
Masato
Ishii
Profile
Masato Ishii is a Senior Research Scientist at Sony Research Inc. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Professor Masashi Sugiyama. From 2010 to 2019, he worked as a researcher at NEC. Between 2017 and 2019, he served as a visiting researcher at RIKEN AIP. In 2019, he joined Sony Group Corporation and has been seconded to Sony Research Inc. since 2023. His research interests span from the fundamentals of machine learning to its applications in computer vision, with a current focus mainly on audio-visual generation.
Publications
We propose to synthesize high-quality and synchronized audio, given video and optional text conditions, using a novel multimodal joint training framework MMAudio. In contrast to single-modality training conditioned on (limited) video data only, MMAudio is jointly trained wit…
In this work, we build a simple but strong baseline for sounding video generation. Given base diffusion models for audio and video, we integrate them with additional modules into a single model and train it to make the model jointly generate audio and video. To enhance align…
Personalized text-to-image diffusion models have grown popular for their ability to efficiently acquire a new concept from user-defined text descriptions and a few images. However, in the real world, a user may wish to personalize a model on multiple concepts but one at a ti…
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