Our people

Imaging, AI and business development. Members with different expertise and perspectives take on one challenge: inspection in the dark.

Founder, Research & Development

Toma Okugawa

奥河 董馬

Information Science and Technology Department (3rd year), National Institute of Technology, Yuge College

Specializing in low-light image enhancement, Toma is the sole author of the papers introducing the training-free, CPU-only Retinex methods FSSR, XCR and SD-Retinex, and has openly released SD-Retinex’s code and evaluation results. Working end to end on seeing in the dark — from method design to implementation and evaluation — Toma leads technology development and the business at Beacon. Member of IEICE and IPSJ.

Research areas

  • Low-light image enhancement
  • Retinex theory
  • Illumination estimation
  • Computer vision
  • Human pose estimation
  • Edge computing

Business Development

Uryu Den

田 雨竜

International Course (2nd year), Hiroo Gakuen

A student of behavioral economics with a growing track record in business competitions and pitch events. At Beacon, Uryu shapes the business plan and how we communicate it.

Research areas

  • Behavioral economics

Selected achievements

  • 2026Special Award, Global Enterprise Challenge
  • 2026Finalist, IVS YOUTH

AI Research

Keito Inoshita

井下 敬翔

Doctoral Program (2nd year), Graduate School of Commerce, Kansai University

Keito researches affective computing and large language models and has received best paper awards at international conferences. At Beacon, Keito leads research on AI that lets inspectors ask questions about footage in plain language and receive explanations.

Research areas

  • Affective computing
  • Large language models

Selected achievements

  • Oct 2026Paper accepted at IEEE GCCE 2026, to appear (with Toma Okugawa)
  • 2025Best Paper Award, NLDB
  • 2025Best Paper Award, IEEE HPCC

We are looking for people to build this with us

We would love to hear from image-processing and machine-learning engineers, people who know inspection or maritime sites, and anyone interested in business development.

Contact us

Contact

PoCs, joint research and media inquiries

We would love to hear from operators with dark inspection footage and from companies and research institutions interested in joint validation.