Hoon Kim is the founder of Beeble, the company behind SwitchLight, with a KAIST pedigree (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering) and prior research stints at Lunit and Krafton, where he led a voice-synthesis team. See his background on his personal site and connect via LinkedIn. His academic track record spans machine learning and computer vision, from the AAAI paper “Crash to Not Crash” to recent work on relighting; browse a full list on his Google Scholar.
DP: Let’s kick things off with a bit of background: What actually set you and your crew on the path to AI relighting? Hoon Kim: Four other technologists and I founded Beeble as a selfie relighting app after seeing a gap in the market for AI-powered lighting tools. It received a great reception and went viral, but the real Eureka moment happened next. We found that VFX artists would hugely benefit from a similar tool that relights video instead of still imagery. We knew it would solve many time and budget issues, while ena...
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