Hikaru TANABE
Graduate Student at UEC Tokyo
Design Thinking and Data Science (Dx2) Program
About me
こんにちは！田邊光（たなべひかる）と申します。 電気通信大学（UEC）の博士前期課程に所属し、画像と言語を扱う研究やウェブアプリ開発に取り組んでいます。 食事画像からカロリー量を推定する研究や、言語モデルの評価パイプラインの開発などを行っています。 言語モデルを活用したメディア分析プロジェクトに貢献できる機会を探しています。
Specializing in Vision-and-Language and web development. Developed approaches leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and volume estimation to estimate calorie values from food images. Designed and implemented evaluation pipelines for LLMs to enhance their performance analysis as part of my ML engineering experience. Actively seeking opportunities to contribute to projects involving LLMs and media analysis, leveraging cutting-edge ML approaches.
Interested / Working Topics
Multimodal / Agentic LLMs, Vision & Language, Food Image Recognition,
Embodied AI (Mobility, Robotics, etc), Web Development
Publications
Papers
- Hikaru Tanabe and Keiji Yanai, CalorieVoL: Integrating Volumetric Context into Multimodal Large Language Models for Image-based Calorie Estimation, Proc. of International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Nara, Japan, (2025/01).
- Hikaru Tanabe and Keiji Yanai, CalorieLLaVA: Image-based Calorie Estimation with Multimodal Large Language Models, Proc. of International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management (MADiMa), Kolkata, India, (2024/12).
- 田邊光, 柳井啓司, 大規模視覚言語モデルと食品体積推定による食事画像からのカロリー量推定, 画像の認識・理解シンポジウム (MIRU), Kumamoto, Japan, (2024/08).
- 田邊光, 柳井啓司, 大規模視覚言語モデルを用いた食事画像からのカロリー量推定, Proc. of Computer Vision and Image Media (CVIM), Tokyo, Japan, (2024/05).
Articles
- Algomaic Tech Blog, LLM評価ツールpromptfooとアサーションの解説, https://tech.algomatic.jp/entry/2024/04/10/183001, (2024/04).
- Algomaic Tech Blog, 大規模言語モデル（LLM）における日本語評価の概観, https://tech.algomatic.jp/entry/2024/02/29/153905, (2024/02).
Experience
NEC Laboratories America, Inc. - Research Internship
San Jose, CA, USA | 2024/08 - Present
Algomatic Inc. - ML Engineer Internship
Tokyo, Japan | 2023/10 - Present
Teaching Assistant (Lecture: Object Recognition)
The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan | 2023/10 - 2024/02
Lograph Inc. - Web Developer Internship
Tokyo, Japan | 2022/08 - 2023/12
Yamazaki Lab. - Research Assistant
The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan | 2022/02 - 2022/08
Education
MEng in Design Thinking and Data Science
The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan | 2024/04 - Present
BEng in Media Science and Engineering
The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan | 2020/04 - 2024/03
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