Byungsoo Ko

Research engineer

@ NAVER & LINE corp.

kobiso62 [at] gmail.com

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Research Interests

  • Computer vision

  • Multi-modal contrastive learning

  • Metric learning (generalization, image retrieval)

  • Line segment detection

  • Text-to-image generation (especially, transformer-based approach like DALL-E)

Publications

(* authors contributed equally)

Granularity-aware Adaptation for Image Retrieval over Multiple Tasks

Jon Almazan, Byungsoo Ko, Geonmo Gu, Diane Larlus, Yannis Kalantidis

ECCV, 2022

[paper]

Large-scale Bilingual Language-Image Contrastive Learning

Byungsoo Ko*, Geonmo Gu*

ICLRW, 2022

[paper] [code] [colab] [demo]

Self-Distilled Hashing for Deep Image Retrieval

Young Kyun Jang, Geonmo Gu, Byungsoo Ko, Nam Ik Cho

ECCV, 2022

[paper] [code]

Towards Light-weight and Real-time Line Segment Detection

Geonmo Gu*, Byungsoo Ko*, SeoungHyun Go, Sung-Hyun Lee, Jingeun Lee, Minchul Shin

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022

[paper] [code] [ppt] [colab] [demo]

Learning with Memory-based Virtual Classes for Deep Metric Learning

Byungsoo Ko*, Geonmo Gu*, Han-Gyu Kim

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021

[paper] [code] [presentation video] [ppt] [poster]

RTIC: Residual Learning for Text and Image Composition using Graph Convolutional Network

Minchul Shin, Yoonjae Cho, Byungsoo Ko, Geonmo Gu

Arxiv, 2021

[paper]

Proxy Synthesis: Learning with Synthetic Class for Deep Metric Learning

Geonmo Gu*, Byungsoo Ko*, Han-Gyu Kim

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021

[paper] [code] [presentation video] [ppt] [poster]

An Effective Pipeline for a Real-world Clothes Retrieval System

Yang-Ho Ji*, HeeJae Jun*, Jongtack Kim*, Youngjoon Kim*, Byungsoo Ko*, Insik Kim* Hyong-Keun Kook*, Jingeun Lee*, Sanghyuk Park* Sangwon Lee*

CVFAD Workshop on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020

[arxiv]

Embedding Expansion: Augmentation in Embedding Space for Deep Metric Learning

Byungsoo Ko*, Geonmo Gu*

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020

[arxiv] [code] [supplementary video] [ppt] [poster]

Symmetrical Synthesis for Deep Metric Learning

Geonmo Gu*, Byungsoo Ko*

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020

[arxiv] [code] [supplementary video] [poster] [spotlight ppt]

A Benchmark on Tricks for Large-scale Image Retrieval

Byungsoo Ko*, Minchul Shin*, Geonmo Gu, HeeJae Jun, Tae Kwan Lee, Youngjoon Kim

Arxiv, 2019

[arxiv]

Combination of Multiple Global Descriptors for Image Retrieval

HeeJae Jun*, ByungSoo Ko*, Youngjoon Kim, Insik Kim, Jongtack Kim

Arxiv, 2019

[arxiv] [code]

Naive semi-supervised deep learning using pseudo-label

Zhun Li, Byungsoo Ko, Ho-Jin Choi

Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (SCIE) , 2018

[paper]

Finding a News Article Related to Posts in Social Media: The Need to Consider Emotion as a Feature

Byungsoo Ko, Chanyong Park, Dongkeon Lee, Jaewon Kim, Ho-Jin Choi, Dongsoo Han

The 1st International Workshop on Dialog Systems (IWDS), 2018

[paper] [code]

Pseudo Labeling Using Gaussian Process for Semi-supervised Deep Learning

Zhun Li, Byungsoo Ko, Ho-Jin Choi

IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp) , 2017

[paper]

Controlled Dropout: a Different Dropout for Improving Training Speed on Deep Neural Network

Byungsoo Ko, Han-Gyu Kim, Ho-Jin Choi

IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2017

[paper] [code]

Empathy Bot - Conversational Service for Psychiatric Counseling with Chat Assistant

Kyo-Joong Oh, DongKun Lee, Byungsoo Ko, Jonghwan Hyeon, Ho-Jin Choi

Precision Healthcare through Informatics: MEDINFO, 2017

[paper]

A Chatbot for Psychiatric Counseling in Mental Health Care Service Based on Emotional Dialogue Analysis and Sentence Generation

Kyo-Joong Oh, Dongkun Lee, Byungsoo Ko, Ho-Jin Choi

WSTIE (workshop in IEEE MDM), 2017

[paper]

Neural Network-based Autonomous Navigation for a Homecare Mobile Robot

Byungsoo Ko, Ho-Jin Choi, Chansol Hong, Jong-Hwan Kim, Oh Chul Kwon, Chang D. Yoo

BigData4Healthcare (workshop in IEEE BigComp), 2017

[paper]

Controlled Dropout: a Different Approach to Using Dropout on Deep Neural Network

Byungsoo Ko, Han-Gyu Kim, Kyo-Joong Oh, Ho-Jin Choi

IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), 2017

[paper] [code]

Honors & Awards

Career

  • Research engineer at NAVER & LINE corp., Apr. 2018 - Now

  • Master's student researcher at Knowledge Engineering and Collective Intelligence Lab in KAIST, Mar. 2016 - Apr. 2018

  • Undergraduate student researcher at Applied Scientific Computing Lab in CNU, Dec. 2014 - Dec. 2015

  • Mobile application developer intern in Mobidaim, Jan. 2015 - Feb. 2015

Education

  • Master's degree: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2016 - 2018

  • Bachelor's degree: Chungnam National University (CNU), 2010-2016

    • Exchange student at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) in Canada, 2014