Profile
Horiuchi, Toshiharu
Ph.D. in Information Science and Control Engineering
Certified Human Centered Design Professional
Born in January 1977 and raised in Wakayama, Japan
Senior Expert
XR Division, Advanced Technology Laboratories
KDDI Research, Inc.
Advancing Technology Research Division, Advancing Business Technology Sector
KDDI Corporation
2-1-15 Ohara, Fujimino-shi, Saitama 356-8502, Japan
Email: to-horiuchi kddi.com
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-8532
Research Areas
Informatics / Human informatics
Perceptual information processing
Human interface and interaction
Multidisciplinary science / Design
Design
Engineering / Electrical and electronic engineering
Control and systems engineering
Research Interests
Spatial acoustics / Binaural technology
Sound field recording and analysis
Sound field reproduction and control
Active noise control / Echo cancellation
Interaction design
User-centric entertainment
Society Activities
Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)
Secretary, Preparatory Committee of Biannual Meeting (June 2021–Present)
Member, Executive Committee of Biannual Meeting (2021–2022 Autumn, 2022–2023 Spring)
Session Chair, Biannual Meeting (2016 Autumn)
Session Co-Chair, Biannual Meeting (2013–2014 Spring, 2012–2013 Autumn, 2022 Autumn)
Associate Editor (Secretary), Editorial Board (June 2021–June 2023)
Associate Editor, Editorial Board (June 2017–June 2021)
Associate Editor, Editorial Committee of Special Issue on High-reality Audio (January 2020–March 2022)
Reviewer, Editorial Board (February 2016–Present)
Member, Technical Committee on Electroacoustics (May 2017–May 2023)
Secretary, Technical Committee on Electroacoustics (May 2015–May 2017)
Assistant, Technical Committee on Electroacoustics (May 2014–May 2015)
Member, Selection Committee for Paper Award (2021, 2022fy)
Member, Selection Committee for Itakura Prize Innovative Young Researcher Award (2017fy)
Member (April 2004–Present)
Student Member (November 1999–March 2004)
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
Member, Technical Program Committee, General Conference (2015–2017)
Member, Technical Program Committee, Society Conference (2014–2016)
Session Chair, General Conference (2021)
Editor (Webmaster), Human Communication Group (June 2016–June 2018)
Member, Copyright Management Committee (June 2016–June 2018)
Member, Communication Committee (June 2016–June 2018)
Associate Editor, Editorial Committee of IEICE Fundamentals Review (June 2017–June 2019)
Associate Editor, Editorial Committee of IEICE Trans. Fundamentals (Japanese Edition) (May 2013–May 2017)
Associate Editor, Editorial Committee of Special Section on Emerging Technologies in Electronics, Information and Communication (February 2015)
Reviewer, Editorial Committee (May 2011–Present)
Temporary Reviewer, Editorial Committee (January 2010–May 2011)
Member, Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics (June 2017–June 2023)
Secretary, Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics (June 2015–May 2017)
Assistant, Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics (June 2014–June 2015)
Member, Selection Committee for Best Paper Award of Engineering Sciences Society (2013–2016fy)
Voting Member, Selection Committee for Young Researcher's Award in Engineering Sciences Society (2015, 2016, 2021fy)
Senior Member (December 2022–Present)
Member (April 2004–Present)
Student Member (October 1998–March 2004)
Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE)
Secretary, Planning Committee, Editorial Board (June 2024–Present)
Member (May 2024–Present)
Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Member, 152nd–156th Convention Papers Program Committee (2022–Present)
Human Centered Design Organization (HCD-Net)
Member (April 2015–Present)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Reviewer, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (2024)
Reviewer, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) (2024)
Member, Signal Processing Society (March 2004–Present)
Member (March 2004–Present)
International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS)
Member, 4th Technical Program Committee (2010)
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Temporary Reviewer (2009)
Awards
The Acoustical Society of Japan
11th Society Activity Contribution Award (March 7, 2024)
The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
49th Technology Promotion Award, Progressive Development Award (Research and Development Category) (May 27, 2022)
Horiuchi, Toshiharu; Okubo, Shota; Kobayashi, Tatsuya.
Development and Practical Deployment of “OtonoVR”—Particular Spatial Focused 360-degree Video Player App.
The Acoustical Society of Japan
29th Technical Development Award (May 22, 2021)
Horiuchi, Toshiharu; Niida, Sumaru; Hattori, Gen; Takishima, Yasuhiro.
Development and Social Deployment of “OtonoVR—New Music Viewing Experience” App.
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Letter of Appreciation for Editorial Service, Engineering Sciences Society (September 11, 2019)
The Information Processing Society of Japan
Journal of Information Processing Outstanding Paper Award 2018 (June 5, 2019)
Hagiya, Toshiyuki; Horiuchi, Toshiharu; Yazaki, Tomonori; Kawahara, Tatsuya.
Typing Tutor: Individualized Tutoring in Text Entry for Older Adults Based on Statistical Input Stumble Detection.
The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
Image Information Media Future Award, 16th Next-generation TV Technology Award (May 30, 2018)
Horiuchi, Toshiharu; Niida, Sumaru; Takishima, Yasuhiro.
Research and Development of a Zoom Synthesis Technology of Sound Field for Realizing Interactive Viewing.
The Acoustical Society of Japan
5th Society Activity Contribution Award (March 14, 2018)
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Service Award (Management of Technical Committee), Engineering Sciences Society (September 13, 2017)
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Letter of Appreciation for Editorial Service, Engineering Sciences Society (September 13, 2017)
The 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Best Technical Demonstration Runner-up (November 1, 2012)
Horiuchi, Toshiharu; Sankoh, Hiroshi; Kato, Tsuneo; Naito, Sei.
Interactive Music Video Application for Smartphones Based on Free-viewpoint Video and Audio Rendering.
The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
20th Fujio Frontier Award (Image Information Media Future Award, 20th Frontier Award) (May 24, 2012)
Sankoh, Hiroshi; Horiuchi, Toshiharu.
Research and Development of a Free-viewpoint Content Production and Distribution Technology for Realizing Meta-space Reproduction.
CEATEC JAPAN 2011
Semi Grand Prix, CEATEC AWARD 2011 Prosperous and Ideal Lifestyle and Society Category (October 6, 2011)
KDDI Corporation.
Free-viewpoint Concert.
The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation
Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award, 17th Telecom System Technology Award for Student (March 25, 2002)
Horiuchi, Toshiharu; (Hokari, Haruhide; Shimada, Shoji; Inada, Takashi).
Adaptive Estimation of Transfer Functions for Sound Localization Using Stereo Earphone-Microphone Combination,
Out-of-head Sound Localization Using Adaptive Inverse Filter.
In-house Awards
KDDI Research, Inc.
Excellent Presence Award (March 26, 2021)
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.
Excellent Technical Development Award (March 27, 2015)
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.
Excellent Technical Development Award (March 27, 2012)
Commissioned Research / Grants
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Highly efficient compression transmission technology for holographic communications in Beyond 5G networks
Transmission technology for advanced multimodal information
Demonstration of multimodal information transmission (2023–Present)
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology / The Telecommunications Advancement Organization
Large-scale corpus-based spoken dialogue translation technology
Speech recognition technology in real acoustic environments
Acoustic environment-adaptive speech recognition technology (2002–2006)
The Foundation for C&C Promotion
Grants for Researchers Attending International Conferences (2001fy)
Research History
2009–Present
KDDI Corporation
Advancing Technology Research Division, Advancing Business Technology Sector (October 2024–Present)
Seconded to KDDI Research, Inc. (October 2016–Present)
Seconded to KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. (April 2009–September 2016)
KDDI Research, Inc. (October 2016–)
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. (–September 2016)
XR Division, Advanced Technology Laboratories (April 2023–Present)
XR Space Creation Laboratory, XR Division, Advanced Technology Laboratories (April 2022–March 2023)
XR Space Creation Laboratory, Media ICT Division, Advanced Technology Laboratories (April 2021–March 2022)
Multimodal Communication Laboratory, Innovation Center, KDDI research atelier (December 2020–March 2021)
Multimodal Communication Laboratory, Innovation Center (April 2020–November 2020)
Interaction Design Laboratory, Human Communication Division (April 2017–March 2020)
User Interface Laboratory, Human Communication Division (December 2011–March 2017)
User Interface Laboratory, Multimedia Application Division (April 2009–November 2011)
Senior Expert (April 2023–Present)
Expert (April 2022–March 2023)
R&D Manager (October 2015–March 2022)
Research Engineer (April 2009–September 2015)
Chiba Institute of Technology
Faculty of Advanced Engineering / Graduate School of Advanced Engineering
Guest Lecturer (November 2023, November 2022, November–December 2021, November 2020)
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Faculty of Systems Design / Graduate School of Systems Design
Part-Time Lecturer (August 2024, August 2023, August 2022, September 2021, September 2020, September 2019, August 2018)
Kyushu Institute of Technology
School of Engineering / Graduate School of Engineering
Part-Time Lecturer (February 2017, December 2014)
2006–2009
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc.
User Interface Laboratory, Multimedia Application Division (October 2008–)
Speech Processing Laboratory, Multimedia Application Division (–September 2008)
Research Engineer (Postdoctoral fellow) (April 2006–March 2009)
ITS and Wireless Technology Development Group, Development Center
Development Engineer (June–December 2008)
New Service Development Group, Development Center
Development Engineer (November 2007–December 2008)
2002–2006
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Department of Acoustics and Speech Research, Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories (April 2004–)
Department 1, Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories (–March 2004)
Researcher (Postdoctoral Fellow) (April 2005–March 2006)
Intern Researcher (Special Research Student) (October 2002–March 2005)
Intern Student (Special Research Student) (April 2002–September 2002)
1997–2002
Nagaoka University of Technology
School of Engineering
Research Assistant (May 2001–February 2002)
Teaching Assistant (April 2001–February 2002)
Department of Educational Affairs
Clerical Assistant (April 1997–March 2002)
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
Audio Information Processing Group, Media Processing Project, Cyber Space Laboratories (January 1999–)
Audio Information Processing Group, Speech and Acoustics Laboratory, Human Interface Laboratories (–December 1998)
Intern Student (October 1998–February 1999)
Education
1995–2004
Nagaoka University of Technology
Ph.D. in Information Science and Control Engineering, Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Engineering (April 2001–December 2004)
Supervisor: Dr. Shoji Shimada, Professor, Chair of Information and Telecommunication Systems Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Head, Sound and Vibration Engineering Center, Nagaoka University of Technology
Supervisor: Dr. Satoshi Nakamura, Head, Department of Acoustics and Speech Research, Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Master's Degree in Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, Master's Program, Graduate School of Engineering (April 1999–March 2001)
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, School of Engineering (April 1995–March 1999)
1992–1995
Wakayama Technical High School
Diploma in Electrical Engineering (April 1992–March 1995)