KEWEI LIU

Research Profile | The University of Tokyo · EEIS

Kewei Liu 劉 可惟 刘可惟 Tokyo, Japan

CURRENT RESEARCH

Speaking Support for Japanese LearnersM.S. research · The University of Tokyo

At the Minematsu–Saito Laboratory, I study how visual scene information, speech and language processing, and staged hints can help Japanese learners begin speaking in their own words. The current design examines support in terms of speaking-onset latency, amount of speech, content specificity, naturalness, and user burden.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Emotion Transition-Controllable Video Summarization Based on Multimodal Emotional FeaturesKyoto University · APSIPA ASC 2026

I formulated video summarization in which the user specifies a time-varying emotional trajectory in valence–arousal space together with a summary ratio. The system estimates segment-level visual, acoustic, and textual emotion cues, fuses them with path-conditioned reliability-aware directed cross-attention and routing, and selects temporally ordered segments with dynamic programming under a cost that balances target-path proximity and content importance.

On TVSum, the module-level multimodal fuser improved internal VA-path coherence from CCCmean 0.427 ± 0.038 for confidence-based fusion to 0.531 ± 0.025 for the reliability-aware attention-and-router setting under 5-fold cross-validation. The paper is accepted at APSIPA ASC 2026.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Speech / LanguageJapanese learner speaking support, pronunciation and fluency evaluation, speech-language interfaces Multimodal AIVision, audio, and text integration; reliability-aware fusion; evaluation and error analysis Human-facing AIFeedback design, evidence-aware evaluation, logging, reproducible inspection, educational applications