Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Naoya Muramatsu, Sangyun Shin, Qianyi Deng, Andrew Markham, Amir Patel, "WildPose: A Long-Range 3D Wildlife Motion Capture System", Journal of Experimental Biology 228 (5), 2025. (Cover article)

• Stacey Shield, Naoya Muramatsu, Zico Da Silva, Amir Patel, "Chasing the cheetah: how field biomechanics has evolved to keep up with the fastest land animal", Journal of Experimental Biology 226, Suppl_1 (2023).

• Naoya Muramatsu, Hai-Tao Yu, Tetsuji Satoh, "Combining Spiking Neural Networks with Artificial Neural Networks for Enhanced Image Classification", IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems 106, 2 (2023).

Peer-reviewed conference papers

• Muhammad Aamir*, Naoya Muramatsu*, Sangyun Shin, Matthew Wijers, Jia-Xing Zhong, Xinyu Hou, Amir Patel, Andrew Loveridge, Andrew Markham, "WildDepth: A Multimodal Dataset for 3D Wildlife Perception and Depth Estimation", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026) and the CV4Animals Workshop at CVPR 2026. (* Joint first authorship)

• Amaan Vally, Daniel Joska, Naoya Muramatsu, Paul Amayo, Amir Patel, "Autonomous Rotating Cameras Boost 3D Wildlife MoCap Yield without Human Operators", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026).

• Zico da Silva, Naoya Muramatsu, Zuhayr Parkar, Fred Nicolls, Amir Patel, "Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Cheetahs in the Wild", in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024).

• Naoya Muramatsu, Sangyun Shin, Andrew Markham, Amir Patel, "WildPose: A Long-range 3D Motion Capture System for Wildlife", in the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR 2024 CV4Animals Workshop).

• Naoya Muramatsu*, Zico da Silva*, Daniel Joska, Fred Nicolls, Amir Patel. "Improving 3D Markerless Pose Estimation of Animals in the Wild using Low-Cost Cameras". 2022 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (* Joint first authorship)

• Daniel Joska, Liam Clark, Naoya Muramatsu, Ricardo Jericevich, Fred Nicolls, Alexander Mathis, Mackenzie Mathis, Amir Patel. "AcinoSet: A 3D Pose Estimation Dataset and Baseline Models for Cheetahs in the Wild". 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

• Chun Wei Ooi, Naoya Muramatsu, Yoichi Ochiai, "Eholo glass: Electroholography glass. A lensless approach to holographic augmented reality near-eye display", in Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Technical Briefs.

• Natsumi Kato, Hiroyuki Osone, Daitetsu Sato, Naoya Muramatsu, Yoichi Ochiai. "DeepWear: a Case Study of Collaborative Design between Human and Artificial Intelligence", in Proc. Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2018).

• Natsumi Kato, Hiroyuki Osone, Daitetsu Sato, Naoya Muramatsu, Yoichi Ochiai. "Crowd Sourcing Clothes Design Directed by Adversarial Neural Networks", in Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017 Workshop).

• Naoya Muramatsu, Chun Wei Ooi, Yuta Itoh, and Yoichi Ochiai. "DeepHolo: Recognizing 3D Objects using a Binary-weighted Computer-Generated Hologram", in SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Posters.

• Mose Sakashita, Yuta Sato, Ayaka Ebisu, Keisuke Kawahara, Satoshi Hashizume, Naoya Muramatsu, Yoichi Ochiai, "Haptic Marionette: Wrist Control Technology Combined with Electrical Muscle Stimulation and Hanger Reflex", in SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Posters.

• Naoya Muramatsu, Kazuki Ohshima, Ryota Kawamura, Ooi Chun Wei, Yuta Sato, Yoichi Ochiai. "Sonoliards: Rendering Audible Sound Spots by Reflecting the Ultrasound Beams", in Adjunct Proc. 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2017).

• Naoya Muramatsu, Ooi Chun Wei, Takashi Miyazaki. "Development of High Performance Filter for Indoor Positioning System", The 5th IIAE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Image Processing (ICISIP), September 2017.

Others (conference without review、Domestic conference・seminar, etc.)

• Naoya Muramatsu, Hai-Tao Yu, "Combining Spiking Neural Network and Artificial Neural Network for Enhanced Image Classification", the 13th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM2021).

• Naoya Muramatsu, Tetsuji Sato, Takuyasu Fushimi, "Extraction Method of Product Attributes Based on Transition Patterns from Review Perspectives", 9th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM2017). (Student presentation award)

Education

May, 2021 — July, 2026

University of Cape Town, PhD in Engineering

March, 2021

University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Library and Information Media Master's Program Completed (Informatics)

March, 2018

University of Tsukuba Informatics Group Knowledge Information and Library Science Graduated

March, 2016

Graduated from Nagano National College of Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professional experience

May, 2018 — Current

Freelance Engineer & frogiraffe LLC (Founder and Managing Member)

August, 2017 — March, 2019

Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc. (Engineer)

February, 2016 — December, 2017

Fixstars Corporation (Engineer)

Awards, fellowships, etc.

2025

Paper selected for cover of Journal of Experimental Biology (March 2025 issue)

2022

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship 2022

2019

Super Creator, MITOU 2018

2018

Creator (JPY 2,300,000), MITOU 2018

2018

University of Tsukuba Student Award

2017

Student Presentation Award, DEIM2017

2015

Hokushinetsu block 3rd award, RoboCup Junior 2015 (soccer challenge)