Woo-Shik Kim

Woo-Shik Kim

http://biron.usc.edu/~Wooshikkim/me.jpg

Ph.D. Student

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

E-mail: wooshik.kim@usc.edu

Advisor: Antonio Ortega

Research Interests

• Multimedia processing
• Image/video compression
• 3-D video processing

Education

• Sep. 2006-present: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering
• Mar. 1999-Feb. 2001: Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
  • Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 2007, Department of Electrical Engineering
• Mar. 1992-Feb. 1999: Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Jun. 2005, Department of Electrical Engineering

Professional Experience

• Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology: Jan. 2001-Jul. 2006
  • Research Staff in Multimedia Lab.
  • Research in video compression

• Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories: May 2007-Aug. 2007
  • Intern
  • Research in scalable video coding

• Dolby Laboratories: May 2008-Aug. 2008
  • Intern
  • Research in high quality video compression

• Technicolor Research Center: May 2009-Aug. 2009
  • Intern
  • Research in 3-D video processing

Honors and Awards

• Winner of the Best Paper Award at the Samsung Technical Conference 2004

Summary of Main Research

• 3-D video processing - Distortion analysis - Depth map compression - 3-D video compression • Distributed video coding • High-quality video coding - RGB video coding using residual color transform (RCT) and inter-plane prediction (IPP) (RCT was adopted in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 High 4:4:4 Profile). - 4:4:4 10-bit video coding techniques, such as intra prediction, motion interpolation/prediction, quantization, entropy coding (CABAC), RD optimized mode selection, etc. • Visually lossless coding - Real-time visually lossless codec for liquid crystal display (LCD) dynamic charge capacitance (DCC) device. - Real-time visually lossless codec for display driver IC (DDI) in mobile phone. • MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 international standardization - Participating in the international standardization of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Fidelity Range Extension (FRExt). - Participating in the international standardization of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Baseline/Main Profile. - Reference S/W implementation for 4:4:4 video coding. • Joint source channel coding - Rectangular slice structure for subjective quality enhancements in error-prone environment, using region of interest scheme (Adopted in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Baseline Profile as slice group map type 2). - RD-optimized mode selection considering error-prone environment. • Codec speed optimization - Speed optimization of MPEG-4 Core Profile decoder for DSP. - Speed optimization of MPEG-4 Simple Profile encoder for ARM9.

Skills / Tools

• Proficient in C/C++, MatLab
• Working knowledge of Windows and UNIX systems

Publications

• G. Shen, W.-S. Kim, A. Ortega, J. Lee, and H. Wey, "Edge-aware intra prediction for depth-map coding". In Review for IEEE Intl. Conf. Image Proc. (ICIP ‘10).

• W.-S. Kim, A. Ortega, P. Lai, D. Tian, and C. Gomila, “Depth map coding with distortion estimation of rendered view,” in Proc. of SPIE Visual Information Processing and Communication (VIPC ‘10) , San Jose, CA, USA, Jan. 2010. PDF format

• W.-S. Kim, A. Ortega, P. Lai, D. Tian, and C. Gomila, “Depth map distortion analysis for view rendering and depth coding,” in Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. Image Proc. (ICIP ‘09) , Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 2009. PDF format

• Thesis 1. Woo-Shik Kim, “Rate-distortion optimized mode selection for error resilience in MPEG-4 video coding,” Masters Thesis, Sogang Univ., 2001.

• International Journal Paper 1. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, D. Birinov, H. M. Kim, S.-H. Lee, and Y.-S. Seo, “RGB video coding using residual color transform,” Samsung Journal of Innovative Technology, vol. 1, no. 1, Aug. 2005. 2. W.-S. Kim and R.-H. Park, “Rate-distortion optimized intra update for error resilience in MPEG-4 video coding,” Intl. J. Image Systems and Tech., vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 341-347, 2003. 3. W.-S. Kim, I.-S. Park, S.-H. Park, B.-U. Lee, and R.-H. Park, “Conformance test of simple profile MPEG-4 texture decoding,” Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 375-380, Jul. 2002.

• International Conference Papers 1. S. Liu, W.-S. Kim, and A. Vetro, “Bit-depth scalable coding for high dynamic range video,” VCIP '08, San Jose, California, USA, Jan. 2008. 2. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, and H. M. Kim, “Residue sampling for image and video compression,” VCIP '05, Beijing, China, Aug. 2005. 3. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, and S. Sun, “New High Fidelity RGB Video Coding,” Workshop on Future Directions in Video Compression, Busan, Korea, Apr. 2005. 4. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, and H. M. Kim, “Inter-plane prediction for RGB coding,” ICIP '04, Singapore, Oct. 2004. 5. H. M. Kim, W.-S. Kim, and D. Cho, “A new color transform for RGB coding,” ICIP '04, Singapore, Oct. 2004. 6. W.-S. Kim, I.-S. Park, S.-H. Park, B.-U. Lee, and R.-H. Park, “Static test of MPEG-4 visual decoders,” IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications 2000, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2000. 7. W.-S. Kim and R.-H. Park, “Fast ICP algorithm using a one-dimensional search,” IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications 2000, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2000. 8. K.-S. Yoon, B.-U. Lee, R.-H. Park, and W.-S. Kim, “Registration of range images considering depth measurement error,” IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications 2000, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2000.

Contributions to International Standardization

1. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, D. Birinov, H. M. Kim, “Advanced residual color transform,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-Q059, Oct. 2005. 2. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, D. Birinov, H. M. Kim, “Verification and analysis of experiments in JVT-P017,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-Q058, Oct. 2005. 3. W.-S. Kim, D. Birinov, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Study on advanced 4:4:4 coding,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-P049, Jul. 2005. 4. W.-S. Kim, D. Birinov, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Further experimental results on 4:4:4 coding,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-P048, Jul. 2005. 5. W.-S. Kim, D. Birinov, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Enhancements to RGB coding in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC FRExt,” ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document VCEG-Z16, Apr. 2005. 6. W.-S. Kim, D. Birinov, H. M. Kim, “Additional experimental results on residue sampling (JVT-K018),” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-L028, Jul. 2004. 7. W.-S. Kim, D. Birinov, H. M. Kim, “Residue color transform,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-L025, Jul. 2004. 8. W.-S. Kim, J.-H. Park, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Alpha channel coding using the JVT coding tools,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-K019, Mar. 2004. 9. W.-S. Kim, D. Birinov, H. M. Kim, “Adaptive residue transform and sampling,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-K018, Mar. 2004. 10. W.-S. Kim, H. M. Kim, “Residue transform,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-J038, Dec. 2003. 11. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Reference software supporting n-bit and 4:4:4 chroma format,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-J025, Dec. 2003. 12. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Proposal for the unsolved issues in Professional Extensions II,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-J018, Dec. 2003. 13. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Inter-plane prediction for RGB coding II,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-J017, Dec. 2003. 14. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Proposal for alpha channel coding,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-J016, Dec. 2003. 15. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Inter-plane prediction for RGB coding,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-I023, Sep. 2003. 16. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Proposal for the unsolved issues in Professional Extensions,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-I012, Jul. 2003. 17. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, H. M. Kim, “Color format extension,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-H018, May 2003. 18. W.-S. Kim, K.-W. Kim, “Parallel processing issue in main profile,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-F059,” Dec. 2002. 19. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, K.-W. Kim, “Intra prediction enhancements,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-E051, Oct. 2002. 20. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, K.-W. Kim, “Complexity reduction of plane mode in chroma intra prediction,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-E050, Oct. 2002. 21. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, S.-H. Lee, “Clarification of FMO mode 3,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-E049, Oct. 2002. 22. W.-S. Kim, Ye-Kui Wang, Miska M. Hannuksela, “Sub-picture coding with the reduced boundary effect,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-C096, May 2002. 23. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, “Selection of quantization parameter for sub-picture coding,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-B087, Jan. 2002. 24. W.-S. Kim, D. Cho, “Results on core experiment of sub-picture coding,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 and ITU-T SG16 Q.6, Document JVT-B086, Jan. 2002.

Related Links

• Distributed Compression for Sensor Networks

• Compression Research Group

• Source Code for Distributed Compression Algorithms