Fumio Okura received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He has been an assistant professor at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, University of Osaka (formerly known as Osaka University), until 2020. He was also a JST PRESTO researcher from 2017 to 2021. He is now an associate professor with the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Osaka. He is researching the boundary between computer vision and computer graphics. His recent research interests include computer vision for plant phenotyping. He received the Virtual Reality Society of Japan Paper Award (2012) and the IPSJ/IEEE Computer Society Young Computer Researcher Award (2023), among others. He is a member of IEEE, IEICE, IPSJ, and VRSJ.