Principal Investigator

Tae-Kyun Kim, PhD


Academic


Since Oct.2010-

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

Oct.2007-Sep.2010

Fellow (governing body) of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK

Jun.2009-Sep.2009

Visiting Faculty at Robotics Institute of CMU, Pittsburgh, USA

2005-2007

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

Member of Jesus College
Supervisor: Prof. Roberto Cipolla
(co-advised by Prof. Josef Kittler, UniS)

1998-2000 MSc at 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



Industrial


*2000-2004 Researcher/Senior Researcher of HCI Lab. in Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) (central research arm of the Samsung group)
  * This period is for mandatory military duty in Korea.

 

Professional Activities


2004 - current

Technical Program Committee of

The 8th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 2012.

Int. Workshop on Interactive Multimedia on Mobile and Portable Devices (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2011), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2011.

IEEE Int. Workshop on Benchmarking Facial Image Analysis Technologies (in conjunction with ICCV11), Barcelona, Spain, Nov 2011.

IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), Barcelona, Spain, Nov 2011.

The 7th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, USA, November 2011.

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

IEEE International Workshop on Subspace Methods (Subspace) in conjunction with ACCV2010, Queenstown, New Zealand, Nov 2010.

The 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, USA, November 2010.

IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, Oct 2009.

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

2nd IEEE International Workshop on Subspace Methods (Subspace) in conjunction with ICCV2009, Kyoto, Japan, Sep 2009.

The 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Las Vegas, USA, November 2009.

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

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

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

Reviewer of

British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2011
Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD) 2010
The Ninth Asian Conf. on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2009
IEEE Conf. on CVPR 2007
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

(Regular 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

Editorial board of

(Oxford journals) The Computer Journal

Nov 2011 Invited for peer reviewing project proposals submitted to the call of the Georgian National Science Foundation (NSF)
Aug 2011 Invited as the top 1% most cited authors for the period 2002-2008 to participate in the Council of Canadian Academies Survey of Science and Technology Strengths
2008 - Co-supervision of PhD students, visiting PhD students and a 4th year project (equivalent to Master) student at University of Cambridge, UK
2008 Consultant, Toyota Motor Europe Brussels, Belgium (performed as a co-lead researcher of Cambridge-Toyota project on semantic segmentation of a video sequence)
2008 Consultant, Oxford Metrics Group Plc, Oxford, UK (submitted a technical report on authored algorithms for Automatic Target Recognition)
2008

Consultant, Toshiba Research Europe, Cambridge, UK (consultancy pertaining to a prototype system by authored algorithms)

2008 Submission as a part of Univ. of Cambridge to RAE 2008 (Research Assessment Exercise), UK
2008 Participant in Multi-biometrics Grand Challenge organized by NIST, USA (co-submission with Univ. of Surrey, UK)
2002-current Member of British Machine Vision Association/IEEE Computer Society
2002 - 2004

Korea delegate of MPEG-7 Standardization

2003

Session Chair at the Summer Conference of The Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea

2001 Session co-chair (Face expression) at the 10th IEEE International Workshop on Robot-Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), Paris, France
2000 Session co-chair (Mobile Vehicles I) at the 5th International Workshop on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB), Japan

 

Invited talks and tutorials


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

Talk (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
Jul 2003 Invited talk at Summer Conference of The Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea, South Korea



Academic/Industrial Honors and Awards


Oct 2007-Sep 2010 College research fellowship, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK (two fellows got elected among about 300 applicants world wide)
2005-2007 Toshiba-Cambridge Scholarship by Toshiba Research
2005-2007 Scholarship by Cambridge Oversea Trust, UK
2005-2006 Chevening Scholarship by British Council, South Korea
2005-2007 Conference grants by Jesus College and Dep. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, UK
1994-2000

Full national scholarships during BSc and MSc by Ministry of Science and Technology, South Korea

2000 Best Research Assistance Award by Dept. of EECS, KAIST, Korea
1991 Awarded Gold Medal in the regional competition (Taegu City) of Korea Physics Olympiad, Korea
Industry Related
2002 - 2004

MPEG-7 Standard Award: SAIT-NEC proposal for "face descriptor" was accepted for the MPEG-7 international standard. (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11).

2002

SAIT Research Projects of the Year ('Muhantamgu') with video surveillance systems by using face technologies.

2001

SAIT Research Projects of the Year ('Breakthrough award') with digital video recording systems by using face technologies.



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. In So Kweon (MSs thesis examiner)

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. Zoubin Ghahramani (PhD thesis examiner) Professor at Department of Engineering in University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK
Prof. Jiri Matas (PhD thesis examiner) Associate Professor at the Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University, Praha, Czech Republic.