Professional Activities and Talks:
2025| Area chair of 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2024| Area chair of Asian Conf. on Machine Learning (ACML)
2024| Area chair of Asian Conf. on Computer Vision (ACCV)
2024| Lead Area chair of European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV)
2024| Area chair of IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2024| Area chair of 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2023| Program chair of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Aberdeen, UK
2023| Invited lecture, the 10th International Gran Canaria School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2023 Summer), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2023| Invited talk, AI Thrust Seminar Series of Department of Computer Science, HKUST
2023| Invited talk, Rakuten, Japan
2023| Invited talk, Seminar series of Department of Computer Science, Durham university, UK
2023| Invited AI lectures, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd
2023| Area chair of IEEE/CVF Int. Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Paris, France
2023-current| Consultancy chair for KAIST Science Gifted Education Center
2023| Invited talk and forum panelist, Samsung Display AI Challenge Fair, Korea
2023| Invited talk, Fall Colloquium of Graduate School of Metaverse, KAIST
2023| Invited talk, Korea Conf. on Computer Vision, Seoul, Korea
2023| Invited talk, Samsung Display – KAIST Equipment AI and Diagnostics Forum, Korea
Nov 2023| Program Chair of 7th Int. Conf. on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (ICVISP), Dali, China
2023| Invited seminar, Software Graduate School – KTAI, Korea
2023-current| Technical Consultant for K-Water
2023| National Defense R&D AI forum panellist
2022| Year 2022 College of Engineering Impact Research Award, KAIST
2022| Invited AI lectures, Statistics Korea
2022| Invited talk, AI Jump Up Seminar Series of Samsung Display Co.
2022| Invited talk, KAIST Software Graduate School
2022-current| Technical Consultant for GB SOFT Co.
2023| Area chair of 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2023| Workshops/tutorials chair of IEEE Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2023| Area chair of IEEE Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022| Area chair of IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2022| Area chair of European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV)
2022| Area chair of Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2022| General co-chair of IEEE/CVF 6th workshop on observing and understanding hands in action (HANDS), (in conjunction with ECCV), Tel-Aviv, Israel
2022-current| AJOU Global Fellow
2022-current| Steering committee, SW education center IT academy, KAIST
2021-current| International Cooperation Committee Chair, SoC, KAIST
2020-current| Associate Editor of (Elsevier) Pattern Recognition Journal
2016-current| Associate Editor of (Elsevier) Image and Vision Computing Journal
2018-current| Associate editor of IET Computer Vision
2021| Invited AI lectures, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd
2021| Invited AI lectures, Statistics Korea
2021| Invited AI lectures, KT Corporation/Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co., Ltd
2020| CVPR best paper finalist
2020| Area chair of European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), Glasgow, UK
2020| Area chair of IEEE Int. Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020| Area chair of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Kyoto, Japan
2020| Industry chair of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Kyoto, Japan
2020| Invited AI lectures, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd
2020| Invited talk, KAIST Software Graduate School
Jul 2019| Invited lecture, BMVA computer vision summer school, University of Lincoln, UK
2019| Area chair of Int. Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul, Korea
2019| Area chair of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Cardiff, UK
2019-| Adjunct professor, School of Computing, KAIST
Oct 2019| General co-chair of IEEE 5th workshop on observing and understanding hands in action (HANDS), (in conjunction with ICCV), Seoul, Korea
Oct 2019| Co-organiser of IEEE 5th workshop on recovering 6D object pose, (in conjunction with ICCV), Seoul, Korea
May 2019| Keynote at BMVA symposium on Interconnections between Computer Vision and High Performance Computing, London, UK
2019| CVPR Outstanding Reviewer Award
2018| Area chair of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Newcastle, UK
2018| Area chair of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Perth, Australia
2018| Advisory board of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Newcastle, UK
Sep 2018| Invited talk, TU Graz, Austria
Sep 2018| Invited talk, ACCV area chair workshop, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sep 2018| Keynote, ECCV Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR), Munich, Germany
Sep 2018| Invited talk, ICL-SNU AI and CV Research Workshop, at ECCV, Munich, Germany
Sep 2018| General co-chair of IEEE 4th workshop on observing and understanding hands in action (HANDS), (in conjunction with ECCV), Munich, Germany
Sep 2018| Co-organiser of IEEE 4th workshop on recovering 6D object pose, (in conjunction with ECCV), Munich, Germany
Jul 2018| Invited lecture, BMVA computer vision summer school, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Jul 2018| Invited talk, Korean Conf. on Computer Vision, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Jul 2018| Invited talk, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
Jun 2018| Investigator talk at EPSRC program grant (facer2vm) annual review meeting, Guildford, UK
Feb 2018| Invited talk, SNU-ICL AI and IT Research Workshop, Seoul National University, Korea
2018| PhD thesis examination for Anil Armagan, TU Graz, Austria
2017-2018| Guest editor of Int. Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), special issue on Deep Learning for Face Analysis
2017-2018| Guest editor of Int. Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), special issue for BMVC17 Best Papers
Nov 2017| Invited talk at Samsung R&D Institute, UK
Oct 2017| General co-chair of IEEE 3rd workshop on observing and understanding hands in action (HANDS) and the 2017 Hands in the Million Challenge, (in conjunction with ICCV), Venice, Italy
Oct 2017| General co-chair of IEEE 3rd workshop on recovering 6D object pose and SIXD Challenge, (in conjunction with ICCV), Venice, Italy
Oct 2017| Invited talk at Samsung AI Forum, Samsung Software R&D Center, Seoul, Korea
Oct 2017| Invited talk at EPSRC joint workshop on deep learning, Univ. of Oxford, UK
Oct 2017| Co-organiser of Launch Event of Machine Learning Initiative at Imperial College, ICL, UK
Sep 2017| Invited talk/panelist at Samsung Global AI Forum, Samsung 837, New York, USA
Sep 2017| General chair of BMVC17 in London, UK
2017-| Core member of Imperial Machine Learning Initiative
Jul 2017| Invited lecture, BMVA computer vision summer school, Lincoln, UK
2017| Microsoft Azure Research Award
2016| Best Paper Award by the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
2016| Best poster award at IEEE CVPR workshop HANDS 2016
Oct 2016| General co-chair of 2nd Int. workshop on recovering 6D object pose (in conjunction with ECCV), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sep 2016| Invited talk at Deep learning summit, London, UK
Jul 2016| Invited talk at Korean Conf. on Computer Vision, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Jul 2016| Invited talk at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Suwon, Korea
Jul 2016| Invited lecture/lab, BMVA computer vision summer school, Swansea, UK
2016-2018| Executive committee member of BMVA (British Machine Vision Association)
2016| Guest Editor of (Elsevier) Pattern Recognition Letters Special Issue on Personalised and Context-sensitive Interfaces in the Wild
2016-current| Associate Editor of (Springer) IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications (CVA)
2016-| Member of EPSRC Associate Peer Review College
Jun 2016| General co-chair of IEEE 2nd workshop on observing and understanding hands in action (HANDS, in conjunction with CVPR), Las Vegas, USA
Jun 2016| Investigator talk at EPSRC program grant kick-off meeting, Guildford, UK
May 2016| Outreach activities: Hand Pose Estimation demo at Imperial College Science Festival, ICL, UK
Feb 2016| Keynote at Korea-Japan joint workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision, Takayama, Japan
Feb 2016| Invited talk at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea university, Korea
Feb 2016| Invited talk at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Korea
Feb 2016| Invited talk at ISN group seminar on machine learning and applications, ICL, UK
2016| PhD thesis examination for Robert Palmer, Swansea University, UK
2016| PhD thesis examination for Ismael Serrano Gracia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
2016| PhD thesis examination for Christos Sagonas, Computing, ICL, UK
Dec 2015| General co-chair of IEEE ICCV 2015 Workshop on recovering 6D object pose, Santiago, Chile
Dec 2015| Organiser talk at IEEE ICCV Workshop on recovering 6D object pose, Santiago, Chile
Sep 2015| Invited talk at Imperial Robotics Forum showcase, ICL, UK
Aug 2015| Invited talk at Korean Conf. on Computer Vision, Seoul, Korea
Aug 2015| Invited talk at Automatic and Systems Research Institute, Seoul National University, Korea
Aug 2015| Invited talk at Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST, Korea
Jul 2015| Invited talk at Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Jul 2015| Invited lecture/lab, BMVA computer vision summer school, Swansea, UK
Jul 2015| (fully day) Invited lecture/practical session at visum (VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence) summer school, Porto, Portugal
Jun 2015| General co-chair of IEEE CVPR 2015 Workshop on observing and understanding hands in action (HANDS 2015), Boston, USA
May 2015| Keynote at BMVA symposium on Vision for human-computer interaction and virtual reality systems, London, UK
May 2015| Outreach activities: 6 DoF object detection demo at Imperial College Science Festival, and invited talk at Pint of Science (charity Science Festival)
Apr 2015| Invited talk at Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
2015| PhD thesis examination for Zhenhua Feng, University of Surrey, UK
2015| PhD thesis examination for Xiatian (Eddy) Zhu, Queen Mary University of London, UK
2015| PhD thesis examination for María del Milagro Fernández Carrobles, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
2015| PhD thesis examination for Yi Yao, University of Warwick, UK
2014| Best paper award from IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Jul 2014| Invited lecture/lab, BMVA computer vision summer school, Swansea, UK
2014| PhD thesis examination for Stephan Liwicki, Dept of Computing, Imperial College, UK
2013-| Grant proposal reviewer, for EPSRC/MRC/Leverhulme, UK
May 2013| Invited tutorial at IAPR Int. Conf. on Machine Vision Application, Kyoto, Japan
May 2013| Invited talk, Kyoto University, Japan
2013| PhD thesis examination for Ankur Handa, Dept of Computing, Imperial College, UK
2013| BK MOU with Seoul National University, Korea
Aug 2012| Invited tutorial at Int. Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality, KAIST, Korea
Jul 2012| Invited talk, Seminar Series, Robotics Research Group, University of Oxford, UK
Mar 2012| Keynote at Microsoft New Faculty Summit – Computer Vision, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Feb 2012| Invited talk, Seminar Series, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, UK
2012| PhD thesis examination for Mohammad Rouhani, UAB, Spain
2012| Partnership with University of Catania, Italy
2010-2013| Editorial board of (Oxford Journals) The Computer Journal
Aug 2010| Invited talk, Department of EEE, Imperial College London, UK
Jul 2010| Invited talk, Department of EECS, KAIST, Korea
May 2010| Guest lecture at Engineering Part IB - Information Engineering Option, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Oct 2009| Invited talk, Seminar series on intelligent systems, Univ. of Bristol, UK
Oct 2009| Tutorial on Boosting and Random Forests for Visual Recognition, ICCV, Kyoto, Japan
Jul 2009| Invited talk, Human sensing lab, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA
Jul 2009| Invited lecture at Int. Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS), Sicily, Italy
Dec 2008| Invited talk, Robotics research lab, KAIST, Korea
Dec 2008| Invited talk, Computer vision lab and U-VR lab, GIST, Korea
Dec 2008| Invited talk, Graduate school of advanced image science, multimedia and film, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Jul 2008| Invited talk, Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, Univ. of Surrey, UK
Jul 2008| Invited talk, Toyota Motor Europe, Brussels, Belgium
2008| Consultancy for Oxford Metrics Group Plc, Oxford, UK
2008| Consultancy for Toshiba Research Europe, Cambridge, UK
Regular conference program committee of ECCV/ICCV/CVPR/BMVC and journal reviewer of TPAMI/IJCV/TIP
IEEE member, BMVA member, CVF member, Imperial Robotics Forum member, Fellow of Sydney Sussex College (Univ. of Cambridge), Engineering Processors’ Council (EPC) member in UK