Norimasa Kobori (Preferred)
Norimasa Kobori
Head of research, Mercari, Inc
Joined
November 2022
Names
Emails
****@woven-planet.global (Confirmed)
****@mercari.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Head of research
Mercari, Inc (mercari.com)
2025 – Present
Principal Researcher
Woven by Toyota, Inc. (woven.toyota)
2022 – 2025
Senior manager
Woven Alpha Inc. (woven-planet.global)
2020 – 2022
Senior manager
Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA (toyota-europe.com)
2017 – 2019
PhD student
Nagoya University (nagoya-u.ac.jp)
2012 – 2017
Researcher
Toyota Motor Corporation (toyota.co.jp)
2005 – 2016
MS student
Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University (waseda.ac.jp)
2002 – 2004
Undergrad student
Waseda University (waseda.ac.jp)
1998 – 2002
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
Vision LLM
2022 – 2024
Human activities recognition
2020 – 2022
Human re-identification
2020 – 2022
Human pose estimation
2020 – 2022
self-supervised learning
2020 – 2022
self-driving
2019 – 2020
6D Pose estimation
2014 – 2019
3D reconstruction
2014 – 2019
Diagnostic on CAN
2012 – 2014
SLAM
2008 – 2012
Robotics
2008 – 2012
Embedded system
2008 – 2012
High positioning system
2005 – 2008
CMOS sensor
2004 – 2005
Reinforcement Learning
2002 – 2004