| 2007 | ICIP | Detection of Wipes and Digital Video Effects Based on a Pattern-Independent Model of Image Boundary Line Characteristics. | Kota Iwamoto, Kyoji Hirata |
| 2006 | ICIP | Segmented-Region Based Approach Using Object Components Database to Detect Sky Region. | Yusuke Takahashi, Kyoji Hirata |
| 1999 | CHI | AMORE: a world-wide web image retrieval engine. | Sougata Mukherjea, Kyoji Hirata, Yoshinori Hara |
| 1999 | SIGMOD | PowerBookmarks: A System for Personalizable Web Information Organization, Sharing, and Management. | Wen-Syan Li, Quoc Vu, Edward Y. Chang, Divyakant Agrawal, Kyoji Hirata, Sougata Mukherjea, Yi-Leh Wu, Corey Bufi, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Yoshinori Hara, Reiko Ito, Yutaka Kimura, Kazuyuki Shimazu, Yukiyoshi Saito |
| 1997 | CHI | IFQ: A Visual Query Interface for Object-based Image Retrieval. | Wen-Syan Li, K. Seluk Candan, Kyoji Hirata, Yoshinori Hara |
| 1997 | SAC | SEMCOG: an integration of SEMantics and COGnition-based approaches for image retrieval. | Wen-Syan Li, K. Seluk Candan, Kyoji Hirata |
| 1997 | SIGMOD | SEMCOG: An Object-based Image Retrieval System and Its Visual Query Interface. | Wen-Syan Li, K. Seluk Candan, Kyoji Hirata, Yoshinori Hara |
| 1997 | VLDB | Facilitating Multimedia Database Exploration through Visual Interfaces and Perpetual Query Reformulations. | Wen-Syan Li, K. Seluk Candan, Kyoji Hirata, Yoshinori Hara |
| 1996 | ICDE | Hypermedia Database "Himotoki" and Its Applications. | Yoshinori Hara, Kyoji Hirata, Hajime Takano, Shigehito Kawasaki |
| 1992 | EDBT | Query by Visual Example - Content based Image Retrieval. | Kyoji Hirata, Toshikazu Kato |
| 1992 | ICPR | A sketch retrieval method for full color image database-query by visual example. | Toshikazu Kato, Takio Kurita, Nobuyuki Otsu, Kyoji Hirata |