Projects

• Personalia project (FY2024-2025) https://nii-yamagishilab.github.io/personalia/
• VoicePersonae project (FY2018-2023) https://nii-yamagishilab.github.io/voicepersonae/
• Echizen CREST FakeMedia project (FY2020-2025) http://research.nii.ac.jp/~iechizen/crest/index.html

Grants

2022

• Xiaoxiao Miao (PI), Language-independent speaker anonymization with multiple privacy-related attributes

2021

• Erica Cooper (PI), Language-independent, multi-modal, and data-efficient approaches for speech synthesis and translation
• Xin Wang (PI), Speech privacy protection by high-quality, invertible, and extendable speech anonymization and de-anonymization
• Junichi Yamagishi (PI), Explainable next-generation media forensics technologies based on fake media detection and automatic fact verification
• Junichi Yamagishi (PI), Can AI Rakugoka entertain people? -Improved expressiveness of rakugo speech synthesis and automatic generation of storytelling

2018

• Junichi Yamagishi (PI), Speaker identity cloning and protection

Awards

• 2023 BTAS/IJCB 5-Year Highest Impact Award (IEEE Biometrics Council awards at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2023)

  • Multi-task Learning For Detecting and Segmenting Manipulated Facial Images and Videos, IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS) 2019, Huy Nguyen, Fuming Fang, Junichi Yamagishi, Isao Echizen

• 2023 Best Paper Award in Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers 2022

  • Huy Hong Nguyen (Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Minoru KURIBAYASHI(Okayama University), Junichi YAMAGISHI (National Institute of Informatics), Isao ECHIZEN (National Institute of Informatics), “Effects of Image Processing Operations on Adversarial Noise and Their Use in Detecting and Correcting Adversarial Images”

• 2023 第38回電気通信普及財団賞（テレコム学際研究賞）特例表彰

  • Isao Echizen（教授, 情報社会相関研究系, 国立情報学研究所）
  • Junichi Yamagishi（教授, コンテンツ科学研究系, 国立情報学研究所）
  • Canasai Kruengkrai（特任助教, コンテンツ科学研究系, 国立情報学研究所）
  • Huy Hong Nguyen（特任助教, 情報社会相関研究系, 国立情報学研究所）
  • Le Trung-Nghia（ホーチミン科学大学／元NII特任助教）

• 2022 Best Presentation Award in AACL-IJCNLP 2022 Student Research Workshop (SRW)

  • Li-Kuang Chen, “Outlier-Aware Training for Improving Group Accuracy Disparities”