Hello, I'm Minsu Cho, a senior researcher in Automation and Systems Research Institute, Seoul National University.
I recently completed my Ph.D. at Seoul National University under the supervision of Prof. Kyoung Mu Lee.
My research lies in the areas of computer vision and machine learning, especially in the problems of object recognition and graph matching. From June 2012, I will work as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Jean Ponce at the WILLOW team of INRIA/ENS, Paris.

Latest News

  • Mar 2012 - `Progressive Graph Matching'   paper has been accepted for ORAL presentation in CVPR 2012.

  • Mar 2012 - `Mode-Seeking on Graphs via Random Walks'   paper has been accepted in CVPR 2012.

  • Feb 2012 - I successfully completed my Ph.D. at Seoul National University, Korea.

  • Feb 2012 - I won Gold Prize and Bronze Prize from 18th Samsung Human-Tech Thesis Prize (HTP) competition.

Educations

Mar 2005 ~ Feb 2012: Ph.D. (unified M.S. & Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
Mar 1997 ~ Aug 2000 : B.S. in School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Awards and Honors

Feb 2012, Gold Prize & Bronze Prize in 18th Samsung Human-Tech Prize (HTP 2012) on Signal Processing
Jun 2011, CVPR 2011 Symmetry Detection Workshop - one of the top winners on competition
Apr 2011, SNU BK21 Information Technology Excellent Research Award
Feb 2011, Silver Prize in 17th Samsung Human-Tech Prize (HTP 2011) on Computer Science
Jul 2010, Best Presentation Prize in International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS 2010): Co-Recognition for Image and Video Analysis
Feb 2010, Silver Prize in 16th Samsung Human-Tech Prize (HTP 2010) on Computer Science: Hierarchical Clustering by Seeking PageRank Authorities
Feb 2009, Bronze Prize in 15th Samsung Human-Tech Prize (HTP 2009) on Signal Processing: Many-to-Many Object Matching and Segmentation
Feb 2008, Gold Prize in 14th Samsung Human-Tech Prize (HTP 2008) on Signal Processing: Unsupervised Recognition of Common Objects from Image Pairs

Professional Activities

Reviewer of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011, 2012
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2011
Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2011
Reviewer of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) 2011

Industrial Careers

Jan 2000 ~ Dec 2004 : Software engineer for speech recognition system at Netdus Co,Ltd.

Project Experience

Mar 2007 ~ Jul 2007 : Laser Vision System - Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd & Korea Polytechnic University
Mar 2005 ~ Dec 2009 : Information Fusion Method for Visual Reconstruction of Landmarks - ADD
Mar 2005 ~ Dec 2008 : Modeling and Recognition of 3D Objects and Environments - ITRC

Publication (international)

 Progressive Graph Matching: Making a Move of Graphs via Probabilistic Voting [pdf] [project page] ( Oral )
Minsu Cho and Kyoung Mu Lee, to appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012, Providence, RI.

 Mode-Seeking on Graphs via Random Walks [pdf] [project page]
Minsu Cho and Kyoung Mu Lee, to appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012, Providence, RI.

 Object Correspondence Networks for Unsupervised Recognition of Identical Objects
Minsu Cho, Young Min Shin, and Kyoung Mu Lee,
Book Chapter in Emerging Topics in Computer Vision and its Applications, World Scientific Publishing, Sept. 2011

 Hyper-graph Matching via Reweighted Random Walks [pdf] [project page]
Jungmin Lee, Minsu Cho, Kyoung Mu Lee, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011, Colorado Springs, CO.

 Reweighted Random Walks for Graph Matching [pdf] [project page]
Minsu Cho, Jungmin Lee, Kyoung Mu Lee, The 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010, Crete, Greece.

 Authority-Shift Clustering: Hierarchical Clustering by Authority Seeking on Graphs [pdf] [project page]
Minsu Cho, Kyoung Mu Lee, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010 , San Francisco, CA

 Unsupervised Detection and Segmentation of Identical Objects [pdf] [project page] ( Oral )
Minsu Cho, Young Min Shin, Kyoung Mu Lee, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2010 , San Francisco, CA

  A Graph Matching Algorithm using Data-Driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling [pdf] ( Oral )
Jungmin Lee, Minsu Cho, Kyoung Mu Lee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2010 , Istanbul, Turkey

 Co-Recognition of Actions in Video Pairs [pdf]
Young Min Shin, Minsu Cho, Kyoung Mu Lee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2010 , Istanbul, Turkey

 Feature Correspondence & Deformable Object Matching via Agglomerative Correspondence Clustering [pdf] [project page]
Minsu Cho, Jungmin Lee, Kyoung Mu Lee, The 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2009, Kyoto, Japan.

 Bilateral Symmetry Detection and Segmentation via Symmetry-Growing [pdf] [project page] ( Oral )
Minsu Cho, Kyoung Mu Lee, The 20th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2009, London, United Kingdom.

 Co-Recognition of Image Pairs by Data-Driven Monte Carlo Image Exploration [pdf] [project page]  
Minsu Cho, Young Min Shin, Kyoung Mu Lee,The 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2008, Marseille, France.

 Partially Occluded Object-Specific Segmentation in View-Based Recognition [pdf] [project page]
Minsu Cho, Kyoung Mu Lee, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2007 , Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Publication (domestic)

  동영상 쌍에서의 동작 상호 인식,
신영민, 조민수, 이경무, 제22회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵, 2010년 1월.

  DDMCMC Sampling 을 이용한 그래프 정합 알고리즘 ,
이정민, 조민수, 이경무, 제22회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵, 2010년 1월.

  물체 기반 상호 분할 기법,
명희수, 조민수, 김태훈, 이경무, 제22회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵, 2010년 1월.

 윤곽선분 조각 특징과 극좌표 기술자를 이용한 형태 기반 물체 범주 인식 기법
  명희수, 조민수, 이경무, 제 21회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 논문집, pp.87 , 2009년 2월

 Data-Driven MCMC를 이용한 비감독적 상호인식에 관한 연구
  조민수, 신영민, 이경무, 제 20회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 논문집, pp.87 , 2008년 2월

 시점기반 물체 인식에서 부분적으로 가리워진 특정 물체의 분할 기법
  조민수, 이경무, 제 19회 영상처리 및 이해에 관한 워크샵 논문집, pp.365 , 2007년 2월

 MRF에 기반한 물체의 가리워진 영역 인식기법
  조민수, 이경무, 제 19회 신호처리 합동학술대회 논문집, pp242, 2006년 9월