The Imaging and
Intelligent Systems Laboratory is within Department of Computer Engineering,
College of Electronics and Information Engineering at Sejong University, Seoul,
Korea. The mission is to research and develop intelligent techniques in image
processing and pattern recognition for broad application areas such as
biomedical diagnostics, personal identification, and security. Research
interests include 3-D face modeling for face recognition and gaze
estimation/tracking, fusion of visible and thermal infrared images for enhanced
biometric identification and surveillance, hyperspectral imaging for medical
diagnostics, forensic imaging and analysis for law enforcement, signal
restoration in Terahertz imaging and spectroscopy for threat detection from a
distance, and evolvable neural networks.
Dr. Seong G. Kong
(Director)
Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
Sejong University
Phone: +82-2-3408-3097
Fax: +82-2-3408-4321
E-mail: skong@sejong.edu
Seong
G. Kong received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and
the Ph.D. degree from University
of Southern California, Los Angeles, California in Electrical
Engineering. In 1992 he joined Electrical Engineering Department at Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea as
Assistant Professor. He was chair of the department from 1998 to 2000. He was a
visiting researcher at the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH Aachen), Germany in 1997
and 2000. During the years 2000-2001, he was with School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Purdue
University,
West Lafayette, Indiana as a visiting professor. In 2002, he joined Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department at the University
of Tennessee, Knoxville as an associate professor. He was a faculty member
and graduate program director of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
at Temple University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He is currently Professor of Computer Engineering and Chief
Director of Enterprise Support Foundation at Sejong
University, Seoul, Korea. Dr. Kong was Editor-in-Chief of Journal of
Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.
Dr. Kong received Award for Academic Excellence from Fuzzy Logic and
Intelligent Systems Society and the Most Cited Paper Award from Computer Vision and Image Understanding
journal in 2007 and 2008. He was ASEE/ONR senior summer faculty research fellow
at Naval Research Laboratory in
Washington, DC. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Dr. Kong has authored more than 100 journal papers, conference papers, and book
chapters and gave invited talks in the research areas of image processing,
pattern recognition, and intelligent systems. He plays flute for leisure.
Research
interests include:
■ Gaze Estimation and Tracking
■ 3-D Modeling of Human Face from2-D Images
■ Multimodal Face Recognition with Visible and Infrared Imaging
■ Hyperspectral Image Analysis for Medical Diagnosis and Target Detection
■ Forensic Imaging and Analysis
■ Signal Restoration in Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy
■
Evolvable Block-based Neural
Networks for ECG Signal Monitoring