Sogang Team Wins Grand Prize in 2020 Capstone Design Competition

▲ (From top left) Professor Koo Myoungwan, Gang Tae-ho, Kim Ju-hi, and Lee Jun-ha

(Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, ‘16)

The 2020 Fall Academic Contest on Undergraduate Theses and the Capstone Design Competition were held online on November 27 and 28. The Korean Institute of Broadcast and Media Engineers was founded in 1994 to research and develop updated technologies and standards required for the broadcasting environment, and it has been acknowledged as Korea's only professional academic circle in the broadcasting technology field.

Students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Gang Tae-ho, Kim Ju-hi, and Lee Jun-ha) and Professor Koo Myoungwan of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering won the grand prize in the Capstone Design Competition for their 'Development of a Korean Audio Caption System.' This project was developed through weekly meetings between the students and their professor in the 'Capstone Design II' course, a course where students learn creative designing techniques adjusted to demands from industrial fields.

The 'Korean Audio Caption System' is an artificial intelligence (AI) technology to interpret audio data and automatically convert it into captions. For example, the system can produce automatic translations for such complex data as, for example, "Birds singing while an airplane flies overhead," converting these sounds into written words.

Professor Koo said, "It is significant that students of the undergraduate program have developed Korea's first Korean Audio Caption System by utilizing updated caption AI technology and public software. Using this technology, it will be possible to automatically convert various forms of audio data (not voices but sound effects) in video files into Korean."