*  corresponding author, + equally contribution

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

      1.  
      1. J. Hwang, B. Kim, T. Kim, H. Oh, J. Kang*, “EMOVA : Emotion-driven Neural Volumetric Avatar,”
        Image and Vision Computing, vol. 146, 105043, Apr. 2024. (IF 4.7, JCR 2022)

      2. J. Lee, D. Nguyen, J. Kim, J. Kang, S. Lee*, “Double Reverse Diffusion for Realistic Garment Reconstruction from Images,”
        Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), vol. 127, 107404, Jan. 2024. (IF 8.0, JCR 2022)

      3. A. Nguyen, S. Choi, W. Kim, J. Kim, H. Oh, J. Kang, and S. Lee*, “Single Image 3D Reconstruction: Rethinking Point Cloud Deformation,”
        IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), vol. 34, no. 5, May 2024. (IF 14.255, JCR 2021)

      4. K. Lee, Y. Park, J. Huh, J. Kang*, and S. Lee*, “Self-Updatable Database System Based on Human Motion Assessment Framework,”
        IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 7160-7176, Oct. 2022. (IF 8.4, JCR 2022)

      5. J. Kang, S. Lee,  and S. Lee*, “Competitive Learning of Facial Fitting and Synthesis using UV Energy,”
        IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (T-SMC), vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 2858-2873, May. 2022. (IF 11.471, JCR 2021)

      6. J. Kang, S. Lee,  M. Jang, and S. Lee*, “Gradient Flow Evolution for 3D Fusion from a Single Depth Sensor,”
        IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)        , vol 32, no. 4, pp. 2211-2225, Apr. 2022. (IF 8.4, JCR 2022)

      7. J. Kang and S. Heo, W. Hyung, J. Lim, and S. Lee*, “Three-dimensional Active Vessel Tracking Using an Elliptical Prior,”
        IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 5933-5946, Dec. 2018. (IF 11.041, JCR 2021)

      8. K. Lee, B. Kwon, J. Kang, S. Heo and, S. Lee*, “Optimal Flow Rate Control for SDN-based Naval Systems,“
        IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (T-AES), vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 2690-2705, Dec. 2017. (IF 4.4, JCR 2022)

      9. T. Kim, J. Kang, S. Lee*, and A. C. Bovik, “Multimodal Interactive Continuous Scoring of Subjective 3D Video Quality of Experience,”
        IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 387-402, Feb. 2014. (IF 8.182, JCR 2021)

      10. (NRF CS Top Conference) J. Kang, T. Kim, Y. Park, “Convex Feature Embedding for Face and Voice Association,”
        In Proceeding of International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)        , Short Paper, Washington D.C., USA, July 14-18, 2024. (Acceptance Rate 24.0%)

      11. (NRF CS Top Conference) J. Kang, J. Hwang, M. Choi, and S. Lee, “High-resolution 3D Reconstruction with Neural Mesh Shading,”
        In Proceeding of International Conference on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH)        , Posters, Los Angeles, USA, 6-10 Aug. 2023. (Acceptance Rate 35.7%)

      12. (NRF CS Top Conference) J. Kang, J. Hwang, K. Lee, and S. Lee*, “Unlocking Potential of 3D-aware GAN for More Expressive Faces,”
        In Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ACM ICMR), Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-15 June 2023. (Acceptance Rate 32.6%)

      13. (NRF CS Top Conference) H. Song, J. Park, S. Heo, J. Kang, and S. Lee, “PatchMatch based Multiview Stereo with Local Quadric Window,”
        In Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Seattle, USA, 12-16 Oct. 2020. (Acceptance Rate 27.9%)

      14. (NRF CS Top Conference) J. Kang, S. Lee, and S. Lee, “UV Completion with Self-referenced Discrimination,”
        In Proceeding of Eurographics, Short Paper, Norrköping, Sweden, 25-29 May. 2020.



    ONGOING WORKS

            1. “3D Facial Shape Similarity with Deep Multiview Perceptual Representations,”
              Pattern Recognition (PR), under review. (IF 8.518, JCR 2021)

            2. “A Low-traffic Intelligent Video Surveillance System using Scene-Preserving Video Anonymization,”
              ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), under review. (IF 10.489, JCR 2021)

            3. 3D-PSSIM: Projective Structural Similarity for 3D Mesh Quality Assessment Robust to Topological Irregularities,”
              Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), under revision. (IF 23.6, JCR 2022)

            4. “3D Pose Similarity Quantification and Estimation for Selfocclusion,”
              Pattern Recognition (PR), under review. (IF 8.518, JCR 2021)

            5. “Convolutional Neural Shading: A Novel Pipeline for High-Quality 3D Object Reconstruction from Multi-View Images,” submitted.

            6. “Cascade Face Superresolution with Collaborative Identity Reconstruction,” submitted.
        1.  

         

          INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

              1. J. Hwang, B. Kim, T. Kim, H. Oh, J. Kang*, “EMOVA : Emotion-driven Neural Volumetric Avatar,”
                Image and Vision Computing, vol. 146, 105043, Apr. 2024. (IF 4.7, JCR 2022)

              2. T. Kim, J. Kim, H. Oh, and J. Kang*, “Deep Transformer based Video Inpainting Using Fast Fourier Tokenization,”
                IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 21723-21736, Feb. 2024. (IF 3.9, JCR 2022)

              3. A. Nguyen, S. Choi, W. Kim, J. Kim, H. Oh, J. Kang, and S. Lee*, “Single Image 3D Reconstruction: Rethinking Point Cloud Deformation,”
                IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), vol. 34, no. 5, May 2024. (IF 14.255, JCR 2021)

              4. J. Lee, D. Nguyen, J. Kim, J. Kang, S. Lee*, “Double Reverse Diffusion for Realistic Garment Reconstruction from Images,”
                Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), vol. 127, 107404, Jan. 2024. (IF 8.0, JCR 2022)

              5. Y. Yong, J. Kang*, and H. Oh*, “Detection-Free Object Tracking for Multiple Occluded Targets in Plenoptic Video“,
                Electronics, vol. 13, no. 3, 590, Jan., 2024. (IF 2.9, JCR 2022)

              6. S. Lee, H. Yoon, S. Park, S. Lee, and J. Kang*, “Stabilized Temporal 3D Face Alignment Using Landmark Displacement Learning,”
                Electronics, vol. 12, no. 17, 3735, Sep., 2023. (IF 2.9, JCR 2022)

              7. H. Park,  J. Kang, and B. Kim*, “ssFPN: Scale Sequence (S2) Feature-Based Feature Pyramid Network for Object Detection,”
                Sensors, vol. 23, no. 9, Apr. 2023. (IF 3.847, JCR 2021)

              8. J. Kang, H. Song, K. Lee, and S. Lee, “A Selective Expression Manipulation With Parametric 3D Facial Model,”
                IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 17066 – 17084, Feb. 2023. (IF 3.9, JCR 2022)

              9. K. Lee, Y. Park, J. Huh, J. Kang*, and S. Lee*, “Self-Updatable Database System Based on Human Motion Assessment Framework,”
                IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT), vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 7160-7176, Oct. 2022. (IF 8.4, JCR 2022)

              10. J. Kang, S. Lee,  and S. Lee*, “Competitive Learning of Facial Fitting and Synthesis using UV Energy,”
                IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (T-SMC), vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 2858-2873, May. 2022. (IF 11.471, JCR 2021)

              11. M. Jang, S. Lee, J. Kang*, and S. Lee*, “Technical Consideration Towards Robust 3D Reconstruction with Multi-view Active Stereo Sensors,”
                Sensors, vol. 22, no 11, May. 2022. (IF 3.847, JCR 2021)

              12. J. Kang, S. Lee,  M. Jang, and S. Lee*, “Gradient Flow Evolution for 3D Fusion from a Single Depth Sensor,”
                IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)                , vol 32, no. 4, pp. 2211-2225, Apr. 2022. (IF 8.4, JCR 2022)

              13. M. Jang+, H. Yoon+, S. Lee,  J. Kang*, and S. Lee*, “A Comparison and Evaluation of Stereo Matching on Active Stereo Images,”
                Sensors, vol.22, no.9, Apr. 2022. (IF 3.847, JCR 2021)

              14. D. Kim, S. Heo, J. Kang*, H. Kang, and S. Lee*, “A Photo Identification Framework to Prevent Copyright Infringement with Manipulations,”
                Applied Sciences-Basel, vol. 11, no. 19, Oct. 2021. (IF 2.838, JCR 2021)

              15. H. Yoon+, M. Jang+, J. Heo, J. Kang*, and S. Lee*, “Multiple Sensor Synchronization with the RealSense RGB-D Camera,”
                Sensors, vol. 21, no. 18, Sep. 2021. (IF 3.847, JCR 2021)

              16. J. Kang and S. Lee*, “A Greedy Pursuit Approach for Fitting 3D Facial Expression Models,”
                IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 192682-192692, Oct. 2020. (IF 3.9, JCR 2022)

              17. S. Heo, H. Song, J. Kang, and S. Lee*, “Local Spherical Harmonics for Facial Shape and Albedo Estimation,”
                IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 177424-177436, Sep. 2020. (IF 3.9, JCR 2022)

              18. J. Kang and S. Heo, W. Hyung, J. Lim, and S. Lee*, “Three-dimensional Active Vessel Tracking Using an Elliptical Prior,”
                IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 5933-5946, Dec. 2018. (IF 11.041, JCR 2021)

              19. K. Lee, B. Kwon, J. Kang, S. Heo and, S. Lee*, “Optimal Flow Rate Control for SDN-based Naval Systems,“
                IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (T-AES), vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 2690-2705, Dec. 2017. (IF 4.4, JCR 2022)

              20. S. Lee, J. Kang, S. Heo and, S. Lee*, “An Enhanced Particle-filtering Framework for Vessel Segmentation and Tracking,”
                Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 148, no. 1, pp 99-112, Sep. 2017. (IF 7.027, JCR 2021)

              21. J. Kang and T. Kim and, S. Lee*, “Implementation of Multimodal Interactive Continuous Scoring for 3D Quality of Experience,”
                Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 84, no. 2, pp 1133-1149, Sept. 2015. (IF 2.2, JCR 2022)

              22. T. Kim, J. Kang, S. Lee*, and A. C. Bovik, “Multimodal Interactive Continuous Scoring of Subjective 3D Video Quality of Experience,”
                IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 387-402, Feb. 2014. (IF 8.182, JCR 2021)



          INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 

              1. (NRF CS Top Conference) J. Kang, T. Kim, Y. Park, “Convex Feature Embedding for Face and Voice Association,”
                In Proceeding of International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)                , Short Paper, Washington D.C., USA, July 14-18, 2024. (Acceptance Rate 24.0%)
            2.  
              1. (Best Paper Award) UC. Jun, N. Eun, J. Lee, and J. Kang*, “Self-supervised 3D Face Model Learning for Monocular Image,”
                In Proceeding of Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Complex Communication Sciences (KJCCS 2024), Beppu, Japan, 29-31 Jan. 2024.

              2. J. Ko, Y. Ok, J. Lee, and J. Kang*, “A Bilinear Face Model for Real-time Performance-Based Applications,”
                In Proceeding of Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Complex Communication Sciences (KJCCS 2024), Beppu, Japan, 29-31 Jan. 2024.

              3. J. Hwang and J. Kang*,  “Double Discrete Representation for 3D Human Pose Estimation from Head-mounted Camera,”
                In Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (IEEE ICCE), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 5-8 Jan. 2024.

              4. J. Hwang and J. Kang*,  “Aerial View 3D Human Pose Estimation Using Double Vector Quantized-Variational AutoEncoders,”
                In Proceeding of IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (IEEE/CVF WACVW) , Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, 4-8 Jan. 2024.

              5. J. Hwang and J. Kang*,  “Audio-visual Neural Face Generation with Emotional Stimuli,”
                In Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), Sorrento, Italy, 15-18 Dec. 2023.

              6. S. Lee, H. Yoon, J. Kang, J. Kim, J. Son. J. Huh, S. Lee, “Video-based Stabilized 3D Face Alignment using Temporal Multi-Discrimination,”
                In Proceeding of IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP), Poiters, France, 27-29, Sep. 2023.

              7. (NRF CS Top Conference) J. Kang, J. Hwang, M. Choi, and S. Lee*, “High-resolution 3D Reconstruction with Neural Mesh Shading,”
                In Proceeding of International Conference on Computer Graphics & Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH)                , Posters, Los Angeles, USA, 6-10 Aug. 2023. (Acceptance Rate 35.7%)

              8. (Best Paper Award) S. Lee, S. Park, H. Yoon, S. Lee, and J. Kang*,  “Video-based Face Reconstruction with Landmark Displacement Learning,”
                In Proceeding of International Conference on Multimedia Information Technology and Applications (MITA), Ostrava, Czech, 11-14 Jul. 2023.

              9. S. Park and J. Kang*,  “Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization Suitability Prediction Model for Hepatocellular Carcinoma,”
                In Proceeding of International Conference on Multimedia Information Technology and Applications (MITA), Ostrava, Czech, 11-14 Jul. 2023.

              10. (NRF CS Top Conference) J. Kang, J. Hwang, K. Lee, and S. Lee*, “Unlocking Potential of 3D-aware GAN for More Expressive Faces,”
                In Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ACM ICMR), Thessaloniki, Greece, 12-15 June 2023. (Acceptance Rate 32.6%)

              11. S. Park and J. Kang*,  “3D Clothed Human Parametric Model from a Single Scan with Joint Optimization,“
                In Proceeding of International Conference on Communication and Computer Research (ICCR), Nov. 2022.

              12. S. Park and J. Kang*,  “A Down-sampling Method of SMPLModel for Blend Skinning SMPL-topological Mesh,”
                In Proceeding of International Conference on Multimedia Information Technology and Applications (MITA), Jeju, Korea, 5-6 Jul. 2022.

              13. (Best Paper Award) S. Park and J. Kang*,  “An Avatar Generation from a Single Scan,“
                In Proceeding of International Conference on Multimedia Information Technology and Applications (MITA), Jeju, Korea, 5-6 Jul. 2022.

              14. J. Kang, H. Yoon, S. Lee, and S. Lee, “Checkerboard Corner Localization Accelerated with Deep False Detection for Multi-camera Calibration,”
                In Proceeding of APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), IEEE, Tokyo, Japan, 14-17 Dec. 2021.

              15. S. Heo, H. Song, J. Kang, and S. Lee, “High-Quality Single Image 3D Facial Shape Reconstruction via Robust Albedo Estimation,”
                In Proceeding of APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), IEEE, Tokyo, Japan, 14-17 Dec. 2021.

              16. H. Yoon, S. Lee, J. Kang, and S. Lee, “Deep Chessboard Corner Detection Using Multi-task Learning,”
                In Proceeding of IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE MMSP), Tampere, Finland, 6-8 Oct. 2021.

              17. J. Kang, S. Lee, M. Jang, H. Yoon, and S. Lee, “WarpingFusion: Accurate Multi-view TSDF Fusion with Local Perspective Warp,”
                In Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), Anchorage, USA, 19-22 Sep. 2021.

              18. (Best Paper Award) J. Kang, S. Lee, M. Jang, and S. Lee, “Sparse Checkerboard Corner Detection from Global Perspective,”
                In Proceeding of International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (IEEE ICSIPA), Virtual, 13-15 Sep. 2021.

              19. M. Jang, S. Lee, J. Kang, and S. Lee, “Active Stereo Matching Benchmark for 3D Reconstruction using Multi-view Depths,”
                In Proceeding of International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (IEEE ICSIPA), Virtual, 13-15 Sep. 2021.

              20. J. Kang, S. Lee, S. Heo, and S. Lee, “Image Inpainting using Weighted Mask Convolution,”
                In Proceeding of APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), IEEE, Auckland, New Zealand, 7-10 Dec. 2020.

              21. (NRF CS Top Conference) H. Song, J. Park, S. Heo, J. Kang, and S. Lee*, “PatchMatch based Multiview Stereo with Local Quadric Window,”
                In Proceeding of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), Seattle, USA, 12-16 Oct. 2020.

              22. (NRF CS Top Conference) J. Kang, S. Lee, and S. Lee*, “UV Completion with Self-referenced Discrimination,”
                In Proceeding of Eurographics , Short Paper, Norrköping, Sweden, 25-29 May. 2020.

              23. T. Choi, J. Kang, and S. Lee*, “Fitting Facial Models to Spatial Points: Blendshape Approaches and Benchmark,”
                In Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), Athens, Greece, 7-10 Oct. 2018.

              24. H. Song, J. Kang, and S. Lee, “CONCATNET: A Deep Architecture of Concatenation-Assisted Network for Dense Facial Landmark Alignment,”
                In Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), Athens, Greece, 7-10 Oct. 2018

              25. H. Kim, J. Kang, J. Kim, D. Kim, K. Lee, S. Lee, and A. C. Bovik, “Scene Adaptive Saliency Detection on Stereoscopic Videos,”
                In Proceeding of International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics (VPQM), Chandler, USA, 5-6 Feb. 2015.

              26. J. Kang, T. Oh, N. Choi, S. Lee, S. Lee and H. Kang, “Network-based Content Identification System via Content-based Comics Fingerprint,”
                In Proceeding of International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), IEEE, Phuket, Thailand, 10-12  Feb. 2014.

           

          DOMESTIC JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

              1. S . Lee, H. Yoon, S. Lee, and J. Kang*,  “Temporal Facial Alignment with Triple Discriminators,”
                Journal of Multimedia Information System, vol. 10. no. 2. June 2023.

              2. 강지우, “비전 · 그래픽스 인공지능 기술을 활용하여 무엇을 연구할 수 있는가?,”
                창의융합연구 학술지, 2권 2호, 1-23, 2022년 12월.

           


          DOMESTIC CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

              1. 전유채, 강지우, “단안 이미지를 이용한 3 차원 자기지도 얼굴 모델 학습,”
                2023 한국멀티미디어학회 추계학술발표대회, 계명대학교, 대구시, 2023.11.17 ~ 2023.11.18.

              2. 고재은, 강지우, “실시간 퍼포먼스 기반 응용을 위한 이중선형 얼굴모델,”
                2023 한국멀티미디어학회 추계학술발표대회, 계명대학교, 대구시, 2023.11.17 ~ 2023.11.18.

              3. 박소현, 강지우, “다중 시점 이미지와 단일 신경망을 사용한 3 차원 재구성과 렌더링,”
                2023 한국멀티미디어학회 추계학술발표대회, 계명대학교, 대구시, 2023.11.17 ~ 2023.11.18.

              4. 김민지, 송지빈, 신정은, 강지우, “실시간 동영상 얼굴 모자이크 구현 기술,”
                2023 한국멀티미디어학회 추계학술발표대회, 계명대학교, 대구시, 2023.11.17 ~ 2023.11.18.

              5. 박소현, 전유채, 고재은, 강지우, “3차원 모션을 통한 아바타 생성 기술,”
                한국정보처리학회 추계학술대회 ACK 2023, 부경대학교, 부산시, 2023.11.02 ~ 2023.11.04.

              6. 박소현, 강지우, “음악에 어울리는 춤 자동 생성을 위한 트랜스포머 기반 GAN 모델,”
                2023년도 한국멀티미디어학회 춘계학술대회, 순천대학교, 순천시, 2023.05.19 ~ 2023.05.20.

              7. 명지연, 윤연경, 강지우, “저역 기반 반려견 산책 어플리케이션,”
                한국정보처리학회 춘계학술대회 ASK 2023, 서울대학교, 서울시, 2023.05.18 ~ 2023.05.20. (논문경진대회 동상)

              8. 박소현, 정유진, 박근영, 강지우, “음악에 어울리는 춤 자동 생성 및 실시간 춤 모션 판정,”
                한국정보처리학회 춘계학술대회 ASK 2023, 서울대학교, 서울시, 2023.05.18 ~ 2023.05.20.

              9. 박소현, 강지우, “희소 회귀자를 고려한 3차원 인체 모델 다운 샘플링,”
                한국정보처리학회 추계학술대회 ACK 2022, 한림대학교, 강원도, 2022.11.03 ~ 2022.11.05 (논문경진대회 대상).