Summary
Hyunkoo Kim is a Head of Vision Department and Principal Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Vision and nine years of hands-on experience building perception and sensor-fusion systems for autonomous vehicles, intelligent logistics, and industrial safety. He has led teams to top competition finishes and shipped production-grade LiDAR–camera multimodal perception, MLOps, and auto-labeling pipelines across startups and enterprise projects. His work bridges simulation and reality—developing Sim2Real/Real2Sim technologies and a driving-scene diffusion pipeline that generates unlimited-length videos from text prompts, improving FID and inference speed versus prior art. He advises clients on AI strategy, system integration, and federal market dynamics as a GLG expert, while directing vision R&D at WATAAI for localization, logistics-ID recognition, and safety-management solutions. Notably, he holds a patent for generating camera-like color images from 3D LiDAR intensity and has applied that signal-processing insight to improve traffic-light and TLR performance. Based in South Korea, he combines deep research pedigree with a strong track record of translating novel algorithms into deployable robotics and ADAS products.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (April 2019), Information and Communication Engineering, Ph.D. (April 2019), Information and Communication Engineering at 영남대학교