I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, and am a member of the LSTA Lab..

I am a recipient of 2025 Kyoto University DoGS SPRING Fellowship.

Prior to joining Kyoto University, I received my M.S. degree from the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia at National Taiwan University, where I was a member of the NTU imLab.

I am actively seeking collaboration opportunities in the processing and analysis of Japanese historical document images, particularly pre-modern Japanese (Kuzushiji) OCR. If you are interested in academic collaboration, please feel free to contact me.

News

• 2025.10: I am the recipient of the Kyoto University DoGS SPRING Fellowship. Thanks Kyoto University.
• 2025.06: I receive an offer to pursue a Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan.

Current Research Directions

• Pre-modern Japanese (Kuzushiji) OCR
• Historical Document Image Processing
• Low-Resource Language Processing

Selected Publications

My research spans Computer Vision, Image Processing, Multimodal Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Graphics. I have published numerous papers in international journals and conference proceedings. For a detailed publication record, please see my Google Scholar profile .

• Seal-Robust KCR: A Robust Kuzushiji Character Recognition Framework under Seal Interference
  Rui-Yang Ju, Kohei Yamashita, Hirotaka Kameko, Shinsuke Mori
  

• DKDS: A Benchmark Dataset of Degraded Kuzushiji Documents with Seals for Detection and Binarization
  Rui-Yang Ju, Kohei Yamashita, Hirotaka Kameko, Shinsuke Mori
  International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition 2026
  

• Two-Stage Framework for Efficient UAV-Based Wildfire Video Analysis with Adaptive Compression and Fire Source Detection
  Yanbing Bai, Rui-Yang Ju, Lemeng Zhao, Junjie Hu, Jianchao Bi, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura
  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 2026

• An End-to-End Multimodal System for Subtitle Recognition and Chinese-Japanese Translation in Short Dramas
  Jing An, Haofei Chang, Rui-Yang Ju, Jinhua Su, Yanbing Bai, Xin Qu
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2026

• ToonifyGB: StyleGAN-based Gaussian Blendshapes for 3D Stylized Head Avatars
  Rui-Yang Ju, Sheng-Yen Huang, Yi-Ping Hung
  IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (Poster) 2026
  

• GlassesGB: Controllable 2D GAN-Based Eyewear Personalization for 3D Gaussian Blendshapes Head Avatars
  Rui-Yang Ju, Jen-Shiun Chiang
  IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (Poster) 2026
  

• Pediatric Wrist Fracture Detection Using Feature Context Excitation Modules in X-ray Images
  Rui-Yang Ju, Chun-Tse Chien, Enkaer Xieerke, Jen-Shiun Chiang
  IET Image Processing 2026
  

• ORB-SfMLearner: ORB-Guided Self-supervised Visual Odometry with Selective Online Adaptation
  Yanlin Jin, Rui-Yang Ju, Haojun Liu, Yuzhong Zhong
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2025
  

• Three-stage Binarization of Color Document Images Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform and Generative Adversarial Networks
  Rui-Yang Ju, Yu-Shian Lin, Yanlin Jin, Chih-Chia Chen, Chun-Tse Chien, Jen-Shiun Chiang
  Knowledge-Based Systems 2024
  

• YOLOv8-ResCBAM: YOLOv8 Based on An Effective Attention Module for Pediatric Wrist Fracture Detection
  Rui-Yang Ju, Chun-Tse Chien, Jen-Shiun Chiang
  International Conference on Neural Information Processing 2024
  

• CCDWT-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks Based on Color Channel Using Discrete Wavelet Transform for Document Image Binarization
  Rui-Yang Ju, Yu-Shian Lin, Jen-Shiun Chiang, Chih-Chia Chen, Wei-Han Chen, Chun-Tse Chien
  Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023

• Fracture Detection in Pediatric Wrist Trauma X-ray Images Using YOLOv8 Algorithm
  Rui-Yang Ju, Weiming Cai
  Scientific Reports 2023
  

• Resolution enhancement processing on low quality images using swin transformer based on interval dense connection strategy
  Rui-Yang Ju, Chih-Chia Chen, Jen-Shiun Chiang, Yu-Shian Lin, Wei-Han Chen, Chun-Tse Chien
  Multimedia Tools and Applications 2023
  

• Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks on Raspberry Pi for Image Classification
  Rui-Yang Ju, Ting-Yu Lin, Jia-Hao Jian, Jen-Shiun Chiang
  Journal of Real-Time Image Processing 2023
  

Awards

• Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kyoto University DoGS SPRING Fellowship, 2025.
• National Taiwan University, Postgraduate Scholarship, 2024, 2025.

Services

I currently serve as a reviewer for several international journals and conferences. A detailed record of my reviewing activities is available on my ORCID profile .

Selected Journal Review Service

• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Pattern Recognition (PR), Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), Neural Networks (NN), Neurocomputing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI).

Conference Committee and Review Service

• AAAI 2027, IJCNN 2027, PRIMA 2026, PRICAI 2026, SMC 2026, CHI 2026, IJCNN 2026, ICASSP 2026, AAAI 2026, PRICAI 2025, IJCNN 2025, ICASSP 2025, PRICAI 2024, PRICAI 2023.