Beacon clarifies inspection footage from dark spaces such as sewer pipes and ship tanks with SD-Retinex, a training-free method that runs offline on a CPU.https://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/enhttps://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/website-launch/https://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/website-launch/Our new website introduces Beacon’s technology, use cases, research and team for dark-space inspection footage.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnnouncementhttps://medium.com/kairi-ai/seeing-in-the-dark-how-my-research-became-two-startups-2c8674f88334https://medium.com/kairi-ai/seeing-in-the-dark-how-my-research-became-two-startups-2c8674f88334Founder Toma Okugawa’s essay on how research on low-light image enhancement grew into two startups.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTMediahttps://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/koho-kamijima/https://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/koho-kamijima/The August 2026 issue of the Kamijima Town (Ehime) newsletter featured Beacon’s NICT Award.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMediahttps://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/sd-retinex-release/https://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/sd-retinex-release/We released the paper on SD-Retinex, our training-free low-light enhancement method, on Zenodo, together with the reference implementation, evaluation code and per-image metric tables on GitHub.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://www.nict.go.jp/venture/2026_tongali_report.htmlhttps://www.nict.go.jp/venture/2026_tongali_report.htmlThe ICT Startup Support Center of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) published its Tongali Business Plan Contest 2026 results report; Beacon received the NICT Award at the contest.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTMediahttps://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/tongali-bpc-2026/https://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/tongali-bpc-2026/At the final in June 2026, Beacon’s business plan received the NICT Award, the JR Central Award, the Beyond Next Ventures Award and 5th place for the Tongali Award.Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTAwardhttps://kosen-monster.com/post/okugawa-tomahttps://kosen-monster.com/post/okugawa-tomaKOSEN MONSTER, a media outlet covering KOSEN students, published an interview with our founder Toma Okugawa about deep tech and regional revitalization (in Japanese).Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTMediahttps://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/xcr-preprint/https://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/xcr-preprint/We proposed XCR, a fast, structure-preserving Retinex method based on a complex exponential kernel that processes 1080p video at an average of 15.32 FPS on a CPU alone.Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTResearchhttps://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/fssr-preprint/https://beacon-jp.pages.dev/en/news/fssr-preprint/We proposed a fast Single-Scale Retinex and evaluated real-time skeleton detection in low-light environments.Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTResearch