Sung Ha Kang
Education and Employment
- Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, August 2002 - Present
Department of Mathematics,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, June 2002
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Thesis Adviser : Tony F. Chan
Thesis title : Mathematical approaches to color denoising
and image inpainting Problems.
- B.S., Mathematics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1997
Research Interests
- Mathematical approaches to image processing and computer vision.
Various problems arising in image restorations :
denoising and inpainting,
color image analysis, video, shape analysis, and texture analysis.
- Numerical Schemes and methods and scientific computing,
level-set methods,
wavelets and applied differential equations.
Selected Publications
- Berta Sandberg, Sung Ha Kang, and Tony F. Chan, ``Unsupervised
Feature Balancing Multi-phase Segmentation", submitted, Jan 2008.
( UCLA
CAM 08-02),
- Jianhong Shen and Sung Ha Kang, ``Quantum TV
and Applications in Image Processing", Inverse Problems and
Imaging, Volume 1, Number 3, Pages 557-575, 2007 ( UCLA CAM07-09
),
- Sung Ha Kang and Riccardo March, ``Variational Models for Image
Colorization via Chromaticity and Brightness Decomposition",
IEEE transaction in Image Processing, Volume 16, number 9, pages 2251-2261, 2007 (
Full color images : IMA
preprint 2138, October 2006)
- Yoon Mo Jung, Sung Ha Kang and Jianhong Shen, ``Multiphase Image
Segmentation via Modica-Mortola Phase transition", SIAM
applied Mathematics , Volume 67, Issue 5, Pages 1213-1232, 2007 ( UCLA CAM06-31
, IMA
preprint 2124, June 2006 )
- James H. Money and Sung Ha Kang, ``Total variation semi-blind
deconvolution using shock filters", Image and vision computing,
accepted, 2007. ( IMA preprint
2106, March 2006)
- Sung Ha Kang and Jianhong Shen, ``On the Slicing Moments of BV
Functions and Applications to Image Dejittering'', in Image Processing
Based on Partial Differential Equations, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007 ( UCLA CAM05-11 )
- Jean-Francois Aujol and Sung Ha Kang, ''Color Image Decomposition and Restoration'', Journal of Visual Communication and Image
Representation , Volume 17, Number 4, pages 916-928 2006 ( Full color images : UCLA CAM04-73)
- Tony F. Chan and Sung Ha Kang, `` Error Analysis for Image
Inpainting", Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision , Volume 26, pages 85-103, 2006. (Full color images : UCLA CAM 04-72 )
- Sung Ha Kang and Jianhong Shen, "Video Dejittering by Bake and Shake",
Image and vision computing , Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 143-152, 2006
, ( UCLA CAM 04-60)
- Sung Ha Kang, Tony. F. Chan and Stefano Soatto, ``Inpainting from
Multiple view'', Proceedings of first international symposium on 3D
Data Processing Visualization Transmission, Pages 622-625, 2002, ( UCLA CAM02-11
)
- Tony. F. Chan, Sung Ha Kang and Jianhong Shen,``Euler's Elastica and
Curvature Based Inpaintings'', SIAM journal on Applied Mathematics ,
63, number 2, page 564-592, 2002, (UCLA CAM01-12)
- Tony. F. Chan, Sung Ha Kang and Jianhong Shen, ``Total Variation Denoising
and Enhancement of Color Images Based on the CB and HSV Color
Models'', Journal of Visual Communication and Image
Representation , 12 : 422-435, 2001,
(Full color images : UCLA CAM00-25)
Conference/workshop Organization
Co-organizer of Workshop at University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY
March 21-23, 2003
Workshop Title:
Image Processing and Computational Methods
Co-organizer with S.
Kim, P. Hislop, D. Lau, and B. Seales.
Co-organizer of BIRS Workshop, Banff, Canada
October 23-28, 2004
BIRS workshop: Mathematical Image Analysis and Processing
Co-organizer with S. Esedoglu (UCLA),
M. Pugh (Toronto) and J.
Shen (Minnesota).
Co-organizer of Minisymposium, Mesa, AZ December 10-12, 2007
SIAM Analysis of Partial Differential Equation
Minisymposium: PDE models in image processing
Co-organizer
with S. Levine
Scholarly Visits
Visiting Scholar at UCLA, July 2004 - December 2004
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles,
CA.
Long term visitor at IMA, January 2006 - May 2006
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2005-2006 Thematic year on Imaging.
Research Talk and Conference Participation
- SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations,
Mesa, AZ, December 10-12, 2007. MS29
PDE Based Models in Image Processing - Part I of II
- AMS Fall Central Section Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, October
21-22, 2006, Invited talk in Special Session on Nonlinear Partial
Differential and Its Applications.
- SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Minneapolis, MN, May
15-17, 2006. MS44 Variational and PDE Models for Image Decomposition Part
II
- IMA Thematic year on Imaging Long term visit,
Jan 1 - May 31, 2006.
- AMS Spring Southeastern Meeting,Miami, FL, April 1-2, 2006.
Special Session on Mathematical Models in Image and
High-Dimensional Data Analysis
- AMS Eastern Section Meeting, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY October 8-9, 2005
Spe.Ses.on Math. Methods for the Anal. of Images and High-D. Data
- Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, Georgia September 23, 2005 A&CM Seminar.
- Workshop : PDE-Based Image Processing and Related Inverse Problems,
Center of Mathematics for Applications, Oslo, Norway, August 8-12,
2005 Invited talk.
- Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea May 31, 2005 Applied Mathematics Seminar
- AHA International conference on Applicable Harmonic Analysis,
HangZhou, China, May 23-27, 2005. Special Session
on PDE imaging.
- AMS Sectional meeting, 2004 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , November 6-7, 2004
Special Session on PDE-Based Methods in Imaging and Vision.
- KWMS, 1st international workshop for Korean women in Mathematics,
Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea, June 21-23, 2004
Plenary, Title "Mathematical approaches to image denoising and inpainting
problems"
- SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Salt Lake City, Utah,
May 3-5, 2004,
MS6 Geometric Regularization in Image Analysis and Processing.
- AMS Sectional meeting, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, March
26-27, 2004,
Special Session on Wavelets, other multiscale methods and their applications.
- Workshop : Image Processing and Computational Methods, March 21-23, 2003,
University of Kentucky.
- First SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, March 4-6, 2002
: Co-author on Euler's Elastica and Curvature Based Inpaintings
- Image Processing Seminar UCLA Math Dep. Jan. 2001
Title: Denoising and Inpainting for Color Images.
- ``Diffusion Models of Photobleaching Experiments for Articular
Cartilage'', 2000 Industrial Mathematics Modeling Workshop for
Graduate
Students P.A. Gremaud, Z.Li, R.C. Smith and H.T. Tran, NCSU reports
[CRSC-TR00-24],
August 2000
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