Biography
Young Min Kim received a B.S. from Seoul National University in 2006 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2008, and 2013 respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Before joining SNU, she was a Senior Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). From 2016 to 2018, she was a Visiting Researcher in the Center for Computational Visualization at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include 3D vision, which is the area embracing computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.

Abstract
With the hype of AI technology, 3D geometry provides crucial information for applications to interact with the physical entities around us, for example, autonomous driving, smart homes, immersive AR/VR, and human-computer interactions to name a few. In this talk, I will introduce how geometric approach can be utilized to solve practical problems around us. Nowadays everyday user can obtain the 3D model around us with various interactive techniques and combining multi-modal information. The acquired model can be utilized for effective visualization for AR/VR applications or promote perception of objects. My ultimate research goal is extracting and utilizing high-level information from multi-modal measurements based on the 3D structure to benefit human life. Towards this goal, the techniques from computer graphics and computer vision are combined not only with traditional optimization processes but also with modern artificial intelligence, mainly deep learning.