**Byung-Gyu Kim**

Byung-Gyu Kim has received his BS degree from Pusan National University, Korea, in 1996 and an MS degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1998. In 2004, he received a PhD degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). In March 2004, he joined in the real-time multimedia research team at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea where he was a senior researcher. In ETRI, he developed so many real-time video signal processing algorithms and patents and received the Best Paper Award in 2007. From February 2009 to February 2016, he was associate professor in the Division of Computer Science and Engineering at SunMoon University, Korea. In March 2016, he joined the Department of Information Technology (IT) Engineering at Sookmyung Women's University, Korea where he is currently a professor.

In 2007, he is serving as an associate editor of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (Springer), The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer), The Journal of Real-Time Image Processing (Springer), and International Journal of Image Processing and Visual Communication (IJIPVC). From March 2018, he is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Multimedia Information System and associate editor of IEEE Access Journal. From 2019, he was appointed as the associate editor and topic editor of Heliyon-Computer Science (Elsevier), Journal of Image Science and Technology (IS & T), Electronics (MDPI), Applied Sciences (MDPI), and Sensors (MDPI), respectively. He also served or serves as Organizing Committee of CSIP 2011, a Co-organizer of CICCAT2016/2017, and Program Committee Members of many international conferences. He has received the Special Merit Award for Outstanding Paper from the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, at IEEE ICCE 2012, Certification Appreciation Award from the SPIE Optical Engineering in 2013, and the Best Academic Award from the CIS in 2014. He has been honored as an IEEE Senior member in 2015. He is serving as a professional reviewer in many academic journals including IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer, Oxford, SPIE, IET, MDPI, and so on.

He has published over 250 international journal and conference papers, patents in his field. His research interests include image and video signal processing for the content-based image coding, video coding techniques, 3D video signal processing, deep/reinforcement learning algorithm, embedded multimedia system, and intelligent information system for image signal processing. He is a senior member of IEEE and a professional member of ACM, and IEICE.
