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Ichiro Ide is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction and computer vision, with a particular focus on enhancing robotic perception and operational safety. His key research areas include driver behavior analysis, robotic manipulation, and 3D object pose estimation. Among his notable contributions is a 2019 study on how driver experience affects eye-gaze behavior during robotic wheelchair operation (7 citations), which provides critical insights into how operators visually acquire environmental information to anticipate and avoid risks. This work has implications for designing more intuitive assistive technologies. Ide has also made significant strides in industrial robotics, proposing an encoded marker system for working robots (2016, 2 citations) that addresses the challenge of reliable object identification and picking in tasks like the Amazon Picking Challenge. His subsequent work in 2017 refined this marker to be more detectable under various positions and blur conditions. Additionally, his 2019 research on next viewpoint recommendation for accurate object pose estimation (2 citations) tackles the important problem of reducing pose ambiguity in 3D object recognition using depth sensors, a key capability for autonomous robotic manipulation.