I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Eletrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. I'm also a research assistant of the Media Communication Group at the Signal & Imaging Processing Institute, and currently working on stereo matching and multi-view video processing in a free-view video dispaly system. My advisor is Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo.

Objective

• Full-time position for R&D in the area of Full-time position for R&D in the area of computer vision and image/video processing

Research Interests

• Stereo Matching Based on Planar Normal Vector
• Virtual View Synthesis from Multiview Video
• Frame Rate Up Conversion for HD Video Display
• Fast Disparity Estimation in Multiview Video
• Multiview Video Coding Based on H.264 and MPEG-2

Education

• Ph.D. Candidate (August 2003 ~ Current)
  Department of Eletrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA
  • Advisor: C.-C. Jay Kuo
  • Selected coursework: Selected topics in digital image processing, Wavelets, 3-D graphics and rendering, digital signal processing
• Master of Science (August 2003)
  Department of Eletrical Engineering, Sogang University,Seoul Korea
  • Advisor: Rae-Hong Park
  • Selected coursework: Image data compression, Theory & application of wavelet transform, Image communication, Multimedia programming, Digital image processing, Computer vision, Pattern recognition, Multimedia system
• Bachelor of Engineering (February 2001)
  Department of Eletrical Engineering, Sogang University,Seoul Korea

Project/Research Experience

• Summer Internship:Multiview Coding in the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (May 2006 - August 2006)
  • Developed advanced video compression algorithms for multiview video based on a synthetic view as a reference sequence
• Stereo Matching by Piecewise Linear Modeling at Media Communication Group, USC (January 2006 - present)
  • Suggested a post-processing to improve the quality of disparity estimation, which consists of two steps; namely, a greedy disparity filling algorithm and a least-squared-errors (LSE) fitting method
  • Proposed a piecewise linear surface model to represent 3-dimensional geometric structure for better surface modelinge
• Disparity Estiamtion and Virtual View Synthesis from Stereo Video at Media Communication Group, USC (January 2005 - December 2005)
  • Developed a two-stage algorithm for accurate and fast DV estimation and occlusion handling
  • Proposed a preprocessing algorithm which removes false matched regions for DV refinement effectively and a new virtual view synthesis equation to reduce blurring and ghostly effects greatly
• Multiview Video Coding Based on H.264 at Media Communication Group, USC (May 2004 - December 2005)
  • Designed and implemented diisparity and motion compensated multiview video codec based on H. 264
• Multiview Video Coding Based on MPEG-2 in collaboration with Korea Electronic Technology Institute at Image processing labSogang Univ. Korea (March 2001 - February)
  • Proposed new Macro block table which includes disparity, motion and disparity & motion interpolation modes

Publications

Journal Papers

• J. D. Oh and R-.H. Park, "Reconstruction of Intermediate Views from Stereoscopic Images Using Disparity Vectors Estimated by Geometrical Constraints," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. and Video Technol., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 638-641, May 2006.
• J. D. Oh, Y. S. Choi, R. H. Park, J. W. Kim, T. W. Kim and H. K. Jung, "Trinocular stereo coding based on MPEG-2," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. and Video Technol., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 425-429, Mar. 2005.

Selective Conference Papers

• Jong Dae Oh, Siwei Ma and C. -C. Jay Kuo, "Stereo matching via disparity estimation and surface modeling," To appear in Proc. Int’l Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2007), Minneapolis, June 2007.
• Jong Dae Oh, Siwei Ma and C. -C. Jay Kuo, "Disparity estimation and virtual view synthesis from stereo image sequence," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 07), New Orleans, May 2007.
• Jong Dae Oh and C.-C. Jay Kuo, "A Stereo Video Coding Scheme Based on H.264," in SPIE Optics & Photonics, Conference on Applications of Digital Image Processing XXVIII 2005 , Vol. 5909, pp. 349-358, San Diego, Aug. 2005
• J. D. Oh, Y. S. Choi, R. H. Park, J. W. Kim, and B. H. Choi, "Trinocular stereo coding based on MPEG-2," in Proc. 8th Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Computer vision, vol. 1, pp. 25-30, Sapporo, Japan, Jan. 2002.

Patent

• J. D. Oh, Y. S. Choi, R. H. Park, J. W. Kim, T. W. Kim and H. K. Jung, "Multi-view images coding and decoding," Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Filed at KOREA, pending 2003

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