Hae Yong Kim (english)

Hae Yong Kim
Associate Professor

Universidade de São Paulo
Escola Politécnica
Dept. Engenharia de Sistemas Eletrônicos
Laboratório de Processamento de Sinais

Esta página em português	My curriculum vitae in CNPq-Lattes format
Image Processing software	Lecture notes of the courses on Image Analysis and Processing

Areas of interest:

Image and video processing and analysis (computer vision).

More specifically:

Machine learning applied to image processing;
Fuzzy filters;
Watermarking (for image authentication, documents and video authentication);
Scale space;
Image analysis (template matching for images 2D, 3D and videos);
Video analysis (analysis of traffic of cars through video, TV commercial and audience auditing);
Functional magnetic resonance image processing.
Tomography;
Computer vision algorithms implementation in FPGA/VHDL.

Address:

Dr. Hae Yong Kim
USP, Dept. Eng. Sist. Eletrônicos
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, tr. 3, 158
CEP 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Room: D2-10
Email: hae@lps.usp.br; haeyongkimbr@yahoo.com

Academic formation:

Associate professor with the Dept. Eng. Sistemas Eletrônicos, Escola Politécnica, USP (2004).
Doctor of Electrical Engineering (specialization in Electronic Systems), Escola Politécnica, USP (1997).
Master of Applied Mathematics (specialization in Computer Science), Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, USP (1992).
Bachelor of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, USP (1988).

Distinctions:

CNPq has renewed the “researching productivity award” level 2 (grant 304122/2009-2, Mar. 2010 - Feb. 2012); title of the project: Image and Video Analysis with FPGA Acceleration.
Paper [Ci25] was selectec as one of the two best papers of 2009 5th Southern Conference on Programmable Logic.
Paper [Ci22] was awarded “Best Paper in Image Analysis” at Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT), 2007.
CNPq has renewed the “researching productivity award” level 2 (grant 307193/2006-3, Mar. 2007 - Feb. 2010).
Paper [Cn21] was awarded at Simpósio Brasileiro em Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg), 2006, category "complete papers".
Paper [Ci08] (updated version) has been identified as “Hot Paper” of March/2005 by Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators, by virtue of being one of 0.1% most cited papers in the Computer Science. P. S. L. M. Barreto is the first and main author.
Paper [Ci17] was rated among “top 10% of the accepted papers” by IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, 2005.
CNPq has renewed the “researching productivity award” level 2 (grant 305065/2003-3, Mar. 2004 - Feb. 2007).
Paper [Cn17] was awarded at Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de Computación, 2004
CNPq has granted me a “researching productivity award” level 2C (grant 300689/1998-5, Feb. 2002 - Jan. 2004).
I graduated the Computer Science course with the best average mark.
In the university ingressing examination, I received the third best rating among approximately 11000 exact sciences candidates.

Teaching career:

2004-present: Associate professor with the Departamento de Engenharia de Sistemas Eletrônicos, USP.
1998-2004: Assistant professor with the Departamento de Engenharia de Sistemas Eletrônicos, USP.
1989-1997: Instructor with the Departamento de Ciência da Computação, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, USP.

Projects:

MAV (Authentication watermarking for surveillance video systems). Subproject of PIPE-FAPESP project of Flexmedia. Process number 2006/51822-7. fevereiro/2008- julho/2009. Amount: R$ 58.320,00.
The researching project DMA (Anisotropid Diffusion, Mathematical Morphology and Operators Design by Learning) is financially supported by CNPq (475155/2004-1). Duration: September 9, 2005 - September 8, 2007. Amount: R$ 44.300,00.
The researching project POAMAE (Operator Design by Learning and Authentication Watermarking in Scale Space) is financially supported by FAPESP (grant 2003/13752-9). This project has begun in April 2004 and finished in March 2006. Amount: R$ 19.125,00.
The researching project PEAS (Operator Design in Scale Space by Machine Learning and Fuzzy System) was financially supported by FAPESP (grant 2001/02400-9). This project has begun in July 2001 and finished in June 2003. Amount: R$ 19.700,00.

Advisees:

Ph.D.

Sidnei Alves de Araújo.

Ms.C.

Kleber Iguchi
Guillermo Angel Pérez López (with CNPq financial grant)
Luciana Guidon Coelho
Thiago José da Silva

Iniciações científicas

Rodrigo Ito, 2008-2009 (with CNPq financial grant)

Former graduate students

Sidnei Alves de Araújo: Ph.D.
Marco Antonio A. de Melo: Ph.D.
Henrique P. A. Nobre: M.Sc.
Alex Reis dos Santos: M.Sc.
Carlos Ramon Pantaleón Dionisio: post-PhD (with CNPq financial grant).
Sergio Vicente Denser Pamboukian: Ph.D.
Javier Oscar Giacomantone: M.Sc (with FAPESP financial grant).
Carlos Ramon Pantaleón Dionisio: Ph.D. (with CAPES financial grant).
Amir Afif: M.Sc.
Marco Antonio A. de Melo: M.Sc.
Paulo S. L. M. Barreto: Ph.D.
Harold Ivan Angulo Bustos: Ph.D. (with FAPESP financial grant).

Former undergraduate students

Vitor Rippel D'Agnoluzzo (with CNPq financial grant).
Marcelo Shiba, 2004-2005 (FAPESP grant).
Daniel Leister, 2004-2005 (CNPq financial grant).
Fabio Ruggero de Oliveira Meneghel, 3-D Imaging by Stereoscopy, 2002-2003 (CNPq financial grant).
Alexandre Cerqueira Silva, Character Font Recognition, 1999-2000 (CNPq financial grant).
Douglas S. Yamaguti, Nonlinear Filter Design for Image Processing, 1997-1999 (CNPq financial grant). This work was awarded in SICUSP-1999 (Simpósio de Iniciação Científica da Universidade de São Paulo).

Undergraduate courses:

PSI-2315 Laboratory of Electricity I
PSI-2651 Image Processing, Synthesis and Analysis I - 2009

Graduate courses:

PEE-5765: Topics in Nonlinear Image Processing (1999)
PEE-5796: Algorithms for Image Processing, Analysis and Synthesis (2000-2003)

2002
2003

PSI-5796: Algorithms for Image Processing and Analysis

PSI-5796: Image and Video Processing and Analysis

2009

Publications

International journals:

[Ri08] H. Y. Kim, “Rotation-Discriminating Template Matching Based on Fourier Coefficients of Radial Projections with Robustness to Scaling and Partial Occlusion,” Pattern Recognition, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 859-872, March 2010.
[Ri07] H. Y. Kim, J. O. Giacomantone, and Z. H. Cho, “Robust Anisotropic Diffusion to Produce Enhanced Statistical Parametric Map from Noisy fMRI,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 99, pp. 435-452, 2005.
[Ri06] H. Y. Kim, and A. Afif, “Secure Authentication Watermarking for Halftone and Binary Images,” Int. J. Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 147-152, 2004.
[Ri05] H. Y. Kim, “Binary Halftone Image Resolution Increasing by Decision-Tree Learning,” IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1136-1146, Aug. 2004.
[Ri04] P. S. L. M. Barreto, H. Y. Kim and V. Rijmen, “Toward a Secure Public-Key Blockwise Fragile Authentication Watermarking,” IEE Proc. Vision, Image and Signal Processing, vol 149, no. 2, pp. 57-62, 2002.
[Ri03] H. Y. Kim, “Binary Operator Design by k-Nearest Neighbor Learning with Application to Image Resolution Increasing,” Int. J. Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 331-339, 2000.
[Ri02] H. Y. Kim, F. A. M. Cipparrone and M. T. C. Andrade, “ Technique for constructing grey-scale morphological operators using fuzzy expert system,” Electronics Letters, vol. 33, no. 22, pp. 1859-1861, 1997.
[Ri01] H. Y. Kim, “Quick Construction of Efficient Morphological Operators by Computational Learning,” Electronics Letters, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 286-287, 13th Feb. 1997.

International book chapters:

[Pi01] H. Y. Kim, S. V. D. Pamboukian, P. S. L. M. Barreto, “Authentication Watermarkings for Binary Images,” in Chang-Tsun Li (ed.), Multimedia Forensics and Security, IGI Global, pp. 1-23, 2008.

International conferences:

[Ci25] Henrique P. A. Nobre and Hae Yong Kim, “Automatic VHDL Generation for Solving Rotation and Scale-Invariant Template Matching in FPGA,” V Southern Programmable Logic Conference, São Carlos, pp.21-26, 2009.
[Ci23] M. A. A. Melo, H. Y. Kim, D. E. C. Nicolosi, “Anisotropic Median-Diffusion for Filtering Noisy Electrocardiogram Signals,” Annual Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'08), 2008.
[Ci22] H. Y. Kim and S. A. Araújo, “Grayscale Template-Matching Invariant to Rotation, Scale, Translation, Brightness and Contrast,” IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4872, pp. 100-113, 2007.

[Ci19] C. R. P. Dionisio and H. Y. Kim, “New Area Matrix-Based Affine-Invariant Shape Features and Similarity Metrics,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 1725-1728, 2006.
[Ci18] S. V. D. Pamboukian and H. Y. Kim, “New Public-Key Authentication Watermarking for JBIG2 Resistant to Parity Attacks,” Int. Workshop on Digital Watermarking 2005, (Siena), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3710, pp. 286-298, 2005.
[Ci17] H. Y. Kim and J. O. Giacomantone, “A New Technique to Obtain Clear Satistical Parametric Map by Applying Anisotropic Diffusion to fMRI,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, vol. 2, pp. 724-727, 2005.
[Ci16] S. V. D. Pamboukian, H. Y. Kim, and R. L. Queiroz, “Watermarking JBIG2 Text Region for Image Authentication,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, vol. 2, pp. 1078-1081, 2005.
[Ci15] H. Y. Kim, “A New Public-Key Authentication Watermarking for Binary Document Images Resistant to Parity Attacks,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, vol. 2, pp. 1074-1077, 2005.
[Ci14] H. Y. Kim and R. L. de Queiroz, “Alteration-Locating Authentication Watermarking for Binary Images,” Int. Workshop on Digital Watermarking 2004, (Seoul), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3304, pp. 125-136, 2004.
[Ci13] H. Y. Kim and R. L. Queiroz, “A Public-Key Authentication Watermarking for Binary Images,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (Singapore), pp. 3459-3462, 2004.
[Ci12] C. R. P. Dionisio and H. Y. Kim, “New Features for Affine-Invariant Shape Classification,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (Singapore), pp. 2135-2138, 2004.
[Ci11] H. Y. Kim and R. L. Queiroz, “Inverse Halftoning by Decision Tree Learning,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (Barcelona, Spain), vol. 2, pp. 913-916, 2003.
[Ci10] C. R. P. Dionisio, H. Y. Kim, “A Supervised Shape Classification Technique Invariant Under Rotation and Scaling,” in Proc. Int. Telecommunications Symposium, (Natal, Brasil), pp. 533-537, 2002.
[Ci09] H. I. A. Bustos, H. Y. Kim, “Color Image Edge Detection by Robust Anisotropic Diffusion,” in Proc. Int. Telecommunications Symposium, (Natal, Brasil), pp. 516-521, 2002.
[Ci08] P. S. L. M. Barreto, H. Y. Kim, B. Lynnm M. Scott, “Efficient Algorithms for Pairing-Based Cryptosystems,” Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO'2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2442, pp. 354-368, Springer-Verlag, 2002 (Updated version: Cryptology ePrint Archive Report 2002/008, http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/008/).
[Ci07] H. I. A. Bustos, H. Y. Kim, R. T. Lopes, “Image Reconstruction Using Divergent Beams Distributed over Limited Angle,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (Rochester, USA), vol. 2, pp. 445-448, 2002.
[Ci06] J. Nakahara Jr., P. S. L. M. Barreto, B. Preneel, J. Vanderwalle, H. Y. Kim, “Square Attacks on Reduced-Round PES and IDEA Block Ciphers,” in Proc. 23rd IEEE Symp. Inf. Theory in the BENELUX, (Louvain-la-Neuve), pp. 187-195, 2002.
[Ci05] H. Y. Kim, “Fast and Accurate Binary Halftone Image Resolution Increasing by Decision-Tree Learning,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc. (Thessaloniki, Greece), vol. 2, pp. 1093-1096, 2001.
[Ci04] P. S. L. M. Barreto, H. Y. Kim and V. Rijmen, “Toward a Secure Public-Key Blockwise Fragile Authentication Watermarking,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc. (Thessaloniki, Greece), vol. 2, pp. 494-497, 2001.
[Ci03] P. S. L. M. Barreto, V. Rijmen, J. Nakahara Jr., B. Preneel, J. Vandewalle, H. Y. Kim, “Improved Square Attacks Against Reduced-Round Hierocrypt,” Fast Software Encryption Workshop (Yokohama, Japan), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2355, pp. 165-173, 2001.
[Ci02] H. Y. Kim and Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, “Fast Binary Image Resolution Increasing by k-Nearest Neighbor Learning,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc. (Vancouver, Canada), vol. 2, TA9.06, pp. 327-330, 2000.
[Ci01] H. Y. Kim and F. A. M. Cipparrone, “Automatic Design of Nonlinear Filters by Nearest Neighbor Learning,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Proc. (Chicago, USA), vol. 2, TP7.05, pp. 737-741, 1998.

Brazilian journals:

[Rn02] P. S. L. M. Barreto and H. Y. Kim, “Fast Hashing onto Pairing-Friendly Elliptic Curves over Ternary Fields,” Revista de Engenharia de Computação e Sistemas Digitais, Escola Politécnica, USP, no. 2, pp. 19-28, Nov. 2005. (The original PDF file can be downloaded here)
[Rn01] H. Y. Kim, “Marcas d’Água Frágeis de Autenticação para Imagens em Tonalidade Contínua e Esteganografia para Imagens Binárias e Meiotom,” Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada, Instituto de Informática da UFRGS, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 97-125, 2003. (Presentation material of Sibgrapi-2003 tutorial course is available here.)

Brazilian and Latin-American conferences:

[Cn27] R.H. Ito, H.Y. Kim, W. J. Salcedo, “Classificação de Texturas Invariante a Rotação Usando Matriz de Co-ocorrência,” 8th International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium, 2009.
[Cn26] A.H.T. Mendes, S.W. Park, H.Y. Kim, “Determinação do perfil de encolhimento transversal na estrutura do papel,” ABTCP-PI 2009 - 42° Congresso e Exposição Internacional de Celulose e Papel, 2009.
[Cn25] M. A. A. de Melo, S. Delijaicov, and H. Y. Kim, “Controle dos sinais de sensores piezo-elétricos aplicado na medição das forças de corte no torneamento duro usando combinação de filtros não lineares,” Congresso Internacional de Metrologia Mecânica, 2008.
[Cn24] M. A. A. de Melo, S. Delijaicov, and H. Y. Kim, “Controle dos Sinais de Sensores Piezo-Elétricos Aplicado na Medição das Forças de Corte no Torneamento Duro,” SBAI - Simpósio Brasileiro de Automação Inteligente, 2007.
[Cn23] H. Y. Kim, J. Mayer, “Data Hiding for Binary Documents Robust to Print-Scan, Photocopy and Geometric Distortions,” Proc. Sibgrapi - Brazilian Symp. on Comp. Graph. and Image Proc., pp. 105-112, 2007.
[Cn22] A. R. Santos, H. Y. Kim, “Real-Time Opaque and Semi-Transparent TV Logos Detection,” in Proc. 5th Int. Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium (I2TS), Cuiabá, paper #24727, 2006.
[Cn21] S. V. D. Pamboukian and H. Y. Kim, “Reversible Data Hiding and Reversible Authentication Watermarking for Binary Images,” in Proc. Simpósio Brasileiro em Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais (SBSeg), 2006.
[Cn20] H. I. A. Bustos and H. Y. Kim, “Reconstruction-Diffusion: An Improved Maximum Entropy Reconstruction Algorithm Based on the Robust Anisotropic Diffusion,” in Proc. Sibgrapi - Brazilian Symp. on Comp. Graph. and Image Proc., 2005.
[Cn19] S. A. Araújo and H. Y. Kim, “Meio-Tom Inverso Usando Redes Neurais Artificiais,” in Proc. Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, 2005.
[Cn18] M. H. Shiba, R. L. Santos, H. Y. Kim and J. A. Quintanilha, “Classificação de Imagens de Sensoriamento Remoto pela Aprendizagem por Árvore de Decisão: Uma Avaliação de Desempenho,” in Proc. XII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, 2005, (Goiânia).
[Cn17] H. Y. Kim, J. O. Giacomantone, Z. H. Cho, “Mapa Anisotrópico Estadístico de Imágenes de Resonancia Magnética Funcional,” in Proc. X Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computacion (CACIC-2004), Buenos Aires.
[Cn16] C. R. P. Dionisio, H. Y. Kim, “Novas Características para Classificação de Formas Invariantes sob Transformações Afins,” in Proc. XV Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA2004).
[Cn15] M. A. A. de Melo and H. Y. Kim, “Filtragem de Sinais do Acelerômetro pela Difusão Anisotrópica,” in Proc. XV Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA2004).
[Cn14] H. Y. Kim and A. Afif, “Secure Authentication Watermarking for Binary Images,” in Proc. Sibgrapi - Brazilian Symp. on Comp. Graph. and Image Proc., pp. 199-206, 2003.
[Cn13] H. I. A. Bustos and H. Y. Kim “Reconstrução-Difusão: Um Algoritmo de Reconstrução MENT Melhorado Baseado em Difusão Anisotrópica Robusta,” in Proc. 8^o Congresso Brasileiro de Física Médica, (Porto Alegre, Brasil), pp. 253-257, 2003.
[Cn12] H. Y. Kim and Z. H. Cho, “Robust Anisotropic Diffusion to Produce Clear Statistical Parametric Map from Noisy fMRI,” in Proc. Sibgrapi - Brazilian Symp. on Comp. Graph. and Image Proc., pp. 11-17, 2002.
[Cn11] H. I. A. Bustos, H. Y. Kim and R. T. Lopes, “Método de Reconstrução de Imagem Usando Feixe Divergente Distribuído em ângulo Limitado,” in Proc. Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, 2001.
[Cn10] H. Y. Kim, “Complexidade de Amostra para Projetar Operadores para Imagens Binárias pela Aprendizagem de Máquina,” in Proc. V Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais (Rio de Janeiro), pp. 121-126, 2001.
[Cn08] H. Y. Kim, “Filtros Nebulosos no Espaço de Escala,” in Proc. Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, paper 4140035, 2000.
[Cn07] P. S. L. M. Barreto, H. Y. Kim and V. Rijmen, “Um Modo de Operação de Funções de Hashing para Localizar Alterações em Dados Digitalmente Assinados,” in Proc. Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações, paper 5150124, 2000.
[Cn06] H. Y. Kim, “Segmentation-Free Printed Character Recognition by Relaxed Nearest Neighbor Learning of Windowed Operator,” in Proc. Sibgrapi - Brazilian Symp. on Comp. Graph. and Image Proc., pp. 195-204, 1999.

Abstracts and extended abstracts:

[Ci24] Kleber Iguchi, Leonardo Pinheiro da Silva, Vanderlei Parro, Eduardo Janot-Pacheco, Hae Yong Kim, “Development of a hybrid algorithm for time-resolved stellar photometry from space images,” First CoRoT International Symposium, 2009.
[Ci21] Diego Massola Shimizu, Hae Yong Kim, “Perceptual Hashing for Hardcopy Document Authentication Using Morphological Segmentation,” ISMM - Int. Symp. Mathematical Morphology, 2007.
[Ci20] S. A. Araujo, and H. Y. Kim, “Rotation, scale and translation-invariant segmentation-free grayscale shape recognition using mathematical morphology,” ISMM - Int. Symp. Mathematical Morphology, 2007.
[Cn09] H. I. A. Bustos, H. Y. Kim and R. T. Lopes, “New Image Reconstruction Method from Fan-Beam Projections in Limited Angle,” in Proc. IV Workshop do SIBRATI (Sistema Brasileiro de Tecnologia de Informação), http://www.lsi.usp.br/~dmi/workshop2001/, 2001.
[Cn05] P. S. L. M. Barreto and H. Y. Kim, “Pitfalls in Public Key Watermarking,” in Proc. Sibgrapi - Brazilian Symp. on Comp. Graph. and Image Proc., pp. 241-242, 1999.

Theses and Dissertations:

[T14] Sidnei A. Araújo and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Casamento de Padrões em Imagens Digitais Livre de Segmentação e Invariante sob Transformações de Similaridade, Ph.D. thesis, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2009.
[T13] Marco A. A. Melo and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Filtro Difusão-Mediana com Determinação Automática dos Parâmetros com Aplicações em Sinais de ECG e Sensor Piezoelétrico, Ph.D. thesis, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2009.

Anexos.

[T12] Henrique P. A. Nobre and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Geração Automática de Módulos VHDL para Localização de Padrões Invariante a Escala e Rotação em FPGA, M.Sc. dissertation, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2009.
[T11] A. R. dos Santos and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Medição de Audiência de Televisão em Tempo Real pelo Reconhecimento de Logos, M. Sc. dissertation, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2007.
[T10] S. V. D. Pamboukian and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Marcas d’Água de Autenticação para Imagens Binárias: Marcas Reversíveis e Marcas para o Padrão JBIG2, Ph.D. thesis, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2007.
[T09] J. O Giacomantone and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Ressonância Magnética Funcional com Filtragem pela Difusão Anisotrópica Robusta, M.Sc. dissertation, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2005.
[T08] C. R. P. Dionisio and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Características de Formas Planas Invariantes sob Transformações de Similaridade e Afim, Ph.D thesis, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2004.

[T07] A. Afif and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Estudo de Esteganografia e Marcas d’água de Autenticação para Imagens Binárias e Meio-Tom, M.Sc. dissertation, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2004.
[T06] M. A. A. Melo and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Filtragem de Sinais do Acelerômetro pela Difusão Anisotrópica, M.Sc. dissertation, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2004.
[T05] H. Y. Kim, Projeto e Operadores pela Aprendizagem, Difusão Anisotrópica e Marca d'Água de Autenticação, tese de livre-docência, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2004.

Divided in chapters:
tes0A_capa.pdf
tes0B_FichaCatalografica.pdf
tes0C_indice.pdf
tes1.pdf (Introdução)
tes2.pdf (Projeto de Operadores pela Aprendizagem)
tes3.pdf (Difusão Anisotrópica)
tes4.pdf (Marcas d'Água de Autenticação)
tes5_referencias.pdf

[T04] P. S. L. M. Barreto and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Criptografia Robusta e Marcas d'Água Frágeis: Construção e Análise de Algoritmos para Localizar Alterações em Imagens Digitais, Ph.D. thesis, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2003.
[T03] H. I. A. Bustos and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Melhoramento de Tomografia para Dados Sub-Determinados Usando Difusão Anisotrópica, Ph.D. thesis, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2003.
[T02] H. Y. Kim and F. A. M. Cipparrone (advisor), Construção Automática de Operadores Morfológicos por Aprendizagem Computacional, Ph.D. thesis, Escola Politécnica, USP, 1997.
[T01] H. Y. Kim and R. Terada (advisor), Síntese de Imagem e Rastreamento de Raio, M.Sc. dissertation, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, USP, 1992.

Projeto de Formatura:

[Pf07] E. R. S. Shiino and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Ferramenta de Realidade Aumentada Baseada em Conjunto Projetor-Câmera para Auxílio ao Ensino, undergradute course conclusion project, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2007.
[Pf06] D. Z. Figueiredo and H. Y. Kim (advisor), Mascaramento de Informações e Autenticação de Imagens Coloridas por Marcas d’Água Reversíveis, undergradute course conclusion project, Escola Politécnica, USP, 2007.

Personal Communications:

[U03] H. Y. Kim and S. A. de Araújo, “Rotation, Scale and Translation-Invariant Segmentation-Free Shape Recognition,” 2006.
[U02] H. Y. Kim, “Gradient Histogram-Based Anisotropic Diffusion,” 2005.
[U01] H. Y. Kim, “An Anisotropic Diffusion with Meaningful Scale Parameter,” 2005.

Products and patents

[Pa01] H. Y. Kim, M. Piai Jr, “Aparelho para Detecção e Classificação de Veículos,” patente depositado protocolo 018090025812 INPI/SP, 20/Maio/2009.

Feel free to send an e-mail requesting reprint of any paper above listed.

I am accepting submissions of students for master degree and doctorate programs in image processing.