Research Interests
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval [cv]
Sung Ju Hwang
Ph.D. Candidate. Graduating in August 2013
Advisor: Professor Kristen Grauman
Education
The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science (May 2010 ~)
Thesis proposal: 'Discriminative Object Categorization with External Semantic Knowledge'The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
M.A., Computer Science (May 2010)
Thesis: 'Reading Between The Lines: Object Localization Using Implicit Cues from Image Tags.'
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering (Feb 2008)
Work
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
Research Intern, Interactive Media Group (June 2011 ~ Sep 2011)
Mentors: Sing Bing Kang, Ashish Kapoor
SK Communications (Formerly EMPAS), Seoul, Korea
Lead Staff, Search Department (May 2005 ~ Jan 2007)
Publications
Journal Publications
Learning the Relative Importance of Objects from Tagged Images for Retrieval and Cross-Modal Search. [link]
Sung Ju Hwang and Kristen Grauman, International Journal of Computer Vision, 2011
Reading Between the Lines: Object Localization Using Implicit Cues from Image Tags. [link]
Sung Ju Hwang and Kristen Grauman, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2011
Conference Publications
Analogy-preserving Semantic Embedding for Visual Object Categorization
Sung Ju Hwang, Kristen Grauman and Fei Sha, TO APPEAR, ICML 2013
[project page]
Semantic Kernel Forests from Multiple Taxonomies
Sung Ju Hwang, Kristen Grauman and Fei Sha, NIPS 2012
[poster] [project page] [code] (will be released soon)
Context-Based Automatic Local Image Enhancement
Sung Ju Hwang, Ashish Kapoor, Sing Bing Kang, ECCV 2012
[poster] [project page]
Learning a Tree of Metrics with Disjoint Visual Features
Sung Ju Hwang, Kristen Grauman, and Fei Sha, NIPS 2011
[poster] [project page] [code] (will be released soon)
Sharing Features Between Objects and Their Attributes
Sung Ju Hwang, Fei Sha and Kristen Grauman, CVPR 2011
[poster]
[project page]
Accounting for the Relative Importance of Objects in Image Retrieval
Sung Ju Hwang and Kristen Grauman, BMVC 2010 (oral presentation)
[project page] [slides(pptx)] [slides(pdf)]
Reading Between The Lines: Object Localization Using Implicit Cues from Image Tags
Sung Ju Hwang and Kristen Grauman, CVPR 2010 (oral presentation)
[project page] [video]Workshop Abstracts/Posters
Sharing Features Between Visual Tasks at Different Levels of Granularity
Sung Ju Hwang, Fei Sha and Kristen Grauman, Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Workshop (FGVC) at CVPR 2011
[poster]
Semantic Kernel Forests from Multiple Taxonomies
Sung Ju Hwang, Fei Sha and Kristen Grauman,
Big Data Meets Computer Vision: First International Workshop on Large Scale Visual Recognition and Retrieval (BigVision) at NIPS 2012
(oral presentation)
[slides]Professional Service
Reviewer: IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, ECCV 2012, NIPS 2012, ACCV 2012, CVPR 2013
Contact
Office: GDC 4.728I
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C0803
Austin, TX 78712
Email: sjhwang at cs.utexas.edu
Upcoming Conferences
| Conference | Paper Deadline | Conference Dates | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVPR 2013 | November 15th, 2012 | 06/25 ~ 06/27 | Portland, OR, USA |
| ICML 2013 | December 15th, 2012 (2nd), February 15th, 2013 (3rd) | TBA | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| ICCV 2013 | April 12th, 2013 | 12/08 ~ 12/15 | Sydney, Australia |
Links
Useful Links
Roger's Online Equation EditorCondor Node Status
UT Vision Group
Kristen GraumanYong Jae Lee
Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan
Jaechul Kim
Adriana Kovashka
Chao-Yeh Chen
Sunil Bandla