Welcome to the Home Page of Gang Xu!

Duty:

Professor, Media Technology Course, College of Information Science and Engineering

History:

1982, B.E. degree in radio engineering, Nanjing Inst. of Tech. (now Southeast Univ)
1986, M.S. degree in Control Engineering, Osaka University
1989, Ph.D degree in Computer Vision, Osaka University
1989-1990, Visiting researcher at ATR
1990-1996, Assistant professor at the Dept of Control Eng., Osaka University
1994, Visiting scholar at the Robotics Lab, Harvard University
1995-1997, Chairman of Japan-China Hope Education Fund
1996-, Associate professor, CS Dept, Ritsumeikan University
1998-1999, President of Chinese Academy of Science and Engineering in Japan
1999-2000, Visiting researcher at Microsoft Research China
2000, Visiting researcher at Motorola Australian Research Centre
2000-2021 CEO, 3D MEDiA, Co. Ltd., renamed as Kyoto Robotics Corporation in 2018, and acquired by Hitachi Ltd in 2021
2001- Professor, CS Department, Ritsumeikan University
2004- Professor, Department of Media Technology, Ritsumeikan University
2017-2021 Administrative leave from Ritsumeikan University for entrepreneurship
2022- Professor, Audio and Visual Media Technology Course, Ritsumeikan University

Books

Epipolar Geometry in Stereo, Motion and Object Recognition: A Unified Approach  (Gang Xu and Zhengyou Zhang, Award-winning) Kluwer Academic Publishers, September 1996, ISBN 0-7923-4199-6.
Three-Dimensional Vision (textbook in Japanese by Gang Xu and Saburo Tsuji), Kyoritsu Shuppan, April 1998, ISBN 4-320-08522-1. Korean translation published by Daeyoungsa in March 2000.
3D CG from Photographs (in Japanese by Gang Xu), Kindai Kagaku Sha, Jan. 2001, ISBN 4-7649-0286-9. Chinese translation published by Wuhan University Pres in 2006
Ease Asian Community of a Shared Future (in Japanese by Gang Xu), Nihon Kyoho Sha, August 2023, ISBN 978-4-86185-334-0.