Taking Steps to Secure Future Talent at Global AI Conference
Image 1. CVPR 2024, held in Seattle, USA from June 17 to 21
LG AI Research attended the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference, the largest conference in the field of computer vision, in Seattle, USA, to secure AI talent. CVPR 2024 was attended by LG AI Research, as well as major affiliates including LG Electronics, LG Uplus, and LG CNS. AI researchers and recruiters from each company were at LG’s integrated booth at CVPR 2024 to introduce LG’s latest AI technologies and provide recruitment counseling.
Image 2. LG’s researchers and AI talent interacting at LG’s integrated booth
Efforts to secure future talent continued outside LG’s integrated booth. LG AI Research hosted LG AI Day, inviting over 100 master’s and doctoral students who presented papers at CVPR 2024. LG AI Day is a networking event with a unique touch from LG AI Research. It has become a place to meet AI talent, exchange research insights, and network among researchers at major academic conferences. In particular, LG AI Research and LG Electronics hired talented individuals through LG AI Day hosted at global AI conferences including CVPR over the past two years.
Image 3. LG AI Day, the event for discussing research and engaging in networking exchanges
Publishing Research, Organizing Workshops, and Demonstrating Technical Leadership
We were also able to showcase research at CVPR 2024. In addition to the 5 papers published by LG AI Research, LG published a total of 11 papers, including 4 from LG Electronics and 2 from LG CNS, showcasing LG’s technology leadership.
Image 4. The zero-shot image captioning workshop, featuring discussions from multimodal AI experts and academics
LG AI Research also held a workshop on zero-shot image captioning—a technology that describes previously unseen images with text—with the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence at Seoul National University and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The zero-shot image captioning workshop, organized by LG AI Research for the second time following last year’s event, brought together multimodal AI experts from big tech companies such as Amazon, Google, and Meta, as well as academic experts, for an in-depth discussion on the latest research trends and future prospects in the field of image captioning.
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From Planning to Generating Media Art... Expanding Generative AI
Image 5. Media art “The Four Seasons of Hwadam Botanic Garden”
made with EXAONE was displayed at LG’s integrated booth
LG’s integrated booth at CVPR 2024 also featured media art directed by EXAONE, LG AI Research’s generative multimodal AI, which drew the attention of visitors. The media art “The Four Seasons of Hwadam Botanic Garden” shows the mood and sensibility of the garden, which transforms with each season, and EXAONE was utilized throughout the entire process, from the planning stage to the production of images and directing motion graphics for each season.
To do this, LG AI Research trained EXAONE on 350 million licensed image-text data pairs, plus 6,700 images from Hwadam Botanic Garden. The media art “The Four Seasons of Hwadam Botanic Garden” showcased the possibilities and potential of what EXAONE can do, from planning, organizing, and creating media art.
LG plans to continue efforts to attract AI talent. Following CVPR, LG AI Research is also preparing for LG AI Tech Connect, an AI talent recruitment event. Kyunghoon Bae, Chief of LG AI Research, Honglak Lee, Chief Scientist of AI, and members of the Talent Relations (TR) team will travel to the Bay Area, home to global big tech companies, to meet with more than 40 master’s and doctoral researchers from leading universities and big tech companies in western North America to showcase LG’s AI research and recruit new talent. Stay tuned for LG AI Research’s activities to meet more AI talent!