Navigative City of Books
		The Navigative City of Books is a project to built a city-like virtual structure of books, equipped with various navigation functions. This project is also meant to provide a testbed where we can develop new applications for active database models and new search technologies of association, inspiration and methods based on culture. The basic concept of Toshogai comes from the ideas developed over a number of years by Seigo Matsuoka. In this city, the books are structured in accordance with meanings vented by context and topos. Also, user's intention and situation will be accounted for an interactive navigation. In the year 2007, it is planned that this will be applied to a "narrative nagivation" of City of Kyoto using a portable telephone as an access device.
WEB Information Analysis System (WISDOM)
		The Web is a mixture of information-some is truly useful to our daily lives and some has no basis, such as lies and vicious rumors. The WISDOM system (web information sensibly and discreetly ordered and marshaled) provides a reliable way of assessing whether information is credible or not from within this multitude of good and bad. Specifically, the system can find credible information by evaluating and analyzing web pages based on various criteria such as the content, author, appearance, and social valuation.
3 Sites Long-disance Knowledge Sharing, Analyzing and Delivery System
		Knowledge sharing and analysis in world-wide are important bases for next-generation knowledge and information systems. This system shows how information and knowledge can be extracted in site 1, stored, analyzed in site 2, and processed to provide useful knowledge to the end users i site 3. The information analysis is based on mathematical measurement for multi-media date in network as well as local sensor data base.
Intercultural Collaboration with Language Grid
		We present the Language Grid and the intercultural collaboration tools. The Language Grid is an infrastructure that is built on the top of the Internet. It combines many kinds of language resources on the Internet. The collaboration tools are the Langrid Chat system and the Langrid Blackboard system. The Langrid Chat system is a multilingual chat system by using the Language grid, and the Langrid Blackboard is a multilingual collaboration blackboard like a KJ-method.
Handheld speech translation system
		We demonstrate the handheld Japanese, English and Chinese speech translation system which provides high-quality speech translation using mobile terminals. Corpus-based approach enables wide coverage, robustness and portability for new languages and domains, and new noise suppression technique realizes robustness for real use of speech translation in noisy environments.
Dialog System for Kyoto sightseeing
		We demonstrate the Dialog system for Kyoto sightseeing. The system provides information of the famous place or topics about Kyoto via speech input using mobile terminals.
Example-based Machine Translation
		We are developping machine translation system for scientific papers between Japanese and Chinese. Syntactic-augmented example-based machine translation prototype amongn Japanese, Chinese and English is demonstrated.
NLP technology
		We are developping several tools based on natural language processing (NLP) technologies, such as morphological analyzer, syntactic analyzer and chunker for Japanese and Chinese. We will show some of such tools with real demonstrations.
Linguistic Resources for NLP Research
		NICT has several world top-level linguistic resources, such as NICT multilingual corpus, NICT JLE corpus and English-Japanese newspaper alligned corpus. Some of these resources are poresented in this demonstration, e.g., corpus retrieval system and English learning support system..
EDR Electronic Dictionary
		NICT has all copyright of EDR Electonic Dictionary which is one of the biggest lexicon of Japanese and English for NLP research and applications. We will release its new version shortly.      NICT is also extending the word dictionary into Chinese.
Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory
		NICT established Thai Computational Lingiustics laboratory (TCL) in Thailand in order to verify NLP technologies and to transfer them to its neighbouring countries. In this demonstration, the collaboration tool (KUI) which was developped at TCL and the current situation of technology transfer are reported..
Advanced Camera Phone System
		The system that consists of a camera phone with a GPS and a motion sensor allows a user to receive and send pictures with sense information of position and direction about a tourist place. A user takes a picture using a camera phone and sends it to a server via e-mail. The server collects and stores the picture with location and view direction (3D viewpoint) as a part of picture metadata. Such 3D viewpoint information help any user to find pictures about the tourist place by just sending a request message to the server.
Database developing for statistical processing of human-behavior and
	environmental data in outdoor
		Analyzing of behavior characteristic of particular persons helps providing functions to search optimal routes for elderly and disabled users and properly navigate them to their destinations, in accordance with their physical conditions. Environmental data gathered by sensors deployed in outdoor provide data and information useful for pedestrians.      We are developing a database deal with human-behavior and environmental data in outdoor. Statistical processing with this database provides lots of efficient information useful for mobility support.Currently, we especially focus on gathering such data, human-behavior and environmental data.
A Highly Accurate User Position Estimation through a Floor Marker for
	Information-push System
		In our framework, we design a mobile phone location system, which identifies a user position accurately through an aided of special floor marker. The mobile phone system with a prepared camera can automatically capture the photographic image of the floor marker without user operation. Based on the variation of slope deviation of the floor maker, the relative position and direction of the user are estimated. With the ergonomic properties of mobile phone system, massive indoor information (i.e., navigation, transportation timetable, evacuation, etc) becomes available anytime without the user awareness. This mobile phone system also provides a state-of-the-art information-push system, whereby the estimated information is proactively pushing to the user by predicting the user need and desire based on the user’s situation.
2-D Communication System and its Applications for Daily Life Environment
		Today, the kinds of communication available can be classified into 1-D or 3-D. 1-D communication includes metal wires, cables, and optical fibers in which the electromagnetic field is confined in 1-D medium. Meanwhile, wireless communications based on radio frequency, microware, and infra-red emits electromagnetic field in 3-D space. In our research, we spearhead ideas and effort to shine a new era technology of ‘2-D communication’ in which a signal travels from one point to another point freely in elastic 2-D space using electromagnetic field confined in 2-D space. The 2-D communication technology is promising candidate for the new paradigm application of robotics, smart flooring, free wiring vehicle, smart inner-suit, medical examinations, etc. Thus, our core aim is to imbue the 2-D communication with the richness of a wide-range application, so that the applications provide an intelligent daily life environment for the next-generation real world where we live.
Human Behavior Estimation by Power Consumption Monitoring in Home Environment
		We propose a human behavior estimation system by power consumption monitoring, that would be a life-support platform in home environment. In the system, a power monitoring sensor node is attached to each appliance and the power consumption data are collected by a sink node of the sensor network. By detecting a specific pattern of each inhabitant in the home environment, human behaviors could be estimated. With this system, the environment could grasp life patterns of the inhabitants without imposing any sensors on them and provide various kinds of services for them.
Interactive Information Display: From Gaze to Intention
		We develop an interactive information display that allows a user to navigate the displayed contents by nonverbal behavior. The system takes video streams from the cameras attached, from which it tracks some feature points on the user's face based on Active Appearance Model (AAM) and estimates the user's face direction and gaze direction by using a 3D face model and an eye model in real-time. Finally, the system locates the target of the user's attention, for which the system actively selects or changes the information contents so as to probe and recognize the user's intention and preference interactively.
The novel imaging optics forming distortion free 3D images in air
		We propose a new passive imaging optics; Transmissive Mirror Device(TMD). This device consists of many micromirrors placed perpendicular to the surface of the device. The basic operation mode is based on the two-times reflection by a pair of adjacent mutually-perpendicular micromirrors, that is a micro dihedral corner reflector. This optics can form a mirror image as a real image in air. So, anything placed behind the device can be floated in air as a image. Because it is a mirror image, the floating image has no distortion, but the depth of 3D image is inverted.
Multilingual tourist information communication platform
		We are developing multilingual tourist information communication platform. The platform enables tourists to get rid of all burdens during their travel in Kyoto: language, culture, physical condition, etc.
To see, hear, touch, and smell - creating "super presence" for natural and realistic
	communication
		As one of the universal communication basic technology, NICT conducts the R&D on the “Ultra-Realistic Communication” system that aims to realize the natural, realistic, and enhanced sense of presence. In this exhibition, we introduce the ”Ultra-Realistic Communication”research through some examples of outcomes; The technology including the electric holography aiming the ultimate 3D Television, the multi-sensory communication interface technologies, and the multi-sensory cognition mechanism.
Ultra-Realistic Communications Forum
		NICT, private companies, professors of universities and Ministry of Internal　Affairs and Communications established the Ultra-Realistic Communications Forum to contribute to progress research and development such as HD and 3D video system, 3D sound field reproduction, multi-sensory communicationstechnology on March 7, 2007. In this exhibition, we introduce an activity of this forum.