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Professor ZHANG Byoung-Tak Develops Imaginative Computer Program

Professor ZHANG Byoung-Tak leads the research on brain-inspired computational intelligence technologies.
Professor ZHANG Byoung-Tak leads the research on brain-inspired computational intelligence technologies.

Professor ZHANG Byoung-Tak’s research team (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) has developed an imaginative computer program that can acquire information contained in videos and make up words or dialogue suitable for each scene shown on the screen. The research team entered the 1,232-minute-long Korean animation Pororo into the computer program and found that the program was able to teach itself to recognize scenes, lines, stories, and characters using associative memory that resembles a human brain's neural network. “I hope that our study will lay the groundwork for developing artificial intelligence based on big data,” said Professor Jang. Their research findings were presented at the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) held from January 25 to 30 in Austin, Texas, in the U.S.