Masataka Sawayama, Ph.D.

Recent activities

2026.01  [Book]

Nishida, S., & Sawayama, M., (2026). Human Visual Perception of Shitsukan, In Shitsukan—Understanding and Manipulating Material and Quality Perception, Springer, 7-29. (Article)

2026.01  [Journal Article]

Okamoto, T., Takeuchi, M., Sawayama, M., & Iwai, D.(accepted). Shadowless Projection Mapping for Tabletop Workspaces with Synthetic Aperture Projector, IEEE TVCG.

2026.01  [Journal Article]

Imura, T., Sawayama, M., Shirai, N., Tomonaga, M., & Nishida, S. (accepted). Development of Detection Sensitivity to Material Properties in School-Age Children, Scientific Reports.

2025.11  [Conference presentation]

Lavan V., Sawayama, M., Bayet, L., Xiao, B. (November, 2025). EEG Decoding Reveals Task Modulation of Neural Representation of Materials, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2025, California, USA.

2025.06  [Conference presentation]

Sawayama, M. (May, 2025). Seeing invisible material from visible image features, 25th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Florida, USA.

Hirano, J., Sawayama, M., Miyoshi, K., Nishida, S. (May, 2025). Individual differences in color perception with novel color axes, 25th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Florida, USA.

Xiao, B., Liao, C., Sawayama, M. (May, 2025). Probing visual and semantic representations in material perception using psychophysics and deep learning, 25th Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Florida, USA.

Shioya, K., Hayashi, K., Li, B., Matsumoto, N., Sawayama, M., Matsuda, K., Miura, K., Eldridge, M., Saunders, R., Richmond, B., Nagai, Y., Miyakawa, N., Minamimoto, T., Katakami, S., Okado, M., Kawano, K., Sugase-Miyamoto, Y., (June, 2025). Neural Representations of Shape and Material of Objects in Monkey Area TE, Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) 2025, Sydney, Australia.

Nakayama, R., Sai, R., Uno, K., Sawayama, M., Tsuchiya, N., Amano, K. (June, 2025). Comparing relational measures of emotional experiences: pairwise judgement and spatial arrangement based on emotional similarity, Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) 2025, Sydney, Australia.

Yashiro, R., Sawayama, M., Yamashita, A., Amano, K. (August, 2025). Neural representations of implied motion in body-selective regions revealed by caption-based encoding models. Cognitive Computational Neuroscience 2025, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2025. 06 [Journal Article]

Adolphe, M., Pech, M., Sawayama, M., Maurel, D., Delmas, A., Oudeyer, P. Y., Sauzeon, H. (2025). Exploring the potential of artificial intelligence in individualized cognitive training: A systematic review, PLoS ONE 20(6): e0316860, 1-38. (Article)

2025. 04 [News]

I started working as an associate professor at Hokkaido University.

2024.10  [Preprint]

Nishimura Y., Sawayama M., Yamashita, A., Nakayama, H. & Amano, K. (2024) BrainCodec: Neural fMRI codec for the decoding of cognitive brain states. arXiv, 2410.04383, 1-32. (Article)(Code)

Profile

Masataka Sawayama (澤山 正貴)

  • Affiliation:
    Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • Email:
    masa[dot]sawayama@gmail[dot]com
  • Research Interests:
    vision science, psychophysics, neuroscience, computer science, machine learning