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Kenta Urano
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4ranked-venue papers in the field
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4since 2021 · last 2026
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Database Systems & Data Management · 4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Time Series Forecasting of Sports Ticket Sales with Venue-Independent Fan Segments
Haru Terashima, Naoki Tamura, Kazuyuki Shoji, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi |
DATA (1) | 5 |
| 2025 | Multi-City Next Location Prediction through Mobility-Derived Multi-Pattern Transfer LearningabstractIn this study, we propose MoDeMIT (Mobility-Derived Multi-Insight Transfer), a human mobility prediction method that transfers various patterns shared across cities, extracted from mobility histories. Existing studies on human mobility prediction have primarily focused on learning the mobility patterns of users in the target city, without considering applications in cities with limited data. Moreover, relying solely on mobility patterns poses inherent limitations on prediction accuracy. The proposed MoDeMIT addresses these issues by defining and transferring multiple patterns shared across cities, such as lifestyle patterns and large-scale mobility patterns derived from mobility histories, as well as mobility patterns. This approach enables improvements in prediction accuracy compared to existing methods. We validate the effectiveness of MoDeMIT using real-world human mobility datasets. Furthermore, in the HuMob Challenge 2025 (GISCUP), MoDeMIT achieved a GEOBLEU score of [Average: 0.1632, CityA: 0.1504, CityB: 0.1471, CityC: 0.1801, CityD: 0.1753] and ranked within the top five teams. Haru Terashima, Naoki Tamura, Kazuyuki Shoji, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi |
SIGSPATIAL/GIS | 4 |
| 2024 | Unveiling Human Attributes through Life Pattern Clustering using GPS Data OnlyabstractClustering people by their life patterns is valuable in government and business fields. Existing studies often rely on semantic data such as Point of Interest or stay purpose. However, they have the problem that obtaining large datasets is difficult due to the need for annotation work. Some studies try to use only location data. However, they do not reveal the semantics of the area where visitors stay because they only label visited areas by significance according to duration and frequency of stay. In this paper, we propose a framework, LPSeL, for clustering people's Life Patterns at a Semantic Level using only raw GPS location data. LPSeL is based on the idea that analyzing human mobility first requires understanding urban space. Therefore, it begins with area modeling, which models areas in a city based on people's activities. Then, treating human mobility as a sequence of area representations makes it possible to model individuals by semantic-level characteristics of their life patterns. We showed that LPSeL is capable of estimating people's attributes from their life patterns using a real-world dataset consisting of GPS data collected from tens of thousands of smartphone users. Kazuyuki Shoji, Haru Terashima, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Naoki Tamura |
SIGSPATIAL/GIS | 5 |
| 2024 | Additive Compositionality in Urban Area Embeddings Based on Human Mobility PatternsabstractUnderstanding the characteristics of various urban areas is crucial for applications such as urban planning, tourism policies, market analysis, and infection control. Techniques for embedding areas as vectors in a latent space based on human mobility patterns are actively researched. Many of these area embedding methods define areas as points, grids, or polygons on a geospatial plane and then embed them. However, existing methods do not allow for mutual transformation between these forms and sizes after the initial embedding. Additionally, if the characteristics of an area change due to events such as the opening of new buildings, re-embedding is necessary. Meanwhile, the Word2Vec technique, a representative word embedding method, has a property called additive compositionality. This property allows for the arithmetic operation of word meanings through the arithmetic operations of word embeddings. In this paper, we propose a method to apply this property to existing area embedding techniques, leveraging it for practical tasks such as area shape transformation and searching for areas with trends change. Naoki Tamura, Haru Terashima, Kazuyuki Shoji, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi |
SIGSPATIAL/GIS | 5 |