Seoul National University Launches Investigation into Plagiarism of English Papers by AI Research Team Accused of 'Thesis Plagiarism'

"Investigation into Allegations of Misconduct Targeting All Researchers"

[Photo by Seoul National University] Seoul National University

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo Byung-don] Seoul National University has launched an internal investigation to determine whether the English paper published by the research team led by Professor Yoon Seong-ro of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University is plagiarized.

On the 27th, Seoul National University announced that the Research Integrity Committee has decided to begin an investigation into possible violations of research integrity related to the paper.

On the same day, Seoul National University stated in a press release, "We have identified that allegations of research misconduct have been raised regarding a paper presented at an artificial intelligence-related academic conference, authored by researchers affiliated with our university, based on YouTube videos and media reports," adding, "The president immediately requested a special investigation by the Seoul National University Research Integrity Committee."

The investigation will include all researchers listed as affiliated with Seoul National University among the co-authors of the paper, and the university added, "The investigation will not be limited to the currently raised allegations of research misconduct."

According to Seoul National University, the committee will prepare an investigation report within 60 days from its formation and submit it to the Research Integrity Committee. The Research Integrity Committee will determine whether any violations have occurred based on the investigation results.

Earlier, Professor Yoon presented a paper titled "A Method for Rapidly Reconstructing Asynchronous Events into Persistent Video Frames through Neural Stochastic Differential Equations" at the ‘International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2022’ held in the United States from the 19th to the 24th. However, plagiarism allegations regarding the paper were raised through a YouTube video.

The allegations claimed that Professor Yoon’s team’s paper had plagiarized sentences by patching together content from about ten papers, including a 2018 paper from the University of California, Berkeley, a paper from the University of Oxford in the UK, and a 2021 paper from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

In response to the plagiarism allegations, the conference organizers requested an investigation by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) via Twitter.

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