Sooyoung Park
Senior Researcher / Media Coding Research Section
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
sooyoung [at] etri.re.kr
[Google Scholar] [Github]
Senior Researcher / Media Coding Research Section
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
sooyoung [at] etri.re.kr
[Google Scholar] [Github]
Research Interests
Audio-Visual Learning - Audio-Visual Sound Source Localization, Audio-Visual Correspondence
Machine Learning - Multimodal Deep Learning (Audio, Vision), Deep Learning for General Audio
Audio - Audio Compression, Neural Codec, Sound Event Localization and Detection
Experience
Media Coding Research Section, ETRI, South Korea [Nov. 2018 ~ Present]
Senior Researcher (PI: Jung Won Kang)
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST [Sep. 2022 ~ Feb. 2026]
Multimodal AI Lab (Advisor: Joon Son Chung)
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST [Sep. 2016 ~ Aug. 2018]
Smart Sound Lab (Advisor: Jung-woo Choi)
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, DTU [Feb. 2017 ~ Sep. 2018]
KAIST-DTU Dual Degree Program (Advisor: Efren Fernandez Grande)
B.S. in Industrial & System Engineering / Electrical Engineering, KAIST (Double Major) [Feb. 2012 ~ Aug. 2016]
Selected Standard Activities
ITU-T H.BWC (T.261) / MPEG-D ISO/IEC 23003-8: Biomedical and General Waveform Signal Coding [SW]
Montage-based Graph Coding for Redundant Channels [doc] [patent]
Sooyoung Park, Byengho Jo, Jongmo Sung
Adopted as a core coding tool, April 2026
PreLPC for Lossless Audio Coding for Machine [doc] [patent]
Byengho Jo, Sooyoung Park, Jongmo Sung
Adopted as a lossless coding tool, April 2026
Publications
How Far Can We Go With Synthetic Data for Audio-Visual Sound Source Localization? [pdf] [code] [dataset]
Arda Senocak*, Sooyoung Park*, Tae-Hyun Oh, Joon Son Chung (* Equal Contribution)
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026 (Highlight, Accepted)
Hearing and Seeing Through CLIP: A Framework for Self-Supervised Sound Source Localization [pdf] [code] [demo]
Sooyoung Park*, Arda Senocak*, Joon Son Chung (* Equal Contribution)
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2026 (IF: 9.3)
Sooyoung Park*, Arda Senocak*, Joon Son Chung (* Equal Contribution)
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024
Sooyoung Park*, Arda Senocak*, Joon Son Chung (* Equal Contribution)
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023
Many-to-Many Audio Spectrogram Transformer: Transformer for Sound Event Localization and Detection
Sooyoung Park, Yeongho Jeong, Taejin Lee
Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) Workshop, 2021
Metric Optimization for Sound Event Localization and Detection
Sooyoung Park, Yeongho Jeong, Taejin Lee
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia), 2020
TrellisNet-Based Architecture for Sound Event Localization and Detection with Reassembly Learning
Sooyoung Park, Wootaek Lim, Yeongho Jeong, Taejin Lee
Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) Workshop, 2019