Michael S. Ryoo
Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Robot Research Department
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Korea

Contact
mryoo@etri.re.kr
mryoo@ece.utexas.edu
+82-42-860-5015

I now work as a researcher in a Korean national lab, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), to fulfill my military duty. I have received my Ph.D. from Prof. J. K. Aggarwal at The University of Texas at Austin on August 2008. I worked as a member of his research group, Computer and Vision Research Center. I obtained the B. S. degree from the Division of Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) on August 2004.


Recent News
2009/10
I am glad to announce that I am organizing the Contest on Semantic Description of Human Activities (SDHA 2010). SDHA will be held in conjunction with ICPR 2010 at Istanbul, Turkey. The contest is composed of three activity recognition challenges, and the dataset used in my ICCV 2009 paper will be made publicly available via the first challenge.
2009/07
My activity recognition paper utilizing 'spatio-temporal relationship match' to measure a structural similarity between two videos has been accepted to ICCV 2009:
Spatio-Temporal Relationship Match: Video Structure Comparison for Recognition of Complex Human Activities
2009/05
My dissertation has been nominated for the Outstanding Dissertation Award by the department.
2008/09
I now work as a researcher in a Korean national lab, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). This is for substitute military service, in order to fulfill my Korean military duty.
2008/03
My tracking paper presenting a new paradigm of 'observe-and-explain' has been accepted to CVPR 2008.
Observe-and-Explain: A New Approach for Multiple Hypotheses Tracking of Humans and Objects
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2008/02
I have been selected as the Graduate Student of the Month. The honor has been awarded by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin, based on my paper on group activity recognition(pdf) presented at IEEE WACV/WMVC 2008.
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Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Publications [by year]

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Research

My research interest is in computer vision and human-computer interactions. I am especially motivated in developing the system for recognition of complex human activities from video. I am also interested in constructing intelligent human-computer interaction systems, which are able to analyze a user's task and collaborate with him/her to accomplish the task.

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Updated 07/10/2009