- Education

1996. 08 - Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A. 

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- Research Interests

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• AI-based 3D/4D Realistic Image/Video Reconstruction

  • Optical flow estimation, Camera Pose Estimation

  • Dynamic Neural Radiance Field (NeRF)

  • Static/dynamic Gaussian Splatting (3D/4D GS) Learning of video for Novel View Synthesis

  • Dynamic Feed-forward Foundation Models for Gaussian Splatting

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• ​Image/Video Generation and Editing AIs

  • Object-level image/video editing

  • Image Text Editing and Style Changes

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• ​AI-based Image and Video Restoration and Quality Enhancement 

  • Super-resolution

  • Video Frame Interpolation and Motion Deblurring

  • Depth Estimation

  • Image Deraining, Dehazing, and In-painting,

 

• AI-based Image and Video Analysis for Drones and Satellites 

  • Geospatial Foundation Model (GFM) and Geospatial Visual Language Models (GVLM) for Satellite Imagery

  • PAN Sharpening, Super-Resolution for Satellite Imagery

  • Cloud Removal of Satellite Electro-Optical (EO) Images

  • Detection and Classification of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Targets

  • SAR-to-EO Image-to-Image Translation Learnin​

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- Work Experiences

 

• 2013. 09 ~ Present 

  • Full Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST 

  • KAIST ICT Endowed Professor (2021.3 ~ 2024.2) 

 

• 2009. 03 ~ 2013. 08 

  • Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST

 

• 2001. 02 ~ 2009. 02

  • Assistant/Associate Professor, School of Engineering, Information and Communications University

 

• 2000. 09 ~ 2001. 03

  • Head, Visual Media Research Team, ETRI

  • Lead a data broadcasting project

 

• 2000. 03 ~ 2001. 08

  • Head, Realistic Video Research Team, ETRI

  • Lead MPEG-7 Project

 

• 1997. 01 ~ 2001. 02 

  • Senior Member of Research Staff, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) 

  • Involved in developing MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 technologies

  • Participated in MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standardization activities 

 

• 1990. 08 ~ 1996. 08 

  • Research Assistant, Computational Neuro Engineering Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Florida 

 

 

- Recent Publications

• Journal Publications

• book Chapters

• Conference Publications

 

 

- Professional Activities

• Senior Member of IEEE 

• Coordinator and Steering Board Member of MPEG Forum 

• Project Editor of ISO/IEC 23000-4:2009 (MPEG-A) - Part 4: Musical slide show application format

• Project Editor of ISO/IEC 23000-6:2009 (MPEG-A) - Part 6: Professional archival application format

• Project Editor of ISO/IEC 23000-9:2009 (MPEG-A) - Part 9: DMB application format

• Project Editor of ISO/IEC 15938-5:2003/Amd.2:2005 (MPEG-7) - Part 5: Multimedia description schemes

  • Amendment 2: Multimedia description schemes user preference extensions

• Project Editor of ISO/IEC 15938-8:2002 (MPEG-7) - Part 8: Extraction and use of MPEG-7 descriptions

• Member of SC29-Korea Board

• Members of ACM, SPIE

• 공정거래위원회 자문 교수 (2009 ~ 2010) - 지식재산권분과

• IT839 전략표준 로드맵 작성위원 (2004 ~ present) - 디지털TV/방송(실감방송분야)

• 산업자원부 국가표준기본기획수립 위원 (2005) - 국제표준화대응강화 소위원회

• TTA IT 국제표준화 전문가 할동 (2004 ~ present) - MPEG 표준화 분야

• 과학기술부 국가기술지도 작성 위원 (2002) - 이동 멀티미디어 콘텐츠 분야

• MPEG 국제 표준화 회의 한국대표단 단장 (Head of Delegate) (2000) 

   

 

- Course Offering

• EE628: Visual Communications Systems  

• EE732: Image Understanding

• ICE630: Video Coding Theory

• ICE631: Pattern Recognition Theory

• ICE692: Multimedia Information Processing

• ICE0103: Probability and Statistics