Yoon, Kuk-Jin

Post-Doctoral Fellow  (CV)

Perception Team

INRIA Rhône-Alpes

655, avenue de l'Europe

38330 Montbonnot, France

Kuk-Jin.Yoon@inrialpes.fr

http://perception.inrialpes.fr/people/Yoon/

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Personal Details

  • Born on 11th of November 1976, in Korea

  • Republic of Korea citizen

  • Male, married

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Experiences and Educations

  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Perception Team, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France, August 2006. ~ Present.

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, March 2006. ~ May 2006.

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 2006.

        Title: Robust Correspondence Search under Photometric Variations and Image Ambiguity (pdf)
        Advisor: Prof. In So Kweon

  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 2000.
        Title: Moving Object Segmentation with an Accurate Boundary Using Color and Motion in Color Image Sequence
        Advisor: Prof. In So Kweon

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 1998.

  • Completion of a Two-Year Course in the Chungbuk Science High School, 1994.

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Research Interests

  • Stereo vision and 3D reconstruction from multi-view images

  • Color constancy and reflection analysis

  • Color image processing, color image quantization/segmentation

  • Motion analysis, object tracking

  • Human visual attention

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Awards

  • Silver Prize: Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize, 2006.

        Kuk-Jin Yoon, "Specularity-Invariant Image Representation and Its Application to Correspondence Search and Reflection Components Separation''

  • Top 10% among the Accepted Papers: ICIP, 2005.

        Kuk-Jin Yoon and Yoo-Jin Choi, "Dichromatic-Based Color Constancy Using Dichromatic Slope and Dichromatic Line Space''

  • Bronze Prize: Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize, 2005.
        Kuk-Jin Yoon and Yoo-Jin Choi, "Illuminant Chromaticity Estimation Using Dichromatic Slope and Dichromatic Line Space''

  • Research Prize: The Fifth Korean Intelligent Robot Contest, 2003.

        Development of KASIRI III

  • 3rd Place: Best Poster Award in Photonics Boston, 2001.

        Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Color Image Segmentation Considering of Human Sensitivity for Color Pattern Variations''

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Publications

  • Stereo

  1. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Distinctive Similarity Measure for Stereo Matching Under Point Ambiguity,'' Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), accepted, 2008.

  2. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Stereo Matching with the Distinctive Similarity Measure,'' IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), accepted, 2007.

  3. Kuk-Jin Yoon, Amaël Delaunoy, Pau Gargallo, and Peter Sturm, "Toward Global and Model based Multiview Stereo Methods for Shape and Reflectance Estimation,''  Workshop on Photometric Analysis and Computer Vision (PACV) (in conjunction with ICCV), accepted, 2007.

  4. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Adaptive Support-Weight Approach for Correspondence Search,'' IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 650-656, 2006.

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  6. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Stereo Matching with Symmetric Cost Functions,'' in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2371-2377, 2006.

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  8. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Correspondence Search in the Presence of Specular Highlights using Specular-Free Two-Band Images,'' in Lecture Notes in Computer Science-Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), vol. 3852, pp. 761-770, 2006.

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  10. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Locally Adaptive Support-Weight Approach for Visual Correspondence Search,'' in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), vol. 2, pp. 924-931, 2005.

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  12. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Locally Adaptive Support-Weight Approach for Visual Correspondence Search,'' in International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, pp. 506-514, 2004.

  13. Ouk Choi, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, "A Hierarchical Window Based Approach for Correspondence Problem in Vision,'' in International Conference on Mechatronics and Information Technology (ICMIT), pp. 590-594, 2003.

  • Color constancy and reflectance analysis

  1. Kuk-Jin Yoon, Yoo Jin Choi, and In So Kweon, "Fast Separation of Reflection Components Using a Specularity-Invariant Image Representation,'' in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 973-976, 2006. (pdf)

  2. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Separating Reflection Components using a Single Color Image,'' in Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, pp. 86-91, 2006.

  3. Yoo Jin Choi, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, "Illumination Chromaticity Estimation for a Single- or Multiple-Colored Image Using Dichromatic Line Space,'' Journal of the Korea Information Science Society, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 84-94, 2006.

  4. Kuk-Jin Yoon, Yoo Jin Choi, and In So Kweon, "Dichromatic-Based Color Constancy Using Dichromatic Slope and Dichromatic Line Space,'' in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 3, pp. 960-963, 2005.

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  6. Kuk-Jin Yoon, Yoo-Jin Choi, and In So Kweon, "Illuminant Chromaticity Estimation Using Dichromatic Slope and Dichromatic Line Space,'' in Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision (FCV), pp. 219-224, 2005.

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  8. Yoo Jin Choi, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, "Illumination Chromaticity Estimation by Dichromatic Line Analysis Using Specularity Invariant Dichromatic-Slope,'' in Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, pp. 392-397, 2005.

  9. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Voting-based Separation of Diffuse and Specular Pixels,'' Electronics Letters, vol. 40, no. 20, pp. 1260-1261, 2004.

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  • Object recognition

  1. Sungho Kim, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, "Object Recognition Using a Generalized Robust Invariant Feature and Gestalt's Law of Proximity and Similarity'', Pattern Recognition, vol. 41, pp. 726-741, 2008.

  2. Sungho Kim, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, "Background Robust Object Labeling by Voting of Weight-Aggregated Local Features,'' in International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 219-222, 2006. (pdf)

  3. Sungho Kim, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, "Object Recognition Using a Generalized Robust Invariant Feature and Gestalt's Law of Proximity and Similarity,'' in IEEE Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision (in conjunction with CVPR), pp. 193-200, 2006.

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  • Color image processing with the human attention analysis

  1. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Human Perception Based Color Image Quantization,'' in International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), vol. 1, pp. 664-667, 2004.

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  3. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Color Image Segmentation Considering of Human Sensitivity for Color Pattern Variations,'' in SPIE Photonics Boston 2001 : Intelligent Robot and Computer Vision XX: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision, vol. 4572, pp. 269-278, 2001.

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  5. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Moving Object Segmentation Algorithm for Human-like Vision System,'' in International Workshop on Human-friendly Welfare Robotic Systems (HWRS), pp. 109-114, 2000.

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  7. Kuk-Jin Yoon, In So Kweon, Chang-Yeong Kim and Yang-Seok Seo, "Moving Object Segmentation Based on Human Visual Sensitivity,'' in Lecture Notes in Computer Science-Biologically Motivated Computer Vision (BMCV), vol. 1811, pp. 62-72, 2000. (pdf)

  • Robot navigation

  1. Jungho Kim, Kuk-Jin Yoon, Jun-Sik Kim, and In So Kweon, ``Simultaneous Localization And Mapping Using Single Camera Catadioptric Stereo System,'' in SICE - ICASE International Joint Conference, accepted, 2006.

  2. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Artificial Landmark Tracking Based on the Color Histogram,'' in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), vol. 4, pp. 1918-1923, 2001.

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  4. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Landmark Design and Real-Time Landmark Tracking for Mobile Robot Localization,'' in SPIE Photonics Boston 2001 : Mobile Robots XVI, vol. 4573, pp. 219-226, 2001.

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  6. Kuk-Jin Yoon, Gi-Jeong Jang, Sung-Ho Kim, and In So Kweon, "Fast Landmark Tracking and Localization Algorithm for the Mobile Robot Self-Localization,'' in IFAC Workshop on Mobile Robot Technology, pp. 190-195, 2001.

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  8. Kuk-Jin Yoon, In So Kweon, Chan-Ho Lee, Jong-Kyu Oh, and In-Taek Yeo, "Landmark Design and Real-Time Landmark Tracking Using Color Histogram for Mobile Robot Localization,'' in International Symposium on Robotics (ISR), pp. 1083-1088, 2001.

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  10. Kuk-Jin Yoon, Gi-Jeong Jang, Sung-Ho Kim, and In So Kweon, "Color Landmark Based Self-Localization for Indoor Mobile Robots,'' Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems Engineering, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 749-757, 2001.

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  • Camera calibration

  1. Jun-Sik Kim, In So Kweon, and Kuk-Jin Yoon, "The New Projective Invariances of Concentric Circles and Their Applications: Camera Calibration,'' in Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, pp. 328-333, 2003.

  2. Jong-Eun Ha, Jin-Young Yang, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, "Self-Calibration Using the Linear Projective Reconstruction,'' in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), vol. 1, pp. 885-890, 2000.

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  • Image sequence/video analysis

  1. Kuk-Jin Yoon and In So Kweon, "Moving Object Segmentation with Accurate Boundary Using Color and Motion,'' in Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, pp. 150-155, 2000.

  2. Seung-Hoon Han, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, "A New Technique for Shot Detection and Key Frames Selection in Histogram Space,'' in Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, pp. 475-479, 2000.

  • Etc.

  1. Wang-Heon Lee, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, "Modeling and Target Classification Using Multiple Reflections of Sonar,'' in 2003 Conference on Information and Control Systems, pp. 830-835, 2003.

  2. Seung-Hoon Han, Gi-Jeong Jang, Kuk-Jin Yoon, Jun-Hyuk Cha, Kyung-Sig Rho, and In So Kweon, "Recent Developments in Machine Vision Research,'' Journal of the Korea Society of Precision Engineering, vol. 18, no 3, pp. 23-34, 2001.

last updated on 28 July 2007