Naver Co., Ltd. announced that it co-hosted the ‘2022 Fall Joint Academic Conference’ with the Korea Society of Artificial Intelligence from the 17th to the 19th.
The Korean Society of Artificial Intelligence Summer and Fall Academic Conferences have been held a total of seven times so far this year, raising its status as an academic event where experts leading AI research in academia and industry share the latest research results and seek the development of Korean AI technology. I’m going.
Naver plans to contribute to the development of the domestic AI research and innovation ecosystem through joint hosting, while continuing to secure global AI leadership by further expanding exchanges with various AI experts from universities, companies, and research institutes. Furthermore, this academic conference was held at Naver’s second building ‘1784’, a building where Naver’s advanced technologies such as robotics, AI, and cloud are concentrated, adding to its significance.
Keynote speaker Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang of the University of California, Merced presented the latest research on vision technology, particularly image and video generation. Professor Yang Mingxuan is recognized as a world-renowned scholar in the field of computer vision and also serves as a researcher at Google.
The keynote lecture that followed was given by Professor Suvrit Sra of MIT, who has outstanding academic achievements in the field of machine learning, and introduced research on optimization required for models to show the best performance.
AI experts from various fields also shared their research results through tutorials and planning sessions. UNIST Professor Jaejun Yoo and KAIST Professor Joo Jae-geol explained the technology of ‘Image Synthesis of text input into an image’ in the tutorial, and KAIST Professor Junseon Jeong introduced the latest research on data learning methods for voice AI engines. In addition, research on the integration of medical science and AI, including a tutorial conducted by Professor Jun-won Jeong of Gachon University Gil Hospital and Professor Gwang-gi Kim of Gachon University on the topic of research on applying AI to endoscopy, also received a lot of attention.
At Naver, Seong Nak-ho, senior leader of Clova CIC, gave an invited lecture and introduced Naver’s Korea’s first large-scale AI ‘HyperCLOVA’ and developed ‘Clova Studio’, a no-code AI tool based on Hyperclova. and shared the insights gained while operating it.
In the ‘Naver AI Session’, a planned session, Naver’s AI researchers introduced papers accepted at global AI conferences in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. Naver Clova researcher Kim Jeong-hoon explained a study that proposed a quantization-based additional learning technique to efficiently apply a very large language model to services, and this study was adopted in ‘EMNLP 2022’.
In a paper accepted for ‘CVPR 2022,’ Naver Clova researcher Bang Ji-hwan introduced research on learning techniques that can solve problems when label information in data is incorrect in continuous learning. Naver Clova has achieved the success of having 97 regular papers accepted to date in major global AI conferences this year, including EMNLP and CVPR.
Meanwhile, at this academic conference, a ‘Startup Session’ was prepared to present research and development and business achievements of six AI startups, including Nota and Gaudio Lab. In addition, an award ceremony was held for excellent papers among papers submitted across various fields, from machine learning and deep learning to discussions on the social aspects of AI. Authors from more than 20 universities, including KAIST, Seoul National University, and UNIST, and companies such as Naver, Hanwha, and Hyundai submitted papers, and winners of excellent papers will receive a total of 10 million won in prize money.
Naver AI Lab Director Ha Jeong-woo, who served as co-chairman of the 2022 Fall Joint Academic Conference, said, “It is meaningful for Naver to join us in creating a venue where various AI scholars from Korea and abroad gather to share rich academic achievements.” “We will secure AI R&D leadership by continuously interacting with global leaders leading AI research in academia and industry.”
Chang-dong Yoo, President of the Korean Society of Artificial Intelligence, said, “Through the joint academic conference, the Korean Society of Artificial Intelligence will serve as a bridge between industry, academia and research for the development of AI technology in Korea,” and added, “We will also provide technology certification so that AI technology can be actively utilized in the industrial field.” “We will continue to disseminate AI and strive for international cooperation with leading AI countries,” he said.
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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