Professor · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, KOREATECH
MIC Lab (Multimodal Intelligence & Computing Laboratory)
Contact
- Email: sungjei.kim@koreatech.ac.kr
- Office: 2nd Engineering Building / Room 426
- Address: 1600 Chungjeol-ro, Byeongcheon-myeon, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea
Research Highlights
- Efficient vision models for edge devices
- Multi-modal processing and representation learning
- Motion analysis and personalized training AI
- Physically grounded AI systems for real-world perception and interaction
Publications (Selected)
- (2025) YOLOV6+: simple and optimized object detection model for INT8 quantized inference on mobile devices, Journal (SIVP). PDF
- (2024) IAM-VFI : Interpolate Any Motion for Video Frame Interpolation with motion complexity map, Conference (ECCV). PDF · Code
- (2023) Feature-Domain Adaptive Contrastive Distillation for Efficient Single Image Super Resolution, Journal (IEEE Access). PDF
Patents (Selected)
- (10-2650510) Method and Apparatus for Video Noise Reduction
- (10-2610353) Method and Apparatus for Object Detection from Depth Images
- (10-1678654) HEVC Standard Patent Included in the MPEG LA Licensing Pool
Education
- Ph.D., Yonsei University, Seoul, 2011
- M.S., Yonsei University, Seoul, 2006
- B.S., Yonsei University, Seoul, 2004
Experience
- (2024–Now) Assistant Professor, KOREATECH
- Design of Multimodal On-device AIs for Media and Robots
- National R&D Project Planning and Principal Investigator (PI)
- (2015–2024) Principle Engineer, Korea Electronics Technology Institute
- Efficient and Lightweight Design of Computer Vision and AI algorithms
- National R&D Project Planning and Principal Investigator (PI)
- (2011–2015) Senior Engineer, Samsung Electronics
- Design of multimedia (Video compression) IPs for Exynos AP series
Awards & Honors
- (2026) Best Teaching Award 2025 (2025 KOREATECH 최우수 교육상)
- (2024) 4st Place, Real-time on-device AI optimization, 2024 (KETI Best Technology Award)
- (2022) 1st Place, Mobile AI & AIM 2022 Challenge on Quantized Image Super-Resolution, 2022 (ECCV Workshop Award)
- (2020) 2nd Place, AI Optimization & Model Lightweighting Track, 2020 Artificial Intelligence Grand Challenge (IITP Director’s Award)
- (2019) 1st Place, Digital R&D Planning Hackathon (Minister of Science and ICT Award)
Professional Activities
- (2016-Now) IITP R&D Planning Committee Member
- (2022-Now) KOCCA R&D Planning Committee Member
- (2025-Now) KEIT R&D Planning Committee Member
Links
- Google Scholar: (link)
- GitHub: (link)
- CV (PDF): (link)