NCAA 2026

Xinzhe YUE (M1), Kento Ichihara (M1), Saito (B4), Chaojie HUANG (D1), and Muhammad Hamza Mehdi (M2) presented their research at the 7th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications (NCAA 2026), held at Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus (OIC) from July 9 to 12, 2026.

Among them, Kento Ichihara received the Best Paper Award. This research proposes a Physics-Guided Safety Gating method for removing raindrops while appropriately preserving image structures. Congratulations!

Award-Winning Paper

Paper Title: Physics-Guided Safety Gating: Balancing Structure Preservation and Raindrop Removal Authors: K. ICHIHARA and L. MENG Conference: The 7th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications (NCAA 2026), July 9–12, 2026, Osaka, Japan.