한국통신학회 KICS

2023 4th Korea Artificial Intelligence Conference

by Insoo Sohn, Dongguk University, Korea

  The 2023 4th Korea Artificial Intelligence Conference (KAIC) was held on 20th of October 2023 in Shilla Stay Jeju Hotel on Jeju Island. The Conference is an annual event hosted by the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) and organized by the KICS Artificial Intelligence Society. The goal of this annual event is to provide a leading international forum for researchers in machine learning and related fields to share their new ideas, progress, and achievements with this year’s theme of “The Era of Hyper-scale AI and Innovative Applications.”

  The KAIC 2023 program consisted of four Tutorials, four Top Conferences, two Keynotes, five Special Sessions, and 42 Paper Sessions. A total of 211 papers were presented and 360 people attended, demonstrating the tremendous increase in the conference attendance from the previous year’s total of 170 papers and 250 attendees. KAIC has become the flagship conference in AI in Korea through years of hard work from the steering, organizing, and technical program committees. Leading chairs this year were as follows: Steering Committee Chair: Prof. Yeong Min Jang (Kookmin Univ., Korea), Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Dong Seog Han (Kyungpook National Univ., Korea), Technical Program Committee Chairs: Prof. Sang-Chul Kim (Kookmin Univ., Korea), Prof. Insoo Sohn (Dongguk Univ., Korea), and Prof. Youn-Hee Han, Korea Tech. Education Univ., Korea).

  Keynote speaker information: Keynote 1: Director. Jungwoo Ha (Naver AI Lab, Korea) on “Naver’s Strategy for Hyper-scale AI: HyperCLOVA X” and Keynote 2: President Junho Baik (FuriosaAI, Korea) on “ChatGPT optimized High Performance AI Chip Development: FuriosaAI.” In Keynote session 1, the latest technology related to the Hyper-scale generative AI foundation model related to language, image, audio, and others were presented with a focus on ChatGPT. Furthermore, the keynote speaker discussed how ChatGPT is creating a new trend in information search and creation applications with comparison to Google Search. Other important topic covered in the Top Conference Sessions was “MPViT: Multi-Path Vision Transformer for Dense Prediction,” which was presented in CVPR 2022, and the first tutorial session topic was related to the “Learning to Optimize Wireless Networks” using AI technology. Owing to the great success of KAIC in 2023 in terms of attendance, quality and size of paper presentation, and growing interest from the AI community, the KAIC 2024 Organizing Committee decided to move the conference venue to a place where greater expansion of the conference is possible. Thus, the KAIC 2024 Organizing Committee is proud to announce that KAIC 2024 will be held in Sono Calm Jeju, which is located on the southern coast of Jeju Island with a beautiful garden and a path along the beach.                                       

 
 Tutorial Presentation

 ​Keynote Speech

 Conference Program

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