Journal publications

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: User-friendly Texture Mapping Engine. Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE). Volume 63, No. 12, pages 1838-1846, December 2009. [BibTeX | Link | PDF]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Multi-Interfaces Approach to Situated Knowledge Management for Complex Instruments: First Step Toward Industrial Deployment. AI & Society Journal. Springer London, Volume 25, No. 2, pages 211-223, May 2010 (DOI 10.1007/s00146-009-0247-9). [BibTeX | Link]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Accurate Object Recognition Using Orientation Sensor with Refinement on the Lie Group of Spatial Rigid Motions. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. Volume E91-D, No. 8, pages 2179-2188, August 2008. [BibTeX | Link]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Enabling Situated Knowledge Management for Complex Instruments by Real-time Reconstruction of Surface Coordinate System on a Mobile Device. AI & Society Journal. Springer London, Volume 24, No. 1, pages 85-95, March 2009 (DOI 10.1007/s00146-009-0200-y). [BibTeX | Link]

Peer-reviewed conference and workshop papers

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Change-Point Detection on the Lie Group SE(3). In: VISIGRAPP 2010, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Volume 229, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, P. Richard and J. Braz (Eds.), 2011, pages 230-245. [Link]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Change-Point Detection on the Lie Group SE(3) for Segmenting Gesture-Defined Spatial Rigid Motion. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2010). Angers, France, May 2010, pages 284-295. [BibTeX | Link | PDF] (Best Student Paper Award)

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Towards Expressing Situated Knowledge for Complex Instruments by 3D Items Creation and Animation. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID 2009). Kyoto, Japan, November 2009, pages 301-315. [BibTeX]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Low-Overhead 3D Items Drawing Engine for Communicating Situated Knowledge. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2009). Volume LNCS 5820, Springer-Verlag, Beijing, China, October 2009, pages 31-41. [BibTeX | Link]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Low-Overhead Texture Mapping on 3D Models. In: Proceedings of IEEE the 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2009). Xiamen, China, October 2009, pages 128-133. [BibTeX | Link]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Management of Situated Knowledge for Complex Instruments Using 3D Items Creation. In: Next-Generation Applied Intelligence, 22nd International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems (IEA/AIE 2009). Volume LNAI 5579, Springer-Verlag, Tainan, Taiwan, June 2009, pages 459-469. [BibTeX | Link]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Multi-Interfaces Approach to Situated Knowledge Management for Complex Instruments: First Step Toward Industrial Deployment. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID 2008). San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2008. [BibTeX]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Evaluation of a Method to Solve the Perspective-Two-Point Problem Using a Three-axis Orientation Sensor. In: Proceedings of IEEE the 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2008). Sydney, Australia, July 2008, pages 862-867. [BibTeX | Link]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Agent-Oriented Knowledge Management for Complex Instruments: Toward Tacit Knowledge Transfer. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID 2007). Trento, Italy, July 2007, pages 95-108. [BibTeX]

Loic Merckel and Toyoaki Nishida: Solution of the Perspective-Three-Point Problem. In: New Trends in Applied Artificial Intelligence - The 20th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems (IEA/AIE 2007). Volume LNAI 4570, Springer-Verlag, Kyoto, Japan, June 2007, pages 324-333. [BibTeX | Link]

Benjamin Alexander Hacker, Thomas Wankerl, Andrey Kiselev, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Loic Merckel, Shogo Okada, Johann Schlichter, Niyaz M. Abdikeev and Toyoaki Nishida: Incorporating Intentional and Emotional Behaviors into a Virtual Human for Better Customer-Engineer-Interaction. IEEE the 10th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL 2009). Zagreb, Croatia, June 2009, pages 163-170. [Link]

Thesis

Loic Merckel: Information Grounding Suite for Building a Situated Knowledge Management System in the Domain of Complex Instruments. Ph.D. Thesis. Kyoto University, March 2010. [Link]

Patents

Knowledge acquisition support apparatus and program applied to it, Publication number: JP2010-026882, Loic Merckel, 2010 (Japanese title: ナレッジ取得支援装置及びナレッジ取得支援装置用プログラム ). Applicant: HORIBA Ltd.

Object recognition apparatus and program applied to it, Publication number: JP2008-309595, Loic Merckel, 2008 (Japanese title: オブジェクト認識装置及びそれに用いられるプログラム). Applicant: HORIBA Ltd.

Object recognition apparatus and object recognition program, Publication number: JP2009-008577, Loic Merckel, 2009 (Japanese title: オブジェクト認識装置及びオブジェクト認識用プログラム). Applicant: HORIBA Ltd.

Apparatus and method of cataloging test data by icons, Publication number: US2006-055697, Seiichiro Yoshioka, Yoshiyuki Okada, Tatsuo Igushi and Loic Merckel, 2006. Applicant: HORIBA Ltd. [Link]

Apparatus and method of cataloging test data by icons, Publication number: JP2006-084453, Seiichiro Yoshioka, Yoshiyuki Okada, Tatsuo Igushi and Loic Merckel, 2006 (Japanese title: 分析装置). Applicant: HORIBA Ltd.