MIN-CHEOL HONG received B.S and M.S degrees from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea in 1988 and 1990, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA in 1997. He was with the LG Electronics Corporate Research Center from 1990 to 1991 and from 1998 to 2000. Additionally, he worked as a Research Fellow at Northwestern University from 1997 to 1998. In 2000, he joined Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea, where he is currently a Professor. His research areas include 2D/3D image/video restoration, nonlinear video processing, motion analysis and modelling, blind image deconvolution, video coding, image recognition, and image classification.