Won Jo (조 원)

Education & Career

• M.S. Researcher. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Seoul, Korea (Sep. 2023 - Current)

• M.S. Researcher. Sejong University, Seoul, Korea (Mar. 2023 - Aug. 2023)

• M.S. Sejong University, Seoul, Korea (Mar. 2021 - Feb. 2023)

  • • Dept. of Artificial Intelligence

    • Advisor: Yukyung Choi

    • Thesis: Video Feature Description Method for Content-Based Video Retrieval [Paper]

• B.S. Sejong University, Seoul, Korea (Mar. 2017 - Feb. 2021)

  • • Dept. of Intelligent Mechatronics Engineering

    • Advisior: Yukyung Choi

    • Graduate with magna cum laude

Publications

SAI Lab at KAIST

2024

• • • Pathwise Explanation of ReLU Neural Networks

      • • Seongwoo Lim, Won Jo, Joohyung Lee, and Jaesik Choi

        • The 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), Jan. 2024 [Paper]

RCV Lab at Sejong Univ.

2023

• • • Enhancing Visual Representation of Untrimmed Videos by Counteracting Visuality-Threatening Content

      • • Gwangjin Lee, Won Jo, Hyunwoo Kim, Yukyung Choi

        • Under Review, Mar. 2024 [Paper]

    • Overcoming Overconfidence for Active Learning

      • • Yujin Hwang*, Won Jo*, Juyoung Hong, and Yukyung Choi

        • Under Review, Mar. 2024 [Paper]

    • VVS: Video-to-Video Retrieval with Irrelevant Frame Suppression

      • • Won Jo, Geuntaek Lim, Gwangjin Lee, Hyunwoo Kim, Byungsoo Ko, and Yukyung Choi

        • The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), Dec. 2023 [Paper] [Code]

    • Simultaneous Video Retrieval and Alignment

      • • Won Jo, Geuntaek Lim, Yujin Hwang, Gwangjin Lee, Joonsoo Kim, Joungil Yun, Jiyoung Jung, and Yukyung Choi

        • IEEE Access, Mar. 2023 [Paper]

    • VERD: Emergence of Product-based Video E-commerce Retrieval Dataset from User's Perspective

      • • Gwangjin Lee, Won Jo, and Yukyung Choi

        • Sensors, Jan. 2023 [Paper]

2022

• • • Multispectral Benchmark Dataset and Baseline for Forklift Collision Avoidance

      • • Hyeongjun Kim*, Taejoo Kim*, Won Jo, Jiwon Kim, Jeongmin Shin, Daechan Han, Yujin Hwang, and Yukyung Choi

        • Sensors, Oct. 2022. [Paper] 

    • Compression Method for MPEG CDVA Global Feature Descriptors

      • • Joonsoo Kim, Won Jo, Guentaek Lim, Joungil Yun, Sangwoon Kwak, Soon-heung Jung, Won-Sik Cheong, Hyon-Gon Choo, Jeongil Seo, and Yukyung Choi

        • Journal of Broadcast Engineering, May. 2022. [Paper]

    • Exploring the Temporal Cues to Enhance Video Retrieval on Standardized CDVA

      • • Won Jo, Guentaek Lim, Joonsoo Kim, Joungil Yun, and Yukyung Choi

        • IEEE Access, Apr. 2022. [Paper] [Code]

2021

• • • 3rd Place Solution to NAVER LABS Mapping & Localization Challenge 2020: Indoor Track 

      • • Won Jo*, Daechan Han*, and Yukyung Choi

        • 33rd  Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU), Feb. 2021. [Paper] [Code] [Slides]

2020

• • • R2T2: RGB-Thermal-Depth Dataset for Pedestrian Detection 

      • • Taejoo Kim*, Jeongmin Shin*, Won Jo*, Daechan Han*, Jiwon Kim, Byungjoo Kim, Hyunho Nam, Yujin Hwang, Namhoon Kim, and Yukyung Choi

        • 32nd Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU), Feb. 2020. [Paper]

    • Single-Shot Adaptive Fusion Network for Robust Multispectral Pedestrian Detection 

      • • Jiwon Kim*, Won Jo*, Hyunho Nam, Soonmin Hwang, Chiwon Roh, Namil Kim, and Yukyung Choi

        • 32nd Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU), Feb. 2020. (Best Paper Award) [Paper] 

Patents

• Method and Apparatus of Extracting Video Feature Descriptors with Distractor Frame Suppression

  • • [KOR] 방해자 프레임 억제를 적용한 비디오 특징 추출 방법 및 그 장치 (1020230177999), 출원 완료, Dec. 2023

• Active Learning Method and Apparatus for Deep Learning Model

  • • [KOR] 딥러닝 모델의 능동적 학습 방법 및 그 장치 (1020230141030), 출원 완료, Oct. 2023

• Video-Level Descriptors Extraction Method and Apparatus for Content-Based Video Retrieval

  • • [KOR] 동영상 검색을 위한 동영상 특징 서술자 추출 방법 및 그 장치 (1020220152725), 출원 완료, Nov. 2022

• Video Feature Extraction Method for Content-Based Video Retrieval

  • • [KOR] 비디오 검색을 위한 영상 특징 추출 방법 (1020220087969), 출원 완료, Jul. 2022

    • [US] Method and Apparatus of Image/Video Feature Descriptor Extracting for Searching Image/Video (US2024/0020335A1) [Doc]

• Simultaneous Video Retrieval and Alignment Technique

  • • [KOR] 동시적인 비디오 검색 및 정렬 기법 (1020220087956), 출원 완료, Dec. 2021.

    • [US] Method and Apparatus for Simultaneous Video Retrieval and Alignment (US2023/0177083A1) [Doc]

• Single-shot Adaptive Fusion Method and Apparatus for Robust Multi-spectral Object Detection

  • • [KOR] 강인한 객체 검출을 위한 싱글샷 기반 적응적 융합 방법 및 그 장치 (1024314190000), 등록 완료, Jul. 2022

Awards and Honors

• 3rd Prize, NAVER LABS Mapping & Localization Challenge, NAVER LABS, Korea (Aug. 2020)

• Best Paper Award, the 32nd Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, Korean Computer Vision Society, Korea (Feb. 2020)

• 4th Prize, the 4th SW Competition, Sejong University, Korea (Nov. 2017)

• Scholarship for academic excellence for 2 semester, Sejong University, Korea (Sep. 2017 ~ Jun. 2018)

Projects

• Development of MPEG CDVA-based Video Search Software

  • • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), (Apr. 2022 - Dec. 2022)

• Dark Data Analysis Technology for Data Scale and Accuracy Improvement

  • • WISEnut, (Apr. 2021 - Dec. 2021)

• A Study on a Deep Learning Model that Extracts Video Visual Features for Machine Vision Task

  • • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), (Apr. 2021 - Nov. 2021)

• A Study on a Deep Learning Model for Extracting Visual Features by Machine Vision Task

  • • Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), (Apr. 2020 - Nov. 2020)

• Visualization of Thermal Image and Development of Perception Sensors based on Deep Learning

  • • Potenit, (Nov. 2018 - Apr. 2020)

• A Fault-tolerant Fusion Method for Robust Pedestrian Detection

  • • Ministry of Science and ICT, (Sep. 2018 - Aug. 2020)