1. This document summarizes a presentation by SI Analytics, a subsidiary of Satrec Initiative that provides AI solutions for satellite and aerial imagery analysis. 2. SI Analytics has 20+ employees including 2 PhDs and 8 Masters, and customers include Korean government agencies. The CEO founded the company in 2018 after working at Satrec Initiative and Google. 3. The company provides services including data annotation, object detection, infrastructure monitoring, and an analytic platform called LabelEarth. It also engages in research on topics like object detection, super resolution, and explainable AI.

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4. To provide the values for mankind to make wise decisions through Earth observation

5. About Our Company
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AI Solutions Expert
for Satellite and Aerial Imagery Analytics
▪ Subsidiary company from Satrec Initiative
▪ Incorporated: July of 2018 by Dr. Taegyun Jeon
▪ Employees: 20+ (2 PhD, 8 Masters)
▪ Customers: Korean Government and Defense Agency
▪ Partners:

6. Taegyun Jeon
• CEO and Founder
▪ SI Analytics, Jul 2018 – Present
• AI Team Leader
▪ Satrec Initiative, Sep 2016 – Jun 2018
• Google Developer Experts – Machine Learning
▪ Google, Sep 2017 – Present
• PhD – Machine Learning and Computer Vision
▪ Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
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7. Satellites Ground Stations Imaging Services Analytics
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8. NVIDIA AI Conference 2018 Keynote – Marc Hamilton (VP, NVIDIA)

9. Fields of Business
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• Dataset Design
• Data Annotation
• Providing labeling tool
AI Specialist for Satellite and Aerial Imagery Analysis
• Object Detection
• Abnormal Detection
• Super-Resolution
• Infrastructure Monitor
• Customized Inference
Service & Platform
• On-demand analysis
(subscription basis)
• AI Team building
• Dataset building
Dataset Analytic Engine
(AI Models)
Analytic Platform
(LabelEarth)
Consultancy

10. AI Expertise (Research Activity)
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Paper Title Events Date
• Revisiting Classical Bagging with Modern Transfer Learning for On-the-fly Disaster Damage Detector AI+HADR Workshop at NeurIPS 2019 2019. 12. 13
• Deep Closed-Form Subspace Clustering RSL-CV Workshop at ICCV 2019 2019. 08. 26
• NL-LinkNet: Toward Lighter but More Accurate Road Extraction with Non-Local Operations
Submitted to IEEE TGRS Letter
(arXiv:1908.08223)
2019. 08. 22
• Bidging Adversarial Robustness and Gradient Interpretability
Safe Machine Learning Workshop
at ICLR 2019 (arXiv:1903.11626)
2019. 05. 06
• How AI is Changing the Way to Understand the Earth and Us? NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference 2019 2019. 03. 21
• Why are Saliency Maps Noisy? Cause of and Solution to Noisy Saliency Maps VXAI Workshop at ICCV 2019 2019. 02. 13
• RBox-CNN: rotated bounding box based CNN for ship detection
in remote sensing image
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018 2018. 11. 06
• Rectified Gradient: Layer-wise Thresholding for Sharp and
Coherent Attribution Maps
OpenReview for ICLR 2019 2018. 09. 27
• NTIRE 2018 Challenge on Single Image Super-Resolution:
Methods and Results
NTIRE Workshop at CVPR 2018 2018. 06. 18
• Noise-adding Methods of Saliency Map as Series of Higher Order
Partial Derivative
WHI Workshop at ICML 2018 (arXiv:1806.03000) 2018. 06. 08
• On reproduction of On the regularization of Wasserstein GANs Reproducibility challenge at ICLR 2018 (arXiv:1712.05882) 2017. 12. 16
• Domain Adaptive Generation of Aircraft on Satellite Imagery
via Simulated and Unsupervised Learning
MLAIP Workshop at ACML 2017 (arXiv:1806.03002) 2017. 11. 15
• Multi-task Learning for Fine-grained Visual Classification of Aircraft MLAIP Workshop at ACML 2017 2017. 11. 15

11. AI Expertise (International Challenges)
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Challenges Achievement Organizer Date
Object Detection in Aerial Images Contest @ ICPR 2018
2
nd
Place Award
(International participants: 60 Teams)
Wuhan University, China 2018. 08. 20
CVPR 2018 NTIRE Challenge Track 2,3,4
5
th
Place Award
(International participants: 114 Teams)
Computer Vision Laboratory,
ETH Zurich
2018. 06. 18
2018 National Defense M&S Seminar
Best Paper Award
(The Ministry of Defense)
Ministry of National Defense (South Korea) 2018. 06. 15
NIPS 2017 DeepArt.io Poster Contest
1
st
Place Award
(International participants: 456 teams)
DeepArt.IO 2017. 11. 15
UK DSTL Satellite Imagery Feature Detection @ Kaggle
Silver Medal Award
(International participants: 419 Teams)
UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
(UK DSTL)
2017. 03. 08

12. Human-Machine Collaboration
- Massive Automatic Analysis with
Human Feedback
Dataset Design and Annotation
- User-defined hierarchy
- Export Trainable Format
(TensorFlow, PyTorch)
Optimized for Satellite Imagery
- Compatible with WorldView,
KOMPSAT, PlanetScope and so on.
- Optimized Processing for GeoTiff Image
Evolving AI Platform

13. Recent Research Activities (Oct ’19)
Vehicle Detection & MonitoringObject Detection (Aircraft & Fighter) Object Detection (Aerial Imagery)
Super-ResolutionRoad Extraction Land Classification
Ship Detection (EO/SAR)
Explainable AI

14. Job Description
• Product Manager
• Project Manager
• Data Engineer
• UX Designer
• UI Designer
• DevOps Engineer
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• Backend Developer
• Frontend Developer
• QA Test Engineer
• Research Scientist (Machine Learning)
• Research Scientist (Remote Sensing)
• Research Engineer (Machine Learning)
http://bit.ly/SIA2019JD

15. Thank you for attention!
SI Analytics Co., Ltd. (Satrec Initiative Group)
441Expo-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34051, Korea
tgjeon@si-analytics.ai
+82-42-330-6800 / +82-10-6584-7321
www.si-analytics.ai