Sung Ha Kang
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.
Publications
- Minh Ha-Quang, Sung-Ha Kang, and Triet M. Le, ``Image and
Video Colorization Using Vector-Valued Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces",
submitted, May 2009.
( UCLA
CAM 09-46),
- Berta Sandberg, Sung Ha Kang, and Tony F. Chan, ``Unsupervised
Multiphase Segmentation: A phase balancing model", accepted,
IEEE transaction in Image Processing.
( 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 , Volume 26, Issue 2, 1 February 2008,
Pages 302-314. ( 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
Organizer of group A, Junior Trimester Program, Bonn, Germany
Sep. - Dec. 2008
HIM Junior Trimester Program on Analysis
Group A: Calculus of Variation and Image processing
Co-organizers: M. Barchiesi (CMU), T. Le (Yale), M. Morini (SISSA),
L. Mugnai(Leipzig), and M. Ponsiglione(Roma)
Scholarly Visits
Visiting Scholar at UCLA, July - December 2004
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles,
CA.
Long term visitor at IMA, January - May 2006
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2005-2006 Thematic year on Imaging.
Trimester visit at HIM, September - November 2008
Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM), Bonn, Germany
Junior Trimester Program on Analysis,
GroupA: Calculus of Variation and Image processing
Visit at ENS CaChan , May - June 2009
Research Talk and Conference Participation
- SAMPTA 09 Marseille, France, May 18-22, 2009. Sepcial
Session on Sampling and (in)painting.
- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, "Mauro Picone" of C.N.R.,
Rome, and Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Universita' degli
Studi di L' Aquila, L' Aquila, Italy, November 2008
- SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, San Diego, CA, July
7-9, 2008. MS39 Variational Color Image Processing.
- SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 7-11, 2008,
MS82 Segmentation and Data Mining.
- 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
- Workshop : PDE-Based Image Processing and Related Inverse Problems,
Center of Mathematics for Applications, Oslo, Norway, August 8-12,
2005 Invited talk.
- 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
- ``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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