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Principal Investigator
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Hyung-Il Kim

Hyung-Il Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, School of ECE, Chonnam National University
Email: hyungil.kim [at] jnu.ac.kr | Office: Engineering Building #6-717
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Work Experiences
- Assistant Professor, School of ECE, Chonnam National University
- Senior Researcher, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
- Researcher, Agency for Defense Development (ADD)
- Research Assistant, Image and Video Systems Lab, KAIST
- Research Internship, HE Company, LG Electronics

Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, KAIST (Advisor: Prof. Yong Man Ro)
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, KAIST (Advisor: Prof. Yong Man Ro)
- B.S., Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University (Summa Cum Laude)

Academic Service
- Reviewer for Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers:
  • IEEE TIP, TCSVT, TBIOM, TKDE, TMM, Neural Networks, PRL
- Reviewer for Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers:
  • CVPR, CVPRW, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICCV, ICCVW, AAAI, BMVC, WACV, ACCV, ICIP, BigMM
- Program committee for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM) 2017
- Program committee for ICIP Workshop on Integrating Image Processing with Large-Scale VLMs
- Patent review committee for Superintelligence Creative Lab, ETRI

Awards & Honors
- Honorable Mention Paper Award at the IPIU (2026)
  • An Experimental Study on the Generalization Capability of an Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (2026)
- National R&D Excellence Top 100 by the MSIT and KISTEP (2021/2023)
- Grand Prize for ETRI Representative Research Project (DeepView) Award (2020)
- Award for Ph.D. Research Achievement from School of EE, KAIST (2016/2017)
- Korean Government Scholarship, KAIST (2013-2016)
- Outstanding Paper Award by Korea Multimedia Society (KMMS)
  • Local Feature Learning using DCCA for NIR-VIS Heterogeneous Face Recognition (2015)
  • X-ray Absorptiometry Image Enhancement using Sparse Representation (2012)
- Outstanding Paper Award by Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS)
  • Action Unit Based Facial Features for Subject-Independent Facial Expression Recognition (2015)
- Awards for Honor Students from Dongguk University (2006/2007/2010/2011)

Talk
- Recurrent Neural Networks @ HPC Lab, ETRI
- Face Recognition Technology and Applications @ KIEI
- Deep Learning-based Face Recognition Algorithms @ AI Research Lab, ADD
- Advanced Applications of Visual Intelligence @ AI Academy, ETRI
- Deep Learning-based Face Recognition System @ Dankook University
- AI Use Cases and Development Practices @ Hansung University
- Advances in Recent Computer Vision Algorithms @ Chonnam National University

Teaching
- SAI0030 Python Programming and Lab (FA'25) @ CNU
- ECE3088 Embedded Software (FA'25) (SP'25) @ CNU
- ECE3087 Computer Engineering Capstone Design 1 (FA'25) @ CNU
- GR25624 Advanced Machine Learning/Deep Learning (FA'25) @ CNU
- ECE9048 Linux Systems and Lab (SP'25) @ CNU
- CLT0771 Career Planning and Self-understanding (SP'25) @ CNU
- Teaching Assistant for EE474 Introduction to Multimedia @ KAIST
- Teaching Assistant for EE636 Digital Video Processing @ KAIST
- Teaching Assistant for EE209 Programming Structures @ KAIST
- Teaching Assistant for EE505 Electronics Design Lab @ KAIST