Professor

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Room #1107, LG Semicon Hall (Bldg. N24)

335 Gwahak-ro, Yusong-Gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea

(O)+82-42-350-7419, (F)+82-42-350-7619

- Education

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

- Research Interests

Video Analysis and Understanding
- Facial Expression and Emotion Understanding
- Moving Object Detection and Tracking in Compressed Video Domain
- Image/Video Segmentation and Understanding

Pattern Recognition and Statistical Machine Learning
- Danamic Topic Modeling of User Behaviors
- User Preference Learning for Smart TV Interaction

Visual Perception Modeling of Human Visual Systems and Video Quality Assessment
- Just Noticeable Difference (JND) Modeling of 2D/3D Video
- Visual Fatigue Modeling for 3D Video
- Modeling of Visual Quality Assessment on Compressed Stereoscopic Video
- Modeling of Visual Quality Assessment on Compressed Multifiew Video

Visual Communications
- Error Resilience and Concealment for Visual Communications
- ROI/xROI based Rate Controls for Video Telephony Communications
- Optimization-Theoretic Joint Rate Controls for Hybrid Dual Stereoscoptic Codec
- Joint Rate Controls for Multiview Video Codec

- Work Experiences

2013. 09 ~ Present
- Full Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, KAIST

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

- 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