Sangseung Kang

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Sangseung Kang is a versatile robotics and human-computer interaction researcher whose work spans elder care robotics, industrial automation, and computer vision. With a career spanning over 15 years, Kang has made meaningful contributions at the intersection of service robotics and manufacturing technology, accumulating over 150 citations across his published work. Kang's most influential contributions lie in socially assistive robotics for aging populations. His 2015 study on the Silver-Care-Robot Program (29 citations) demonstrated measurable improvements in cognitive function, depression, and daily living activities among institutionalized elderly patients — offering compelling clinical evidence for robot-assisted care. This built upon his earlier 2012 elder care robot framework (20 citations), which pioneered human-robot interaction monitoring systems in nursing home settings. Equally significant is his expertise in machine vision and industrial robotics. His research on object recognition for cell manufacturing (20 citations), vision-based bin picking (16 citations), and deep learning-based object segmentation (18 citations) has advanced practical automation solutions relevant to Industry 4.0 applications. His early work developing emotionally responsive robots, including the KOBIE pet-type platform, further demonstrates his broad interest in making robots genuinely responsive to human needs — a thread that runs consistently throughout his career.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Effects of Silver-Care-Robot Program on Cognitive Function, Depression, and Activities of Daily Living for Institutionalized Elderly People

   29 citations · 2015
2. 2
   A study on service robot system for elder care

   20 citations · 2012
3. 3
   Object recognition for cell manufacturing system

   20 citations · 2012
4. 4
   Real-time precise object segmentation using a pixel-wise coarse-fine method with deep learning for automated manufacturing

   18 citations · 2021
5. 5
   Dynamic Object Recognition Using Precise Location Detection and ANN for Robot Manipulator

   18 citations · 2017
6. 6
   Vision-based bin picking system for industrial robotics applications

   16 citations · 2012
7. 7
   Robotic vision system for random bin picking with dual-arm robots

   10 citations · 2016
8. 8
   Multiple objects recognition for industrial robot applications

   9 citations · 2013
9. 9
   Development of an experimental platform for child friendly emotional robot

   7 citations · 2007
10. 10
    KOBIE: A Pet-type Emotion Robot

    6 citations · 2008

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