
Doctor of Engineering, Tokyo institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, Mar. 2007
Department of Information Processing
Dissertation: “Study on higher-level chromatic mechanisms underlying figure segregation by chromatic differences”
Adviser: Keiji Uchikawa, Ph.D.
M.S., Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, May 2004.
Department of Information Processing
B.S., Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, May, 2002,
Department of Computer Science
Dr. Takehiro Nagai is an associate professor at Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is also a senior visiting scholar at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, UNSW Sydney. He obtained his Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Keiji Uchikawa in 2007. Following that, he conducted post-doctoral research at UCSD with Prof. Don MacLeod. He held positions as an assistant/associate professor at Toyohashi University of Technology and Yamagata University before assuming his current position in 2018. Dr. Nagai is interested in the mechanisms of human vision, specifically the mechanisms involved in the perception of color and object surface qualities.
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Dr. Nagai aims to elucidate the mechanisms of "image information processing" in the visual system. In particular, we are interested in mechanisms underlying material and color perception, which are directly related to object recognition and affections driven by such perception.
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