Biography

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Kwang Moo Yi is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and a member of the Computer Vision Lab, CAIDA, and ICICS at UBC. Before, he was at the University of Victoria as an assistant professor. Prior to being a professor, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Computer Vision Lab in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), working with Prof. Pascal Fua and Prof. Vincent Lepetit. He received his Ph.D. from Seoul National University under the supervision of Prof. Jin Young Choi. He also received his B.Sc. from the same University. He serves as area chair for top Computer Vision (CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV) and Machine Learning (NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI) conferences. He was part of the organizing committee for CVPR 2023.

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  • E-mail: kmyi@cs.ubc.ca
  • Office: ICCS/CS 115
  • Phone: +1 604 827 4204
  • Mail: 201-2366 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4

Research

Computer Vision is used everywhere and is already an essential part of our daily lives. My ultimate goal is to improve the quality of human life through smarter vision systems. Towards this goal, I advance Computer Vision in various levels with Machine Learning as the main tool. With the arrival of the Deep Learning revolution, Computer Vision algorithms have become ever more effective, but there is still a lot more in the field to benefit from this advancement.

More specifically, my core research interests lie in Visual Geometry, with the eventual goal of understanding the local environment, adapting to it, and acting within it. This could mean autonomous vehicles, drones, robot, but also Augmented and Mixed reality applications. Hopefully, our methods can lead to a better world.

News

20. Feb 2025

Gopal has moved to Samsung Research!

20. Feb 2025

We'll be presenting 2 papers at 3DV 2025

20. Feb 2025

I am serving as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025

16. Dec 2024

I am serving as Area Chair for ICML 2025

12. Dec 2024

I am serving as Area Chair for ICCV 2025

27. Sep 2024

Dr. Weiwei Sun successfully defended his PhD thesis! He is joining Amazon as a Applied Scientist!

19. Sep 2024

I am serving as Area Chair for CVPR 2025

1. Sep 2024

Matthew Tang and Fred Xie successfully defended their MSc theses! Fred is continuing as a PhD student!

8. Jul 2024

I am serving as Area Chair for ECCV 24, NeurIPS 24, AAAI 25, BMVC 24.

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