Awards and News

Sung-Ho Bae

Adobe Research Gift Award (unrestricted gift of 20,000 USD)

Adobe Research.

Taegu Kang, Hoeyeong Jin, Seoyun Yang, and Yuna Jung / Subin Yang, Jeeon Bae, Euijune Lee, Hyeonjun Choi and Minseo Kim / Yoonho Jang

The 1st KHUGGLE AI Challenge: Real-World Super-Resolution

Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyunghee University

2nd, 3rd, 4th ranked

Junghun Cha, Yuje Lee, and Minseo Kim

The 1st Medical Synthetic Data AI Challenge: Detection of disease by X-ray and CT data

Ministry of Science and ICT & National Information Society Agency (NIA)

3rd ranked

Taegu Kang, Hoeyeong Jin, Seoyun Yang, and Yuna Jung

Ministry of Defense AI Contest 2022

Ministry of Defense

3rd ranked (Innovation Academy Dean's Award)

Sung Oh, Jongkyung Im, Minseo Kim, Euijune Lee, and Hyeonjun Choi

The 2nd Medical Big Data Utilization AI Image Diagnosis Development Hackathon (with cash prize of 2M KRW)

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy

2nd ranked (Daegu Metropolitan City Mayor Award)

Junghun Cha, Sung Oh, Seunghyuk Lee, Seoyun Yang, and Yuna Jung

MISO AI Challenge 2021 (with cash prize of 5M KRW)

National Information Society Agency (NIA) & MISO Information Technology & Airpass

1st ranked in the Track IV: Taekwondo motion classification

Eunseop Shin, Joonki Bae, and Kang-Ho Lee

2020 ICT Challenge Colloquium Award of Preseident of SKTelecom (with cash prize of 5M KRW)

Ministry of Science and ICT

A.F.M. Shahabuddin Sumon, Youmin Kim, Muhammad Salman Ali, Kang-Ho Lee, Teerath Kumar, Jiwon Hwang, Jinbae Park, Joon-Ki Bae, Eunseop Shin, Yoon-Ho Chang, Subin Yang, Jung-Heum Kang, Incheon Cho, Yongwoo Kim, Sung-Ho Bae

2020 AI Grand Challenge Award in the 1st Stage (with cash prize of 200M KRW)

Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion

4th ranked in the Track IV: model optimization and compression for image classification 

Sung-Ho Bae and Munchurl Kim

2016 Qualcomm Innovation Award (with cash prize of 5M KRW)

Qualcomm Inc.

Title of the paper: DCT-QM: A DCT based Quality Degradation Metric for Image Quality Optimization Problems

Sung-Ho Bae and Munchurl Kim

2015 Samsung Electro-Mechanics Paper Award (with cash prize of 3M KRW)

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Inc. 

Silver prize, 1st place in the field of software algorithms, the title of the paper: A Novel Image Quality Assessment Metric based on Structural Contrast Distortion for Image Quality Optimization Problems

Sung-Ho Bae and Munchurl Kim

2015 Qualcomm Innovation Award (with cash prize of 5M KRW)

Qualcomm Inc.

Title of the paper: HEVC-based Perceptual Video Coding using a Local Distortion Detection Probability Model

Sung-Ho Bae

2014 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Nomination Award

Microsoft Research Asia

Awarded to 10 finalists among 80 Ph.D. students who are selected from Asia Top-50 universities

Sung-Ho Bae and Munchurl Kim

2013 Qualcomm Innovation Award (with cash prize of 5M KRW)

Qualcomm Inc.

Title of the paper: A Novel DCT-based Just Noticeable Difference Profile based on an Elaborate Constrast Masking Effect Model for Quadtree Partitioned Blocks