ESTsoft (CEO Chung Sang-won), a company specializing in AI services, announced on the 23rd that it has run an internship program with KAIST's Department of Mathematical Sciences to develop practically minded AI talent.
In the program, students from KAIST's Department of Mathematical Sciences took part in research to advance the virtual human service ESTsoft has commercialized as a new AI business.
The research topic was set as 'Temporal Stability of Deep Learning Model Prediction for Video'.
Specifically, it involved building a model that finds and outputs, from video, the key facial coordinate values needed to render a person's face as an image and reproduce its movement.
Since ESTsoft is applying the technology in a live service, it focused its evaluation on whether the models the students developed output coordinate values at a meaningful level and how stably they operated.
Six students from KAIST's Department of Mathematical Sciences took part in the program, organized into two teams and beginning model development research on August 1.
Through the research the students proposed a range of ideas needed for model development and refinement, including ▲data cleaning methods, ▲criteria for setting metrics and ▲ways to secure metric stability.
ESTsoft plans to decide on any follow-up research after thorough discussion of the results with KAIST's Department of Mathematical Sciences.
ESTsoft CEO Chung Sang-won said: "This internship program means a great deal in that it gave highly capable talent the chance to apply their research skills to a commercialized AI service, and in that it also gave ESTsoft an opening for joint research with them," adding, "We plan to keep actively seeking out varied industry-academia collaboration opportunities with KAIST's Department of Mathematical Sciences to advance the AI industry."