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[Jul 2025] A paper has been accepted in BMVC 2025, a prestigous Computer Vision conference annually held in the UK.

Our paper, "FaceGCD: Generalized Face Discovery via Dynamic Prefix Generation," (1st author: Yunseok Oh, MS alumnus) has been accepted for publication in BMVC, which is a presitigious Computer Vision conference held annually in the UK. Congratulations, Yunseok!

[Jul 2025] A paper has been accepted in ECAI 2025, the best AI conference in Europe.

Our paper, "Lossless Token Merging Even Without Fine-Tuning in Vision Transformers," (1st author: Jaeyeon Lee, PhD student) has been accepted for publication in ECAI 2025, which is known as one of top 3 general AI conferences in the world and the best in Europe. Congratulations, Jaeyeon!

[Mar 2025] Jaeyeon started his PhD program in our lab. Welcome again, Jaeyeon!

[Jan 2025] A paper has been accepted in Neural Networks, a prestigious journal in the field of deep learning.

Our paper, "Out-of-Distribution Detection via Outlier Exposure in Federated Learning," (1st author: Gu-Bon Jeong, MS alumnus) has been accepted for publication in Neural Networks, which is a prestigious SCIE journal (IF 6.0) in deep learning. Well deserved, Gu-Bon!

[Dec 2024] Seongsoo won the Best Paper Award at KSC 2024.

Seongsoo Heo (MS Student) won the Best Paper Award (최우수논문상) at the KSC 2024 conference in the field of AI and Theory for our paper, "Enhancing Robustness of Sparse Model Inversion in Data-Free Applications through Attention Entropy Minimization (어텐션 엔트로피 최소화를 통한 데이터 없는 적용에서 희소 모델 인버전의 강건성 향상 방법론)." Congratulations to Seongsoo!

[Nov 2024] Prof. Choi came back to the lab after his sabbatical year at Imperial College London, UK.

[Apr 2024] A paper has been accepted in CoLLAs 2024, a rising conference in continual learning.

Our paper, "Replaying with Realistic Latent Vectors in Generative Continual Learning," (1st author: Hyemin Jeong, MS alumnus) has been accepted for the CoLLAs 2024 conference, which is a rapidly evolving conference in the specific field of Continual Learning. Congratulations to Hyemin!

[Mar 2024] Two MS students, Seongsoo Heo and Kyoung-Hwan Lee, joined our lab.

[Dec 2023] Prof. Choi started his sabbatical year at Imperial College London.

[Dec 2023] Yunseok won an Outstanding Papers Award at KSC 2023.

Yunseok Oh (MS Student) won an Outstanding Papers Award (우수논문상) at the KSC 2023 conference in the field of AI for our paper, "Efficient Prompt Learning Method in Blurry Class Incremental Learning Environment (Blurry 클래스 증분 학습 환경에서의 효율적인 프롬프트 학습 방법)." Congratulations to Yunseok!

[Dec 2023] Two papers have been accepted in AAAI 2024, a top-tier conference in the field of AI.

For AAAI 2024, the following two papers are accepted within our lab.

"Recall-Oriented Continual Learning with Generative Adversarial Meta-Model" (1st author: Haneol Kang, MS alumnus)

"Teacher as a Lenient Expert: Teacher-Agnostic Data-Free Knowledge Distillation" (1st author: Hyunjune Shin, MS candidate)

Congratulations to Haneol and Hyunjune!

[Sep 2023] An MS student, Hyeong-Jung Seo, joined our lab.

[Apr 2023] Prof. Choi has visited Chinese University of Hong Kong (host: Prof. Yufei Tao).

[Mar 2023] The CEO and CTO of WhyDots visited the center and introduced their brand-new robot, MoMo, which is specifically developed for kids with developmental disorders.

[Mar 2023] Four MS students, Jae-Yeon Lee, Hyung-Wook Lim, Yunseok Oh and Hee-Yeon Choi, joined our lab.

[Dec 2022] Hyemin won an Outstanding Papers Award at KSC 2022.

Hyemin Jeong (MS Student) won an Outstanding Papers Award (우수논문상) at the KSC 2022 conference in the field of AI for our paper, "GAN Continual Learning with Latent Vector Rehearsal (잠재벡터 저장을 통한 GAN 지속학습)."

[Nov 2022] A paper has been accepted in AAAI 2023, a top-tier conference in the field of AI.

Our paper, "Better Generalized Few-Shot Learning Even Without Base Data," (1st author: Seongwoong Kim, MS alumnus) has been accepted for the AAAI 2023 conference, which is a top-tier conference in the filed of AI. This is the second time (first time also from our lab) at Inha University an MS student's work has been accepted for AAAI. Congratulations to Seongwoong!

Appeared in [세계일보] [한국대학신문] [교수신문]

[Sep 2022] A PhD student, Shunjie Wen, joined our lab.

[Aug 2022] Our research center was honored to receive a signboard as one of the largest national research projects at Inha Univ.

More details are in ... [스포츠조선] [전자신문] [교수신문]

[Aug 2022] Our research center took participated in Inha With-I Youth Career Festival.

[July 2022] A new robot dog joined our lab as the first non-human lab member.

A robot dog, Unitree GO1, has come to our lab to be transformed into an assitive dog for the blind.

[June 2022] Our research proposal has been selected by NRF for 1.4 billion grant KRW in the next 3 years.

Our research proposal entitled "HD-DNA Lab: Innovation Assistive Engineering Laboratory of Digital Human Cloning based on Human Behavior Stem Information" (PI: Prof. Jung-Soo Choi at Yeungnam Univ, Collaborators: Prof.s Dong-Wan Choi, Younggun Cho, Chan Lee) has been accepted for the next 3 years grant by NRF Basic Research Lab (BRL) program (기초연구실) for a total of 1.4 billion KRW (1.1 million USD). In this project, our lab will take the role of developing ML algorithms for walk assistive robots for disabled people.

Appeared in... [BBS뉴스] [노컷뉴스] [대학뉴스]

[May 2022] A paper has been accepted in Neurocomputing, a top-tier journal in the field of deep learning.

Our paper, "Attractive and Repulsive Training to Address Inter-Task Forgetting Issues in Continual Learning," (1st author: Hong-Jun Choi, MS alumnus) has been accepted for publication in Neurocomputing, which is a top-tier SCIE journal (IF 5.719) in deep learning.

[Apr 2022] A paper has been accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, a top-tier journal in the field of edge computing.

Our paper, "DARCAS: : Dynamic Association Regulator Considering Airtime over SDN-enabled Framework," has been accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, which is a top-tier SCIE journal (IF 9.936) in edge computing.

[Apr 2022] Our research proposal has been selected by IITP for 5 billion grant KRW (4 million USD) in the next 5 years.

Our research proposal entitled "Deep Total Recall: Continual Learning for Human-Like Recall of Artificial Neural Networks" (PI: Prof. Dong-Wan Choi) has been accepted for the next 5 years grant by IITP (사람중심인공지능핵심원천기술개발사업) for a total of 5 billion KRW (4 million USD). In this project, Prof. Dong-Wan Choi and 5 other professors at Inha University (Seung-Hwan Bae, Yeongjin Kim, Young-Duk Seo, Bo-Yong Park, Younggun Cho) are going to develop novel technologies on how a neural network can 'recall' previously learned knowledge just like how human brain does.

Appeared in... [조선일보] [세계일보] [파이낸셜뉴스]

[Mar 2022] We joined Brain Korea (BK) 21 program for Artificial Intelligence of Inha University.

Since Mar. 2022, our lab has been supported by the Inha Univ's BK21 program for AI (https://bk4ai.inha.ac.kr/).

[Mar 2022] One MS student, Hyun-June Shin, joined our lab.

[Jan 2022] A paper has been accepted for publication in Information Sciences, a prestige journal in the field of Data Science.

Our paper, "QueryNet: Querying Neural Networks for Lightweight Specialized Models," (1st author: Yeong-Hwa Jin, MS alumnus) has been accepted for publication in Information Sciences, which is a prestige SCIE journal (IF 6.795) in Data Science.

[Sep 2021] Since 2021 Fall, Dr. Choi has been promoted to Associate Professor.

[Sep 2021] Three MS students, Hyemin Jeong, Gubon Jeong, and Hyemin Lim, joined our lab.

[May 2021] Our research proposal has been selected for the next 3 years grant by NRF.

Our research proposal entitled "Querying AI: Query-driven Interpretation of Deep Learning Models for Interactive XAI Service" (PI: Prof. Choi) has been accepted for the next 3 years grant by NRF for a total of 0.15 billion KRW (0.14 million USD).

[Mar 2021] Our MS alumni, Jong-Yeong and Hakbin, appeared in the website of Inha News.

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[Mar 2021] A paper has been accepted for SIGMOD 2021, the best conference in the field of Data Engineering & Science.

Our paper, "Pool of Experts: Realtime Querying Specialized Knowledge in Massive Neural Networks," (1st author: Hakbin Kim, MS student) has been accepted for the SIGMOD 2021 conference, which is the best conference in the filed of Big Data. This is the first time publication of SIGMOD conference in the history of Inha University. Congratulations to Hakbin!

[Mar 2021] A PhD student, Min-Soo Kim, and a MS student, Haneol Kang, joined our lab.

[Dec 2020] Hyun-Jun won the Best Paper Award at KSC 2020.

Hyun-Jun Kim (MS Student) won the Best Paper Award (최우수논문상) at the KSC 2020 conference in the field of AI for our paper, "A Perimeter-based IoU Loss for Efficient Bounding Box Regression in Object Detection (객체 탐지에서의 효율적인 바운딩 박스 회귀 학습을 위한 둘레 기반 IoU 손실함수)."

[Dec 2020] A paper has been accepted for AAAI 2021, a top-tier conference in the field of AI.

Our paper, "Split-and-Bridge: Adaptable Class Incremental Learning within a Single Neural Network," (1st author: Jong-Yeong Kim, MS student) has been accepted for the AAAI 2021 conference, which is a top-tier conference in the filed of AI. This is the first time at Inha University an MS student's work has been accepted for AAAI. Congratulations to Jong-Yeong!

[Dec 2020] Yeong-Hwa Jin, who was the first MS graduate, left our lab for his next career as an ML engineer at Papago team, Naver.

[Sep 2020] Three MS students, Dasol Kim, Seongwoong Kim, and Yeji Han, joined our lab.

[July 2020] A paper has been accepted for publication in DAMI, a top-tier journal in the field of Data Mining.

Our paper, "Recency-based Sequential Pattern Mining in Multiple Event Sequences," (1st author: Hakkyu Kim, BS student) has been accepted for publication in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI), which is a top-tier SCIE journal in Data Mining. This work has been done while he was working as an undergraduate intern.

[July 2020] Hakbin won the Best Paper Award (Runner Up) at KCC 2020.

Hakbin Kim (MS student) won the Best Paper Award, Runner Up (우수논문상) at the KCC 2020 conference in the field of AI for our paper, "Data-Free Conditional Knowledge Distillation for Extracting Specialized Neural Networks (데이터가 없는 상황에서 전문화된 신경망 추출을 위한 조건부 지식 증류 기법)."

[Apr 2020] AI Convergence Research Center of Inha University (인공지능융합대학원) was selected by IITP, Korea.

The team of Inha University is finally selected for the AI Convergence Research Center Support Project Funded by IITP, Korea. Our lab is also generously granted by the center as Prof. Choi is one of 10 AI core faculty members (see https://aix.inha.ac.kr/).

[Mar 2020] Two MS students, Keonho Lee and Hyun-Jun Kim, joined our lab.

[Feb 2020] A paper has been accepted for publication in KAIS, a top-tier journal in the field of Data Mining.

Our paper entitled "On Spatial Keyword Covering" (1st author: Dong-Wan Choi, Professor) has been accepted for publication in Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), which is a top-tier SCIE journal in the field of Data Mining.

[Sep 2019] One MS student, Hong-Jun Choi, joined our lab.

[Apr 2019] Our research proposal has been selected for the next 3 years grant by IITP.

Our research proposal entitled "Deep Partition-and-Merge: Merging and Splitting Neural Networks on Smart Embedded Devices for Real Time Inference" (PI: Prof. Choi) has been accepted for the next 3 years grant by IITP for a total of 0.37 billion KRW (0.34 million USD).

[Mar 2019] Two MS students, Hakbin Kim and Jong-Yeong Kim, joined our lab.

[Sep 2018] One MS student, Yeong-Hwa Jin, joined our lab.

[Aug 2018] Prof. Choi gave a research presentation at the VLDB 2018 conference, a top-tier conference in Data Engineering.

[May 2018] Our research proposal has been selected for the next 3 years grant by NRF.

Our research proposal entitled "Real-time movement data analytic technologies for enabling a fully-automated transportation service based on self-driving vehicles" (PI: Prof. Choi) has been accepted for the next 3 years grant by NRF for a total of 0.15 billion KRW (0.14 million USD).

[Apr 2018] Two BS students, Hakkyu Kim and Taekwon Rhee, has joined our lab.

[Mar 2018] Big Data Lab has established at the CSE department, Inha University.

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