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Hikaru TANABE

Graduate Student at UEC Tokyo
Design Thinking and Data Science (Dx2) Program

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About me

田邊光(たなべひかる)と申します。 電気通信大学大学院(UEC)の博士前期課程に所属し、主に Vision & Language に関する研究や Web サービス開発に取り組んでいます。 最近は特に LLMs/MLLMs の特定ドメインにおける活用に興味があります。


Specializing in Vision-and-Language and web development. Developed methods leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and volume estimation to improve energy estimation from food images. Designed and implemented evaluation pipelines for LLMs to enhance performance analysis, drawing from my experience in ML engineering. Actively seeking opportunities to contribute to projects involving LLMs or MLLMs.

Interested / Working Topics

Multimodal / Agentic LLMs, Vision & Language, Food Image Recognition,
Embodied AI (Robotics, Mobility etc), Web Development

Publications

Papers

  • Hikaru Tanabe and Keiji Yanai, Reasoning-Driven Food Energy Estimation via Multimodal Large Language Models, Nutrients (2025/03).
  • 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

Experience

  • Teaching Assistant (Educational Computer System Management)

    The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan | 2025/04 - Present

  • Teaching Assistant (Lecture: Media Science and Engineering Laboratory)

    The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan | 2024/12 - 2025/02

  • NEC Laboratories America, Inc. - Research Internship

    San Jose, CA, USA | 2024/08 - 2024/10

  • 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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Familiar Tools

Programming Languages

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptPHPGoCC++JavaKotlin

ML Research

PytorchTensorflowHugging FaceWeights & BiasesOpenCVNumPyPandasMatplotlibMATLAB

Web Development

ReactNextJSLaravelPostgresQLmongodbRedisOpenAPINginXAndroid

Creative

OpenGLThreeJSProcessingP5jsAfterEffectsBlender

General

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