Yu-Wing TAI

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

KAIST, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, South Korea

Email: yuwing@gmail.com / yuwing@cs.kaist.ac.kr
Office: Rm 2425, E3-1 CS Building
Phone: (+82)-42-350-3545
Fax: (+82)-42-350-3510

Secretary: Sojin Lee (sojin@kaist.ac.kr)

Yu-Wing TAI joined the Department of Computer Science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in July 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2009. From Sept 2007 to June 2008, he worked as a full-time student internship in the Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). He was awarded the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship in 2007. He received a M.Phil and B.Eng (First Class Honors) degree in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2005 and 2003 respectively.

His research interests include computer vision, and image/video processing.

Looking for graduate students, RAs, and postdocs to work on computer vision and image processing. Interested candiate can directly send resume to me. Please indicidate your experiences in computer vision and image processing.

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Google Scholar Profile

CfP:

Special Issue on “Visual Understanding and Applications with RGB-D Cameras” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI)

ACCV 2012: Special Session for Xbox Kinect application

Course Teaching

Spring 2012: CS 101: Introduction to Programming
Spring 2012: CS 576: Computer Vision
Fall 2011: CS 484: Introduction to Image Processing
Spring 2011: CS 101: Introduction to Programming
Spring 2011: CS 576: Computer Vision
Spring 2010: CS 492B: Introduction to Image Processing
Spring 2010: CS 770: Advanced Image Processing and Computational Photography
Fall 2009: CS 770B: Topics in Computer Vision, (Image Processing and Computational Photography)

Current Students:

Inchang Choi (Ph.D.)
Minhaeng Lee (MS)
Hyunji Lee (MS)

Naejin Kong (Ph.D., Feb 2012, co-supervised with Prof. Sung Yong Shin)
Inchang Choi (MS, Feb 2012)
Sunyeong Kim (MS, Feb 2012)

Awards/Scholarships:

KAIST 40th Anniversary Academic Award for Excellent Professor, 2011
Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2009
PREMIA (Singapore) Best Student Paper (Second Prize) Award, 2008
Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, 2007
NUS Graduate Student Fellowship
NTU Graduate Student Fellowship

Academic Professional Activity:

Area Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011
Area Chair, Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) 2010, 2011
Session Chair, Pacific Graphics (PG) 2009
Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2007, 2009
Program Committee, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010, 2012
Program Committee, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2010
Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2011, 2012
Tertiary Reviewer, CVPR '05,'06, ICCV 05, ICIP 08, Siggraph 12, Siggraph Asia 09, 10, 11, Eurographics (EG) 11, Pacific Graphics (PG) 11

Journal Reviewers (Selected):
IEEE Trans. On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI);
International Journal on Computer Vision (IJCV);
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (TIP);
IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG);
IEEE Member
ACM Member

Journal Papers:

Yong Sang Chia, Shaojie Zhuo, Raj Kumar Gupta, Yu-Wing Tai, Siu-Yeung Cho, Ping Tan, Stephen Lin, Semantic Colorization with Internet Images, , ACM Transactions on Grapihcs (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 30(6), 2011.  [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Naejin Kong, Yu-Wing Tai, Sung Yong Shin: High-quality Reflection Separation using Polarized Images. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 20(12), 3393-3405, 2011. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Hai Ting Lin, Yu-Wing Tai, Michael S. Brown: Motion regularization for matting motion blurred objects. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 33(11): 2329-2336, 2011. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Yu-Wing Tai, Ping Tan, Michael S. Brown: Richardson-Lucy Deblurring for Scenes under Projective Motion Path. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 33(8): 1603-1618, 2011. [pdf ][bibtex][project page][codes]

Yu-Wing Tai, Hao Du, Michael S. Brown, Stephen Lin: Correction of Spatially Varying Image and Video Motion Blur using a Hybrid Camera. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 32(6): 1012-1028, 2010.[pdf][bibtex][project page][slides]

Yu-Wing Tai, Huixuan Tang, Michael S. Brown, Stephen Lin: Detail Recovery for Single-image Defocus Blur. IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications, vol. 1, pages 1-10, March 2009.(Invited Submission) [pdf][bibtex]

Yu-Wing Tai, Michael S. Brown, Chi-Keung Tang, Heung-Yeung Shum: Texture Amendment: Reducing Texture Distortion in Constrained Parameterizations. ACM Transactions on Grapihcs (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), 27(5): 136, 2008. [pdf][bibtex][project page][slides]

Yu-Wing Tai, Jiaya Jia, Chi-Keung Tang: Soft Color Segmentation and its Applications. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 29, no. 9, 2007, pages 1520-1537. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Jiaya Jia, Yu-Wing Tai, Tai-Pang Wu, Chi-Keung Tang: Video Repairing under Variable Illumination Using Cyclic Motions. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 28, no. 5, 2006. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Conference Papers:

Jaesik Park, Hyeongwoo Kim, Yu-Wing Tai, Michael S. Brown, Inso Kweon : High Quality Depth Map Upsampling for 3D-TOF Cameras. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision(ICCV) 2011. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Sungheum Kim, Yu-Wing Tai, Yunsu Bok, Hyeongwoo Kim, Inso Kweon : Two-phase approach for multi-view object extraction. IEEE Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2011. [pdf][bibtex]

Rei Kawakami, John Wright, Yu-Wing Tai, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Moshe Ben-Ezra, Katsushi Ikeuchi : High-resolution Hyperspectral Imaging via Matrix Factorization. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011. [pdf][bibtex][slides] [video][project page]

Shuaicheng Liu, Michael S. Brown, Seon Joo Kim, Yu-Wing Tai: Colorization for Image Super Resolution. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Yu-Wing Tai, Shuaicheng Liu, Michael S. Brown, Stephen Lin: Super Resolution using Edge Prior and Single Image Detail Synthesis. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Zheng Lu, Yu-Wing Tai, Moshe Ben-Ezra, Michael S. Brown: A Framework for Ultra High Resolution 3D Imaging. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Yu-Wing Tai, Naejin Kong, Stephen Lin, Sung Yong Shin: Coded Exposure Imaging for Projective Motion Deblurring. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Pierre-Yves Laffont, Jong Y. Jun, Christian Wolf, Yu-Wing Tai, Khalid Idrissi, George Drettakis, and Sung-Eui Yoon, Interactive Content Aware Zooming, Graphics Interface (GI), 2010. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Yu-Wing Tai, Michael S. Brown: Single Image Defocus Map Estimation Using Local Contrast Prior. IEEE Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2009. [pdf][bibtex]

Yu-Wing Tai, Hao Du, Michael S. Brown, Stephen Lin: Image/Video Deblurring using a Hybrid Camera. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2008. [pdf][bibtex][project page][slides] (PREMIA(Singapore) Best Student Paper (Second Prize) Award)

Yu-Wing Tai, Michael S. Brown, Chi-Keung Tang: Robust Estimation of Texture Flow Distortion via Dense Feature Sampling. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2007. [pdf][bibtex]

Yu-Wing Tai, Wai-Shun Tong, Chi-Keung Tang: Perceptually-Inspired and Edge-Directed Color Image Super-Resolution. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2006: 1948-1955. [pdf][bibtex]

Yu-Wing Tai, Wai-Shun Tong, Chi-Keung Tang: Simultaneous Image Denoising and Compression by Multiscale 2D Tensor Voting. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2006: 818 -821. [pdf][bibtex]

Yu-Wing Tai, Jiaya Jia, Chi-Keung Tang: Local Color Transfer via Probabilistic Segmentation by Expectation-Maximization IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2005: 747-754. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Jiaya Jia, Tai-Pang Wu, Yu-Wing Tai, Chi-Keung Tang: Video Repairing: Inference of Foreground and Background under Severe Occlusion. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2004: 364-371. [pdf][bibtex][project page]

Other Publications:

Hai Ting Lin, Yu-Wing Tai, Michael S. Brown: Motion regularization for matting motion blurred objects. SIGGRAPH Talks 2010. [pdf]

Sunghyun Cho, Hojin Cho, Yu-Wing Tai, Seungyong Lee: Non-uniform Motion Deblurring for Camera Shakes using Image Registration. SIGGRAPH Talks 2011. [pdf]