Application groups and research fields

The below lists research fields of each application group for a reference. Please consult "Guidelines for Admission" and  "Application Group Guide" available from the school's guidline page for more detailed information.

  • IST-1: Neuroinformatics, Brain Decoding, Brain-Machine Interface, Brain Imaging, Computational Neuroscience, Vision Science, Biological Psychiatry, Social Neuroscience, Neuroeconomics
  • IST-2: Psychoinformatics, Higher Brain Function, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Cognitive Interface, Mental State Estimation, Cognitive Science
  • IST-3: Cognitive Informatics, Vision Science, Psychophysics, Metacognition (Cognition of self-cognition), Comparison between Human and Machine Vision, Media Technology Using Human Sensory Characteristics
  • IST-4a (Adjuct Unit): Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Decision Making and Reinforcement Learning, Neurocomputational Mechanism of Social Functions, Brain-based Intelligence and Machine Learning, Human fMRI Experiments with Quantitative Methods
  • IST-4b (Adjuct Unit)*: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Emotion Sensing, Facial Expression Recognition, Human-robot Interaction, Experimental Psychology, fMRI Measurement, Physiological Measurement
  • IST-5*: Computational Intelligence, Knowledge Discovery, Computational Learning Theory, Optimization for Machine Learning
  • IST-6: Collective Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Human Computation
  • IST-7: Conversational Informatics, Symbol Emergence in Robotics, Emergent Communication, Multimodal Language Understanding, Cognitive Architecture, Human-in-the-loop Systems
  • IST-8: Language Media Processing, Language Information Processing, Language Analysis, Language Synthesis, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval
  • IST-9: Speech and Audio Processing, Speech Recognition and Understanding, Audio Scene Analysis, Human-Robot Dialogue
  • IST-10: Computer Vision, Visual Information Processing, Visual Intelligence
  • IST-11: Human Sensing, Visual and Physiological Sensing, Human Motion Analysis and Motion Assists, Communication Analysis and Assists
  • IST-12: Text Media, Language Understanding, Language Generation, Language Knowledge Acquisition, Verbalizing for Thought and Understanding, Symbol Grounding
  • IST-13: Biological Information Networks, Bioinformatics, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Complex Networks

*: The fields IST-4b Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and IST-5 Computational Intelligence currently do not take students.

(Updated: May, 2024)