At ICCV 2019, Clova AI had a remarkable performance in research. Four papers have been accepted to ICCV 2019. Clova AI had won a great opportunity to present two of its accepted papers: CutMix: Regularization Strategy to Train Strong Classifiers with Localizable Features, and What is Wrong with Scene Text Recognition Model Comparisons? Dataset and Model Analysis.
| CutMix: Regularization Strategy to Train Strong Classifiers with Localizable Features (Oral) | Sangdoo Yun, Dongyoon Han, Seong Joon Oh, Sanghyuk Chun, Junsuk Choe, YoungJoon Yoo | A new data augmentation technique for the enhancement of backbone performance | arXiv Github Blog |
| What is Wrong with Scene Text Recognition Model Comparisons? Dataset and Model Analysis (Oral) | Jeonghun Baek, Geewook Kim, Junyeop Lee, Sungrae Park, Dongyoon Han, Sangdoo Yun, Seong Joon Oh, Hwalsuk Lee | An overhaul of OCR experiment protocols and benchmarks A proposal for the new framework to measure performance and analyze the existing STR models | arXiv Github Blog |
| Photorealistic Style Transfer via Wavelet Transforms | JaeJun Yoo, YoungJung Uh, Sanghyuk Chun, Byungkyu Kang, Jung-Woo Ha | An end-to-end wavelet pooling photorealistic style transfer without any post-processing | arXiv Github Blog |
| A Comprehensive Overhaul of Feature Distillation | Byeongho Heo, Jeesoo Kim, Sangdoo Yun, Hyojin Park, Nojun Kwak, Jin Young Choi | A new knowledge distillation technique on ImageNet-1k that shows a better performance than the existing state-of-the-art methods | arXiv Github Blog |
Clova AI and its research capabilities have received impressive attention from the media. Please click on the links in the following to find out more.
- CutMix: Regularization Strategy to Train Strong Classifiers with Localizable Features
네이버, AI 비전 기술 1년 앞당긴다 – 전자신문
https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=105&oid=030&aid=0002849742 - https://papago.naver.net/website?locale=ko&source=ko&target=en&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.naver.com%2Fmain%2Fread.nhn%3Fmode%3DLSD%26mid%3Dsec%26sid1%3D105%26oid%3D030%26aid%3D0002849742 (in English – translated by Papago)
- A Comprehensive Overhaul of Feature Distillation:
네이버 슈퍼인턴, ‘청출어람 신경망’으로 글로벌학회 데뷔 – 지디넷코리아
https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=105&oid=092&aid=0002173739 - https://papago.naver.net/website?locale=ko&source=ko&target=en&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.naver.com%2Fmain%2Fread.nhn%3Fmode%3DLSD%26mid%3Dsec%26sid1%3D105%26oid%3D092%26aid%3D0002173739 (in English – translated by Papago)
- What is Wrong with Scene Text Recognition Model Comparisons? Dataset and Model Analysis:
세계에 ‘네이버’ 알린 이 논문…바늘구멍 뚫은 이유는? – 디지털데일리
https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=105&oid=138&aid=0002078912 - https://papago.naver.net/website?locale=ko&source=ko&target=en&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.naver.com%2Fmain%2Fread.nhn%3Fmode%3DLSD%26mid%3Dsec%26sid1%3D105%26oid%3D138%26aid%3D0002078912 (in English – translated by Papago)
- NAVER at ICCV 2019:
네이버, 국제컴퓨터비전학회(ICCV)서 기술공유·인재채용
https://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=105&oid=018&aid=0004503245 - https://papago.naver.net/website?locale=ko&source=ko&target=en&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.naver.com%2Fmain%2Fread.nhn%3Fmode%3DLSD%26mid%3Dsec%26sid1%3D105%26oid%3D018%26aid%3D0004503245 (in English – translated by Papago)
NAVER Corporation and Clova AI made many efforts to prepare for the conference.
First, Clova AI hosted the ICCV Paper Day event. Nearly 20 Korean authors and 100 student researchers were invited to the event. The event served as a forum for state-of-the-art technology sharing and exchange. The event consisted of oral presentation and aperitivo sessions.
Sangdoo Yun 
Jeonghun Baek 
Aperitivo Session
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Before the conference, NAVER ran outdoor welcome advertising to promote itself and celebrate the commencement of ICCV2019 in South Korea.
NAVER Corporation exclusively distributed ICCV 2019 souvenir T-shirts with its logo on the back.
ICCV 2019 Souvenir by NAVER Corporation
Numerous visitors had a chance to try the new demos at the NAVER booth. The demos include the commerce AI of NAVER shopping, Japanese restaurant search database, CONOMI, AiCall, Naver Maps, 180° 3D VR technology of V live, AI-based automatic smart coloring and contrast adjustment of NAVER Webtoon, and live 3D avatar creation of Clova AI Video.
Please click on the video below to better understand how the interactive 3d avatar creation works.
Interactive avatar by Clova AI Video
Impressive demos at the booth and state-of-the-art technologies of Clova AI attracted many crowds to the venue. Many renowned scholars and researchers, such as Professor Dennis Hong (UCLA), Professor Sanja Fidler (University of Toronto), and Ming-Yu Liu (NVIDIA Research) visited the NAVER booth and presented themselves at the Clova AI’s poster presentation sites, as well.
Visitors at the NAVER booth 
Jung-Woo Ha (Clova AI Research), , and Prof. Dennis Hong (UCLA) 
Seong Joon Oh (Clova AI), Joon Son Chung (Clova AI Speech), Dr. Ming-Yu Liu (NVIDIA Research), and Jung-Woo Ha (Clova AI Research) 
Poster Presentation of A Comprehensive Overhaul of Feature Distillation 
Interested visitors at the NAVER Booth 
Poster Presentation of Photorealistic Style Transfer via Wavelet Transforms 
Poster Presentation of Photorealistic Style Transfer via Wavelet Transforms and
Prof. Sanja Fidler (University of Toronto)
Poster Presentation of Photorealistic Style Transfer via Wavelet Transforms 
Jung-woo Ha (Clova AI Research) 
Poster Presentation of Photorealistic Style Transfer via Wavelet Transforms 
Poster Presentation of Photorealistic Style Transfer via Wavelet Transforms 
Poster Presentation of Photorealistic Style Transfer via Wavelet Transforms 
Poster Presentation of Photorealistic Style Transfer via Wavelet Transforms 
Poster Presentation of Photorealistic Style Transfer via Wavelet Transforms
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Employees of NAVER Corporation and NAVER LABS EUROPE
You may watch the following video for a short introduction tour of the ICCV 2019 corporate booths. The video was recorded by Sung Kim (Clova AI Head) and Jung-Woo Ha (Clova AI Research Director). The video is in Korean.
ICCV 2019 Booth tour with Sung Kim (Clova AI Head) and Jung-woo Ha (Clova AI Research Director)