Bong-Nam Kang

Education

    • Sept. 2014 ~ Feb. 2019: Ph.D., Creative IT Engineering, POSTECH
        • Adviser: Prof. Daijin Kim
        • Dissertation: Deep Feature-Pair Relation Networks for Accurate Face Recognition
        • Intelligent Media Lab.
    • Feb. 2008: M.S. in POSTECH
        • Adviser: Daijin Kim
        • Thesis: A Hierarchical ICIA Fitting Method for 3D Morphable Models
    • Feb. 2005: B.S. in Computer Engineering, Jeju National University


Employment

    • Mar. 2019 ~ current: Algorithm Engineer, StradVision, Inc.
    • Feb. 2019 ~ Mar. 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher, Intelligent Media Lab, CSE, POSTECH
    • Apr. 2012 ~ Aug. 2014: Researcher, Intelligent Media Lab., CSE, POSTECH
    • Mar. 2011 ~ Mar. 2012: Assistant Research Engineer, Olaworks Inc. (Currently merged in INTEL Corporation)
    • Mar. 2009 ~ Feb. 2011: Assistant Research Engineer, Point-I Co. Ltd.


Research Interests

    • Deep Learning
    • Computer Vision
    • Face Analysis
    • Machine Learning


Activities

    • Memberships
        • IEEE Membership
        • IEEE Young Professionals
        • IEEE Computer Society Membership
        • IEEE Signal Processing Society Membership
        • IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Membership
        • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Membership
        • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Membership
        • IEEE Biometrics Council
    • Academic Services
        • Reviewer - 2020 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020)
        • Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
        • Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
        • Reviewer - 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2020)
        • Program Committee - 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20)
        • Reviewer - IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2019)
        • Reviewer - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019)
        • Reviewer - IEEE Access Journal
        • Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science
        • Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
        • Reviewer - Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence


Invited Talks

    • Stradvision, Inc., Deep Learning-based Face Recognition, 2018. 6. 15
    • Seoul Robot High School(서울 로봇 고등학교), Introduction to Face Recognition Methods using Deep Learning, 2016. 11. 26
    • 한국통신학회(KICS) 딥러닝 기초과정 단기강좌, Convolutional Network, 2016. 7. 14 ~15


Awards and Honors

    • Outstanding Reviewer: ICCV 2019
    • Best Paper Award, IEEE Computer Society Biometrics Workshop (in conjunction with CVPR 2019), 2019
    • 제25회 삼성휴먼테크 논문대상, Signal Processing 분과 동상 수상, 2019
    • 우수발표논문상, Korea Computer Congress 2018, 2018
    • NAVER PhD Fellowship Award (2017), 2017
    • Best Application Paper Award, 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI 2017), 2017
    • 우수논문상, Korea Computer Congress 2017, 2017
    • 우수논문상, 한국정보과학회 제40회 정기총회 및 추계학술발표회, 2013


Publications

    • International
      1. Bong-Nam Kang, Yonghyun Kim, Bongjin Jun, and Daijin Kim, “Attentional Feature-Pair Relation Networks for Accurate Face Recognition ,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2019), 2019.
      2. Bong-Nam Kang, Yonghyun Kim, Bongjin Jun, and Daijin Kim, “Hierarchical Feature-Pair Relation Networks for Face Recognition ,” in the IEEE Computer Society Biometrics Workshop (in conjunction with IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019)), 2019.
      3. Bong-Nam Kang, Yonghyun Kim, and Daijin Kim, “Pairwise Relational Networks using Local Appearance Features for Face Recognition,” in the Workshop on Relational Representation Learning (R2L) at Neural Information Processing Systems 2018 (NIPS 2018), 2018.
      4. Yonghyun Kim, Taewook Kim, Bong-Nam Kang, and Daijin Kim, “BAN: Focusing on Boundary Context for Object Detection,” in Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2018), 2018.
      5. Bong-Nam Kang, Yonghyun Kim, Daijin Kim, "Pairwise Relational Networks for Face Recognition," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018), 2018.
      6. Yonghyun Kim, Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "SAN: Learning Relationship between Convolutional Features for Multi-Scale Object Detection," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018), 2018.
      7. Yonghyun Kim, Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "Detector with Focus: Normalizing Gradient in Image Pyramid," IEEE Conference on Image Processing 2017 (ICIP), 2017.
      8. Heymin Lee, Yonghyun Kim, Eunseop Lee, Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "Moving Object Detection under Non-Stationary Camera via Multiple Foreground Clues," 17th International Conference on Control, Automation, and Systems (ICCAS 2017), 2017.
      9. Bong-Nam Kang, Yonghyun Kim, Daijin Kim, "Deep Convolutional Neural Network using Triplets of Faces, Deep Ensemble, and Score-level Fusion for Face Recognition," in the IEEE Computer Society Biometrics Workshop (in conjunction with CVPR 2017) , 2017.
      10. Junghoon Kim, Sang-Seok Yun, Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, JongSeok Choi, "Reliable Multi-Person Identification using DCNN-based Face Recognition Algorithm and Scale-Ratio Method," 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI 2017), 2017. - Best Application Paper Award
      11. Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "Deep Convolution Neural Network using Triplet of Faces for Face Recognition in the Wild," The 16th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2016), 2016.
      12. Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "Deep Convolution Neural Network with Stacks of Multi-Scale Convolutional Layer Block using Triplet of Faces for Face Recognition in the Wild," The 2016 IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2016), 2016.
      13. Siying Zhu, Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "A Deep Neural Network Based Hashing for Efficient Image Retrieval," The 2016 IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2016), 2016.
      14. Yong-Joong Kim, Yonghyun Kim, Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "Combined Document/Business Card Detector for Proactive Document-based Services on the Smartphone," The 22nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2015), 2015.
      15. Yong-Joong Kim, Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "Hidden Markov Model Ensemble for Activity Recognition using Tri-axis Accelerometer," The 2015 IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2015), 2015.
      16. Jiman Kim, Bong-Nam Kang, "Nonparametric State Machine with Multiple Features for Abnormal Object Classification," 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS 2014), 2014.
      17. Bong-Nam Kang, Jongmin Yoon, Hyunsung Park, Daijin Kim, "Face Recognition using Affine Dense SURF-like Descriptors," IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (IEEE ICCE 2014), 2014.
      18. Hai Wang, Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "PFW: A Face Database in the Wild for Studying Face Identification and Verification," The 2nd IAPR Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2013.
      19. Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "Face Identification using Affine Simulated Dense Local Descriptors," URAI 2013 – 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI 2013), 2013.
      20. Hai Wang, Bongnam Kang, Jongmin Yoon, Daijin Kim, "Speed Up Learning Based Descriptor for Face Verification," 8th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications -VISAPP2013, 2013,
      21. Jiman Kim, Bongnam Kang, Hai Wang, Daijin Kim, "Abnormal Object Detection using Feedforward Mode and Sequential Filters," Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance -AVSS2012, 2012.
      22. Jongmin Yoon, Bongnam Kang, Daijin Kim, "Car License Plate Detection under Large Variation using Covariance and HOG Descriptors," International Symposium on Visual Computing -ISVC, 2012.
      23. Bong-Nam Kang, Hyeran Byun, Daijin Kim, "Multi-resolution 3D Morphable Models and Its Matching Method," IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR2008, 2008, 12.
      24. Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, Hyeran Byun, "An Efficient and Accurate Hierarchical ICIA Fitting Method for 3D Morphable Models," IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition - FG2008, 2008.
      25. Hyoung-Soo Lee, Sungsoo Park, Bong-Nam Kang, Jongjoo Shin, Ju-Young Lee, Hong-Mo Je, Bongjin Jun, Daijin Kim, "The POSTECH Face Database (PF07) and Performance Evaluation," IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition - FG2008, 2008.
      26. Bong-Nam Kang, Daijin Kim, "A Fast ICIA Algorithm for 3D Morphable Models," In Proceeding of the 7th POSTECH-KYUTECH Joint Workshop on Neuroinformatic, pp.90-92, 2007 2007.


    • Domestic
      1. 강봉남, 이준영, 김대진, "Hierarchical Feature Relational Networks for Face Recognition," 제31회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 (IPIU 2019), 2019.
      2. 강봉남, 김대진, "얼굴 인식을 위한 국부 외관 특징을 사용한 쌍 관계형 네트워크," 2018 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 (KCC 2018), 2018. - 우수발표논문상 수상
      3. 강봉남, 김대진, "공동 손실 함수, Triplet, 스코어 레벨 융합 방법에 의한 Deep 얼굴 인식 방법," 2017 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 (KCC 2017), 2017. - 우수논문 수상
      4. 강봉남, 김대진, "등급 순서 거리 및 Jointly Bayesian Model을 이용한 얼굴 태깅을 위한 얼굴 클러스터링 방법," 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 (KCC 2015), 2015.
      5. 홍윤정, 신종주, 강봉남, 김대진, "피라미드 가버 필터와 계층적 분류기의 나이 추정 방법," 정보과학회 추계 학술대회 (KIISE 2013), 2013.
      6. Hai Wang, 강봉남, 김대진, "Face Verification in Unconstrained Environment: A Joint Bayesian Formulation," 정보과학회 추계 학술대회 (KIISE 2013), 2013.
      7. 강봉남, 김대진, "어파인 조밀 국부 기술자를 이용한 표정 및 포즈에 강인한 얼굴 인식," 정보과학회 추계 학술대회 (KIISE 2013), 2013. - 우수논문 수상
      8. 홍윤정, 신종주, 강봉남, 김대진, "피라미드 가버 필터를 이용한 나이 추정 방법," 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 (IPIU 2013), 2013.
      9. 강봉남, 윤종민, Hai Wang, 김대진, "Affine Dense SURF 유사 기술자를 이용한 얼굴 인식," 2013 Conference of Samsung Techwin’s Research Center, 2013.
      10. 강봉남, 김용현, 김대진, "방사 대칭 특징을 이용한 눈 및 홍채 중앙점 검출 방법," 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 발표 논문집(IPIU 2013,) 2013.
      11. 강봉남, 최인호, 김대진, "An Efficient Hierarchical ICIA Fitting Method for 3D Morphable Models," 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 발표 논문집(IPIU 2008), 2008.
      12. 이형수, 박성수, 강봉남, 신종주, 이주영, 제홍모, 전봉진, 김대진, "The POSTECH Face Database(PF07)," 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 발표 논문집(IPIU 2008), 2008.
      13. 강봉남, 최인호, 성재원, 김대진, "3차원 모퍼블 모델을 위한 고속 계층적 ICIA 알고리즘," 34회 정보과학회 추계학술대회, Vol. 34, no. 2(C), pp. 495-500, 2007.
      14. 최인호, 강봉남, 성재원, 김대진, "반자동적인 대응점 찾기를 위용한 3차원 얼굴 모델 생성," 34회 정보과학회 추계학술대회, Vol. 34, no. 2(A), pp. 213-214, 2007.
      15. 강봉남, 최인호, 성재원, 김대진, "3차원 Morphable Models을 위한 고속 ICIA 알고리즘," 인간기능 생활지원 지능로봇 기술개발 사업단 제 8차 기술교류 워크샵, 2007.
      16. 최인호, 강봉남, 성재원, 김대진, "Optical Flow와 Bootstrapping을 이용하여 자유로운 변형이 가능한 3D 얼굴 모델 생성," 인간기능 생활지원 지능로봇 기술개발 사업단 제 8차 기술교류 워크샵, 2007.
      17. 양재석, 진명관, 김경남, 강봉남, 김도현, 변상용, "무선 인터넷 기반의 효율적인 주차 관리 시스템의 설계 및 구현," 한국콘텐츠학회 2005 추계종합학술대회 논문집, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 500 ~ 505, 2005.11.

Patents

      1. 강봉남, 김대진, "얼굴 인식 방법 및 장치," 출원번호: 10-2018-0106659.
      2. 박준영, 노승인, 강봉남, 김대진, "다중 크기 컨볼루션 블록층을 이용한 얼굴 인식 장치," 출원번호: 10-2016-127570.
      3. Hyunsoo Lee, Hongmo Je, Bong-Nam Kang, "Face Recognition Mechanism," Appl. No.: 14/129602, Pub. No.: 09208375.
      4. 전승선, 홍윤정, 김대진, 강봉남, 신종주, "평균 얼굴 패치 및 메시 기반 나이 추정 시스템 및 방법," 출원번호: 10-2014-0110960.
      5. 전승선, 노승인, 강봉남, 왕하이, 김대진, "키포인트 기술자 매칭 및 다수결 기법 기반 얼굴 인식 시스템 및 방법," 출원번호: 10-2014-0124637.
      6. 문일현, 강봉남, 김대진, 김종성, 권재철, "얼굴을 인식하는 장치 및 방법," 출원번호: 10-2013-0151465, 등록번호: 10-150496.
      7. 이영섭, 김상조, 김창훈, 현종민, 강봉남, 왕하이, 최인호, 정경중, 김대진, "얼굴 인식 방법 및 기계로 읽을 수 있는 저장 매체 및 얼굴 인식 장치," 출원번호: 10-2012-0119508, 등록번호: 10-1397845.
      8. Hyungsoo Lee, Hongmo Je, Bong-Nam Kang, "Face Recognition Method, Apparatus, and Computer-readable Recording Medium for Executing the Method," Appl. No.: 128365640.
      9. 이형수, 제홍모, 강봉남, "얼굴 인식 방법, 장치, 및 이 방법을 실행하기 위한 컴퓨터 판독 가능한 기록 매체," 출원번호: 10-2011-0097795, 등록번호: 10-1130817.
      10. 조선영, 최인호, 강봉남, 김대진, 정석주, "계층적 구조의 영상 모델을 이용한 3차원 영상 생성방법과 장치, 이를 이용한 영상 인식 방법과 특징점 추출 방법 그리고 상기 방법들을 수행하는 프로그램이 기록된 기록매체," 출원번호: 10-2007-0140324, 등록번호: 10-0930722.