Professor In-So Kweon Selected as Recipient of the 38th Inchon Prize in the Science and Technology Category
Professor In-So Kwon has been selected as the recipient of the 38th Inchon Prize in the Science and Technology category, an award hosted by the Inchon Memorial Foundation and The Dong-A Ilbo.
The Inchon Memorial Foundation and The Dong-A Ilbo established the Inchon Prize in 1987 to honor the legacy of Inchon Kim Seong-Soo, who, during the turbulent period of Japanese colonial rule, founded The Dong-A Ilbo and Gyeongseong Textile Company, and nurtured talent through institutions such as Central School and Boseong Professional School (now Korea University).
Regarding Professor Kwon’s selection, the Inchon Memorial Foundation stated, “In the 1980s, when robotics and computer vision were largely unexplored fields in South Korea, Professor Kwon embarked on pioneering research that yielded world-class results. As a first-generation researcher in computer vision, he has trained over 200 students and laid the foundation for the AI computer vision field. Recently, he extended the ‘attention’ model, which simulates human focus, to computer vision. He also developed the CBAM algorithm, which significantly enhanced image recognition performance, with the related paper being cited over 20,000 times.”
Professor Kwon is a member of IEEE and has held key positions including Chair of the Department of Automation and Design Engineering at KAIST, Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Computer Vision, Head of KAIST’s Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory, Director of the KAIST P3 Digicar Center, Co-Chair of the 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, and President of the Korea Robotics Society in 2016.
- Recipient Accouncment: https://www.donga.com/news/People/article/all/20240909/130005987/2
- Recipients’ Acceptance Speech and Achievements: https://www.donga.com/news/Society/article/all/20240909/130005968/2
