Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship for postdoctoral researchers (2015).
Best presentation award of the Remote Sensing Society of Japan (2011, 2012, 2019).

Research grants

2025 Apr.-2028 Mar. PI, NEXUS (Networked Exchange, United Strength for Stronger Partnerships between Japan and ASEAN) Japan-Singapore Joint Research, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
2023 Sep.-2028 Mar. CI, SIP, Development of a Resilient Smart Network System against Natural Disasters,
  National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)
2022 Apr.-2026 Mar. PI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2021 Apr.-2028 Mar. PI, FOREST (Fusion Oriented REsearch for disruptive Science and Technology),
 Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
2021 Apr.-2024 Mar. CI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2019 Apr.-2022 Mar. CI, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2018 Apr.-2021 Mar. PI, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2015 Apr.-2018 Mar. PI, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2015 Jan.-2016 Dec. PI, Research Grant Program, Kayamori Foundation of Informational Science Advancement
2013 Aug.-2014 Mar. PI, Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Program through
Target-driven R&D (A-STEP), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
2012 Apr.-2013 Jun. PI, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Teaching

Mathematics for Information Science (in Japanese)The University of Tokyosince 2020
Computer Vision (in Japanese)The University of Tokyosince 2021
Remote Sensing Image Analysis (in English)The University of Tokyosince 2021

International mobility

2015 Sep.-2017 Nov. Visiting scholar at DLR and TUM, München, Germany.
2011 Oct.-2012 Mar. Visiting student at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France.

Service

Organizer IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025
Organizer OpenEarthMap Few-Shot Challenge @ L3D-IVU CVPR 2024 Workshop
Organizer IJCAI CDCEO Workshop 2022
Organizer CVPR EarthVision Workshop 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Chair & Co-Chair IEEE GRSS Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee (2017-2021)
Secretary IEEE GRSS All Japan Joint Chapter (2018-2021)
Student Activity & TIE Event Chair IEEE IGARSS 2019
Program Chair IEEE WHISPERS 2015

Editorial activity

Associate Editor ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, since 2024.
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, since 2021.
Associate Editor IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2018-2021.
Editorial Board Member Remote Sensing, since 2018.
Guest Editor  Remote Sensing
 List of Special Issues
Guest Editor  IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
 List of Special Issues
Guest Editor IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
 Special Issue on "Advanced Processing for Multimodal Optical Remote Sensing Imagery"

Reviewer

Reviewers for various journals and conferences:
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Applied Remote Sensing
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
- Proceedings of the IEEE
- ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing of Environment
- International Journal of Remote Sensing
- Pattern Recognition
- Pattern Recognition Letters
- Neurocomputing
- CVPR
- ECCV
- AAAI
- WACV