Sangwon Kim

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Links: [Email], [Google Scholar], [Research Gate], [GitHub]


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Publications

JJournal publications CConference publications
(* indicates equal contribution)

Under review
  • CEnergy-Ensemble Concept Bottleneck Models: Decoding the Interpretability-Accuracy Dilemma
    Dasom Ahn*, Sangwon Kim*, Hyeongjin Kim, In-su Jang, Kwang-Ju Kim, Byoung Chul Ko
    [paper]
2024
  • CEQ-CBM: A Probabilistic Concept Bottleneck with Energy-based Models and Quantized Vectors
    Sangwon Kim, Dasom Ahn, Byoung Chul Ko, In-su Jang, Kwang-Ju Kim
    ACCV 2024
    [paper]
  • CScene Graph Generation Strategy with Co-occurrence Knowledge and Learnable Term Frequency
    Hyeongjin Kim, Sangwon Kim, Dasom Ahn, Jong Taek Lee, Byoung Chul Ko
    ICML 2024
    [paper]
  • JConcept Graph Embedding Models for Enhanced Interpretability and Accuracy
    Sangwon Kim, Byoung Chul Ko
    IOP Machine Learning: Science and Technology
    [paper]
  • JDomain-Free Fire Detection Using the Spatial-Temporal Attention Transform of the YOLO Backbone
    Sangwon Kim, In-Su Jang, Byoung Chul Ko
    Springer Pattern Analysis and Applications
    [paper]
  • JBTD-RF: 3D Scene Reconstruction Using Block-Term Tensor Decomposition
    Seon Bin Kim, Sangwon Kim, Dasom Ahn, Byoung Chul Ko
    Springer Applied Intelligence
    [paper]
2023
  • CCross-Modal Learning with 3D Deformable Attention for Action Recognition
    Sangwon Kim, Dasom Ahn, Byoung Chul Ko
    ICCV 2023
    [paper]
  • CSTAR-Transformer: A Spatio-temporal Cross Attention Transformer for Human Action Recognition
    Dasom Ahn, Sangwon Kim, Hyunsu Hong, Byoung Chul Ko
    WACV 2023
    [paper]
  • JNeural Tree Decoder for Interpretation of Vision Transformers
    Sangwon Kim, Byoung Chul Ko
    IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
    [paper]
  • JSTAR++: Rethinking Spatio-Temporal Cross Attention Transformer for Video Action Recognition
    Dasom Ahn, Sangwon Kim, Byoung Chul Ko
    Springer Applied Intelligence
    [paper]
2022
  • CViT-NeT: Interpretable Vision Transformers with Neural Tree Decoder
    Sangwon Kim, Jaeyeal Nam, Byoung Chul Ko
    ICML 2022
    [paper]
  • CShift-ViT : Siamese Vision Transformer using Shifted Branches
    Dasom Ahn, Hyeongjin Kim, Sangwon Kim, Byoung Chul Ko
    ITC-CSCC 2022
    [paper]
  • JSSL-MOT: Self-Supervised Learning Based Multi-Object Tracking
    Sangwon Kim, Jimi Lee, Byoung Chul Ko
    Springer Applied Intelligence
    [paper]
  • JImage Registration Between Real Image and Virtual Image Based on Self-supervised Keypoint Learning
    Sangwon Kim, In-Su Jang, Byoung Chul Ko
    Springer LNCS
    [paper]
  • JFacial Expression Recognition Based on Squeeze Vision Transformer
    Sangwon Kim, Jaeyeal Nam, Byoung Chul Ko
    MDPI Sensors
    [paper]
2021
  • CImage Registration Between Real Image and Virtual Image Based on Self-Supervised Keypoint Learning
    Sangwon Kim, In-Su Jang, Byoung Chul Ko
    ACPR 2021
    [paper]
  • JSelf-Supervised Keypoint Detection Based on Multi-layer Random Forest Regressor
    Sangwon Kim, Mira Jeong, Byoung Chul Ko
    IEEE Access
    [paper]
  • JLightweight Surrogate Random Forest Supporting for Model Simplification and Feature Relevance
    Sangwon Kim, Mira Jeong, Byoung Chul Ko
    Springer Applied Intelligence
    [paper]
  • JModel Simplification of Deep Random Forest for Real-Time Applications of Various Sensor Data
    Sangwon Kim, Byoung Chul Ko, Jaeyeal Nam
    MDPI Sensors
    [paper]
2020
  • CIs the Surrogate Model Interpretable?
    Sangwon Kim, Mira Jeong, Byoung Chul Ko
    Interpretable Inductive Biases Workshop, NeurIPS 2020
    [paper]
  • CFast Multiple Object Tracking Using Siamese Random Forest Without Online Tracker Updating
    Jimi Lee, Sangwon Kim, Byoung Chul Ko
    Benchmarking Multi-Target Tracking Workshop (MOT Challenge), CVPR 2020
    [paper]
  • JBuilding Deep Random Ferns Without Backpropagation
    Sangwon Kim, Byoung Chul Ko
    IEEE Access
    [paper]
  • JEnergy Efficient Pupil Tracking Based on Rule Distillation of Cascade Regression Forest
    Sangwon Kim, Mira Jeong, Byoung Chul Ko
    MDPI Sensors
    [paper]
  • JOnline Multiple Object Tracking Using Rule Distillated Siamese Random Forest
    Jimi Lee, Sangwon Kim, Byoung Chul Ko
    IEEE Access
    [paper]
2019
  • CDeep Coupling of Random Ferns
    Sangwon Kim, Mira Jeong, Deokwoo Lee, Byoung Chul Ko
    eXplainable AI Workshop, CVPR 2019
    [paper]
  • CDepth-map Estimation Using Combination of Global Deep Network and Local Deep Random Forest
    SangJun Kim, Sangwon Kim, Deokwoo Lee, Byoung Chul Ko
    Electronic Imaging 2019
    [paper]
  • JFast Depth Estimation in a Single Image Using Lightweight Efficient Neural Network
    Sangwon Kim, Jaeyeal Nam, Byoung Chul Ko
    MDPI Sensors
    [paper]

Experiences

2024-now
Postdoctoral Associate, ETRI - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (South Korea)

2024-2024
Postdoctoral Fellow, Keimyung University (South Korea)

2017-2018
Research and development intern, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego (CA, USA)

Winter 2017
Student intern, EPITECH - European Institute of Technology (Paris, France)

Summer 2016
Student intern, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego (CA, USA)

Education

2020-2024
Ph.D., Keimyung University (Daegu, South Korea)
Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (Advisor: Byoung Chul Ko)
- Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

2018-2020
M.S., Keimyung University (Daegu, South Korea)
Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence (Advisor: Byoung Chul Ko)

2012-2018
B.S., Keimyung University (Daegu, South Korea)
Computer Engineering
- Summa Cum Laude

Academic Service

Reviewing
Journal
TNNLS, TCSVT, TMM, CVIU, TKDD, Nature Scientific Reports
Conference
CVPR, ICLR, WACV

Invited Talk
2022
Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Explainable AI: about vision and intrinsic interpretation

Honors and Awards

2024
Best Paper Award, IEIE
Best Paper Award, PlatCon 2024
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Keimyung University

2023
Best Paper Award, IEIE

2022
Best Paper Award, IEIE

2021
Research Fund, NRF, Academic Research Support Project in Science and Engineering (40M won, 2 years)
Scholarship, SAMIL Foundation (Full tuition, 3 semesters)

2020
7th Place, MOT Challenge, CVPR 2020
Best Paper Award, IEIE
Best Paper Award, KIISE


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