NEWS
100 concept models created by sketching with ILoveSketch for 4.5 days at Emerging Technology, SIGGRAPH 2009  (New Orleans, LA, USA, August 3-7)
Paper and demo presentation of EverybodyLovesSketch at UIST 2009 (Victoria, BC, Canada, October 4-7)


Seok-Hyung Bae, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

RESEARCH INTERESTS
PUBLICATIONS
PROJECTS
PATENTS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION


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Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
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+1-647-209-6106
shbae [at] dgp.toronto.edu

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Seok-Hyung Bae
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
10 King's College Road, Room 3302
Toronto, ON M5S 3G4
CANADA
+1-416 978-6025

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Human-Computer Interaction + Computer-Aided Styling/Computer Graphics


PUBLICATIONS
Fully Refereed Journal and Conference Papers

CI.7 Seok-Hyung Bae, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Karan Singh, "EverybodyLovesSketch: 3D Sketching for a Broader Audience," The Proceedings of ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2009 (Victoria, BC, Canada, October 4-7, 2009), pp. 59-68 [pdf][video][project]
CI.6 Seok-Hyung Bae, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Karan Singh, "ILoveSketch: As-natural-as-possible sketching system for creating 3D curve models," The Proceedings of ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2008 (Monterey, CA, USA, October 19-22, 2008), pp. 151-160 [pdf][video][project][interviewed by Natasha Eloi on The Circuit/SPACE TV][SIGGRAPH 2009 ETech]
CI.5 Seok-Hyung Bae, Takahiro Kobayashi, Ryugo Kijima, and Won-Sup Kim, "Tangible NURBS-curve manipulation techniques using graspable handles on a large display," The Proceedings of ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2004 (Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 24-27, 2004), pp. 81-90 [pdf][video][cover]
CI.4 Seok-Hyung Bae and Ryugo Kijima, "Digital styling for designers: in prospective automotive design," The Proceedings of Virtual Systems and Multi Media 2003 (Montreal, Canada, October 15-17, 2003) [pdf]

CI.3
JI.5

 
Seok-Hyung Bae, Ryugo Kijima and Won-Sup Kim, "Digital styling for designers: 3D plane-symmetric freeform curve creation using sketch interface," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2669, 2003, pp. 701-710 (The Proceedings of Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling 2003 (Montreal, Canada, May 18-21, 2003)) [pdf]
CI.2
JI.4


 
Seok-Hyung Bae, Won-Sup Kim and Eun-Sook Kwon, "Digital styling for designers: sketch emulation in computer environment," Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2669, 2003, pp. 690-700 (The Proceedings of Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling 2003 (Montreal, Canada, May 18-21, 2003)) [pdf]

JI.3 Seok-Hyung Bae, Keyhoon Ko, Bo H. Kim, and Byoung K. Choi, "Automatic feedrate adjustment for pocket machining," Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 35, Issue 5, 2003, pp. 495-500 [pdf]

JI.2
CI.1
Seok-Hyung Bae, Hayong Shin, Won-Hyung Jung and Byoung K. Choi, "Parametric surface tessellation based on degree reduction," The Proceedings of 3rd Israel-Korea Binational Conference on Geometrical Modeling and Computer Graphics 2001, October, 2001, pp. 12-31 (Republished among best papers: Computers & Graphics, Vol. 26, 2002, pp. 709-719) [pdf]

JI.1 Seok-Hyung Bae and Byoung K. Choi, "NURBS surface fitting using orthogonal coordinate transform for rapid product development," Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 34, Issue 10, 2002, pp. 679-768 [pdf]

Doctoral Dissertation

DD.1 NURBS surface fitting using orthogonal coordinate transform and applications, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2002 [pdf]

PROJECTS

PR.11 ******* Phase III (related to sketch-based 3D concept modeling), Sponsored by Product Design Office (PDO), DaimlerChrysler, January, 2007 ~ May, 2007
∙ Confidential
PR.10 ******* Phase II (related to sketch-based 3D concept modeling), Sponsored by PDO, DaimlerChrysler, January, 2006 ~ December, 2006
∙ Confidential
PR.9 ******* Phase I (related to sketch-based 3D concept modeling), Sponsored by ITN-PD, DaimlerChrysler, August, 2004 ~ December, 2005
∙ Confidential
PR.8 Development of DMC (Digital Media City) virtual reality system, Sponsored by Seoul city, April, 2002 ~ September, 2002
∙ Managed a public exhibition as the associate director while producing an interactive performance and supervising architecture modeling.
 
PR.7 Development of 3D forging process analysis program and preprocessor, Sponsored by Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, November, 1999 ~ February, 2002
∙ Developed a parametric surface tessellation module (MS Visual C++, Windows NT, OpenGL).
 
PR.6 Development of ship hull surface modeling software from measured data, Sponsored by Samsung Heavy Industry, November, 1999 ~ April, 2000
∙ Coordinated team activities as a project manager.
∙ Developed a ship hull CAD model generation process and implemented registration, surface approximation modules (MS Visual C++, Windows NT, OpenGL).

PR.5 Development of enabling technologies and a software system for generating CAD data by reverse engineering, Sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, December, 1998 ~ February, 2002
∙ Supervised reverse engineering team members as a project manager.
∙ Implemented segmentation, surface fitting, inspection modules of a reverse engineering software (MS Visual C++, Windows NT, OpenGL).
  PR.4 Development of enabling technologies for reverse engineering, Sponsored by Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, September, 1998 ~ August, 1999
∙ Designed reverse engineering software.
∙ Developed mathematical foundation classes and a surface fitting module (MS Visual C++, Windows NT, OpenGL).
  PR.3 Development of an NC data verification system for die structure and ATC scheduler, Sponsored by Hyundae Motor Company, September, 1996 ~ August, 1998
∙ Developed a CATIA interface module, batch-verification module and worksheet generation module (FORTRAN, ANSI C, UNIX, X11/Motif).

PR.2 Development of error verification and quality quantitation software of CAD surface, Sponsored by Daewoo Motors, September, 1996 ~ August, 1997
∙ Developed a computation module of differential geometric properties of CAD surface (ANSI C, UNIX, X11/Motif).
 
  PR.1 Development of CAD interface software between CATIA and メCAD system, Sponsored by Samsung Motors, February, 1996 ~ August, 1996
∙ Developed a CATIA model import module using CATGEO APIs (FORTRAN, ANSI C, UNIX, X11/Motif).

PATENTS
PA.5 Seok-Hyung Bae, "Pen-based 3D drawing system with geometric-constraint based 3D cross curve drawing," U.S. Patent Application (pending), Publication No. 20080024500, 2008
PA.4 Seok-Hyung Bae, "Pen-based 3D drawing system with 3D orthographic plane or orthographic ruled surface drawing," U.S. Patent Application (pending), Publication No. 20080036773, 2008
PA.3 Seok-Hyung Bae, "Pen-based 3D drawing system with 3D mirror symmetric curve drawing," U.S. Patent Application (pending), Publication No. 20080036772, 2008
PA.2 Seok-Hyung Bae, "Pen-based drawing system," U.S. Patent Application (pending), Publication No. 20080036771, 2008
PA.1 Seok-Hyung Bae, "Pen-based drawing system," International Patent Application (Pending), Publication No. WO 2007/098243 A2, 2007


INVITED TALKS
ILoveSketch
TA.7 Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, USA, May 7-8, 2009
TA.6 KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, April 14-15, 2009
TA.5 Nissan Design America, Farmington Hills, USA, March 2, 2009
TA.4 Relic Entertainment, Vancouver, Canada, February 20, 2009
TA.3 Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada, February 18-19, 2009 [blog]
TA.2 Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, USA, October 24, 2008
TA.1 Otis College of Design, Los Angeles, USA, October 18, 2008


DEMOS
EverybodyLovesSketch
DE.4 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2009, Victoria, Canada, October 4, 2009
ILoveSketch
DE.3 SIGGRAPH 2009 (Emerging Technology), New Orleans, August 3-7, 2009 [ILoveSketch at SIGGRAPH 2009]
DE.2 OCE Discovery, Toronto, Canada, May 11-12, 2009
DE.1 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2008, Monterey, USA, October 19, 2008


PRESS COVERAGE

PC.1 Interviewed by Natasha Eloi on The Circuit/SPACE TV, December 17, 2008
∙ Demonstrated ILoveSketch.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
In Academia

EU.6 Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Researcher, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada, Supervisors: Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan, September 18, 2007 ~ present
∙ Have developed interactive graphics software: ILoveSketch for design professionals [CI.6][TA.1-7][DE.1-3][ILoveSketch at SIGGRAPH 2009]; EverybodyLovesSketch for novices [CI.7][DE.4].
 
EU.5 Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA, Supervisor: Prof. Lee Markosian, April 25, 2005 ~ April 25, 2007
∙ Researched sketch-based 3D organic/amorphous shape modeling and non-photo realistic (NPR) rendering.
EU.4 Visiting Researcher, Virtual System Laboratory (VSL), Gifu University, Japan, Supervisor: Prof. Ryugo Kijima, October 1, 2002 ~ April 9, 2004
∙ Started research on Computer-Aided Styling for professional designers [CI.4].
∙ Designed and implemented a multi-stroke 2D/3D curve sketch interface [CI.2-3], and two-handed interaction techniques for manipulating NURBS curves on a large display in collaboration with Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) [CI.5].
EU.3 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Virtual Reality Research Center (VRRC), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea, Supervisor: Prof. Kwang-Yun Wohn, March 1, 2002 ~ April 1, 2003
∙ Managed a Digital Media City virtual reality system project [PR.8].
∙ Opened and operated VRRC Overseas Laboratory Japan at Technoplaza, Kagamigahara, Japan in collaboration with Prof. Takeo Ojika.
EU.2 Research Assistant, Department of Industrial Engineering, KAIST, Republic of Korea, Supervisor: Prof. Byoung K. Choi, March 1, 1996 ~ February 15, 2002
∙ Participated in seven projects of the Virtual Manufacturing System (VMS) Laboratory. Duties included leading the reverse engineering team [PR.5-6], designing a research-purpose reverse engineering system with math and geometric foundation classes [PR.4], implementing surface modeling modules [PR.4-6], a surface tessellation module [PR.7], surface quality visualization modules [PR.2, PR.5], a CATIA model translating module [PR.1], and a NC data batch-verification module [PR.3].
∙ [JI.1-3]
EU.1 Teaching Assistant, Department of Industrial Engineering, KAIST, Republic of Korea, Supervisor: Prof. Byoung K. Choi, March 1, 1996 ~ February 15, 2002

In Industry

EI.2 Research Engineer, Digital Product Development, ITN-PD, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Auburn Hills, USA., Manager: Gopalan Mukundan, Ph.D., February 1, 2006 ~ May 30, 2007
∙ [PR.10-11]
∙ [PA.1-5]
 
EI.1 Technical Consultant, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology India (DCRTI), Bangalore, India, Location: CAx Research & Technology, Product Development IT – ITN (CAx R & T, ITN-PD), DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Auburn Hills, USA, Manager: Gustav Olling, Ph.D., August 17, 2004 ~ January 31, 2006
∙ [PR.9]

EDUCATION
ED.4 Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, KAIST, Republic of Korea, 2002, Thesis: NURBS surface fitting using orthogonal coordinate transform and applications [DD.1], Advisor: Prof. Byoung K. Choi, March 1, 1996 ~ February 15, 2002
ED.3 M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Republic of Korea, 1996, Thesis: Active noise control based on loudness, Advisor: Prof. Yang-Hann Kim, March 1, 1994 ~ February 15, 1996
ED.2 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Republic of Korea, 1994, March 2, 1990 ~ February 18, 1994
ED.1 Graduated from Gyeongnam Science High School, Republic of Korea. 1990, March 3, 1988 ~ February 16, 1990


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