1. RESEARCH INTERESTS

 : Computer Vision and Graphics, areas of interests include Real-time rendering, Face recognition, Object detection, Multi-view     geometry,  and Multimedia systems.

 2. EDUCATION

 Aug. 2005 – Present

 GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

 Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

 Atlanta

 GA USA

• Graduate Research Assistantship,Computational Perception Laboratory, GVU, College of Computing 

• Adviser : Dr. Irfan Essa

• Current GPA 3.93 out of 4.00(major)/ 3.88 out of 4.00(overall)

 Mar. 1994 – Feb. 2001

 YONSEI UNIVERSITY

 B.S. in Electrical Engineering

 Seoul,

 Korea

• Graduated with GPA of 3.71 out of 4.00 (upper)/ 3.45 out of 4.00 (overall)

• Dean's List, High Honored Student Award (top 3%) and Honored Student (top 10%)

 3. PROJECTS and WORK EXPERIENCES

Aug. 2005 –Present

 Computational Perception Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing

 Graduate Research Assistant

Atlanta,

GA USA

• Motion Analysis using Gaussian Process Regression - Dr. Irfan Essa  

  Recognition of motion patterns using Gaussian Process Regression Flow

• Motion Field Analysis in Dynamic Sports Videos  - Dr. Irfan Essa  , Dr. Ariel Shamir, Dr. Iain Matthews, Dr. Jessica Hodgins

  Player Tracking, and analysis of group behaviros from motion field on the ground

• Augmenting Earth-map Project  - Dr. Irfan Essa  , Dr. Sangmin Oh

  Augmenting Aerial Earthmaps with Dynamic information using crowd-casted videos

• GPS Ray Project  - Dr. Irfan Essa, Dr. Thad Starner, Dr. Jay Summet

  Localization and reconstruction of 3D buildings in urban scens using GPS signals

• Video based Non-photorealistic Rendering Project  - Dr. Irfan Essa

  Watercolor and painterly NPR algorithms using Radial Basis Function Samsung STAR Project 2007-2008

• Real-time Shadow Generation for Transparent Color Casters   - Dr. Byungmoon Kim, Dr. Greg Truk

  Algorithm for generation of transparent-color shadows by real-time rendering (DirectX9.0c/ Shader3.0)

• Face Recognition using LDA with Generalized SVD - Dr. Haesun Park, Dr. James M. Rehg

  Enhancing Linear Discriminant Analysis by using Generalized Singular Value Decomposition.

• Media Remixing with Family Video Archive Project - Dr. Irfan Essa, Dr. Gregory D. Abowd

  Make video/scene navigatable multi-scale mosaic using Color, Face and Annotated information   from   Family Video Archive framework. 

Jan. 2009 – Aug 2009

 Disney Research at Pittsburgh (DRP)

 Visiting Associate Researcher

PIT,

PA USA

• Microcasting  - Dr. Irfan Essa  , Dr. Iain Matthews, Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Jessica Hodgins

  Precintion of game play for automated broadcasting

Mar. 2001 – May. 2005

SAMSUNG Information Technology R&D Center at SDS

Advisory Engineer

Seoul,

Korea

Face recognition System ViaFace 1.0 Project

• 1 Billion Won worth of project, currently in application at an international airport in Mexico and scheduled to   supply to diverse new apartments and governmental institutions

• Responsible for conducting research on biometrics market and worldwide progress and trend

• Commended at the Las Vegas Comdex Fall2001, and conferred with the Samsung’s Best   E-Solution 2001.

Face detection algorithm

• Solely responsible for eye detection module which fed into ViaFace 1.0 Project

• In charge of face candidate qualification module by developing algorithm for detecting face   among many   images. Leveraged Geometric qualification, Face/non-face classification  (PCA,SVM,MHD etc.)

• Developed Samsung RND-Face set  for Face Detection Test (face photo DB build-up). 

Real-time Collaboration System  Syncbiz  Project  

• Conferred with Syncbiz 1.0 Samsung Best E-Solution Award

• Presently in use in many companies in Japan, and many of Samsung affiliates companies.

• Responsible for overall UI planning and development for entire Syncbiz

• Developed image sharing module for CAD related programs.

• Co-developed Syncbiz middleware for over 1,000 concurrent user scenario, and responsible for   the load    balancing of distributed servers

Ubiquitous Home network framework NEX Project  

• Co-developed home network framework for the nearing ubiquitous world with Samsung   affiliates. This   framework fed into U-City Project of Samsung SDS.

• Developed system prototype for NEX exclusive RM (Remote Management) by building management system   that enables user to control server at home and all types of devices from   the outside

• Planned roadmap and proposal for the NEX project  

IP STB Framework LivingWise CS(Contents Sharing)

• Fully embedded framework and applications for KT HOME’N IP Set-top box

• Solely Responsible for overall UI planning of  each modules and developed RSS-News,   RSS-Weather, MP3 Player modules and Prototype of Customized version of CEMediaplayer.   Every applications developed under WinCE with embedded Visual Studio

Samsung Electronics Digital Solution Center

Seoul,

Korea

• Planned and conducted market research for RFID in smart shirts

• Reviewed proposal for RFID with ELIMS (Electrical library manager).  Presently, built in a major Korean city

• Planned and developed proposal for RFID and U-Health market analysis

• Developed U-Health fitting center managing system beta site.  

• Developed U-Health Virtual Treadmill system prototype version

10^th Airbase Avionic Squadron in Republic of Korean Air Force

Engineer/Sergeant

Suwon, Korea

• Responsible for the repair and maintenance of F-4E, RF-4C aircrafts including Central Air Data   Computer for overall monitoring, all types of Gyro-scope  (device that senses aircraft’s position), all   types of aircraft instruments etc.

• In charge of risk management by inspecting excess pressure on aircraft and reporting the findings   to the US Military service.

• Controlled F-4E and RF-4C materials inventory

 4. PUBLICATIONS

• 3-Dimensional Visualization of the Operating Room Using Advanced Motion Capture: A Novel Paradigm to    Expand Simulation-Based Surgical Education [PDF]

  Eric L. Sarin, Kihwan Kim, Irfan Essa, and William A.Cooper in STS 2011, and ISMICS 2011

• Motion Fields to Predict Play Evolution in Dynamic Sports Scenes [PDF]

  Kihwan Kim, Matthias Grundmann, Ariel Shamir, Iain Matthews, Jessica Hodgins and Irfan Essa in IEEE CVPR 2010

• Player Localization Using Multiple Static Cameras for Sports Visualization  [PDF]

  Raffay Hamid, Ramkrishan Kumar, Matthias Grundmann, Kihwan Kim, Irfan Essa and Jessica Hodgins in IEEE CVPR 2010

• Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information from Videos  Kihwan Kim, Sangmin Oh, Jeonggyu Lee and Irfan Essa in Journal of Virtual Reality, Springer 2011  [PDF] 

• Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information  Kihwan Kim, Sangmin Oh, Jeonggyu Lee   and Irfan Essa in IEEE/ACM ISMAR 2009 To appear.  [PDF] , Presentation [PPT]

• Collaborative Crowdcasting using Mobile devices  Kihwan Kim Matthias Grundmann and Irfan Essa 2009 4G Symposium, Las vegas 2009 (Poster [PDF] )

• Localization and 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes Using GPS, K. Kim, J.Summet, T.Starner, D.Ashbrook,  M.Kapade and I.Essa, In Proceedings of 2008 IEEE International Conference on Wearable  Computers(ISWC2008)[PDF], Presentation: [PPT]

• A Shadow Volume Algorithm for Opaque and Transparent Non-Manifold Casters, B. Kim, K. Kim and G. Turk,  in Journal of Graphics Tools 2008 (JGT) [PDF]

• Interactive Mosaic Generation for Video Navigation, Kihwan Kim, Irfan Essa and Gregory D. Abowd in   Proceedings of 2006 ACM International Conference on   Multimedia (ACMMM2006) [PDF]

• Localization and 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes Using GPS, K. Kim, J.Summet, T.Starner, D.Ashbrook,   M.Kapade and I.Essa, 2008 Georgia Institute of Technology Technical Report GT-IC-08-06 [PDF]

• Real-time Shadow of Transparent Casters Using Shadow Volume, B. Kim, K. Kim, G. Turk : 2007 Georgia   Institute of Technology Technical Report GT-IC-07-04 [PDF]

• Multi-scale Photomosaic  Kihwan Kim and Irfan Essa, 2005 GT-CMU Retreat for Graphics [PDF]

• Simple Enhanced Block-Matching Algorihtm for Intermediate View Reconstruction

  Kihwan Kim 2001 B.S   Thesis Yonsei University.

 5. SKILLS & NOTABLES

• Fluent in English and Japanese

• Mastery of C/C++ and MFC/.NET programming languages, TCP/IP networking, COM, ATL, ActiveX ,   Embedded programmings(eVC), Matlab, OpenCV,OpenGL,DirectX, Java, 3D studio,   Adobe photoshop,   priemiere, electronic circuit related tools and language like Max2plus,Pspice,VHDL etc.

• Highly knowledgeable of projectors, DVD Players,HD standardizations and other display related devices

• Hobbies:  short, independent movie production (award third price in Yonsei Independent Film   Festival - 'Bubble Soap'), drum, bass guitar, leader of a musical band,