Jun-Sik Kim

Picture of Jun-Sik Kim Name in Passport: JUNSIK KIM

Citizenship: Korea, Republic of.

Address:

Carnegie Mellon University

Robotics Institute

5000 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Telephone: 1-412-715-5275

E-mail: kimjs@cs.cmu.edu, junsik.kim@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research Interests

Camera Calibration and Plane Based Methods

Mobile Robot Localization

Motion Estimation of an Aerial Vehicle

3D Reconstruction from Multi-View Images

Photogrammetry and Satellite Imaging

Educations

Ph.D. in Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 2006.

Title: Metric reconstruction from images using rank-deficient relations

Advisor: Prof. In So Kweon

M.S. in Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 2001.

Title: Camera Calibration using Projective Invariance of Concentric Circles

Advisor: Prof. In So Kweon

B.S. in Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1999.

Work Experiences

2009.1 ~ Present : Project Scientist in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2007.1 ~ 2008.12: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2006.3 ~ 2006.12: Post-Doctor in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea

Selected Publications

Journal

1. Youngbae Hwang, Jun-Sik Kim and In So Kweon, “Difference-based image noise modeling using Skellam distribution,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 34, Issue 7, pp. 1329-1341, 2012

2. Myung Hwangbo, Jun-Sik Kim and Takeo Kanade, “Gyro-aided feature tracking for a moving camera: fusion, auto-calibration and GPU implementation,” The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 30, Issue 14, pp. 1755-1774, 2011

3. Jun-Sik Kim and Takeo Kanade, “Multiaperture telecentric lens for 3D reconstruction,” Optics Letters, Vol. 36, Issue 7, pp. 1050-1052, April 2011.

4. Jun-Sik Kim and In-So Kweon, “Metric reconstruction of planes utilizing off-the-plane features,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 115, Issue 1, pp. 1-7, January 2011.

5. Jun-Sik Kim, Myung Hwangbo, and Takeo Kanade, “Spherical Approximation for Multiple Cameras in Motion Estimation: its Applicability and Advantages,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 114, Issue 10, pp. 1068-1083, October 2010.

6. Jun-Sik Kim, Pierre Gurdjos, and In So Kweon, “Euclidean Structure from Confocal Conics: Theory and Application to Camera Calibration,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 114, Issue 7, pp. 803-812, July 2010.

7. Jun-Sik Kim and Takeo Kanade, “Degeneracy of the Linear Seventeen-Point Algorithm for Generalized Essential Matrix,” Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision: Volume 37, Issue 1, pp. 40-48, May 2010.

8. Jun-Sik Kim and In-So Kweon, “Camera calibration based on arbitrary parallelograms,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 113, Issue 1, pp. 1-10, January 2009

9. Youngbae Hwang, Jun-Sik Kim and In-So Kweon, “Change Detection Using a Statistical Model in an Optimally Selected Color Space,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 112, Issue 3, pp. 231-242, December 2008

10. Jun-Sik Kim, Pierre Gurdjos, and In So Kweon, “Geometric and algebraic constraints of projective concentric circles and their applications to camera calibration,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, No. 4, pp 637-642, April 2005

11. Sungho Kim, Jun-Sik Kim, and In So Kweon, “Utilization of Visual Context for Robust Object Recognition in Intelligent Mobile Robots,” Journal of Korea Robotics Society, 2006 (in Korean)

12. Yong-Jo Im, Tae-Jung Kim, and Jun-Sik Kim, “DEM Extraction from KOMPSAT-1 EOC Stereo Images and Accuracy Assessment,” Korean Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol.18, No.2, pp.81-90, 2002 (in Korean)

Conference Presentation

1. Yekeun Jeong, Yunsu Bok, Jun-Sik Kim, and InSo Kweon, “Complementation of Cameras and Lasers for Accurate 6D SLAM: From Correspondences To Bundle Adjustment,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 2011.

2. Myung Hwangbo, Jun-Sik Kim, and Takeo Kanade, “Inertial-Aided KLT Feature Tracking for a Moving Camera,” The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, pp. 1909-1916, October 2009.

3. Jun-Sik Kim, Myung Hwangbo, and Takeo Kanade, “Realtime Affine-photometric KLT Feature Tracker on GPU in CUDA Framework,” The Fifth IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision in conjunction with ICCV 2009, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 886-893, October 2009.

4. Jun-Sik Kim, Myung Hwangbo, and Takeo Kanade, “Parallel algorithms to a parallel hardware: Designing vision algorithms for a GPU,” The Fifth IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision in conjunction with ICCV 2009, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 862-869, October 2009.

5. Ankur Datta, Jun-Sik Kim, and Takeo Kanade, “Accurate Camera Calibration using Iterative Refinement of Control Points," the Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance in conjunction with ICCV 2009, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 1201-1028, October 2009.

6. Jun-Sik Kim, Myung Hwangbo, and Takeo Kanade, “Motion Estimation using Multiple Non-Overlapping Cameras for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, CA, USA, pp 3076-3081, May 2008.

7. Youngbae Hwang, Hanbyul Joo, Jun-Sik Kim and In-So Kweon, “Statistical Background Subtraction Based on the Exact Per-pixel Distributions", in IAPR workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), pp. 540-543, 2007

8. Youngbae Hwang, Jun-Sik Kim, and In-So Kweon, “Sensor noise modeling using the Skellam distribution: Application to the color edge detection,” In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, MN, USA, pp. 1-8, June 2007.

9. Jun-Sik Kim, and In So Kweon, "Infinite Homography Estimation Using Two Arbitrary Planar Rectangles,” in the Proceedings of the 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV), Hyderabad, India, vol.II, pp.1-10, January 13-16, 2006

10. Jun-Sik Kim, and In So Kweon, "Semi-metric Space: A New Approach to Treat Orthogonality and Parallelism,” in the Proceedings of the 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision(ACCV), Hyderabad, India, vol.I, pp.529-538, January 13-16, 2006

11. Youngbae Hwang, Jun-Sik Kim, and InSo Kweon, “Determination of Color Space for Accurate Change Detection," in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, pp 3021-3024, Oct 8-11, 2006

12. Jungho Kim, Jun-Sik Kim, Kuk-Jin Yoon, and In So Kweon, “Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using Single Camera Catadioptric Stereo System,” in SICE - ICASE International Joint Conference, Oct. 2006.

13. Jun-Sik Kim, and In So Kweon, “Estimating Intrinsic parameters of Cameras using Two Arbitrary Rectangles,” International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Aug. 2006, Vol.I pp.707-710.

14. Pierre Gurdjos, Jun-Sik Kim, and In So Kweon, “Euclidean Structure from Confocal Conics: Theory and Application to Camera Calibration,” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, USA, Vol. 1, pp.1214 - 1221, June 17-22. 2006

15. Gijeong Jang, Jun-Sik Kim, Sungho Kim, and Inso Kweon, “PR-SLAM in Particle Filter Framework,” in Proceeding of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), Jun. 2005, pp.327 - 333.

16. Youngbae Hwang, Jun-Sik Kim, InSo Kweon, “Silhouette Extraction for Visual Hull Reconstruction,” in Proceedings of the IAPR workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA) 2005

17. Young-Bae Hwang, Jun-Sik Kim, In So Kweon, “Change Detection Using a Statistical Model of the Noise in Color Images,” In the Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sendai, Japan, September 28-October 2, 2004, Vol 3. pp. 2713- 2718.

18. Jun-Sik Kim, Ho-Won Kim and In So Kweon, “A camera calibration method using concentric circles for vision applications,” The 5th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Melbourne, Australia, January 23-25, 2002. pp. 515-520

19. Jun-Sik Kim and In So Kweon, “A new camera calibration method for robotic applications,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Maui, Hawaii, USA, October 29-November 3, 2001. pp. 778-783

Conference Presentation in Korea

1. Hyeongwoo Kim, Jun-Sik Kim and In So Kweon, "Motion Estimation of Non-Overlapping Cameras", in Proceeding of the 19th Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU), pp. 109-113, 2007.

2. Jun-Sik Kim and In So Kweon, “A Unified Framework of Geometric Constraints on Camera Calibration)," in Proceeding of 18th Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, pp. 332-337 (in Korean)

3. Jun-Sik Kim, In-So Kweon and Kuk-Jin Yoon, “The new projective invariances of concentric circles and their applications: Camera calibration", Proceeding of the 15th Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding, Jeju, Korea, January 2003

4. Jun-Sik Kim and In-So Kweon, “Camera calibration using projective invariance of concentric circles", 13th Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU), Jeju, Korea, January 2001 (in Korean)

Books and Magazine articles

1. Jun-Sik Kim and In So Kweon, Metric Invariants for Camera Calibration: Designing algorithms from algebraic rank analysis, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, October, 2011.

2. Jun-Sik Kim, “Research trends of applications for RGB-D cameras,” in Robots and Human, Magazine of Korea Robotic Society, Vol.3, pp. 29-36, July 2011. (In Korean)

Selected Projects

2009~Present Research on Autonomous Manipulation System for Bin-picking (Honda Engineering, Japan)

2007~2009 MAVIS (Micro Aerial Vehicle Vision System) Robust Real-Time 3D Vision for SMAV (DARPA, USA)

2007~2008 Research on Sensor Fusion for Precise and Robust State Estimation for Image Gyro (Air Force Research Lab.,USA)

2003~2006 Robust Robot Vision Research (National Research Laboratory, MOST, KOREA)

2002 Development of Real-time 3D Sensor (MCIE, KOREA)

2001 Development of high-resolution satellite image data receiving and processing system (MOST, KOREA)

2000 Human-friendly Welfare Robot System Engineering Research Center (HWRS-ERC, MOST, KOREA)

1999 Development of Automatic Volume Capture System (Samkyung Hitec, Inc., KOREA)

Awards

Gold Prize, “A Unified Framework of Geometric Constraints on Camera Calibration," in Samsung Humantech thesis award 2005

Honor Prize, “Metric reconstruction of artificial objects using orthogonality and parallelism," in Samsung Humantech thesis award 2004

Honor Prize, Development of KASIRI-III in Korean Intelligent Robot Contest 2002, 2003

Patents

Camera Calibration System Using Planar Concentric Circles and Method Thereof, U.S. Patent Number: 7,155,030

Method and apparatus for omni-directional image and 3-dimensional data acquisition with data annotation and dynamic range extension method, U.S. Patent Number: 7,126,630

Method for Detecting Edge of an Image and Apparatus Thereof and Computer Readable Medium Processing the Method, Korea Patent Number: 0,835,380

Method and Apparatus For Omni-Directional Image And 3-Dimensional Data Acquisition With Data Annotation and Dynamic Range Extension Method, Korea Patent Number: 0,591,144

Camera calibration system and method using planar concentric circles, Korea Patent Number: 0,386,090

Skills

Language: Korean(Native), English

Programming: C, C++, MS Windows based programming including MFC, MATLAB, OpenGL, and PASCAL

Others: VRML, Latex, HTML, MS-Word, Excel, Powerpoint

Activities

Member, IEEE since 2001 (including Student member)

Program Committee, Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2008)

Program Committee, Workshop on Community Based 3D Content and Its Applications In Mobile Internet Environments, 2009

Reviewer, IEEE transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. 2006

Reviewer, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 2008-

Reviewer, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems. (IJCAS) 2008-

Reviewer, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 2008

Reviewer, Information Sciences, 2008

Reviewer, IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2009-

Reviewer, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) 2010

Reviewer, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV) 2011

Reviewer, IEEE Trans. on Mechatronics (TMech) 2010

Reviewer, IEEE Trans. on Robotics (TRO) 2010

Reviewer, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks (TNN) 2010

Reviewer, Machine Vision and Applications (MVA) 2011

Reviewer, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) 2011

Reviewer, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2008, 2011