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Koushi Hiraoka
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Koushi Hiraoka

Humanophilic System Group, Kyushu University
Arakawa Laboratory
Second-year doctoral student (D2)

Human Activity RecognitionPrivacy-Aware SensingUbiquitous SystemWearable ComputingHuman-Computer Interaction

Career

Education

  • Department of Information Science and Technology, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University

    Doctoral program

    April 2025 – Present

  • Department of Information Science and Technology, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University

    Master’s program

    April 2023 – March 2025

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering Course, Department of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ehime University

    Bachelor’s degree

    April 2019 – March 2023

Internships

  • SCIEN

    Machine Learning Engineer

    June 2026 – Present

  • JCCL

    Embedded Systems Engineer

    April 2024 – Present

Publications

Journal Papers

  • EdgeVLM as a Privacy Filter: Towards Privacy-Aware Activity Recognition from Wearable Camera Using Image Captions

    Koushi Hiraoka, Yugo Nakamura, Yutaka Arakawa

    IEEE Access, 2026, January

    DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3659343.

International Conference

  • Exploring Fingertip Interaction Using Surface Acoustic Wave Sensing with a VPU Ring (Demo)

    Koushi Hiraoka, Yugo Nakamura, Yutaka Arakawa

    Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 2026, January

  • SenStick-EyeMeet: Distributed Multimodal Sensing of Nonverbal Interactions to Augment LLM-Assisted Meeting Understanding (Demo)

    Toshiki Hayashida, Koushi Hiraoka, Isshin Nakao, Yugo Nakamura, Yutaka Arakawa

    Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 2026, January

  • Exploring Edge Vision-Language Model for Privacy-Aware Activity Recognition

    Koushi Hiraoka, Yugo Nakamura, Yutaka Arakawa

    International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA), 2025, November

  • Exploring Trade-offs in Privacy-Aware Activity Recognition with Small Wearable Cameras

    Koushi Hiraoka, Yugo Nakamura, Yutaka Arakawa

    International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), 2025, May

  • WiLearn: Design and Implementation of a Microlearning System that Utilizes a Captive Portal of Wi-Fi

    Koushi Hiraoka, Shuta Matsuo, Yugo Nakamura, Yutaka Arakawa

    International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU), 2023, November

    DOI: 10.23919/ICMU58504.2023.10412210.