Principal Investigator

Tae-Kyun Kim, PhD



Academic and Industrial Posts


Since Nov. 2010

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

Oct.2007-Sep.2010

Junior Research Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK

Jun.2009-Sep.2009

Visiting Faculty at Robotics Institute of CMU, Pittsburgh, USA

*2000-2004

Senior Researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea (*This period is for the mandatory military service in Korea)



Education


Jan 2005-Mar 2008

PhD, Engineering Department (Machine Intelligence Lab.) of University of Cambridge

Member of Jesus College

1998-2000 MSc, Dept. of EECS (Robotics Research Lab) of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST
1994-1998 BSc at EECS of KAIST
1992-1994  Taegu Science High School



Grants and Awards


Sep 2013-Aug 2014 Industrial (OMRON) grant worth 65K pounds (PI)
May 2013-Apr 2014 Industrial (Samsung) grant worth 95K pounds (PI)
Apr 2011-Mar 2015 NOPTILUS, European Commission FP7 grant worth 450K Euro (PI), taken over from Prof. Petrou since Jan 2013.
Jun 2012-May 2014 EPSRC first grant worth 120K pounds (PI)
Jun 2012-May 2013 Industrial (OMRON) grant worth 65K pounds (PI)
Jan 2012-July 2015 College internal grant for the Imperial-NUS joint PhD program, worth 120K pounds (PI)
Oct 2010-Sep 2015 Dept. faculty start-up package worth 115K pounds (PI)
Oct 2007-Sep 2010 College fellowship (governing body), by Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK
2005-2007 Toshiba-Cambridge Studentship by Toshiba Corporation
Oct 2005-Sep 2006 Chevening Scholarship by British Council, South Korea
2005-2007 Scholarship by Cambridge Oversea Trust, UK
2004 Standard promoted by MPEG-7 ISO/IEC (his authored algorithm as a part of Samsung-NEC, face image descriptor, is an international standard).

 

Professional Activities


Technical Program Committee (or equivalent) of

IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009-2013.

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2011-2013.

IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2007, 2013.

European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012.

IEEE Int Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2012.

Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2012.

Int. Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2009-2012.

International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), Washington DC, USA, September 2011.

Asian Conf. on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2009, 2012

IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA) 2013

IEEE Int. Workshop on Benchmarking Facial Image Analysis Technologies in conjunction with ICCV 2011, ECCV 2012.

Int. Workshop on Interactive Multimedia on Mobile and Portable Devices in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2011.

IEEE International Workshop on Subspace Methods (in conjunction with ICCV 2009), (in conjunction with ACCV 2010).

Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD) 2010.

International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS), Sicily, Italy, 2008, 2009.

International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia for Consumer Electronics (IMCE) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, Beijing, China, Oct 2009.

The First International Workshop on Online Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Techniques for Computer-Vision Applications (OPRMLT), Maderia, Portugal, Jan 2008.


Journal Reviewer of

IEEE Trans. on PAMI
Int. Journal of Computer Vision
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing
IEEE Trans. on CSVT
IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering
IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks
IEEE Trnas. on SMC Part B
Pattern Recognition
Image and Vision Computing
Pattern Recognition Letter
IEEE Trans. on PAMI Special Issue on Biometrics
IEEE Trans. on CSVT Special Issue on Event Analysis in Videos
Image and Vision Computing Special Issue on online pattern recognition and machine learning


Editorial board of

(Oxford journals) The Computer Journal, 2010-2013.

Consultant, Oxford Metrics Group Plc, Oxford, UK, 2008.

Consultant, Toshiba Research Europe, Cambridge, UK, 2008.

Korea delegate of MPEG-7 Standardization, 2002-2004.

 

Invited Talks, Tutorials, Lectures


May 2013 Invited tutorial at IAPR Int. Conf. on Machine Vision Applications, Kyoto, Japan
Aug 2012 Invited tutorial at Int. Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality, KAIST, South Korea
Jul 2012 Seminar Series for the Robotics Research Group at University of Oxford, UK
Mar 2012 UK New Faculty Summit - Computer Vision, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Feb 2012 Seminar Series, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, UK
Nov 2010 Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK
Jul 2010 Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
Jul 2010 Dept. of EE, KAIST, South Korea
May 2010 Lecture in the course of Engineering Part IB, Paper 8 - Information Engineering Option, Dept. of Engineering, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Oct 2009 Seminar Series on Intelligent Systems, Univ. of Bristol, UK
Oct 2009 Tutorial at Int. Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan (tutorial web-page)
July 2009 Human Sensing Lab, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA
Jul 2009 Tutorial at Int. Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS), Sicily, Italy
Dec 2008 Robotic Research Lab, KAIST, South Korea
Dec 2008 Computer Vision Lab and U-VR Lab, GIST, South Korea
Dec 2008 Graduate School of Advanced Image Science, Multimedia and Film, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Jul 2008

CVSSP, Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Jul 2008

Toyota Motor Europe, Brussels, Belgium

Mar 2008

Poster at Horizon Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK

Nov 2007 Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Cambridge, UK
Oct 2005 Toshiba Corporate Research & Development Center, Kawasaki, Japan



References


Prof. Roberto Cipolla

Professor at Department of Engineering in University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK

Prof. Josef Kittler Director of Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK
Prof. Myung Jin Chung

Professor at Department of EECS, Korea Advanced Institute of Sciencce and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea

Prof. Fernando De la Torre

Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 211 Smith Hall, 5000 Forbes Av. Pittsburg, PA 15213, USA