Prof. Hyoung-Gook Kim is a professor in the Department of Electronic Convergence Engineering at Kwangwoon University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. He received his degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin in Berlin, Germany. From 1998 to 2005, he worked on mobile service robots at Daimler Benz and speech recognition at Siemens in Berlin, Germany. From 2005 to 2007, he was a project leader at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea. His research interests include audio signal processing, audiovisual content indexing and retrieval, speech enhancement, robust speech recognition, machine learning, and data mining.

Prof. Jin-Young Kim is a professor in the Department of Intelligent Electronics and Computer Engineering at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from Seoul National University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research interests include speech synthesis, audiovisual speech processing, and machine learning.