Abstract: A generation process display device that is a generation process output device includes: a first information obtainer that obtains first information about a target material; a deriver that derives, for each of one or more types of generation processes, a generation parameter based on a database regarding materials, where the generation parameter indicates a degree that the generation process is required for generating the target material specified by the first information; and an outputter that outputs one or more generation parameters that have been derived.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material is a polycrystalline material composed of a plurality of crystal grains and has a composition represented by formula (I): Mg3+mSbaBi2?a?cAc. In the formula (I), A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Se and Te, the value of m is greater than or equal to 0.01 and less than or equal to 0.5, the value of a is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1.0, and the value of c is greater than or equal to 0.001 and less than or equal to 0.06. The thermoelectric conversion material has an Mg-rich region.

Abstract: A material descriptor generation method includes: acquiring a composition formula of a material; generating, from the composition formula, a formula expressing a base material and a dopant list including one or more formulas expressing one or more dopants used to dope the base material; computing descriptors needed to predict a predetermined property value of the material, the descriptors corresponding to the dopant list and the formula expressing the base material; and outputting a material descriptor consolidating the descriptors. The material descriptor is input into a predictive model that predicts the predetermined property value of the material.

Abstract: A task generation method includes: receiving worker information from equipment of a worker over a network, the worker information including attribute information regarding a personal attribute of the worker; calculating degrees of association between each of pieces of analysis information resulting from analysis of pieces of data stored in a storage device connected to a computer and the worker information; extracting a piece of data to be subjected to task processing the worker is requested to perform from the pieces of data as specific data, based on the degrees of association; and generating a request task that is a task for making, to the equipment of the worker, a request for performing task processing for giving label information to the extracted specific data by using the equipment of the worker.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus mounted on a first vehicle includes a recognizer that recognizes a second vehicle that is present in a travelling direction of the first vehicle on a basis of sensing information obtained from a sensor attached to an outside of the first vehicle, and a determiner that determines whether or not control for overtaking the recognized second vehicle is executed. The apparatus also includes a generator that generates first information for moving the first vehicle in a second direction toward a second road end in a case where the determiner determines that the control for overtaking is executed, the second road end being opposite to a first road end toward which a first direction is directed, and the first direction being a direction in which the first vehicle moves in order to overtake the second vehicle. The apparatus further includes an outputter that outputs the generated first information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains, from a right/left-turn vehicle, first obtaining information for providing an instruction to sense a blind-spot area of the right/left-turn vehicle, and determines whether to sense the blind-spot area on the basis of the first obtaining information. The information processing apparatus further obtains second obtaining information for determining a blind-spot area of the right/left-turn vehicle that is determined to be sensed, and generates first control information for controlling sensing of the blind-spot area determined from the obtained second obtaining information. Then, information processing apparatus outputs the first control information to a sensor or a first device, and outputs a sensing result received from the sensor or the first device to a second device or outputs to the first device the first control information and information for providing an instruction to output the sensing result to the second device.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a result of detection of a moving body around a vehicle, acquires object state information indicating a state of an object carried on the vehicle, determines, on the basis of the result of detection, whether the moving body influences on the vehicle or whether the vehicle influences on the moving body, determines whether the state of the object is a predetermined state that possibly endangers or discomforts the object or its surroundings. Then the apparatus determines an action on the basis of a result of the determination, and, notifies to the moving body based on the determined action in a case where the moving body or the vehicle is determined to influence on the vehicle or the moving body and in a case where the state of the object is determined to be the predetermined state.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device that can predict a hazard caused by a peripheral mobile body more precisely. The information processing device acquires sensing information obtained by performing sensing in the periphery of a first mobile body, detects, using the sensing information, a body that is in the periphery of the first mobile body and is in a specific state, detects, using the sensing information, a second mobile body that is in the periphery of the first mobile body and the course of which is affected by the detected body, estimates a behavior of the detected second mobile body, based on a specific state, generates at least one item of output information from among information used for movement control of the first mobile body and information provided to mobile bodies in the periphery of the first mobile body, based on the estimated behavior, and outputs the output information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus mounted on a first vehicle includes: a recognizer that recognizes a second vehicle that is present in a travelling direction of the first vehicle on a basis of sensing information obtained from a sensor attached to an outside of the first vehicle; a determiner that determines whether or not control for overtaking the recognized second vehicle is executed; a generator that generates first information for moving the first vehicle in a second direction toward a second road end in a case where the determiner determines that the control for overtaking is executed, the second road end being opposite to a first road end toward which a first direction is directed, and the first direction being a direction in which the first vehicle moves in order to overtake the second vehicle; and an outputter that outputs the generated first information.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus obtains, from a right/left-turn vehicle, first obtaining information for providing an instruction to sense a blind-spot area of the right/left-turn vehicle, and determines whether to sense the blind-spot area on the basis of the first obtaining information. The information processing apparatus further obtains second obtaining information for determining a blind-spot area of the right/left-turn vehicle that is determined to be sensed, and generates first control information for controlling sensing of the blind-spot area determined from the obtained second obtaining information. Then, information processing apparatus outputs the first control information to a sensor or a first device, and outputs a sensing result received from the sensor or the first device to a second device or outputs to the first device the first control information and information for providing an instruction to output the sensing result to the second device.

Abstract: Provided is an image tagging device including: a first functional unit in which an image including an object that is a target of privacy protection is stored and that removes privacy information by changing part of the master image; a second functional unit that acquires the changed image from the first functional unit and changes a region image of an object that is not to be tagged in the first image; a function that distributes the changed image from the second functional unit to a tagging operation terminal device and receives image tag information from the tagging operation terminal device over a network; and a tagged image generator that generates a tagged image on the basis of the master image and the image tag information. This makes it possible to collect tagged images while achieving both privacy protection and an improvement in efficiency of a tagging operation.

Abstract: A method, executed by a processor of an image generation system, includes obtaining an image of a first area included in a first image and an image of a second area included in a second image, calculating a first conversion parameter for converting the image of the first area such that color information regarding the image of the first area becomes similar to color information regarding the image of the second area, converting the first image using the first conversion parameter, and generating a third image as a training image used for machine learning for image recognition by combining the converted first image and the second image with each other.

Abstract: An image recognition method includes: receiving an image; acquiring processing result information including values of processing results of convolution processing at positions of a plurality of pixels that constitute the image by performing the convolution processing on the image by using different convolution filters; determining 1 feature for each of the positions of the plurality of pixels on the basis of the values of the processing results of the convolution processing at the positions of the plurality of pixels included in the processing result information and outputting the determined feature for each of the positions of the plurality of pixels; performing recognition processing on the basis of the determined feature for each of the positions of the plurality of pixels; and outputting recognition processing result information obtained by performing the recognition processing.

Abstract: A method for processing an image includes calculating a vanishing point located at a same position in a plurality of images that are temporally successive, receiving specification of a target object whose privacy is to be protected in at least one of the plurality of images, calculating a target location area, which includes the vanishing point and in which the target object is located in each of the plurality of images, on the basis of the specification of the target object in the at least one of the plurality of images received in the receiving and the vanishing point calculated in the calculating the vanishing point, and performing image processing for protecting privacy in an area in each of the plurality of images located at a same position as the target location area calculated in the calculating the target location area.

Abstract: An image transmitted, through a network, from any of at least one terminal having a function of capturing an image or obtaining an image from another device is obtained. A probability that the obtained image includes a certain imaging target is calculated. If the probability is higher than a first threshold, information indicating the certain imaging target is added to the image. If the probability is lower than a second threshold, the information indicating the certain imaging target is not to the image. If the probability is equal to or higher than the second threshold and if the probability is equal to or lower than the first threshold, the image and request reception information for requesting addition of the information is transmitted to the image to any of the at least one terminal through the network.

Abstract: Learning method includes performing a first process in which a coarse class classifier configured with a first neural network is made to classify a plurality of images given as a set of images each attached with a label indicating a detailed class into a plurality of coarse classes including a plurality of detailed classes and is then made to learn a first feature that is a feature common in each of the coarse classes, and performing a second process in which a detailed class classifier, configured with a second neural network that is the same in terms of layers other than the final layer as but different in terms of the final layer from the first neural network made to perform the learning in the first process, is made to classify the set of images into detailed classes and learn a second feature of each detailed class.

Abstract: A method for processing an image includes calculating a vanishing point located at a same position in a plurality of images that are temporally successive, receiving specification of a target object whose privacy is to be protected in at least one of the plurality of images, calculating a target location area, which includes the vanishing point and in which the target object is located in each of the plurality of images, on the basis of the specification of the target object in the at least one of the plurality of images received in the receiving and the vanishing point calculated in the calculating the vanishing point, and performing image processing for protecting privacy in an area in each of the plurality of images located at a same position as the target location area calculated in the calculating the target location area.

Abstract: An image transmitted, through a network, from any of at least one terminal having a function of capturing an image or obtaining an image from another device is obtained. A probability that the obtained image includes a certain imaging target is calculated. If the probability is higher than a first threshold, information indicating the certain imaging target is added to the image. If the probability is lower than a second threshold, the information indicating the certain imaging target is not to the image. If the probability is equal to or higher than the second threshold and if the probability is equal to or lower than the first threshold, the image and request reception information for requesting addition of the information is transmitted to the image to any of the at least one terminal through the network.

Abstract: A method, executed by a processor of an image generation system, includes obtaining an image of a first area included in a first image and an image of a second area included in a second image, calculating a first conversion parameter for converting the image of the first area such that color information regarding the image of the first area becomes similar to color information regarding the image of the second area, converting the first image using the first conversion parameter, and generating a third image as a training image used for machine learning for image recognition by combining the converted first image and the second image with each other.

Abstract: A task generation method includes: receiving worker information from equipment of a worker over a network, the worker information including attribute information regarding a personal attribute of the worker; calculating degrees of association between each of pieces of analysis information resulting from analysis of pieces of data stored in a storage device connected to a computer and the worker information; extracting a piece of data to be subjected to task processing the worker is requested to perform from the pieces of data as specific data, based on the degrees of association; and generating a request task that is a task for making, to the equipment of the worker, a request for performing task processing for giving label information to the extracted specific data by using the equipment of the worker.