Dr. Byung-Gyu Kim (Senior Member, IEEE) received a
B.S. degree from Pusan National University, South Korea, in 1996, an M.S.
degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in
1998, and a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, KAIST, in 2004. In March 2004, he joined the Real-Time
Multimedia Research Team, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
(ETRI), South Korea, where he was a senior researcher. In ETRI, he developed
many real-time video signal processing algorithms and patents and received the
Best Paper Award in 2007. From February 2009 to February 2016, he was an
Associate Professor with the Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun
Moon University, South Korea. In March 2016, he joined the Department of
Information Technology (IT) Engineering, Sookmyung Women's University, South
Korea, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has published over 250
international journal articles, conference papers, and patents in his field.
His research interests include image and video signal processing for
content-based image coding, video coding techniques, 3D video signal
processing, deep/reinforcement learning algorithms, embedded multimedia
systems, and intelligent information systems for image signal processing.
Dr. Jong-Chan Kim is currently a full professor at the Department of Automobile and IT
Convergence, Kookmin University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in
the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Seoul National
University, Korea, in 1999, 2001, and 2013, respectively. Then, from Sept. 2013
to Feb. 2014, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Computer Technology,
Seoul National University. He was also a visiting scholar at the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine,
from Mar. 2011 to Nov. 2011. In addition to his academic career, he also has more than
eight years of industry experience at TmaxSoft, where he served as a software
developer, developing various system software products that are being used
across various industry domains.
