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Dr. Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn
Assistant Professor, School of Science and Technology
E-mail : kingkarn.s@bu.ac.th
Phone : +66-2-350-3500 Ext 1690
Link : http://mit.science.bu.ac.th/modules/contents/kingkarn.php
Address : BU-MIT, Bangkok University
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Recent Publications : Book Chapter:

2013 Alejandro Toledo, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Ruck Thawonmas, Frank Rinaldo, "Content-Based Recommendation for Stacked-Graph Navigation," Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments: Advances in Recommender Systems (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies) , George A. Tsihrintzis, Maria Virvou, Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.), Springer, pp. 99-114, May 2013

2011 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Ruck Thawonmas, and Mitsuyuki Inaba, Visual Analytics Tool for Visitor Circulation in Virtual Environments: A Case Study from a Gallery in Second Life, Digital Humanities Research and Web Technology (Series in Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures), Mitsuyuki Inaba (ed.), Nakanisha Publisher, pp. 320-334, May 2012

2010 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Ruck Thawonmas, Digital Museums in 3D Virtual Environment, A Handbook of Research on Method and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena, IGI Publishing (In press)

Journal Publications:
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Serious Games
2014 Akekachai Sacfung, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Worawat Choensawat: Serious Game for Fire Safety Evacuation Plan, The 5th KKU International Engineering Conference 2014 (KKU-IENC2014), Khon-kaen Thailand, 2014

Imaging Technology
2012 F.C. Lin, Weiwei Zhu, and K. Sookhanaphibarn, Observation of Tsunami Radiation at Tohoku by Remote Sensing, Journal of Tsunami Society International Science of Tsunami Hazards, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2011, pp. 223-232.
2010 F.C. Lin, K. Na Nakornphanom, K. Sookhanaphibarn and C. Lursinsap, A New Paradigm for Detecting Tsunamis by Remote Sensing, International Journal of Geoinformatics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2010, pp. 19-30.
2006 K. Sookhanaphibarn, C. Lursinsap, A new feature extractor invariant to translation, rotation, and scaling of color images, Information sciences, Volume/Issue, 176/14, pp. 2097-2119

Visual Analytics and User Modeling
2012 Alejandro Toledo, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Ruck Thawonmas, and Frank Rinaldo, "Evolutionary Computation for Label Layout on Unused Space of Stacked Graphs,"e; ISRN Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2012, Article ID 139603, 10 pages, 2012. doi:10.5402/2012/139603
2011 Alejandro Toledo, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Ruck Thawonmas, and Frank Rinaldo, "e;Personalized Recommendation in Interactive Visual Analysis of Stacked Graphs,"e; ISRN Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2012, Article ID 389540, 8 pages, 2012. doi:10.5402/2012/389540

Data Mining
2014 Kittipat Savetratanakaree, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Sarun Intakosum, Ruck Thawonmas, Kuan-Ta Chen : Departure Prediction Approach based by Online game player’s Behaviors Analysis, The 5th KKU International Engineering Conference 2014 (KKU-IENC2014), Khon-kaen Thailand, 2014
2009 P. Polsiri and K. Sookhanaphibarn, Corporate Distress Prediction Models Using Governance and Financial Variables: Evidence from Thai Listed Firms during the East Asian Economic Crisis, Journal of Economics and Management, 2009, vol. 5, issue 2, pages 273-304
2007 K. Sookhanaphibarn, P. Polsiri, W. Choensawat, Application of neural networks to business bankruptcy analysis in Thailand, International Journal Computational Intelligence Research, Volume/Issue, 3/1 2007
2005 K. Sookhanaphibarn, Developing intelligent data mining and personalization for web-based learning, ASAIHL-Thailand journal.

International Proceedings:
2013/07 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Ekachai Kanyanucharat: Empirical Study of Routine Structure in University Campus, In Proceedings of International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Online Communities and Social Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Las Vegus, USA, July 21-26, Vol. 8029, pp. 201-209, 2013
2013/07 Worawat Choensawat, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Chommanad Kijkhun, and Kozaburo Hachimura: Desirability of a Teaching and Learning Tool for Thai Dance Body Motion, In Proc. of International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2013, Las Vegas, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8013, pp. 171–179, 2013
2013/08 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Worawat Choensawat, Chommanad Kijkhun, and Kozaburo Hachimura: Toward a New Educational Tool for Thai Dance, The 28th Biennial Conference of the International Council of Kinetography Laban/Labanotation, York University, Toronto, Canada, July 31 to August 7, 2013
2013/08 Kittipat Savetratanakaree, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, and Sarun Intakosum a: Online Game Player’s Behavior by using Hidden Markov Model, Proc. International Conference on Engineering,Applied Sciences, and Technology (ICEAST 2013), pp. 274-277, 2013
2013/07 Lin, F.C., Weiwei Zhu, Sookhanaphibarn, K., Silapasuphakornwong, P: REMOTE:- A satellite based tsunami early detection system, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), IEEE International, Melbourne, VIC, 21-26 July 2013, pp. 3694 - 3697, 2013
2013/02 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Utaiwan Chatuporn: Expanding the experience of museum visitors with a social application on Facebook, The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2013), Nice, France, Feb 25 to Mar 1, pp. 74-80, 2013
2012/12 Ekachai Kanyanucharat, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Don Isarakorn: Identification of Student Routine Structure from Wireless Access: A Case Study of Bangkok University, The Eighth International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Network (WCSN-2012), CD-ROM, Thailand, pp. 7, 2012
2012/11 Utaiwan Chatuporn, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, and Wutnipong Warakraisawad: Expanding the experience of museum visitors with our proposed application on social media, International Conference on Engineering, Applied Science, and Technology (ICEAST 2012), November 21-24, 2012
2012/09 Frank C. Lin, Weiwei Zhu, and Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn: Detection and Early Warning of Tsunamis by Remote Sensing, 5th International Tsunami Symposium, 3-5 September 2012, Ispra Italy, 2012
2012/07 Frank C. Lin, Weiwei Zhu, and Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn: Tsunami Detection by Remote Sensing in Infrared Space, Tsunami Detection by Remote Sensing in Infrared Space", IGARSS 2012 Symposium, 22-27 July 2012, Munich Germany, 2012
2011/06 Sookhanaphibarn, K., Thawonmas, R., and Rinaldo, F., "Visualization of Visitor Circulation in Arts and Cultural Exhibition”, accepted for poster presentation at DH2011 – Digital Humanities, Stanford University, USA, June 19-22, 2011.
2011/05 Sookhanaphibarn, K., Thawonmas, R., Rinaldo, F, and Chen, K.T., "Spatiotemporal Analysis of Circulation Behaviors Using Path And Residing Time DisplaY (PARTY)”, accepted for oral presentation at DMDCM 2011 – Workshop on Digital Media and Digital Content Management, Hangzhou, China, May 15-16, 2011.
2010/11 Sookhanaphibarn, K., Thawonmas, R., Rinaldo, F, and Chen, K.T., "Spatiotemporal Analysis in Virtual Environments using Eigenbehaviors," accepted for oral presentation at ACE 2010 - The 7th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, November 17-19, 2010.
2010/09 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Ruck Thawonmas. "An on-line classification approach of visitors movements in 3D virtual museums," accepted for oral presentation at the Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS 2010), Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010.
2010/07 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Ruck Thawonmas, and Frank Rinaldo. "Visualization and Analysis of Visiting Styles in 3D Virtual Museums," accepted for oral presentation at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference (DH2010), King’s College, London, Jul. 7-10, 2010.
2010/06 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, Ruck Thawonmas, and Frank Rinaldo. "Visual analytics of visitors’ trajectories for designing an effective exhibition", accepted for oral presentation at the 9th NICOGRAPH International, Singapore, Jun. 18-19, 2010
2010/06 Alejandro Toledo, Kingkarn Sookhanapibarn, Ruck Thawonmas, and Frank Rinaldo, "Recommending Views from Stacked Graph Logs," accepted for oral presentation at the 9th NICOGRAPH International, Singapore, Jun. 18-19, 2010
2010/06 Alejandro Toledo, Kingkarn Sookhanapibarn, Ruck Thawonmas, and Frank Rinaldo, "Experimental Evaluation of a Stacked Graph Visualization," accepted for poster presentation at Eurographics/IEEE Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis 2010), Bordeaux, France, Jun. 9-11, 2010.
2009/12 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Ruck Thawonmas, A Movement Data Analysis and Synthesis Tool for Museum Visitors’ Behaviors. In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Bangkok, Thailand, December 14-18, 2009
2009/09 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Ruck Thawonmas, A Framework for Design and Evaluation of Digital Museums in Second Life as Learning Institutions. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP 2009), Kyoto, Japan, September 12-14, 2009, pp. 1130-1133
2009/09 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Ruck Thawonmas, A content management system for user-driven museums in second life. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cyberworld, Bradford, UK., September 7-11, 2009, pp. 185-189
2009/03 Dumrong Sutapirat, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Chidchanok Lursinsap, Model-Based Book Dewarping Method for Content-Independent Document Images, Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2009), Bangkok, Thailand, 7-9 March, 2009
2006/10 K. Sookhanaphibarn, P. Polsiri, W. Choensawat, and F. C. Lin "Application of Neural Networks to Business Bankruptcy Analysis in Thailand", Proceeding of The 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'06), October 2-6, 2006.
2006/09 W. Choensawat, P. Polsiri, and K. Sookhanaphibarn, "Predicting Financial Institution Failure with Financial and Ownership Variables using Logit and Neural Networks: Evidence from the East Asian Crisis",Proceeding of Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems, (SCIS&ISIS'06), September 20-24, 2006.
2006/09 K. Sookhanaphibarn, C. Lursinsap, and K.W. Wong, "Unbalanced Scaling and Rotation Invariant Recognition by Eigenvector-Based Fuzzy c-Mean Approach", Proceeding of Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems, (SCIS&ISIS'06), September 20-24, 2006.
2002/11 K. Sookhanaphibarn, K.W. Wong and C. Lursinsap, "Application of hierarchical self-organizing mapping to invariant recognition of color-texture images", Proceeding of the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP' 02), November 2002.
2001/12 Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Chidchanok Lursinsap, "Rotation and scaling invariant self-organizing mapping", Proceeding of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2001), December 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 203-206.
2001/11 K. Sookhanaphibarn and C. Lursinsap, "Feature extraction with color texture-sensitive, rotational and scaling invariant capability using eigenvector-guided self-organizing mapping", Proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP' 01), November 2001.
1999 K. Sookhanaphibarn and C. Lursinsap, "Genetic self-recovery micro-rollback synthesis", Proceeding of Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99), July 1999, Vol. 2, pp. 1194-1199.

National Proceedings:
1998 K. Sookhanaphibarn, T. Kitcharoensup, J. Wuttichaivoragul and C. Lursinsap, ``Recognition of naked bodies by supervised neural network", The National Computer Science and Engineering Conference (NCSEC'98), Thailand, December 1998.
1998 K. Sookhanaphibarn and C. Lursinsap, "Applying genetic algorithm to high-level synthesis", The Second Annual National Symposium on Computational Science and Engineering (ANSCSE' 98), Thailand, March 1998, pp. 225-232.
Biography : Research Interests:

Recently, I am interested in artificial intelligent computing, visual analytics and data mining, used in theories and applications of:
Malware detection on mobile phones.
User behaviors in online communities.
Serious games for social skills training, emergency planning and disaster management.
Research Experience:
Digital Humanities, (Post-Doctoral Researcher from April 2009-March 2012), in particular in;
Spatiotemporal Analysis of User Movements and Behavior
Serious Games
Design and Evaluation of Digital Museums
Digital Image Processing, (Lecturer in Chulalongkorn University, Thailand during 2006-2008), in particular in;
Tsunami Detection from Satelite Images of FY2C
Book Dewarping Method
Caricature Recognition
Invariant Image Recognition
Bankruptcy Prediction Models, (co-authors with Piruna Polsiri and Worawat Choensawat)
Education:

1999 - 2005 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Dissertation: A new feature extractor invariant to translation, rotation, and scaling of color images, Inf. Sci. 176(14): 2097-2119 (2006).
1997 - 1999 M.Sc. in Computational Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Thesis: Genetic self-recovery micro-rollback synthesis.
1993 - 1997 B.Sc. in Computer Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Senior Project: A Phoneme-based Isolated-Word Approach towards 0-9 Thai Numeral Speech Recognition.

Honor Awards:
2013 Best Paper Award from The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS 2013), Nice, France, Feb 25 to Mar 1, 2013
2010 Bursary Awards from Digital Humanities 2010 for Young Researcher, at King's College, London.
1999 Distinguished Graduate, M.Sc. in Computational Science, Chulalongkorn University.

Grants and Scholarships:

Cybersecurity

2013 Head of Project "Detection of Malicious Code on Mobile Operating Systems" supported by National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT)


Digital museums in 3D virtual worlds
2011 Center Grants for Young Researchers for Global COE Program under the Project of "Visual Analytics for Visitor Circulation in 3D Virtual Worlds"
2010 Center Grants for Young Researchers for Global COE Program under the Project of "Visualization of Visitor Circulation in 3D Virtual Worlds"
2009 Center Grants for Young Researchers for Global COE Program under the Project of "A framework of 3D virtual museums in Second Life"

Imaging technology
2007-2008 Member of Research Team in Project: "Tsunami Detection and Warning System by Satellite Image of FY2C" Supported by National Research Council of Thailand
2007-2008 Head of Project "Caricature Image Recognition System" supported by Thailand Research Fund (TRF)
2007 Member of Research Team in Project "Heavy Rainfall Precipitation" supported by Thailand Research Fund (TRF)
2006 Head of Project "Invariant image recognition" supported by Chulalongkorn University

Royal Golden Jubilee Ph.D. Scholarship
1999 - 2002 Scholarship of The Royal Golden Jubilee (RGJ) PhD Program.

Graduate Thesis Research Fund
1998 - 1999 Research Grant of The Shell Centennial Education Fund, 70,000 bath
Topic: "Application of Genetic Algorithm to High-Level Circuit Synthesis",
Thesis of Master of Science in Computational Science, Department of Mathematics,
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand