SEOUL, April 13 (AJP) - The Empathic AI Women's Engineering Talent Training Team at Sookmyung Women's University in South Korea is presenting a series of research papers at major international computer science conferences. As part of the Brain Korea 21 program, the team is developing human-centered artificial intelligence designed to address social isolation and communication barriers.
Professor Kim Byeong-gyu leads the multidisciplinary group, which conducts research on emotion recognition, generative AI, and human-computer interaction. His group will present a multimodal emotion recognition model called EmoXFormer at the IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2026. This technology integrates different signals to identify human emotions more accurately.
In the field of virtual reality, a group led by Professor Dong Seo-yeon presented two papers at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2025. Their work involves a method to measure heart rates using the area around the ear when a user's face is obscured by a headset. This allows for stable emotion recognition even when a user is moving.
Professor Kim Sang-yeon and his team are focusing on digital accessibility for the elderly. At the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2026, they will introduce an AI-based tool that helps older users identify digital buttons and icons more easily through color and spatial cues.
Other researchers on the team have focused on cybersecurity and data systems. Professor Jeong Seong-hun developed a model to detect evolving cyber threats for the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2026. Professor Choi Yun-hyeok also presented research on improving recommendation systems at various conferences, including AAAI 2026 and WSDM 2025.
"We are expanding the practical applications of empathic AI through these diverse research achievements," said Professor Kim Byeong-gyu. "Based on our global research capabilities, we plan to contribute to fostering talent who will solve social problems and lead the AI industry in the future."
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